Mountain Film Festival

Every year Central Cinema hosts the best of the Mountain Film Festival and 2022 is no exception.

 

Come along to both parts for the full mountain experience.

 

 

Part 1 - Monday 22nd August, 7.30pm

NZ Mountain Film Festival Part 1

NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour
The NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour takes award winning films to audiences around NZ.
This is Part 1 of 2.

NZ Mountain Film Festival Part 1

NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour
The NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour takes award winning films to audiences around NZ.
This is Part 1 of 2.
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NIGHT ONE: - total time 113 minutes
We Don't Usually Have Ice Creams (10 mins) Director Paul McCredie, NZ.
This isn't your average pensioner walking group. They don't believe in tracks or
bridges. They scale untracked ridges, ford or swim rivers, scramble up waterfalls,
abseil over bluffs and seldom get home before dark. These men are tough, but the
women are tougher.


Traversing the Night (40 mins) Director Maddy Whittaker, NZ. With an average
age of 22, the four New Zealand Alpine Kids (as they called themselves) set off
from Arthur’s Pass. The dream was to traverse the spine of the Southern Alps for
the next three months until they reached Fiordland. The mountains are wonderful,
beautiful and healing – but they are healing because they make us confront things that
get drowned out in regular civilisation.


The Great Alpine Highway – 73 (23 mins) Directors Fin Woods, Chris Maunsell &
Craig Murray, NZ. This is a film following local skiers as they pile into Rongo – a
converted school bus – and explore some of NZ’s best terrain. They dive into the
eclectic club scene and meet some of the locals that make skiing in Aotearoa so
exceptional.


The Long Way Home (40 mins) Directors Rebecca Wardell & Whitney Oliver, NZ.
Three Kiwi women living in Switzerland decide to skip the airplane and take the
long way home - by bicycle. They set out on two wheels to cover the 20,000km
through Europe, Asia, and the length of New Zealand, learning many lessons along
the way.

 

Part 2 - Wednesday August 31st, 7.30pm

NZ Mountain Film Festival Part 2

NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour
The NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour takes award winning films to audiences around NZ.
This is Part 2 of 2.

NZ Mountain Film Festival Part 2

NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour
The NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour takes award winning films to audiences around NZ.
This is Part 2 of 2.
MORE / TRAILER

NIGHT TWO: - total time 102 minutes
Follow The Light (4 mins) Director Pierre Henni, France. Sunsets over dramatic
landscapes to the illumination of hot air balloons and the warm ambience of the
Middle East


Ô’Parizad (36 mins) Director Guillaume Pierrel, France, subtitles. In the 70’s, the
pioneers explored the most breathtaking mountains in the Alps and Himalayas; 45
years later, the same passion has remained intact and skiers decide to return on
the trail of their ancestors. Their goal is to ski an 8,000m Himalayan giant.

Link Sar (18 mins) Director Graham Zimmerman, USA. This is the compelling
story of the gruelling first ascent of a massive unclimbed mountain in
Pakistan’s Karakoram range, Link Sar. Standing 7,041m tall, the mountain had
been attempted unsuccessfully nine times before. Let’s see if these guys can
make the top.


Legacy On The Muir (25 mins) Director Max Buschini, USA. Born and raised
as a Yosemite Valley climber, Tom Herbert revisits his father's footsteps on his
famous El Capitan route The Muir Wall.


House of The Gods (44 mins) Director Matt Pycroft, UK. The great northern
prow of Mount Roraima soars from the depths of the Amazon rainforest like the
prow of a gigantic ship, shrouded in cloud, drenched by torrential rain and
guarded by vertical jungle, deep mud and overhanging cliffs. Follow Leo
Houlding and team on their real-world quest through 100km of untracked jungle,
into a unique slime forest and up the desperately steep big wall.