PROGRAMME 2020

UNSTOPPABLE
A budding talent on the Hawaiian surf scene, Bethany Hamilton is just 13 years old when she is attacked by a tiger shark, instantaneously losing her left arm. What would have been the end of a promising career in surfing for anybody else, marks the starting point of Hamilton’s tour de force in the sport she so loves. UNSTOPPABLE is her story.

DIVING DEEP – The Life and Times of Mike DeGruy
A guy like Mike DeGruy had to be born in a place like Mobile, Alabama. Here, where five rivers meet the ocean, his fascination for water and all life within it became obvious at an early age. DIVING DEEP is not only a tribute to one of the world’s most prolific ocean cinematographers but also a celebration of the principal emotion deGruy exuded and still elicits with his life’s work – a sense of wonder.




THE ARMSTRONGS
This South African surfing family lives a life not many would deem conventional. With eight children and one grandson Lee and Ian Armstrong redefine what is “normal” and make a point of placing well-being and a genuine connection with nature above financial gain and status.

DEAN GOES SURFING
Dean is a teenage boy who loves breakfast, Rihanna, and finding freedom in a wave.




MAIDEN (part of the programme in Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Italy)
1989: The male-dominated Whitbread Round the World Race is in for a surprise. 26-year-old skipper Tracy Edwards enters the race with history’s first all-female crew – 33,000 nautical miles towards equality. 




MANRY AT SEA (part of the programme in the Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg)
In 1965 middle-aged happily married newspaper editor and father of two Robert Manry secretly sets off in a tiny sailboat to pursue his boyhood dream – sailing solo across the Atlantic in his 13 1/2-foot sloop, Tinkerbelle.