Great adventure
Who needs those virtual reality contraptions when you can get the being-there sensation by simply attending the films that are part of the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour?
These short movies will have you scaling precarious cliffs, careening down icy slopes, and riding outsized waves.
“The Accord” focuses on the surfers of Iceland who have to contend with the North Atlantic wind. In “Ruin and Rose,” freeskiers go wild on the mountains of Whistler and Alaska. In “Four Mums in a Boat,” a quartet of middle-aged working British mothers decide to row the Atlantic Ocean.
Those are among the short action, environmental and adventure movies scheduled to be screened Sunday when the Banff tour comes to Connecticut College.
The New London event benefits the Connecticut College Women’s volleyball team and the Denali Foundation, which develops and supports programs to promote youth and family engagement in the outdoors and to protect access to local green spaces.