ADVENTURE is coming to Dorset next month as one of the world's most famous mountain festivals goes on tour.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will feature screenings in Poole, Wimborne and Weymouth in the coming weeks.

The festival has been held at the start of November each year since 1975 in Banff, Canada.

It draws some of the world's best filmmakers and explorers to celebrate adventure, the environment and the outdoors through film.

As part of the UK and Ireland tour, there will be around 100 screenings at more than 50 venues.

Tour director Nell Teasdale said: "It’s fantastic to be back with our biggest tour yet – a reflection of the enormous appetite for adventure that UK and Irish audiences have.

"The Banff Tour is more than a series of exhilarating film nights.

"Each screening offers a real sense of community, bringing together people with a wide range of outdoor passions."

The short films, which feature top adventurers on journeys around the world, are selected from hundreds of films entered into the main festival each year.

The UK and Ireland tour has two different programmes of films to choose from, each lasting around two-and-a-half hours, with free prize giveaways at each screening.

The tour is part of the wider Banff World Tour which reaches more than 400,000 people worldwide.

Screenings will take place at Lighthouse Poole on February 14, Wimborne's Tivoli Theatre on February 21 and Weymouth Pavilion on March 24.