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2024, France, 35min
Director: Davina Montaz-Rosset
For several years now, athlete Hillary Gerardi has been shining on the podiums of the world's greatest trail races. The victim of a terrible accident a few years ago, she questioned her legitimacy as a mountaineer to take on the most prestigious mountain race record. From the church in Chamonix to the summit of Mont Blanc and back. Hillary's record-breaking feat, in turn, merges with the speech of glaciologist Heidi Sevestre to raise awareness of the importance of glaciers.
2024, France, 42min
Director: Maxime Moulin
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Nina Caprez, climbing icon, sets off on the most thrilling adventure of her career, accompanied by her partner Jérémy Bernard, an extreme sports photographer, and their daughter Lia. The family embarks on a journey to Morocco at the wheel of Andrea for a highly personal project, encountering local cultures and climbers along the way. However, the journey and life's unforeseen twists will reveal their joys, anxieties, and deep personalities. An unpaved route, welcome aboard.
2023, USA, 86min
Director: Kenji Tsukamoto
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Elite rock climber Ashima Shiraishi travels to South Africa to attempt to become the youngest climber to master one of the world’s most challenging boulder climbs. Accompanying Ashima is her father and coach Poppo, a former avante-garde dancer who brings an eccentric, tough-love approach to Ashima’s training. The film is an intimate coming-of-age story about climbing, family, and the pursuit of the American Dream.
2024, USA, 12min
Director: Luke Kaneb
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Exploring the life of Francesca Clapcich, a professional offshore sailor, double-Olympian, America's Cup sailor, and the first Italian to win The Ocean Race, the iconic fully crewed race around the world. Francesca chose sailing as her life's calling. Embracing the unknown and pursuing her innate thirst for adventure, she finds freedom in nature, and this freedom empowers her to assert her unique voice and perspective.
2024, France, 83min
Director: Emile Dominé
EUSKADI PREMIERE
French kayak superstar Nouria Newman and two childhood friends, Jules Domine and Maël Nguyen, navigate one of the world’s most challenging sections of whitewater: the Rondu Gorge of the Indus River, in Pakistan. This is a powerful and inspiring look at the world of extreme kayaking, set against the stunning backdrop of the Karakoram mountains.
2024, Belgium, USA, 22min
Director: Vincent Groos
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A short documentary about Fré Leys, a Paralympic climber from Belgium determined to secure victory at the 2023 World Championships in Salt Lake City, USA.
2023, Italy, 7min
Director: Marcial Sommer
NATIONAL PREMIERE
The story behind the first highline between the Cima Grande and the Cima Piccola, spanning 121 meters and connecting two of the three iconic towers of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites. The line was rigged in June 2023. The journey involved 15 pitches of alpine climbing, navigating in unstable weather, hauling gear up a 300-meter cliff, and enduring little sleep in an exposed bivi spot. Despite these challenges, the team successfully rigged and walked this beautiful highline.
2024, Austria, 11min
Director: Carlos Blanchard
EUSKADI PREMIERE
In a departure from the world of competitive racing and structured training, a pair of professional snowboard athletes, Chris Vos and Lisa Bunschoten, embark on a quest driven by curiosity and a longing for new challenges: their very first high-alpine split board tour. What sets this journey apart is the fact that both protagonists, equipped with prosthetic legs, redefine the limits of adventure and inspire by conquering not only nature's challenges but also their own.
2023, Spain, 9min
Director: Amaia Lejarreta
Amaia Lejarreta is an established Basque artist. Her bodypainting is cleverly combined with the vertical dancing of Janire Etxabe, all under the supervision of Jon Mendizabal’s filming and editing. Throughout this project, Amaia reflects upon concepts such as territory, space/time, memory, identity and the body’s life cycles. The lands of Bizkaia are present, as are the echoes of Basque mythology. Echoes which for the artist are not only a source of inspiration but a reflection.
2024, Italy, 28min
Director: Andrea Bandinelli, Diego Borello and Niccolò Conterno
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A perfect line with tiny holds on a 40-degree wall: this is Excalibur. In a joint effort with the best climbers in the world, Stefano Ghisolfi accepted the challenge to climb this incredible route, which is only a few steps from his home in Trentino. After two years of dedication to the project, Stefano succeeded in making the first ascent of what is now the most difficult route in Italy and one of the hardest in the world: Excalibur 9b+.
2023, Spain, 10min
Director: Carlos Navarro
When the Spirit of Winter awakens in a season that is not its own, it must learn to find beauty in the unknown, facing its own prejudices and accepting the changes of the cycle. He will have the warmth of the Spirit of Autumn, in landscapes inspired by the Forest of Oma in Bizkaia and the Irati Forest in Navarra.
2023, Spain, 78min
Director: Marta Gómez y Paula Iglesias
EUSKADI PREMIERE
In the middle of the Karakoram Mountain range in Pakistan, Aniqa Bano gives birth to a deaf baby girl, Narjis. Until then, she was unaware of the rejection and stigma attached to girls with this type of affliction, who remained hidden and isolated because of their families' shame. Sixteen years later, Narjis reads her mother's diaries in which she recounts the obstacles, both personal and social, that she has had to overcome. Mother and daughter take us on a journey through the Baltistan region, where Aniqa has built a school and home for the deaf. Narjis changed her mother's life and Aniqa changed the life her daughter was destined for.
2024, Spain, 16min
Director: Iker Larrañaga
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
2025 will be the International Year of the Protection of Glaciers. We are going to visit four glaciers in the Pyrenees, Aneto, Infiernos, Perdido, and Vignemale, guided by glaciologist Eñaut Izagirre Estibaritz: In addition to travelling through some of the most beautiful landscapes and corners of the mountain range, we are going to travel back in time through a virtual production and augmented reality. In this chapter we will climb the Aneto glacier with weather presenter Arnaitz Fernández. Together with Eñaut, they will analyse the damage caused by climate change to glaciers, one from the perspective of physics and the other as a glaciologist and mountaineer.
2024, France, 52min
Director: Bertrand Delapierre y Vincent Perazio
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Catherine Destivelle likes to play with heights. Because when she climbs, she feels alive. She has achieved incredible feats simply for the pleasure of climbing, for the beauty of the gesture in magnificent settings. It's a state of mind. The same spirit that drives all those who love the mountains. And this state of mind was originated far from the high peaks. The spirit that underpins mountaineering was born, and still thrives, in Great Britain, where Catherine Destivelle has decided to explore the origins of mountaineering.
2024, Spain, 13min
Director: Janire Etxabe
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Haize Lerroak, documents the vertical dance choreographies completed by Janire Etxabe in the most significant mountains and forests of the Basque Country over the course of 4 years. “Can a dream, perchance a feeling change the landscape? From the moment I tried vertical dance, it was clear to me that I wanted to follow this path. In our house, in the mountains, flying, suspended from the rope, in the constant search for an undefined feeling”.
2024, Spain, 54min
Director: Ander Salsamendi Arbizu and Aitor Intxaurraga
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
The Hiru Handiak is a Basque mountain race, the first, the greatest, the legendary, the famous... ours. The seed that has fertilised thousands of people who today run in our mountains was sown a long time ago and has germinated with energy. Free spirits, dreamers, who merge with nature.
2023, Spain, 42min
Director: Nick Danielsen
A journey through the mind of Kilian Jornet as he faces an extreme challenge in the Pyrenees: to link all the main summits over 3000 meters in just 8 days. A return to the Pyrenees that saw him grow up as a boy, to challenge himself through both a physical and mental challenge. As he runs, he realizes how the glaciers are receding, experiences the fusion of day and night and rediscovers the mountains of his childhood.
2023, USA, Canada, 18min
Director: Darcy Hennessey
NATIONAL PREMIERE
As a pioneering climber of the 1970’s, Jamie Logan ticked off first ascents on some of North America’s most treacherous climbs. But Jamie Logan, the ‘macho’, tough, dominant and successful climber and architect, kept a secret for more than 60 years that terrified him more than any of his climbing activities: he wanted to live as a woman, and she began her transformation at age 69. Now, as a 76-year-old woman, Jamie wants to teach other trans people like her that life can be beautiful by being respectful of yourself, being honest and staying connected to your world.
2024, Italy, 27min
Director: Marco Zingaretti
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Old people are increasing, advancing in unprecedented numbers. They are more active than their predecessors. They carry out intense social work beyond retirement. The Italian writer, journalist and poet Erri De Luca recounts his own, the training and maintenance of the body through the practice of climbing walls. "No one has been old before me" he says, realising that no previous seniority can guide him.
2023, Switzerland, 28min
Director: Director: Basil Schneeberger. Segundo director: Nolan Büchi
NATIONAL PREMIERE
His career was not meant to be a walk in the park, quite the opposite. Yet, Marc Rochat forged a determination to confront any challenges in his path to compete among the world's best athletes in the sport of Slalom Skiing. Marc gives us a taste of what it means to build mental resilience and, most importantly, to never give up.
2023, France, 48min
Director: Bertrand Delapierre and Severine Gauci
EUSKADI PREMIERE
If Mont Blanc is The King in Chamonix, the Aiguille Verte is The Queen. Climbed for the first time in 1866 by the English mountaineer Whymper, it wasn't until 1968 that the Swiss Sylvain Saudan imagined and dared the first ski descent of the Whymper couloir. It was a seminal achievement in steep skiing, inspiring generations of skiers from Patrick Vallençant and Marco Siffredi to Jean-Marc Boivin, Bruno Gouvy, Eric Bellin and Pierre Tardivel. This film retraces 50 years of steep skiing at La Verte, through the eyes of Vivian Bruchez.
2023, Spain, 45min
Director: Adrián Martínez Serrano
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Marc Subirana and Miquel Mas have opened the route Atracció Instintiva on one of the pillars of Latok II (Karakorum) which they have named Latok Thumb (6,380 m). It has been the culmination of a three-year project that was born from two friends who enjoy the mountains in an uncomplicated way, but are motivated as well by the alpine style and technical objectives.
2024, France, 41min
Director: Andy Collet
NATIONAL PREMIERE
In a three-day adventure in alpine style, the French team of Charles Dubouloz and Symon Welfringer drew up a new route on the west face of Hungchhi (Himalaya, 7,029 m), Le cavalier sans tête, which climbs over 1,700 metres. It was an improvised and brilliant achievement that replaced the previous purpose that led them to Gyachung Kang (7,952 m). Two years earlier, they experienced the effects of the massification of the eight-thousanders on Manaslu. After the disappointment, the two climbers went on to set themselves objectives beyond the eight-thousanders.
2024, France, 82min
Director: Yohan Guignard
NATIONAL PREMIERE
4 friends from Savoie have a crazy idea: 50 days of self-sufficiency in Alaska's Denali massif. This is a journey at the pace of a logbook in a quest where friendships are created and tested by commitment, where time drifts, and spirits wanders off.
2024, Italy, 76min
Director: Matteo Maggi, Cristiana Pecci
EUSKADI PREMIERE
This is the adventure of three renowned mountaineers, assisted by a young aspiring climber, on the south face of the Marmolada, the legendary Regina della Dolomiti. Matteo della Bordella, Maurizio Giordani, Massimo Faletti and Iris Bielli, come together to open a new route, challenging their limits and the dangers of a mountain that has entered the debate on climate change after the tragic loss of human life on July, 2022. The film explores passion, exploration, and environmental awareness.
2024, Spain, 15min
Director: Iciar Casatmitjana, Garazi Sanchez
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Garazi Sanchez, a professional surfer returns to an isolated beach in Mexico, a place that 15 years ago was her haven of peace. Upon her return, she discovers that technology has invaded the landscape, altering the peace and quiet she once found there. Seeking that longing for calm, Garazi decides to spend 15 days in ‘airplane mode’, turning off all her electronic devices and exploring how true connection is found in being fully present.
2024, Spain, 23min
Director: Julio A. Valero
The situation in Nepal makes access to education difficult for many children, they are often forced to drop out of school or do not even have the opportunity to start their studies. Continuing with the legacy of the mountaineer Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, the organisation SOS Himalaya contributes to improving this reality in a country that increasingly recognises education as a fundamental tool for overcoming poverty. Its work reflects how solidarity and collective work can transform lives.
2024, Spain, 7min
Director: Dani Castillo
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
SPOKEN WORDS
‘Noie’ (‘I'm going’ in Basque) is the last word that Ainhize says to her father before taking her feet off the ground to give the final push to her project: Iñi Ameriketan, 9a+. Noie marks the beginning of a journey through the doubts and uncertainty that settle in the mind of some-one who faces something that probably won't go well. In Noie there are no images, only words. It is a fusion between Ainhize's brainstorming and the echoes of the Baltzola cave, the sounds of her effort and her quickened pulse. On September 7, 2024, the 18-year-old Ainhize Belar climbed Iñi Ameriketan. With this route, in addition to scoring the fourth repetition and being the first female to do so, Ainhize makes history by becoming the first Spanish woman to achieve 9a+.
2024, United Kingdom, 50min
Director: Alastair Lee
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Alex Waterhouse and Billy Ridal are two recently retired competition climbers that attempt to apply their indoor skills to real rock in the most extraordinary fashion. With almost no traditional climbing experience and barely a multi-pitch climb between them, our audacious duo set out to be the first Britons to make a free ascent of the world-famous route, The Nose, on El Capitan in Yosemite. Features contributions from Lynn Hill, Hans Florine and Leo Houlding.
2023, France, 67min
Director: Hugo Clouzeau
Hélias Millerioux, Frédéric Degoulet and Benjamin Guigonnet dream of opening a new route on the legendary south face of the Nuptse, an extreme challenge, on a wall verging on 8,000 meters in the heart of the Himalayas. The obsessional quest of three French mountaineers engrossed in their desire to reach the summit.
2024, France, 44min
Director: Jérome Tanon
The journey to Antarctic of the renowned De Le Rue free riders family: Xavier, a 7 x World Champion; his younger brother Victor, a 3 x World Champion; and his daughter Mila, who is turning 18 and embarking on her first expedition. For Xavier and Victor, it is a giant playground filled with first-time descents; for Mila, it’s an intimidating initiation into big-mountain free riding. A celebration of discovery, adventure, and the passing of the torch to the next generation against the breathtaking backdrop of the Antarctic.
2024, Chile, Argentina, 59min
Director: Pierre Cadot
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Matthew Tufts is a photographer and journalist in love with El Chaltén, an iconic place at the foot of the Fitz Roy massif in Argentinean Patagonia. He has spent his autumns documenting the evolution of skiing in this part of the world. The climatic conditions and topography make skiing here particularly demanding and often extreme. This season, a team of French skiers consisting of Aurel Lardy, Vivian Bruchez and Jules Socié, arrive with the ambition to open new ski lines on the granite walls of Fitz Roy. A unique opportunity for Matthew to photograph extreme slope skiing, or big wall skiing.
2024, Spain, 48min
Director: Daniel Cascales Granados
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
The river Nervión’s “Salto” at over 200 metres high, is the largest waterfall on the Iberian Peninsula and marks out the course of the river in its first steps after flowing away from its birthplace, forming an immense canyon. A team of motivated highliners have obtained a valuable but limited permit to lay a line across the immense canyon. Used to rigging lines of between 50 and 300 metres, this will be the first time this team has had to rig a line of almost 1 kilometre. A story of companionship and hard work. A formidable team forged among the highline communities of the Basque Country.
2023, USA, 31min
Director: Dominic Gill, Nadia Gill
NATIONAL PREMIERE
In 1971 John Francis, known the world over as Planetwalker, witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The sight of oiled birds on the shoreline caused him to give up motorized transport and rely solely on his own two feet and months after that he took a vow of silence, convinced that listening rather than adding fuel to any fire was the way ahead. He did not talk, but he kept on walking clear across the country and back again. At 77, John now both talks and rides in cars. By tracking down some of the characters he interacted with, we explore the weblike and sometimes deeply personal consequences of John’s decades of pilgrimage.
2023, USA, 8min
Director: Jim Aikman
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Following an unlikely courtship, Jorge and Joanne Urioste arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the 1970s, long before it was a mecca of rock climbing in North America. When the rest of the country was focused on Yosemite Valley, the Uriostes began developing long, moderate climbs on Red Rock Canyon's impeccable sandstone, defying climbing norms and charting a new path for the sport. Their routes are still the most classic in Red Rock, drawing climbers from all over the world.
2023, USA, 19min
Director: Dean Leslie
NATIONAL PREMIERE
From beneath the ocean’s surface to a 3,000-meter mountain peak, the ocean weaves in and out of our lives and connects us all like a thin, blue thread of silk. The film explores the relationship that athletes, who continually push themselves to the edge, have with the environment they are immersed in the internationally renowned freediver Zandile Ndhlovu, the world-champion freeskier Jess Hotter, and the 11th Hour Racing Team a world-champion offshore sailing team.
2023, Slovenia, 5min
Director: Rožle Bregar, Rok Rozman
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Swapping paddles for rods, this crew of kayakers desire tight lines and to get a bite. Under the emerald waters of Slovenia's Soča River hides an endemic trout, a perfect aim to live a simple but genuine experience by the river.
2023, Norway, 91min
Director: Margreth Olin
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Songs of Earth is an audio-visual composition of the earth’s primordial forces with the camera taking the viewer from inside nature’s smallest components to outside the wild panoramas. The filmmaker’s father is the guide through Norway’s most scenic valley he grew up in and where generations have been living alongside nature to survive.
2023, Canada, 14min
Director: Timmy O'Neill
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Erik Weihenmayer, a completely blind adventurer, climbs the huge rock face The Incredible Hulk in Sierra Nevada, California, USA. He is accompanied by pioneering adaptive climbing guide Timmy O'Neill. Weinehnmayer makes steady progress using echo location: he can get the shape of things by vibrating and bouncing off sounds generated by touching objects.
2023, France, 55min
Director: Morgan Le Faucheur
NATIONAL PREMIERE
The French athlete Arthur Guérin-Boëri, several times world champion in dynamic apnea, decides to dive with a 2 mm wetsuit into the icy waters of a Finnish lake to break a world record. But his main goal is even more extreme: he prepares to dive half-naked, without the protection of his wetsuit, under a block of ice in the freezing waters of a Canadian lake. In the process, which pushes him to the limit on several occasions, Arthur ends up finding himself.
2020, USA, 37min
Director: Taylor Rees, Renan Ozturk, Jay Macmillan
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A team of mountaineers summits Mount Everest in an attempt to solve the mystery of the first summit. The team is seeking to find the body of climber Andrew Sandy Irvine, who was the partner of George Mallory on an expedition in 1924.
2024, Italy, 15min
Director: Francesco Clerici, Tommaso Barbaro
EUSKADI PREMIERE
On the chain of the Himalayas, in the remote and desertic mountain valley of Zanskar, the local populations have always depended on glaciers which, melting during spring, provided the necessary quantity of water for cultivation and life. Today, in an uneven battle against climate change, the Ladakhi people are constructing artificial glaciers to counteract water scarcity in Spring and contribute to the replenishment of underground water reservoirs.
2024, Poland, Switzerland, 85min
Director: Eliza Kubarska
NATIONAL PREMIERE
The true story of Wanda Rutkiewicz, the first woman in the world and the first person from Poland to climb the highest peaks on earth, told by herself. Wanda entered the men's world of high-mountains uninvited and paid the highest price for it. She disappeared 30 years ago. Her body was never found. Reportedly she stayed in a Buddhist monastery. The film explores her life and mystery based in a Wanda’s audio-diary, and with the participation of famous climbers: Reinhold Messner, Krzysztof Wielicki and Carlos Carsolio, as well as the women closest to her: sister Janina Fies and manager Marion Feik.
2024, USA, 24min
Director: Maja Karlsson Mikkelsen
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Every third hour. Day and night, seven days a week, every single day of the year. Karin and Lennart have been in love for over 40 years. When they met, there were over 200 manual weather stations in Sweden alone and thousands around the world, run by weather observers who watched and registered the weather conditions every third hour. In the last decade, automated stations have replaced the observers one by one. Karin and Lennart are the last ones left. But their true passion, and what originally led them to the station by the lighthouse in Falsterbo, Sweden, was their mutual love for bird watching.
2024, Spain, 8min
Director: Iñigo Grasset
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
In the heart of the Mentawai Islands (Indonesia), known worldwide for its perfect waves, inhabits an ancestral culture that has lived in deep harmony with nature for centuries. A short film with Natxo Gonzalez, which, beyond surfing, seeks to highlight the importance of preserving not only the natural beauty of the place, but also the soul of its people, whose existence is fully linked to the well-being of the planet.
2024, Italy, Switzerland, 10min
Director: Marco Tribelhorn
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Ironic psycho-drama in the Dolomites. Truly mysterious things are happening to the Weger brothers Matthias and Jakob. Their faces are bright red. Anger, arguments and aggression are in the air. In a panic, they discover that they are suffering from the deadly “Red Face Syndrome”. The only way to cure them is to throw themselves on skis and snowboards into the steepest and narrowest gullies in the Dolomites. Will the brothers manage to get their red faces out of the noose in time?
2024, France, 70min
Director: Louis Hanquet
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Far away from everything, in the French Alps, Felix looks after his herd, living for months in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Solitude shrouds his days in the mountains, filled with caring for lambs, wire fencing and poetry.
2024, Spain, 29min
Director: Alfonso García
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Only 1% of climbers dedicate themselves to equipping new routes. Four climbers from the Basque Country have dedicated their lives to doing so and through the eyes of Aritz Aparicio, Guillermo Bañales, Iñaki Marco and Juan Manuel Hernández, we approach a world that is unknown to many. Their lives intersect to offer us a human story that speaks of something that, at the end of the day, unites us all: passion.
2024, Spain, 37min
Director: Mikel Lizarralde Asurmendi
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Mikel Lizarralde links the highest mountains in each province of the Basque Country, while reflecting on his life after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. 300 kilometres divided into 11 stages, a challenge for a stubborn optimist who wants to live a normal life.
