Keep Surfing

In Munich, the mountains sometimes seem so near you could touch them — but the ocean is that much further away. Ironically, particular sections of the Isar River, not far from museums, businesses, and the English Garden, attract more surfing enthusiasts than a lot of coastal cities. Keep Surfing is a documentary memorial to this fact; it assembles everyone of note who's part of the Munich surfing scene. The result is a survey of this phenomenon from its origins to the present day which not only establishes river surfing as a discipline, but also makes this anything-but-seaside town, with all these different faces and stories that are alive within it, palpable in a very original way. (Filmfest München)