NOTICIAS
Mendi Tour Sopela 2020
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- Last Updated: Monday, 26 October 2020 10:28
- Published: Monday, 26 October 2020 10:28
Mendi Tour Markina-Xemein 2020
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- Last Updated: Friday, 23 October 2020 10:16
- Published: Friday, 23 October 2020 10:11
The Official Selection of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia festival will include 54 films, which will be available at theatres and online from 4th to 13th December
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- Category: Noticias 2020
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:48
- Published: Saturday, 17 October 2020 00:37
The best international mountain films will be screened in Bilbao during the 13th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival, from 4th to 13th of December. 54 films representing 18 countries will compete in the contest, bringing to Bilbao some of the best mountain cinema made in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania.
Mendi Tour Getaria 2020
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- Last Updated: Friday, 16 October 2020 12:05
- Published: Friday, 16 October 2020 12:05
The foundation Baltistan Fundazioa will receive the WOP Award 2020
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- Category: Noticias 2019
- Last Updated: Friday, 09 October 2020 15:53
- Published: Monday, 05 October 2020 10:00
The Baltistan Fundazioa foundation, an international development cooperation NGO that works in the Pakistani Karakorum, will be recognized with the WOP-The Walk On Project 2020 Award of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia festival. The award ceremony will be held during the 13th edition of the festival, between 4th and 13th of December 2020, in Bilbao.
Mendi Tour On Line: Cholitas on demand
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- Category: Noticias 2019
- Last Updated: Thursday, 01 October 2020 11:56
- Published: Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:47
The history of mountaineering and climbing films becomes a book
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- Category: Noticias 2019
- Last Updated: Thursday, 24 September 2020 12:02
- Published: Thursday, 24 September 2020 10:30
Written by Roberto Mantovani, Action Let's Climb! is published by the Italian Alpine Club with the International Alliance for Mountain Film and the Museo Nazionale della Montagna of Turin, Italy.
From the first mountaineering films released in the early years of the "short century", to the digital cinema of the new millennium, passing through hundreds of feature films and documentaries over a period of one hundred and twenty years.
Werner Herzog IAMF Grand Prize 2020
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- Category: Noticias 2019
- Last Updated: Thursday, 03 September 2020 20:47
- Published: Thursday, 03 September 2020 10:00
Werner Herzog (c) Robin Holland
The German film director Werner Herzog is the winner of the IAMF Grand Prize 2020. The award was announced at Trento Film Festival by the IAMF vice president Roberto De Martin.
Jabier Baraiazarra, the Director of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival and the president of the International Alliance for Mountain Film, is proud of this well-deserved recognition of a great director with remarkable contributions to mountain cinema. Like Werner Herzog, he could not be present at the Italian event either because he followed the precautionary guidelines against covid-19.
Film submission period countdown: open until 15th of September
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- Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 September 2020 14:21
- Published: Tuesday, 01 September 2020 00:01
We are so excited!
Urmuga: the musical mountain traverse of the Basque Country
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- Last Updated: Friday, 10 July 2020 14:55
- Published: Friday, 10 July 2020 12:09
Felipe Uriarte mountain guide, Jabier Baraiazarra director of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia and Migel Zeberio orchestre director
From July 14 to August 1, the Urmuga expedition will traverse the Basque Country crossing the watershed. Music and mountaineering will merge together with the Et Incarnatus Orchestra and the Mendiak eta Herriak mountain guide agency. Urmuga is a journey that will take place from west to east from the Sierra de Garobel to the Hiru Erregeen Mahaia, traveling along the main mountains of the Basque Country, led by Felipe Uriarte, and steeped in music under the direction of Migel Zeberio, in various places along the route.
Postponed Mendi Tour sessions
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- Category: Noticias 2019
- Last Updated: Monday, 01 June 2020 09:42
- Published: Friday, 13 March 2020 09:16
NOTE
The following Mendi Tours have been postponed:
- Filma!-Sevatur-San Sebastián (M13-14, Kursaal)
- Vielha e Mijaran (M14-15, Cinema Vielha)
- Sevilla (M19, Cine Avenida)
- Iruña-Pamplona (M23-24-25-26, Golem Baiona)
- Santutxu/Bilbao (M23/25, Rincón del Viajero)
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“Into the Light”: The image of Mendi Film 2020 shows the light
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- Last Updated: Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:13
- Published: Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:25
"Into the Light", by the Slovenian photographer Sandi Bertoncelj, is the official image of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival. He has won this award in the CVCEPHOTO Contest of the Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, so it will be the base of all Mendi Film's illustrations.
'Treeline': the reciprocal bond between humanity and nature Grand Prize at the BBK Mendi Film 2019
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- Last Updated: Monday, 16 December 2019 16:18
- Published: Saturday, 14 December 2019 19:36
The film Treeline directed by Jordan Manley wins the Grand Prize at the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia 2019. Trees are the main axis of this work engraved in forests of British Columbia, Japan and Nevada. It's an invitation to interpret what the oldest trees have to teach us, illuminating the reciprocal bond between humanity and nature. A masterpiece.
Eighth year that BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia sets its own audience record
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- Last Updated: Monday, 16 December 2019 16:05
- Published: Monday, 16 December 2019 14:42
Bilbao, 16th December 2019. BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia, the international mountain film festival, puts an end to its brilliant 12th edition. Over the last 10 days, 12,360 people attended the screenings, setting a new attendance record and reinforcing its continuous growth for the last eight editions. The organisers are very happy with these numbers, but they particularly appreciate the quality of the films and events.
Nives Meroi and Romano Benet "proud to receive and represent" the 2019 WOP Award
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- Last Updated: Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:45
- Published: Sunday, 15 December 2019 14:18
Mountaineers Nives Meroi and Romano Benet have been the main honorees of the 12th edition. They were awarded the 2019 WOP-The Walk On Project Award at the event held in Bilbao on Saturday, December 14.
Mendi Gaua: Mendi 2019's most desired films at Golem Alhóndiga (2)
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- Last Updated: Friday, 13 December 2019 01:54
- Published: Friday, 13 December 2019 01:51
