Emma Patterson

Born from scattered conversations, gleaned memories, and the whims of a season, Cold Calls traverses the moods of the white world: storms in Whistler, Japanese powder, Norwegian vastness, rare sunny spells in Alaska. Each call becomes a story, funny, serious, or simply human. In the end, nothing was really planned, but everything seems to fall into place. In doing so, it questions the reasons that drive us to act this way and reveals the inexplicable joy that skiing brings.

A collection of athlete portraits following Jacob Bélanger, Emma Patterson, and Ugo Troubat. Through their individual stories, the film explores the experiences, choices, and communities that shaped the lives they lead today. While each has taken a different path, together they reflect the many ways people find their place within skiing and contribute to the culture in their own way.