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| Monday, December 08, 2025 |
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Euskalduna Bilbao 8 dic 12:00 ALDABIDE, ALONE ACROSS GOLA, OUT OF THE BLUE, ETERNAL SOLOALDABIDE2025, Spain, 12min Director: Jon Mendizabal Roa INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Cavers Oskar Etxebarria (ADES) and Carlos Arranz (Takomano) venture into the bowels of the Itxina Massif, in the heart of the Gorbea mountain range in Bizkaia, Basque Country. It is an underground world that can only be accessed by diving through a narrow siphon. Witnessing what they experience, the film explores the darkness of this hollow mountain, capturing the passion, obsession and deep feeling for nature that drives these cave divers. ALONE ACROSS GOLA2024, United Kingdom, Sierra Leone, Liberia, 20min Director: Jude Kriwald NATIONAL PREMIERE Jude Kriwald's extraordinary solo journey through the dense and unchartered Liberian rainforest of Gola, in a landscape without roads or paths, where every step meant pushing through thick undergrowth with nothing but a bicycle and a tent. Jude carried his 53 kg bicycle over fallen trees, crossed ravines with collapsed bridges and faced life-threatening situations. It is an adventure that tests the limits of endurance, self-sufficiency and the human spirit, and often makes Jude wonder, “Is this route even possible?” OUT OF THE BLUE2020, France, 43min Director: Davina Beyloos Montaz-Rosset & Sébastien Montaz-Rosset An enigmatic character recruits street artists and mountaineers for a hilarious project on the summits of Oberland in Switzerland. Talented young acrobats from Bern have doubts about hurling themselves into this bizarre vertical odyssey full to the brim with ingredients such as highline, acroyoga, ‘spacenet,’ vertical acrobatic cloth, wingsuit flights… ETERNAL SOLO2025, Italy, Pakistan, 31min Director: Andrea Cossu NATIONAL PREMIERE Stefano Ragazzo wasn’t born among the mountains; his passion came later, like a bolt from the blue, with climbing drawing him far up from the plains. Inspired by the Dolomite tradition, he became captivated by solo climbing—a way to push beyond his own limits. His challenge? The Eternal Flame route, a legendary rock face in the heart of Pakistan’s Karakoram range. An exhilarating journey into the world of mountaineering, where passion, courage, and a love for the mountains come together in an adventure that seems impossible. |
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Euskalduna Bilbao 8 dic 16:00 JAVIER Y LA MONTAÑAJAVIER Y LA MONTAÑA2024, Spain, 78min Director: Rodolfo Montero de Palacio / Mario de Benito Javier López Pagazaurtundua leads the Basque Country's efforts to raise awareness about people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. As the winner of one of the Urbegi Foundation's ‘Lo Impossible/The impossible Awards’, his only prize was to make one of his impossible dreams come true. His challenge was to hike to the Everest base camp, where he could enjoy, suffer, and experience something he had dreamed of his whole life: to feel the highest mountains on the planet and, through them, raise awareness for those who suffer from cerebral palsy. |
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Euskalduna Bilbao 8 dic 17:00 MARÉE NOIRE, BÂTISSEURS DE RÊVES ATHOMIQUES !, EPHEMERALMARÉE NOIRE2024, Canada, 11min Director: Chantal Caron NATIONAL PREMIERE A cry from the Earth’s species startled into surviving against the onslaught of threatening elements. One last breath before being trampled by Earth or to the contrary enter battle to wage against winds and tides clutching onto life before extinction. BÂTISSEURS DE RÊVES ATHOMIQUES !2024, France, 45min Director: Antoine Le Menestrel NATIONAL PREMIERE The adventure of ATHOM, the extraordinary climbers & dancers' troupe, led by Antoine Le Ménestrel, in a poetic and fraternal project that transcends disciplines and origins, connecting dance and climbing. A documentary about the Cultural Olympiad project, winner of the ‘Inspiration, Creation and Disability’ organised by Paris 2024 and the French Ministry of Culture. EPHEMERAL2024, United States, 32min Director: Josiah Jones EUSKADI PREMIERE As the ice climbing season is shortened year after year, ice and mixed climber, Jeff Mercier is driven into Iceland’s unforgiving glacial landscape. Faced with an ever-shifting medium and treacherous terrain, Jeff pushes his own limits as well as the boundaries of his sport. |
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Mendi talk FOLAMBULE Euskalduna Bilbao 8 Dic 19:00FOLAMBULE. Les confessions d'un grimpeur étoileANTOINE LE MÉNESTREL Monday December 8 – 19:00 Euskalduna Bilbao Antoine Le Ménestrel was one of the prodigies who invented free climbing in the 1980s. He took climbing to new heights, combining the search for challenge with creativity. He is the living memory of a movement that inspires millions of young people to take up climbing today. In ‘Folambule’, he recounts with moving sincerity how his exploration of movement on the cliffs went hand in hand with his inner torments. His unique vertical trajectory led him to artistic creation. Today, he is a choreographer and dancer with the Lézards Bleus company, which creates dance-climbing shows.
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Euskalduna Bilbao 8 dic 19:45 WILD AERIAL, NATURA FUGIT, OLD MAN LIGHTNINGWILD AERIAL2024, Canada, 16min Director: Trixie Pacis NATIONAL PREMIERE The film follows adventure aerialist Sasha Galitzki to remote icescapes to document the most ambitious routine she has ever performed outdoors. Overcoming extreme cold and dizzying heights, she draws attention to the beauty and fragility of our rapidly changing landscapes. NATURA FUGIT2025, Spain, 22min Director: Jesus Mari Lazkano The landscape of Mer de Glace, in the Mont Blanc massif, is transformed over time, a “geological timeline” that we cannot understand from our current perspective and which shows us the progressive degradation of which we are an active part. It is the most studied, painted and referenced glacier in Europe, recreated by artists such as Friedrich, Ruskin, Turner and Violet le Duc. Through thousands of original drawings by Jesús Mari Lazkano, this short film reflects the successive evolution of the increase and disappearance of ice, the filling and emptying, like the breathing of the landscape, which ends in the ultimate landscape catastrophe and the collapse of all life. OLD MAN LIGHTNING2025, United States, 60min Director: Dawn Kish NATIONAL PREMIERE Cranky and yet witty, the bouldering legend John “Verm” Sherman has lost his drive or mojo and is struggling or jonesing to regain it. What better way than to climb the world’s most famous boulder problem, Yosemite’s iconic Midnight Lightning? He climbed it 25 years ago, but since then the climb has gotten harder and Verm’s gotten softer due to Beer lust and a third-degree burning passion for bird photography. Standing in his way is his age (57), weight (200 lbs), dozens of injuries, and myriad health issues. Nevertheless, he’s stubborn and determined, and after a specific 6-month preparation to get in shape, he is ready for leading to a final confrontation with bouldering’s “Problem of Problems”. |
