Films about extreme sports, outdoors and adventure at Theater Zuidplein and LantarenVenster

The European Outdoor Film Tour is Europe's largest outdoor film tour, featuring films on the themes of extreme sports, outdoors and adventure. This film festival has been around since 2001 and every year the event is held at hundreds of locations in a dozen countries. On 6 November there will be an edition at Theater Zuidplein and on 11 November LantarenVenster will be visited with a film night.

Two hours of multiple short documentaries feature protagonists pushing their limits in mountaineering, mountain biking, kayaking, paragliding, skiing, snowboarding and much more. Only the most daring ideas and adventurous expeditions have made it into the film selection, with world-class sporting action by the fascinating characters.

A total of six documentaries will be screened. Eduard Marín climbs the infamous Trango Towers, a group of sharp rock peaks in Pakistan, with his father of 70 years. Yet 'Keep it Burning' shows that the climbing itself is not the biggest challenge on this family tour. Furthermore, the tour goes on a cycling trip through the Philippines with professional mountain biking star Samantha Soriano, Anna Pixner skates down mountains with more than 120 kilometres, and joins you on a freeride with skier Nadine Wallner.

Erik Weihenmayer will climb an imposing 365-metre rock in the Sierra Nevada. This while he is blind. Together with his climbing partner Timmy O'Neill, Erik takes up the challenge. In a short documentary, Erik shows how to embrace nature and make the most of life.

Another adventure defying the vagaries of Mother Nature is in the documentary: To the sea. In it, Londoners Hugo and Ben go to Sweden to sail down the river in a home-made raft made of two pallets joined together, out to sea. They run into violent rapids, torrential rain and thunderstorms. What should have been a two-week trip turns into a six-year expedition through the wilderness of Sweden.