NOTICIAS

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 06 March 2018; Last Updated: 19 December 2018

Bilbao, March 6, 2018. The International Alliance for Mountain Film-IAMF has renewed its board team this past weekend at the meeting held at the Domzale Festival in Slovenia. The Director of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival is the new President, a position that will hold the next three years. The IAMF is composed of 23 mountain film festivals plus the Musseo Nazionale della Montagna in Turin, and BMFF has been a member since 2011.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 15 December 2018; Last Updated: 18 December 2018

The Korean film Becoming who I was directed by Moon Chang-Yong and Jin Jeon, has been awarded with the Grand Prize of the Mendi Film Festival, the main prize of the 11 prize winners of the 11th edition. On Sunday,16th, day of Non Stop sessions composed of award-winning films, will be announced the last one, the Audience Award, an audience that has enjoyed an edition that continues to attract more and more followers.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 17 December 2018; Last Updated: 18 December 2018

Bilbao, 17^th December 2018. Mendi Film Festival closes its 11^th edition with a historic increase. The mountaineering film festival gathers the most recent productions of this genre and its attendance has reached 12,008 people.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 15 December 2018; Last Updated: 17 December 2018

The mountaineer and writer Juanjo San Sebastián has been the guest of honour of this 11th edition of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival. He has received the WOP ‒The Walk On Project Foundation Award‒ for his defense and transmission of the social values of mountaineering.

This has been the fifth edition in which the Award is given by the The Walk On Project Foundation, and Juanjo San Sebastián will join the exclusive group of great mountaineering personalities that have already been awarded: Josep Manuel Anglada, Sir Chris Bonington and Peter Habeler, along with the film Drawn by Jeremy Collins.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 15 December 2018; Last Updated: 17 December 2018

Ever since the founding of the International Alliance for Mountain Film (IAMF) in February 2000, its members have been interested in celebrating those who, through their talent, have changed the world of mountain film. IAMF members wish to express their gratitude to the filmmakers, directors and producers who have contributed throughout their careers – through loyalty and dedication, and with little regard for personal profit — to the evolution of mountain film into the prominent genre that it is today.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 15 December 2018; Last Updated: 17 December 2018

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 10 December 2018; Last Updated: 14 December 2018

Mountain culture is all over Bilbao these days. The 11th edition kicked off last Friday at the Euskalduna Palace with 1,600 spectators, and all tickets were sold out. At the Opening Ceremony, the movie The Dawn Wall was screened, and we welcomed its main character Tommy Caldwell and director Peter Mortimer.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 14 December 2018; Last Updated: 14 December 2018

The directors of the most relevant mountain film festivals on the international stage are celebrating their AGM in Bilbao this year, in order to examine the mountain film industry's present and near future. The Director of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival, Jabier Baraiazarra, is the current President of the IAMF-International Alliance for Mountain Film.

The meeting was held this morning in the Palace of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, in which the international representation of the IAMF was received by the General Deputy of Bizkaia Unai Rementeria, and the Deputy of Euskera and Culture Lorea Bilbao.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 07 December 2018; Last Updated: 07 December 2018

1600 Mendi fans will enjoy in the Euskalduna Palace with THE DAWN WALL with its protagonist Tommy Caldwell and the director of the film Peter Mortimer.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 29 November 2018; Last Updated: 06 December 2018

The Mendi Short 2018 jury, made up of ETB sports director Joseba Urkiola, ETB journalist specialized in extreme and mountain sports, Anartz Agirre, and Mendi Short coordinator and journalist, Naia Díez, has decided that 'Hartz eta Otsoekin lotan' (sleeping with bears and wolves), by Iñaki Atxa, is the winning short film of the fifth edition of the contest.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 25 November 2018; Last Updated: 02 December 2018

As in previous years, the 20 CVCEPHOTO award-winning photographs are displayed in some of the Metro Bilbao underground stations (Moyua and Abanto). They will also be displayed in the Sala BBK during the festival. The photographs being exhibited are those that are prize winners of this year’s International Mountain Activity photography competition, which is run by ‘Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea’ from San Sebastian.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 25 November 2018; Last Updated: 02 December 2018

Till December 31th the exhibition Mendi bete diru is exposed in the Basque Museum of Bilbao within the framework of the 11th edition of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival. It is an exhibition produced by EMMOA-Basque Mountaineering Museum, which shows bank bills from around the world illustrated with mountain themes.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 29 November 2018; Last Updated: 29 November 2018

OPENING CEREMONY: The Dawn Wall

SALA BBK

GOLEM ALHONDIGA cinemas

Tickets will also be available at the Kutxabank multi-service ATMs,

and at the Sala BBK, Golem Alhóndiga cinemas and Euskalduna Conference Centre ticket offices

SCHEDULE #mendifilm 2018

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 24 November 2018; Last Updated: 24 November 2018

Liébana-Potes, november 14th 2018. The Mendi Tour 2018 expedition comes to an end after the successful delivery of the European Mountain Film Days of Liébana-Potes, in Cantabria. In total 14,000 spectators have enjoyed this show of mountain cinema that has hosted 49 locations in Spain through the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 05 October 2018; Last Updated: 23 November 2018

Bilbao Mendi Film Festival, which will be held from 7th to 16th December, announces its first big star of the Official Section: the movie The Dawn Wall and the presence of its main character, the climber Tommy Caldwell.

The audience will have the chance to enjoy the Opening Ceremony of this 11th edition of the Mendi Film. Together with Caldwell, who will sign autographs for the audience after the screening, the film will be presented by Peter Mortimer ‒director, Sender Films‒ and Philipp Manderla ‒producer, Red Bull Media House‒.

Details: Category: Noticias 2018; 14 November 2018; Last Updated: 14 November 2018

Individual tickets for the 11th edition of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival will go on sale from November 19 through www.mendifilmfestival.com. Tickets will also be available at the Kutxabank multi-service ATMs, and at the Sala BBK, Golem Alhóndiga cinemas and Euskalduna Conference Centre ticket offices.

The tickets that are already available are those of the Opening Ceremony on December 7th at the Euskalduna Conference Centre. The film THE DAWN WALL will open the Official Section of the Festival at that first session.

The main character of the film, the climber Tommy Caldwell, the director Peter Mortimer and the producer Philipp Manderla will introduce it.

www.mendifilmfestival.com