World Trails Film Festival Outdoor Economy Conference 2025 - World Trails Film Festival

Outdoor Economy Conference 2025

Cherokee, NC

Hosts

Made by Mountains - Western North Carolina

Dates

Sept., 17, 2025

World Trails Film Festival at The Outdoor Economy Conference 2025

Free for Attendees

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 6:30 - 8:30 PM

6 PM Doors, No Host Bar

A series of short films celebrating trail stories from around the world.

Join us for an evening of cinematic storytelling that illuminates how trails weave through our lives, ecologies, communities, and more.

FILM PROGRAM COMING SOON

24 min

Bad River: Kayaking the Sickest Urban River in Australia

Beau Miles

In a little red kayak Beau Miles descends the 23km long Cooks River in Sydney Australia.

1 min

Blaze

Aidan Sky Chang

As a time-lapse of every trail maker, also called a ‘blaze’, this film asks the viewer to ponder these strange yet beautiful man-made marks on the natural world.

4 min

Caroline and the path to recovery

Rob Hayward

Caroline tells her story of her journey to recovery along the South West Coast Path following a tragic motorcycle accident.

11 min

From Biocrust with Love

Sinuhe Xavier

Dr. Kristina Young and John Watson embark on a bikepacking trip from Green River to Moab to get macro and look at the biocrust that holds the desert together.

25 min

Seasons Lost

Paul Ingram

A short, poetic adventure documentary highlighting the beauty of hiking Scotland’s East Highland Way in different seasons, through the lens of climate change.

12 min

Seeking Judhuri

Whitney Hassett

Ahmed embarks on the Lebanon Mountain Trail with his father on a journey of healing, understanding, and connection.

8 min

Sinai Trail

Richard Simko

Founded in 2015 by a collective of three Bedouin tribes, the nearly 250km Sinai Trail is Egypt’s first long-distance walking path.

5 min

Sinai Trail Urgent Message

Ahmed Elbashaly

An urgent message from Sinai-trail’s Bedouin founders, as experts of surviving in nature, yet they are afraid of the new climate changes.

4 min

Trans Bhutan Trail

Sonam Phuntsho

This short documentary shares a taste of what the Trans Bhutan Trail has to offer as it follows two young men walking across their home country.

13 min

Twin Oaks

Sean O'Connor

A journey into how trail building can be a medium for connection as experienced by the Hoyts, a multi-generational family of trail builders.

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The World Trails Film Festival is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of The World Trails Film Festival must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.