THE OCEAN Film Festival World Tour comes to Leeds and Harrogate this month.

The programme will feature a new selection enthralling ocean-themed short films with two hours of footage taken above and below the water’s surface.

The “exceptional and sublime” films aim to capture the raw power and beauty of the sea while celebrating the surfers, kayakers and oceanographers who use it.

Highlights include Kayaking The Aleutians, following British explorers Justine Curgenven and Sarah Outen as they paddle 2,500km along the chain of Alaskan islands.

The Accord follows Heiðar Logi Elíasson, Iceland’s first and only professional surfer, on his journey through the country’s magnificent terrain.

See the films at Leeds Town Hall on September 29 and the Royal Hall in Harrogate on September 30.