Telluride’s Mountainfilm Festival is making its way to Homer, thanks to Homer Community School. The two-night visit — Jan 23 and 24 — offers more than 20 films of different lengths, each with an intensity that brings adventure, mountaineering, environmental and social issues, and quirky personalities to Homer’s doorstep. Different films are offered each night, beginning with a five-minute introduction at 7 p.m. at the Mariner Theatre. Tickets for each evening are $10 students, $12 adults and are available at the Homer Bookstore or the Community School office. Following is a list of the films in this year’s festival.

Monday:

• Ancient Marks, 11 minutes, U.S.A. This film celebrates the 2,000-year-old ritual of tattooing and scarification, with original music composed by Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar.
• Herders Calling, 24 minutes, Canada/Kyrgyzstan. In the beautiful rolling foothills of Kyrgyzstan, a young woman prepares to leave behind a way of life thousands of years old and heed a call to the city.
• Hodet Mitt, 4 minutes, Norway. A surrealistic self-portrait about the relationship between our inner and outer lives.
• Hockey Night in Ladakh, 10 minutes, Canada. During the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs in Calgary, Alberta, some professional hockey players took oxygen to combat the effects of high altitude. In this film, middle-aged Canadian Embassy staffers living in Delhi fly to Ladakh, on the Tibetan plateau, to play in a hockey tournament on an ice rink at nearly three times the elevation of Calgary.
• Home Game, 10 minutes, Norway. A film about the hardest, most common fight of all.
• I Sona A Su La Torns, 9 minutes, Italy. With their instruments on their backs, 25 musicians climb the Vajolet Towers in the Dolomites, playing when they reach the summits.
• La Descente, 12 minutes, Brazil. When you have lost everything, there’s only one way to go.
• Middle Kaweah, 22 minutes, U.S.A. Follow the first kayak descent of the Middle Kaweah River in the California Sierra Nevadas, through unknown gorges with class five and six rapids around each bend.
• Mini Cine Tupy, 12 minutes, Brazil. A short documentary on a trash gatherer in Sao Paulo.
• Solilochairliftquist, 4 minutes, U.S.A. This short explores the complexities of life as a ski bum from the perspective of actual lift-riding time.

Photo provided Promo for Telluride Mountinfilm Festival. Film: Kaweah

Tuesday:

• Diary of a Flagger, 11 minutes, U.S.A. A human-interest story about a highway flagman in the rural West and what he does to entertain himself during long lulls when no cars come by.
• Garpenfargle, 4 minutes. U.S.A. The master of the house is leaving, leaving only one instruction.
• Motel, 8 minutes, U.S.A. A weary traveler stops at a motel for the night. When all of his desires are provided, is it too good to be true?
• Nomads, 8 minutes, U.S.A. This film looks at the lives of transient whitewater kayakers who have followed their love of the river on a lifelong adventure around the world.
• Slackman, 11 minutes, U.S.A. This is a whimsical look at the concentration required to execute a walk along a highline. It features well-known alpinist and speed climber Dean Potter.
• The Great Hopkins Rescue, 9 minutes, U.S.A. Climber Gregory Crouch guides us up Wyoming, to the famous 1941 rescue of the parachutist who landed on top. With fascinating archival footage of the actual rescue, this short documentary will have you climbing in the handholds and footholds of history.
• The Hatch, 17 minutes, U.S.A. Once a year, an epic insect hatch pervades Colorado, sending tingles down the spine of every trout and angler in the gorge.
• The Lost People of Mountain Village, 14 minutes, U.S.A. Anthropologist Wade Davis calls it “no less than the most spectacular archaeological and anthropological discovery of our lifetimes.”
• The Khumbu Mighty Mights, 4 minutes, U.S.A. After a big snowstorm, the children of Nepal enjoy a day on their homemade skis.
• Timmy O’Neill, 1 minute, U.S.A. A humorous view of climbing in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
• rans Andes, 16 minutes, U.S.A. Will Gadd leads a trans-Andean paragliding expedition from Chile to Argentina.