About this event
After last year’s stunning debut, the London Mountain Film Festival returns to Ropetackle for 2026.
LMFF is an annual celebration of brand-new adventure, exploration, extreme sports and documentary films from around the world.
Ropetackle’s LMFF event will feature an exciting and varied selection of films from the 2026 festival, see the info here.
Films announced so far:
2pm
SLIDING (4 mins) A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to traverse the Swiss Alps on her sled — headfirst.
Now I Feel Alive (4 mins) Kathleen Wotton’s journey from being bed-bound, depressed and morbidly obese to rediscovering creativity and connection in nature.
REBUILT (5 mins) A spotlight on the adaptive mountain bike community, documenting how riders and trail builders are pushing boundaries, expanding access and redefining progression.
Entropy (10 mins) On the vast Greenlandic ice sheet, climate change is threatening the close and sacred connection between the land shaped by ice and the Inuit who live there.
The Hive Architect (12 mins) For the past 14 years, Matt Somerville has spent winters creating log hives before travelling around England each summer to install them as non-intervention habitats for wild honeybees.
RIVERBOUND (13 mins) Yak, a former pro guide and expert kayaker, is now paraplegic after a canyoning accident. Can packrafting give him the freedom to run rivers again?
Fjallferð (16 mins) Follow one week of réttir – the annual Icelandic sheep round-up – through the eyes of the families who still drive their flocks down from the highlands each autumn.
Masa: 居場所 (The Place Where I Am) (18 mins) An exploration of home and belonging through the story of Japanese climber Masa Sakano.
Wall of Walls (13 mins) Over three years, Will Gadd and Kirk Mauthner climbed four of the wildest new routes in the world, all on a wall invisible to anyone not flying a plane.
Reindalen (14 mins) In the fastest-warming place on Earth, two friends and their canine sidekick explore how the world’s smallest and fattest reindeer are thriving as temperatures rise.
7.30pm
The Hive Architect (12 mins) For the past 14 years, Matt Somerville has spent winters creating log hives before travelling around England each summer to install them as non-intervention habitats for wild honeybees.
Masa: 居場所 (The Place Where I Am) (18 mins) An exploration of home and belonging through the story of Japanese climber Masa Sakano.
SLIDING (4 mins) A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to traverse the Swiss Alps on her sled — headfirst.
Now I Feel Alive (4 mins) Kathleen Wotton’s journey from being bed-bound, depressed and morbidly obese to rediscovering creativity and connection in nature.
REBUILT (5 mins)A spotlight on the adaptive mountain bike community, documenting how riders and trail builders are pushing boundaries, expanding access and redefining progression.
Entropy (10 mins)On the vast Greenlandic ice sheet, climate change is threatening the close and sacred connection between the land shaped by ice and the Inuit who live there.
Reindalen (14 mins)In the fastest-warming place on Earth, two friends and their canine sidekick explore how the world’s smallest and fattest reindeer are thriving as temperatures rise.
Wall of Walls (13 mins)Over three years, Will Gadd and Kirk Mauthner climbed four of the wildest new routes in the world, all on a wall invisible to anyone not flying a plane.
RIVERBOUND (13 mins)Yak, a former pro guide and expert kayaker, is now paraplegic after a canyoning accident. Can packrafting give him the freedom to run rivers again?
En Plein Air (15 mins)Two decades after the expedition that launched his art career, Indigenous artist Alfred Villeneuve returns by canoe to paint on his ancestral land.
Evening Film: Sinners
7:30 PM
