WAVERIDERS

Long Live Surfing!

We take you to the formidable waters of Ireland with WAVERIDERS, a Joel Conroy documentary that explores surfing’s apparent Irish (not Hawaiian, not Californian!) roots and follows top-notch surfers like Kelly Slater as they bravely take on the menacing waves that almost always fill up the entire height of the movie screen.

The devoted and passionate crew spent five years on this breath-taking project tracing not only the birth of waveriding to George Freeth, son of an Irishman, but capturing also the indefatigable spirit shared by the waveriders and the scintillating beauty of the country now lovingly called the “cold paradise” by enthusiastic surfers from around the world. The movie is so skilfully and sumptuously shot that it overwhelms us with the fascinating nature of the sport and infects us with the surfers’ boundless energy and a lust for life which is very optimistic and certainly seldom seen elsewhere. Given the kind of gloomy weather we have in Berlin this winter, the heart-warming WAVERIDERS will cheer us up like no other movie.

WAVERIDERS: November, 14 - 6:00 pm - Babylon

britspotting rewind: November, 16 - 9:30 pm - Babylon