Climbing Films from South Africa

The South African entries concentrate on the Rocklands boulder field in the Cederberg and the rhythm of a climbing season there. Across the three films you see elite bouldering at multiple levels, the steady slog of a high‑output season, and a mix of personal‑project footage with short field reports. One film compresses a single climber’s most productive trip into a season log, another follows a repeat visitor moving between projects, seaside sessions and competitions, and a third stitches together a concise tour of classic Rocklands problems by a small international team.

A Good Season records Jimmy Webb’s concentrated campaign through some of Rocklands’ hardest testpieces, presented as a session‑driven season diary where persistence and specific problem tuning show through. A Month In Rocklands with Kyra Condie widens the frame: it balances attempts on named lines with rest‑day routines, local culture and a detour to coastal deep‑water soloing, giving a realistic sense of how a full season disperses effort across many projects. The Louder Than Eleven short Climbing The World’s BEST Boulders | ft. Jorg Verhoeven & Katha Saurwein functions as a visual catalogue — useful for studying movement and beta on specific problems because it strings together attempts across the area’s variety, from steep cave boulders to short technical crimpy lines.

Together these films are practical records: they show the movement, tactics and day‑to‑day pacing that define Rocklands climbing rather than creating a hagiographic portrait, and they foreground the interplay between problem style, conditions and the personal strategies climbers use to work the area.