FILMS
Explore a collection of films that celebrate adventure, storytelling, and environmental stewardship at the Coast Film and Music Festival. From past favorites to this year's exciting lineup, these films highlight the human connection to nature and the outdoors.
2025 CFMF Film Line-up is live - check it out below!
Beyond Sunset shown at CFMF 2021
Business As Usual: Celebrating 75 Years
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Business as Usual," presented by Connor Eck Films and Hobie Surf Shops & Surfboards, celebrating 75 years of surf culture and craftsmanship. Featuring Mason Klink, Ian Gottron, Rilynn Baker, and more, the film honors Hobie’s legacy—past, present, and future—through timeless waves and stories.
Brain Waves: An Andy Davis Story
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Brain Waves - An Andy Davis Story,” a fantastic deep dive into the expansive career and a vivid look at how Andy's art has impacted the world at-large.
In the Air
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "In the Air.” At just 13, Patti Zhou is redefining board sports—fearlessly blending snowboarding and surfing in a vibrant story of talent, family, and cultural inspiration.
Milk + Honey
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Milk + Honey,” a 30-minute surf film by Stab Magazine featuring surfers Caity Simmers, Stephanie Gilmore, Coco Ho, and Frankie Harrer. Filmed in Siargao, Philippines, the movie explores how different surfboard designs—both alternative and standard—can complement each other to unlock a surfer's full style and ability.
The September Sessions
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "The September Sessions,” a documentary film about Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and others taking a trip to the coast of Sumatra, where they find themselves surfing beautiful waves and losing the urgency they have come to live with as professionals. The September Sessions documents this trip with interviews and 16mm footage of life on a once-in-a-lifetime surf trip.
Snakes and Surf Breaks
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Snakes and Surf Breaks,” a documentary film about a three-month expedition by friends into remote Indonesia in search of a cobra. The movie is described as a mix of a surf odyssey and wildlife fever dream, exploring themes.
Thicker Than Water
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Thicker Than Water,” a 2000 documentary surf film directed by singer/songwriter Jack Johnson and his film school friend Chris Malloy. It shows surfing footage from different locations like Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, India, and Ireland in combination with a wide range of styles of guitar music. Surfers in the film include Kelly Slater and Shane Dorian.
Paved
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Paved,” Burton’s most ambitious film in years. A full-length snowboard odyssey two years in the making. Following some of the most influential riders of this generation, the film captures camaraderie, style, and raw energy as the crew pushes backcountry progression from Alaska to Japan, British Columbia, Tahoe, and beyond.
Pipeline
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Pipeline”, a film by Peter King. Shot entirely during the 2024/2025 winter season from the iconic backyard of the A New Earth Project house, the film is a raw, immersive portrait of surfing’s most sacred wave. With unprecedented access and a camera always rolling, PK captures moments no one else could—from historic barrels to unfiltered conversations with legends. This is not just a surf film. It’s a front-row seat to a season that will go down in history, told through the eyes of one of the North Shore’s most trusted storytellers.
Our Oceans Short Films Block
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Our Oceans, a curated selection of short stories about connections to the ocean and the need to protect.
Ritual Mountain Bike Film Tour
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Ritual Mountain Bike Film Tour!
Healed By Nature Short Films Block
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Healed By Nature, a curated selection of short stories about the healing power of nature and experiences outside.
The Speed Project Afterparty
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "The Speed Project Afterparty”.
The Tale of Silyan
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Tale of Silyan”, a documentary that intertwines the real-life story of a North Macedonian farmer, Nikola, with a traditional folktale. As economic hardship forces his family to seek work abroad, Nikola rescues an injured white stork named Silyan, forming an unlikely bond with the bird while dealing with the land's unsustainable future and the global migration crisis.
The Reindeer Journals
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "The Reindeer Journals”, written and narrated by Riverhorse Nakadate, is a poetic ode to friendship, wild places, and simple living in the Arctic Circle. Set in the breathtaking wilderness of Lapland, the film celebrates the philosophy of Allemansrätten—the right to roam—and reminds us of our shared responsibility to protect the earth and its creatures.
Land to Sea
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "Land to Sea”. The story of The Ecology Center, a 28-acre regenerative farm in San Juan Capistrano, California. Founded by surfer Evan Marks from his desire to protect the ocean from toxic land runoff, this once dirt lot has become a tropical oasis. Rooted in indigenous practices, community, and deep stewardship, The Ecology Center is how humans have always been meant to live in harmony with the land.
King of Moab
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "King of Moab”, which follows Max Jolliffe, a former addict who found redemption in running. After discovering the sport in 2017, he quickly rose in the ultrarunning world and set his sights on the grueling Moab 240. Against extreme desert conditions and the sport’s fiercest competitors, Jolliffe pushes himself to the limit in a quest to be crowned “The King.”
In Cold Blood
Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents "In Cold Blood”. After his fourth Freeride World Tour victory, Victor de Le Rue returns to the mountains—the place where he feels most alive.
