The Mountain Sports and Outdoor Adventure Film Festival kicked off tonight with a selection of films aimed at promoting mountain sports, outdoor adventure, cycling, environmental issues, women's empowerment in mountain sports, and the human challenges of rare expeditions. natural.

In the fourth edition, from the "BANFF Center Mountain Film Festival", during two days a program of 15 short films divided into RED and BLUE Program will be shown free of charge, from 19:00 at Kino Armata, and they are productions of different countries of the world, including Canada, Germany, America, as well as other countries from around the world.

The festival opened with the film called "Flow", which is about skiing and is from the French production and is a symphonic journey in a ski resort during the time of the pandemic. After him, the film "Colors of Mexico" was released.

The director of BANFF Kosovo, Besnik Shala, thanked the festival team for all the work and commitments they have made.

"This festival where inspiration, environmental awareness and the freedom to follow our passions are always in the center of attention. Today on this evening through films we will experience a journey that celebrates human potential, the beauty of our talent and the freedom to live life to the fullest. The theme of this evening is freedom, the freedom to explore, to be yourself and to stand up for what is right...this festival is watched by more than 600 thousand people through cinema in more than 40 countries around the world, Kosovo is the only one in the region that shows this film", he said.

On October 11, another selection of 8 films will be shown in the "BLUE Programme", among them the film "In preservation of glaciers" which presents the mission of a scientist and his team to avoid the melting of glaciers in the Swiss Alps.

"BANFF Mountain Film Festival" is organized in BANFF (Alberta) Canada every year since 1976 and Prishtina is the host of this festival for the fourth time.