Award: Official Selection

Songs and Flowers

Seven years after her brother’s death, a climber returns to Bolivia’s highest peaks in a record-breaking attempt to transform grief into connection and closure.

Sharing the Dream

A cyclist’s ambitious vision to connect the Balkans through a transnational bike route becomes a powerful symbol of healing, identity, and shared possibility.

RUN FOR LIFE

A 60-year-old ultrarunner pushes his body across impossible distances to show his daughter—and himself—that determination can overcome even life’s cruelest obstacles.

OUR LAND

As tensions rise between conservationists, landowners, and activists, Britain’s battle over who has the right to roam exposes centuries of class conflict and environmental urgency.

Mother River

Kayaker Devin Brown embarks on a historic solo descent of the Mississippi River to become the first Black woman known to complete the journey alone.

hitoláayca (Going Upriver)

As Devin Reuben trains to become the first certified Nez Perce whitewater guide of his generation, he fights to reclaim a river culture nearly erased by colonization.

Haven

After decades of addiction, a woman with no athletic background discovers trail running and a fiercely supportive community that could help her outrun her past.

Hardrock Perspectives

Veteran ultrarunners reveal the obsession, suffering, and transcendence behind conquering Colorado’s legendary Hardrock 100.

Goecha La: Towards Five Treasures

A breathtaking Himalayan trek toward Kangchenjunga becomes a spiritual journey through some of the world’s most awe-inspiring and unforgiving landscapes.