BANFF 2026 Friday Night Films
BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Friday, March 20, 2026 - 7:30 PM
Doors Open @ 6:15 PM
Cold Calls - Japan (Tour Edit)
2025, USA, 6 minutes
Filmmakers: Alexi Godbout, Blank Collective Films
Advisory: Coarse language
Cold Calls is a ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to offer!
Rogatkin
2024, Switzerland, 15 minutes
Filmmakers: Keenan DesPlanques
Advisory: No Advisory
From the highs to lows, Nicholi Rogatkin has changed the sport of slopestyle mountain biking with countless world-first tricks. Through a 20- year career of pushing the sport, he has been a positive inspiration for his community.
Loving Karma (Tour Edit)
2024, UK, USA, 40 minutes
Filmmakers: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke, High Altitude Films, Sparkling Particles
Advisory: No advisory
Committed to raising children with love and compassion, former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok attempts to heal his own childhood abandonment by adopting unwanted children and growing them as a family at a remote children's community in the foothills of the Himalaya. Tashi and the Monk introduced us to a wild and troubled 5-year-old girl named Tashi, as she learned about the healing power of love. Loving Karma is the follow-up story, shot 12 years later, where filmmakers revisit both the community to see how life has changed over time.
That One Friend
2025, USA, 9 minutes
Filmmakers: Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins, The Road West Traveled
Advisory: Coarse language
Professional backcountry skier Sierra Schlag has built a career around focus, grit, and always chasing the next big line. She takes her job, and her skiing, seriously. But when Waverly Chin—aka Waves—her funky, free-spirited best friend shows up with snacks and silliness, it’s reminder not to take life (or skiing) too seriously.
Jaunt
2025, USA, 4 minutes
Filmmakers: Daniel Mitchell, Blk Elk, Neiagha Thomas
Advisory: No advisory
In a stark warehouse office, Justice is weighed down by mounting deadlines and an endless to-do list. But every day, he finds escape in a one-hour ritual that reignites his spirit.
Old Man Lightning (Tour Edit)
2025, USA, 45 minutes
Filmmakers: Dawn Kish, Dawn Kish Photo and Film LLC, John Sherman
Advisory: Coarse language; Mature subject matter
*2025 Best Film: Climbing
The best climbing, comedy, comeback ever made, with a conservation plight. It will make you laugh and cry and maybe pee yer pants.