France’s biggest freeski film festival is coming up, and this year’s event promises to be “the best ever High Five and iF3 together,” says organizer Gaylor Pedretti.

It’s that time again: in a month, France’s freeskiing festival will be back. The High Five Festival isn’t just a movie screening, but a tribute to the spirit of freeskiing itself—it’s the place where the pros come as freeski fans to tell their summer stories and winter dreams, and lose some memory at a party or two. It’s a very lively place where livers are abused as much as the eyes are pleased. Here’s an incomplete list of what medicine this year’s High Five will offer. Tomorrow we’ll have an interview with the Doctor himself, High Five organizer Gaylord Pedretti.

WHEN: 2-4 October, 2015
WHERE: Annecy, France
Website: http://www.highfive-festival.com/en/

NUMBERS
55 movies
1,319 minutes of video projected in 4 screening rooms
9 countries represented by the film companies
15 countries represented by riders
50 brands in the brand village and around the festival
12 musical artists at the parties
50,000 stickers to be liberally distributed

MOVIES
Alongside the classic productions, you’ll also have the pleasure to watch snowboard flicks, multi-sports movies, and even flash back to the 1990s with the “Nuit de la Glisse.”

PARTIES
DJ Nelson, Wax Wreckaz, Guillaume Berg, Sam Tiba, Myd, Workerz, Shook, OT Mind…

LES SOIRÉES
Le High Five a concocté un programme nocturne aux petits oignons en conviant des chefs du Dancefloor tels que DJ Nelson, Wax Wreckaz, Guillaume Berg, Sam Tiba, Myd, Workerz, Shook, OT Mind…

RIDERS
Candide Thovex (FRA) Kévin Rolland (FRA) , Mike Douglas (CAN), Julien Reignier (FRA), Henrik Harlaut (SWE) & Phil Casabon (CAN), Joffrey Pollet Villard (FRA), Tom Wallisch, Joss Christensen, Nico Vuignier (SUI), Loic Collomb-Patton (FRA ), Vincent Gagnier (CAN ), Sammy Carlson, Jossi Wells (NZ ), Sage Cattabriga-Alosa (USA), Sean Pettit (CAN), Cody Townsend (USA), Alexi Godbout (CAN), JF Houle (CAN), Richard Permin (FRA), Glen Plake (USA), Sam Favret (FRA), Enak Gavaggio (FRA), Daniel Hanka (CZE), Fabien Maierhofer (FRA), Victor Galuchot (FRA), Sandra Lahnsteiner (AUT)…

ACTIVITIES
This year High Five has expanded its offering of activities to stay busy when you’re not watching movies, including Ocamp, a free-access, 350m2 “Woodward” in the city; the High Five restaurant and bar; and an Air Bag, Brand Village, autograph stand, and much more!

We’ll also welcome you at the Downdays booth with two friendly staffers and our brand-new magazine, and there will definitely be stylish riders dropping by to sign your copy of the magazine, your shirt, or your chest… you never know. We’ll have the pen to the pad, the camera to the eye and the hand on the bottle to keep you up-to-date on all the happenings at High Five.