2026 Festival dates

9 - 20 SEPTEMBER

👌The perfect finale to this years Cape Town Adventure Film Festival - popcorn, ice cream, champagne and @jackblackbeer at the @thulestoresouthafrica, followed by MIXED NIGHT 3 at a packed @sterkinekor theatre ! We kicked off with 5 incredible South
It has always been a dream of ours to host a WOMEN’S NIGHT and this year that dream came true ✨ We celebrated so many powerful women filmmakers and their stories, learnt about so many incredible women’s empowerment programs and shared in
It’s the Grand Finale! The last night of our 15 Night Programme.💥 Join us tonight at @sterkinekor V&A for Closing Night with Pippa Ehrlich (@the_rewilding) and our globe-spanning Mixed Night 3 films. 🎬 MIXED NIGHT 3 📆 Saturday 1st Nov
It’s the grand finale! We’re wrapping up the 5th Annual Cape Town Adventure Film Festival with our CLOSING NIGHT at @sterkinekor V&A. Joining us on stage is none other than Academy Award-winning director Pippa Ehrlich for our final I
🚴‍♀️ BIKE NIGHT presented by @firstascentsa brought the stoke! ⚡️ From the thrill of mountain biking at 77 to the sense of belonging the bike can bring and relinquishing control to the chaos, in the world’s most gruelling ultra-distance r
Tonight is WOMEN’S NIGHT at the Cape Town Adventure Film Festival. We have a stacked line-up of women focussed or largely women produced films. Films about women who dare, explore, and inspire. Both men and women are welcome, so join us in c
What a great vibe at MIXED NIGHT 2 at @ormsctsp 😎 !! Lots of great chats, connects and smiles, all mixed in with some unbelievable adventure films! @naude_heunis gave some well earned insight into navigating your path through the creative journey
MIXED NIGHT 1 TONIGHT! 🎬🔥 An epic mix of stories from the wild - from the icy silence of Antarctica to the dizzying heights of the Trango Towers in Pakistan. Expect waves, wind, rock, and heart in equal measure, with filmmaker Naudé Heunis
Tomorrow night we celebrate the women behind the camera, and the adventurers in front of it - the storytellers, dreamers, and doers who are shaping the future of adventure. We’re starting something here, a space where women’s stories are