Banff Centre Mountain Movie Pageant returns to Keyano Theatre

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The Banff Centre Mountain Movie Pageant is internet hosting two days of screenings at Keyano Theatre subsequent month. The occasion is being organized by the Wooden Buffalo Regional Library, which is returning to Fort McMurray for its twenty seventh 12 months.

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The 2-night movie pageant is being held on Jan. 12 and 13 between 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and options 16 movies all made in 2021 or 2022.

The movies have fun outside storytelling and filmmaking. This 12 months’s choice will take viewers on adventures by means of Afghanistan, Mexico, Iceland, the Mojave desert, Brazil, Lesotho, the Himalayas, Hawaii and northern Manitoba.

Thursday’s headliner is Balkan Specific, a 40-minute movie about freeskiers Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle partnering on a 2,500-kilometre journey by means of the mountains of the Balkans on bicycles and skis.

Friday’s headliner is Wild Waters, a 45-minute profile of Nouria Newman, who has been hailed as probably the most gifted kayaker of her era.

The primary movie pageant is held yearly in Banff earlier than it hits the highway for a world tour. There are stops in roughly 550 communities in 40 international locations. Greater than 400 quick and lengthy movies are submitted to the pageant yearly.

Tickets can be found on the Keyano Theatre field workplace.

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