The Lethbridge Public Library is excited to welcome back the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival world tour to the Yates Theatre, Friday, Jan. 14
“ Lethbridge celebrated its tenth anniversary of the in person festival, a couple of years ago,” said Jonathan Jarvie, Lethbridge Public library librarian and one of the organizers , noting they had to cancel the event last year because of Covid. It will be the second year they had held the festival at the Yates Theatre.
The event is a collaboration between the Lethbridge Public Library and the Banff Centre for the arts.
Because of Covid, the event, which usually runs over four nights, has been condensed to one night Jan. 14. They usually run all of the films one and then repeat them
“It’s been really exciting to bring this event back. We haven’t been able to do any adult programming, so this is a huge step for us to connect with Lethbridge and let them know we miss them,” he enthused, adding, as usual, the festival has a nature and environmental theme.
“ We have seven different films ranging from four minutes to 55 minutes long from the United Kingdom, France, Canada, the United States and Switzerland,” he summarized.
The films were chosen out of approximately 400 entries.
“They’re all nature and adventure type films. Because the event was cancelled last year they are all from 2019-2021,” he said.
The longest film is “Bear Like” From Switzerland, about grizzly bears in Alaska.
The three minute long French film, “Follow The Light” features freestyle skiing and hot air ballooning over a backdrop of sunsets in Turkey.