The main objective of the Mendi Film Festival Association is to promote and preserve mountain cinema, as well as the industry that creates and develops around it. It thus offers a double celebration of mountain cinema: on the one hand, the Mendi Film Festival in December, and on the other, the Mendi Tour, which runs throughout the year.
Mendi Film was founded in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2008, and after four editions it moved to Bilbao, where it has been held since 2012. Both the festival and the tour are an invitation to travel to the most beautiful corners of the earth and experience extreme adventures, climbing mountains and impossible walls, sliding down dreamy snowy slopes, running along vertiginous ridges, paddling through the rapids of wild rivers, hurtling through forests on wheels, exploring uncharted corners, flying freely through the air, or delving into the depths of the Earth... An ideal balm for the times we live in, in cinema format.
World-class films about mountains, adventure, extreme sports and nature, inspiring stories that thrill and excite audiences with action, and encourage reflection on environmental and social issues related to mountain culture. Cinema that recharges our inner spirit of adventure.
It also offers an unparalleled space to strengthen relationships between protagonists, professionals in the sector and spectators, through screenings, talks, exhibitions, workshops... as well as events and scholarships dedicated to professionals and aspiring professionals.
The Mendi Tour is a travelling exhibition throughout Spain, presenting a selection of the best films from the latest edition of Mendi Film and amplifying the transmission of values and spirit that can be experienced during the festival. The Association is a member of the IAMF-International Alliance for Mountain Film, as well as holding the presidency since 2018, and is part of the board of trustees of EMMOA-Basque Mountain Museum.
VALUES
- Solidarity
- Respect for nature and the environment
- Social commitment
- Inclusive nature
- Humility
- Proximity
- Quality
- Innovation
- Basque language / Promoting Basque identity
- Training and dissemination
