The backcountry film festival is a pre winter institution in Melbourne. We have been screening the festival each year since 2011. This is a first announcement for the 2025 screening and a call for local backcountry films to be included in the festival.

The festival will happen on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Apart from the program of films produced by the Winter Wildlands Alliance, the festival will freature the first Australian screening of Papsura: Peak of Evil.

Tucked deep in the Indian Himalaya is a 21,165-foot behemoth called the Peak of Evil, the face is split by a line so perfect and massive it pushed the skills of even the most renowned ski mountaineers. Papsura: Peak of Evil follows professional snowboarders Nick Russell and Jerry Mark from California’s Sierra Nevada to this remote corner of the world’s greatest mountain range as they harness years of experience in pursuit of the biggest line of their lives.

DIRECTED BY Morgan Shields

CONCEPT BY Nick Russell

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Monika McClure Alex Lowther Kristo Torgersen Colleen Quigley

FEATURING Nick Russell Jerry Mark Jim Morrison Jeremy Jones Jim Zellers Hilaree Nelson

35 minutes.

Presented by PATAGONIA.

Tickets and further info

You can read more about the full festival program here.

You can get tickets here.