- Directed by Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit
- 2024 | 103mins | UK / USA |
Preview offered as part of BFI London Film Festival 2024
The directors of Free Solo and NYAD use one extraordinary expedition to explore our ongoing fascination with human fortitude and physical achievement.
Over the last ten years, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have forged a formidable track record in capturing on film human endurance. Their latest feature, Endurance, screens as part of this year's BFI London Film Festival and plays for one night only at The Odyssey for a very special preview screening.
Shifting between a record of the recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, which sank off the Antarctic in 1915, and a fascinating portrait of the individuals who still explore the barren terrains of our planet’s most forbidding locations. Documenting contemporary polar explorers and drawing on original expedition footage preserved and restored by the BFI National Archive, Endurance is an inspiring celebration of scientific curiosity and the indefatigable human spirit of discovery.
