IFF26 Sand Roads

In 2010 best friends Valerio De Simoni, Jamie Kenyon and Kris ‘Ted’ Davant embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a 50,000km quad bike journey across three continents to break a Guinness World Record while fundraising to combat global poverty. Valerio keeps a diary and they carry a video camera, vowing to document everything, no matter what. Starting in Istanbul, they cross Europe, travelling through Italy to Sicily and on to Tunisia, then traverse East Africa to Malawi. Embracing new cultures, making friends in unlikely places and creating memories against everchanging, exquisite landscapes, this is their rite of passage to adulthood, and they are intent on testing their limits. The road obliges, becoming tough and unforgiving, fraught with breakdowns, exhaustion, and personal tensions, until tragedy strikes and changes their lives forever. Now, 16 years later, this Australian/Italian co-produced documentary Sand Roads shares the intimate road trip footage alongside a rediscovered diary and contemporary reflections to tell their heartfelt story of friendship, adventure, loss, and courage.