With a month to go for the 14th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival (3-12 December 2021), we are pleased to announce the selection of films that will be screened.

There are 52 films, including feature films and short films, representing 11 countries, mostly European. Spain and France stand out with 15 and 10 films, among which are 11 Basque films. The United States with 7 films, and Canada with 4, are the extra-European countries that remain faithful to the Bilbao event. United Kingdom (5), Italy (3), Austria (3), Slovakia (2), Germany (2) and the Polish-German-Swiss co-production 'Sciana Cieni (The Wall of Shadows)', complete a luxury selection for the imminent edition of Mendi Film.

The Mountain Culture has known how to overcome the pandemic. 192 films have been inscribed presenting their candidacy to be selected in the festival's 10-day program. It is a record number of films to be presented for the Mendi Film, surpassing the 175 of the year 2020. The new common unified entry form, of the 27 member festivals, of the IAMF-International Alliance for Mountain Film has been very productive, and has perfectly complemented the registration through the mendifilmfestival.com form.

We certify that we will be able to enjoy once again the best mountain and adventure cinema, with the full capacity recovered at the festival's screening venues (Sala BBK, Euskalduna Palace and Golem Cinemas), and once again the Mendi FilmFestival is going to also be on the on-line platform to watch the films on demand.

Advance ticket sales will be activated on November 19, the day of the official presentation of the 14th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia to the media and sponsors.

 

The 52 selected films

Film

Year

Country

Director

A Day in the Life of an Ultrarunner

2021

Canada

Vera Neverkevich

A White Dream

2021

France

Mathieu LeLay

Action Directe 

2020

USA

Zachary Barr & Josh Lowell

After Antarctica

2021

USA

Tasha Van Zandt

Amagana

2021

Spain-EH

Jon Goikoetxea Lopez de Alda & Iker Larrañaga Peral

Bideak

2021

Spain-EH

Xabier Unanua

Black Ice 

2020

USA

Zachary Barr & Peter Mortimer

Cervino - La Cresta del Leone

2021

Italy

Alessandro Beltrame & Hervé Barmasse

Dhaulagiri is my Everest

2021

Slovakia

Pavol Barabáš

E11 Lexicon

2021

UK

Alastair Lee

EKI.LIBRIO

2020

Spain-EH

Marga Gutiérrez

Encordés, 200 ans dans le regard des guides de Chamonix

2021

France

Pierre Cadot

Fall Theory

2021

UK

Alastair Lee

Falling Mountains

2020

France

Katie Moore

Fire in the Fingers

2020

Spain

Toni Arbones

Foiled

2021

UK

Paul Diffley & Ray Wood

Fratelli si Diventa. Omaggio a Walter Bonatti, l'uomo del Monte Bianco

2021

Italy

Alessandro Filippini

Godspeed, Los Polacos

2020

USA

Adam Nawrot

Innsbruck. Powder. People

2021

Austria

Timm Schröder & Neil Williman

Jotünn

2021

Spain-EH

Mikel Sarasola

Julia

2021

France

Jocelyn Chavy

Kjerag Solo

2021

UK

Alastair Lee

La Cumbre es el Camino

2021

Spain

Alvaro Sanz Alonso

La Isla de los Tigres

2020

Spain-EH

Igor Bellido

La Liste: Everything or Nothing

2021

Austria

Eric Crosland

La Pantalla Andina

2021

Spain

Carmina Balaguer Montón

Le Cavalier Mongol

2019

France

Hamid Sardar

Like a River

2021

USA

Jim Aikman

Lock Down Rock Up

2021

UK

Nico Hambleton

Melting Landscapes Glaciares

2021

Spain

Pepe Molina Cruz

Mendiak – 1976

2021

Spain-EH

Luis Arrieta Etxeberria

Mendi Biluzia

2020

Spain-EH

Alex Txikon

My Upside Down World

2021

Italy

Elena Goatelli

Natura Bizia

2020

Spain-EH

Lexeia Larrañaga de Val

Nechceny autoportrét - Unwanted Self-Portrait

2020

Slovakia

Rastislav Hatiar

Ocean to Asgard

2020

Canada

Heather Mosher

One Step Ahead

2021

Germany

Paul Schweller & Flo Gassner

Out of Frame

2021

France

Jordan Manoukian

Ouverture Dans les Drus

2021

France

Jean-Pierre Tauvron

Patagonizados

2021

Spain-EH

Adolfo Madinabeitia

Pedalkadak Itsasoan (*)

2021

Spain-EH

Gorka Etxabe

Rock'n'Road

2021

Germany

Jochen Schmoll

Sam & Me

2021

Canada

Mike Douglas

Ściana Cieni (The Wall of Shadows)

2020

Poland Germany Switzerland

Eliza Kubarska

Sonder

2021

Canada

Jay Macmillan

Swissway to Heaven

2021

France

Guillaume Broust

The Farmer

2021

USA

Michael Brown

The Shamans Nightmare

2021

Austria

Natalie Halla

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

2021

USA

Michael CB Stevens

The Traverse

2021

France

Ben Tibbetts

Tic Tac Base

2021

France

Romain Assie-Rio

Txango (**)

2021

Spain-EH

Tamara Lucarini

(*) Zabalandi non competitive section

(**) Mendi Film Bizkaia-Ternua grant