The European Outdoor Film Tour (E.O.F.T for short) is now touring Europe for the seventh time and once again offers the best entertainment over around 120 minutes. This year, it has nine individual films in its luggage, which provide breathtaking insights into a wide variety of outdoor sports
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The short film "Dream" with kayak pro Ben Marr kicks things off: In the form of a head cinema, Ben "dreams" of bizarre experiences that have more or less to do with his sport: From glowing waterfalls and garishly shimmering rapids to a party in the middle of the forest with guests dressed up as monkeys, champagne showers and fireworks.
Conclusion: nice mood-lifter paired with a good dose of self-irony.
The movie "Don't look down" gives, in the truest sense of the word, deep insights into the life of an Englishman. James Kingston is a "roofer" and climbs cranes, bridges and skyscrapers all over Europe. His statement "Hanging at a height of three meters is just as exhausting as hanging at a height of 50 meters" may sound plausible, but this short film guarantees sweaty palms and a queasy feeling in your stomach. What "free solo" means probably doesn't need to be explained here, but only the American Alex Honnold can explain what it feels like to have climbed "probably the most difficult free solo climbing route in history". The film "El Sendero Luminoso" shows the preparations and execution of this breathtaking undertaking and makes climbers' hearts beat faster. Skip Armstrong made it onto the E.O.F.T. with a second film in addition to "Dream". The film "Nobody's River" shows four women (Amber Valenti, Becca Dennis, Sabra Purdy, Krystle Wright) as they realize a long-awaited dream: To paddle along the river "Amur" from the heart of Asia to the Pacific coast in a two-month expedition. Their 5000-kilometer adventure is full of contrasts and setbacks: Pain and happiness, discovery and farewell, beauty and decay. Above all, it teaches them one thing: no matter where, no matter when, no matter why - there is always a good reason to celebrate life. Brandon Semenuk's short film "Rad Company" has been called "one of the mountain bike highlights of the year" and not without good reason. This is probably due to the breathtaking shots in completely different locations: The boys first race down a single trail on the Fiji Islands and then have fun on a junkyard converted into a slopestyle parkour. In the exclusive edited version of "Afterglow", Chris Benchetler, Pep Fujas, Eric Hjorleifson and Daron Rahlves show what they are capable of - but in a very special way: With spotlights, color foils and four freeskiers in LED suits, director Nick Waggoner transforms the black night into a brightly colored firework display, creating a feast for the eyes of a very unusual kind. This film is a real highlight in terms of both riding and filming.
If you tend to avoid the dark slides in the indoor swimming pool because of an uneasy feeling in your stomach (like me), you won't be able to sit still in the movie theater when you watch the documentary "Cave Connection" (directed by Niko Jäger). In an attempt to connect two cave systems in New Zealand (Stormy Pot and Nettlebed), Kieran Mckay and his team squeeze through holes and cracks up to 1000 meters below the ground, through which many a well-built athlete would not even fit due to their anatomy. As if that wasn't enough, the team is often (literally) up to their necks in water and temperatures of around 5 degrees Celsius demand every last bit of adaptability from them. Ice climber Will Gadd conquers a very special climbing route in the movie "The Frozen Titans": "Helmcken Falls" in British Columbia, Canada. This route can only be climbed for a few weeks a year, and it is precisely during this time that you don't actually want to climb it. The back wall of the waterfall can only be climbed in sub-zero temperatures and the spray from the waterfall, which freezes on both the rock and the safety rope, doesn't exactly make this incredibly special climbing route any easier to conquer. The end of the performance is an E.O.F.T premiere: the first all-female freeski film in 13 years of E.O.F.T history. In "Shades of Winter - Pure" the six girls Sandra Lahnsteiner, Caja Schöpf, Evelina Nilsson, Nat Segal, Matilda Rapaport and Janina Kuzma show what they can do on their two boards. Their journey will take them to Alaska and Japan, among other places, where they will impressively prove that the female sex can be at least as good in the (deep) snow as the men's world. The European Outdoor Film Tour therefore offers around 120 minutes of the best entertainment, as it has every year so far. And as if the thrills weren't enough, various prize draws during the interval will get your pulse racing once again. Sure, the chance of winning a brand new backpack from the partner "Mammut" or other goodies is relatively low, but the probability of spending a very entertaining evening is very high. The E.O.F.T is still touring Germany (and Europe) until the beginning of February and anyone who hasn't yet visited should quickly secure a ticket for one of the upcoming performances: Tickets
