2 World Premieres, 3 US Premieres
5 Call2Action Talkbacks
The 2024 Boulder International Film Festival Adventure Film Pavilion features a suite of the world’s greatest new adventure films, with shorts, features, discussions with world-class adventurers and adventure filmmakers, as well as non-profit groups working on the important issues in the adventure community
2 World Premieres, 3 US Premieres
5 Call2Action Talkbacks
The 2024 Boulder International Film Festival Adventure Film Pavilion features a suite of the world’s greatest new adventure films, with shorts, features, discussions with world-class adventurers and adventure filmmakers, as well as non-profit groups working on the important issues in the adventure community
A synopsis of the films and programs
included in this years Adventure Film Pavilion.
Access to all films, Call2Action panels,
and the Adventure Film Party.
Click on the films below to purchase tickets.
Film Schedule
Click on the films below to purchase tickets.
Friday March 1, 2024
A long-awaited film of Isabella Tree’s best-selling book, Wilding, which has been translated into 8 languages and won many major world literary prizes. Inheriting a rundown estate in England, and having little money, Isabella and Charlie gambled everything on a new concept, “re-wilding.”
2:30 PM – Feature Doc.
Famed Free Solo climber Alex Honnold and “rock” star Hazel Findlay — battling loose rock, bitter cold and sudden storms — climb one of the tallest unclimbed sea cliffs in the world in Greenland to research a key climate change bellwether for our entire planet.
7:30 PM – Feature Doc.
Big wall free climbing masters Babsi and Jacopo seek their greatest challenge yet: a free ascent of Eternal Flame, an elusive 3,000-foot route up the legendary Nameless Tower in Pakistan’s Karakoram range.
Screening with:
– Soundscape
– 109 Below
Saturday March 2, 2024
10:00 AM – Feature Doc.
We follow Anton Mzimba, the passionate, incorruptible head ranger of the Timbavati in South Africa, and legendary trainer Ruben Dekock, as they protect endangered rhinos and train a group of hopeful ranger candidates competing for one of the most rigorous and dangerous jobs on the planet.
12:30 PM – Feature Doc.
Executive produced by Serena and Venus Williams. It is August 1971, and teams from around the world gather in Mexico City for a watershed women’s soccer tournament. Over 100,000 roaring fans attend each game, but you’ve probably never heard of it. Until now.
5:45 PM – Feature Doc.
In this nail-biting film, the separate stories of steep skier Hadley Hammer and mountain rescuer and champion ski-mountaineer Bastien Fleury are interwoven. They each embark on exceptional feats to test the safety of the steepest off-grid skiing and rock climbing routes on Mont Blanc, one of the most dangerous mountains on earth.
8:00 PM – Feature Doc.
Every sport has its Dogtown and Z-Boys or Riding Giants. Nothing’s For Free is the real story of the birth and legacy of freeride mountain biking. The film features the biggest names in mountain biking, from early pioneers to modern-day internet superstars.
Sunday March 3, 2024
1:00 PM – Feature Doc.
``We are disabled in things we can't do...but there is no shortage of things that any of us can do.” - André Kajlich, who attempts to be the first double amputee to complete the Race Across America, a bone-crushing, sleep-deprived 12-day, 3,082 mile bike race that spits out 50% of able-bodied racers.
6:00 PM – Feature Doc.
Black families were forbidden from the beaches in Florida and California until the 1930s. Wade in the Water honors the lives, legacies and struggles of Santa Monica’s pioneering African American surfers with an in-depth historical context, and also, an inspirational look at Black surfers today.
Thank You to Our 2024 AFP Sponsors
Thank You to Our 2024 AFP Sponsors
