Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival

14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage as the youngest person ever to attempt sailing around the world alone. After a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura  finds herself far from land, family, and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom and adventure.

In Sky Burial, a recently commercialized sacred funeral tradition, Tibetans feed the bodies of their dead to wild Griffon Vultures as an offering to benefit other living beings. With the modernization of Western China and the expansion of tourism in Tibet, burial sites are now on tourist maps and local officials charge admission.

Two surfers spend nine months on a beach North of the Arctic Circle testing the theory that they can live off the waste of others. With only surfboards and a thirst for adventure, they build a driftwood shelter, use a found barrel for a stove, collect expired groceries, and catch plenty of fish ... and waves!

An explosive look at Mexican drug cartels’ pop-culture influence on both sides of Mexico-US border, as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.

Jean-Pierre Bauwens Junior is a 23-year-old youth world champion in the lightweight category of boxing. The oldest of seven siblings, four of whom suffer from autism, Junior doesn’t just fight for pride or glory. He fights for the future of his family.

Two families living in the same neighborhood but worlds apart collide when pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge his American neighbors to survive one Christmas season without using any Chinese made products.

Pema, 19, is supposed to marry a girl from home, a Nepali Himalayan village at an altitude of 13,000 feet. It should be the only son's duty to tend to the family home in the mountains, but Pema wants nothing more than to study abroad and live a modern life.

Lisa, a lonely girl, has been punished by her mother and she confined herself to her bedroom, where she feeds with her own tears her only friend, a plant.