In just a couple of months it will be time for the annual pilgrimage to the Bloor Cinema to catch three days of incredibly awesome mountain films. The Banff Mountain Film Festival, held at the end of October every year, tours the best of the best around the world for the following 12 months always stopping in Toronto.

Mark your calendars for March 23, 24 and 25th!

This years official teaser on YouTube

If you want to a little more insight into the types of films shown check out the following:

http://vimeo.com/9519387 - Clip from a wicked climbing film shot in Margalef, Catalunya Spain. Best resting position I’ve ever seen.

http://vimeo.com/29320702 - A short teaser of the “Best Feature Length Mountain Film” that has some of that incredible time-lapse that we first saw last year.

http://vimeo.com/4636202 - Airing at last years Banff Film Festival this time lapse captures one mans walk across China, lasting a year and covering almost 5000 Km.

A Time For Drunken Horses -  Is an incredibly bleak yet beautifully shot documentary that won best-in-show if I recall back in 2003. IMBD says

After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.

Search NetFlix to watch this one.