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Film Festival

Need to Know: Coupe Icare 2024

The flying festival that celebrates all things wonderful about free flight returns again to St Hilaire, running from 17-22 September
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El Yelmo 2024 a success

El Yelmo international flight and film festival was deemed a success with 22,000 visitors over the weekend despite challenging weather
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The Last Glaciers opens in Imax USA/Canada

The Last Glaciers, a film about climate change which uses paragliding and speed flying to help tell the story, has been released in US Imax cinemas
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Coupe Icare 2021

Coupe Icare 2021: Changes announced

The Coupe Icare 2021 has been affected by new Covid restrictions – limiting activities and numbers and potentially restricting it to French pilots only.
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Free Flight Night 2011

Free Flight Night at Kendal Mountain Festival 2011

Red Bull X-Alps athlete Jon Chambers tops the bill at 'world's biggest mountain festival'
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Coupe Icare 2011: St Hilaire blog

Follow the action at the Coupe Icare 2011 – the world's biggest and best free-flight festival for paragliding and paramotoring
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XC360 2011 short film competition: Vote Now!

Top three short films destined for the silver screen at St Hilaire
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Chrigel Maurer on the X-Alps 2009 at Salzburg Mountain Film Festival

2009 Red Bull X-Alps winning team Chrigel Maurer and Thomas Theurillat will be giving a slide show and talk on "the Red Bull X-Alps 2009 - as it really was" at the Salzburg Mountain film festival tomorrow night, 7 December.
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Free Flight Night at Kendal Mountain Festival

SIV guru and paragliding filmmaker Jocky Sanderson is hosting Free Flight night at the Kendal Mountain Festival in England's Lake District on Thursday 18 November 2010.
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Gravity never sleeps at the International Alpine Film Festival

Top paragliding film, Gravity Never Sleeps, has been shortlisted for an award at FIFAD (the International Alpine Film Festival) in Les Diablerets from 7 - 14 August 2010.
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