40 Below: The Toughest Race in the World screening
In partnership with MSP Film Society
Fri, Jan 27, 7 pm
The Main Cinema
Part of the MSP Film Series
This event is currently at capacity.
Join us for a special sneak preview screening of 40 Below: The Toughest Race in the World, followed by a conversation with the film’s director Marius Anderson and subjects Bill Bradley and Leah Gruhn.
Film synopsis:
It’s been called the toughest endurance race in the world. Why would anyone do this, especially when it’s 40 degrees below zero? Set in Northern Minnesota, we meet Leah, a junk food eating scientist, and Bill, an accomplished ultra-marathoner who just can’t seem to finish this incredibly challenging race. They run, bike, or ski 135 miles over three days in the solitary woods, sometimes hallucinating. They barely stop to rest, and what little sleep they’re able to get in the snow comes with a constant concern of getting frostbite or freezing to death. What can we learn from them about life, love, and happiness?
Runtime: 99 minutes
About MSP Film Society
MSP Film Society’s mission is to inform and transform individuals and communities through the power of great cinema. MSP Film has spent the last six decades celebrating a myriad of cultures, countries and issues of collective local and global concern through film, believing in the potency of storytelling to move people, and to move people to action. Its widely recognized Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Cine Latino, We The People film series, or daily screenings at The Main Cinema represent a diversity of perspectives and 100+ cultures and countries each year, providing unique platforms for learning and action through film and conversation.