Dixie’s Peak

Antarctica. A place where the journey becomes more important than the destination. Where the endless emptiness and the immense power of the landscape make you realise how small you are and how alive you can feel.

Six Belgians, three generations, one small sailboat. What unites them is a restlessness: the urge to keep moving, into the wild, towards the mountains, in pursuit of adventure. Former world snowboarding champion Seppe Smits and freerider Gert Goelen set sail with sailors, freeriders and surfers Robin Caris and Sammy Van Cleemput, activist, sailor and cameraman Arno Meyns, and lifelong pirate and sailor Marcel De Letter.

Following in the footsteps of Belgian history in Antarctica, they chart their own course among icebergs and untouched peaks, penguins and whales. With snowboards on their backs, they climb towards summits, searching for new descents that may never have been attempted before. Storms, shifting ice and unexpected encounters turn their plan into an adventure no one could have mapped out in advance.

DIXIE’S PEAK is a collectively made, mid-length documentary in which different worlds converge at the end of the world. A film about pushing boundaries and letting go of control. About what drives three generations into the unknown, and what connects them along the way.