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Details: Category: Noticias 2025; 26 September 2025; Last Updated: 31 October 2025

BBK MENDI FILM BILBAO BIZKAIA 2025

45 films will compete this year in the Official Section of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia festival, from December 5th to the 14th. These are films about mountains, adventure, extreme sports and nature, all recent productions, no more than two years old.

A total of 226 films have been submitted directly to participate in Bilbao. This is the same number as last year; equalling Mendi Film's all-time high.

Details: Category: Noticias 2025; 27 October 2025; Last Updated: 27 October 2025

The WOP Mendi Film 2025 Award goes to Catherine Destivelle. With the 18th edition of the Mendi Film Festival in full swing, she will receive recognition from the organizers and, above all, the public in Bilbao. The event will take place on Friday, December 12th the Euskalduna Bilbao, starting at 7:45 p.m. It will undoubtedly be one of the festival's highlights, as it will conclude with the premiere of the film ‘Champions of the Golden Valley’, from the Official Section, presented by its director Ben Sturgulewski.

The WOP Mendi Film Award is awarded by The Walk On Project Foundation and the Mendi Film, and this year marks its 12th edition. Various personalities and organizations have been recognized for their contribution to mountain culture and for being leaders in the values they convey.

Catherine Destivelle (1960, Oran)

Climber, mountaineer, writer, editor and conference speaker. Catherine Destivelle probably never imagined where her first steps climbing the boulders of Fontainebleau, where her parents took her to play as a child, would lead her. At 16, she was already climbing in the Verdon. Her victory in the first world climbing championship in Bardonechia (1985) propelled her into the professional world. Then came the leap into mountaineering: the first solo female winter ascent of the north face of the Eiger, the first absolute repeat of the Bonatti route on the north face of the Matterhorn, the Trango Tower, the ascent of the south-west face of Shisha Pangma... all of which forged her path. In 2020 she was awarded the Piolet d'Or for her career.

She founded the publishing house Les éditions du Mont-Blanc with the aim of transforming the mountain itself into an educational tool. The books she publishes reveal incredible mountaineering stories and share a love of the mountains. “My goal is to build a bridge between cultural history, sporting heritage and the ecological and scientific concerns of the times we live in”, she says. Her publishing team is deliberately made up entirely of women.

Catherine Destivelle has a direct connection with Mendi Film. She is revered as the protagonist of the film ‘Au de la des cimes’ directed by Rémy Tezier, and winner of the Grand Prize in 2009. In 2017, she actively participated in Mendi Film's tenth anniversary, participating in the panel talk ‘Women at the Top’ alongside Lynn Hill, Edurne Pasaban, Josune Bereziartu, Bernadette McDonald, and Katie Ives; in the presentation on mountain literature alongside Bernadette McDonald, Katie Ives, Lara Izagirre, and Luisa Alonso Cires; and finally, with a solo lecture: ‘From Bouldering to High Mountains Ascent’.

Edurne Pasaban, Lynn Hill, Catherine Destivelle, Josune Bereziartu, Katie Ives and Bernadette McDonald, at the Mendi Film 2017

WOP Mendi Film Award

18. BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia

December 12, at 19.45 pm

Euskalduna Bilbao - hall 0B

WOP Mendi Film Award:

· 2024: Basque and Navarre mountain federations

· 2023: Edurne Pasaban

· 2022: Eduardo Martínez de Pisón

· 2021: Sebastián Álvaro

· 2020: Fundación Baltistán Fundazioa

· 2019: Nives Meroi e Romano Benet

· 2018: Juanjo San Sebastián

· 2017: Peter Habeler

· 2016: Sir Chris Bonington

· 2015: Josep Manuel Anglada

· 2014: Drawn film by Jeremy Collins

Details: Category: Noticias 2025; 24 October 2025; Last Updated: 24 October 2025

Zigor Egia (EMF-FVM vice president), Jabier Baraiazarra (Mendi Film president and director) and Ricardo Hernani (EMF-FVM president)

Bilbao, October 24, 2025. The Basque Mountain Federation (EMF-FVM) and the Mendi Film Festival Association will continue to work together for the next four years. Meeting in Bilbao, the current leaders of both organizations, Ricardo Hernani and Zigor Egia (president and vice president of EMF-FVM), and Jabier Baraiazarra (president and director of Mendi Film), have signed the agreement that unites them.

Details: Category: Noticias 2025; 03 June 2025; Last Updated: 04 June 2025

Bilbao, 3th June 2025. The MENDI TOUR, the touring cycle of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia International Mountain Film Festival, continues to grow. In the first half of 2025, film sessions have been held in 32 towns and cities with mountain, adventure, extreme sports and nature films. The number of spectators has grown by 13% compared to last year at this point. In total, 11,000 spectators have gone to the cinemas this year to enjoy the MENDI TOUR.

Details: Category: Noticias 2025; 22 May 2025; Last Updated: 22 May 2025

THE CAVE_Mendi Film 2025

Bilbo, 2025.05.22. The 18th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia to be held from December 5 to 14, 2025 already has its main image. It is the snapshot entitled The Cave by Chamonix-based Parisian photographer Julia Roger-Veyer.

This image has been awarded in the CVCEPHOTO mountain activity photography contest organized by the Basque Camping Club Elkartea of Donostia-San Sebastián, in the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia Poster Award, endowed with 800 euros and the choice as the main image of the Mendi Film 2025.

Details: Category: Noticias 2025; 06 May 2025; Last Updated: 22 May 2025

Jabi Baraiazarra, EMMOAko kide Antxon Iturriza, Txomin Uriarte eta Patxi Cortazarrekin, iazko BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia jaialdian

The EMMOA-Euskal Mendi Museoa/The Basque Mountain Museum continues to make history. It has been named a member of the International Mountain Museum Alliance IMMA, at its annual meeting on April 30.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 03 May 2025; Last Updated: 03 May 2025

Jabi Baraiazarra, director of Mendi Film, will continue as president of the International Alliance for Mountain Film association, beginning his third term.

He first assumed leadership of the IAMF in 2018 and has since shared those responsibilities with Mendi Film. The International Mountain Film Alliance is the leading industry authority for the genre, with 30 members, 28 mountain film festivals, and a mountain museum and a documentation center. Twenty-two countries from Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North and South America are represented.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 06 February 2025; Last Updated: 06 February 2025

The International Alliance for Mountain Film is proud to announce that its 2025 Grand Prize has been awarded to French director Sébastien Montaz-Rosset.

Instituted in 2000, throughout its trajectory the International Alliance for Mountain Film, which includes the most prestigious organisations in the sector among its members, has become the main reference point for those who produce, promote and conserve mountain films.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 18 December 2024; Last Updated: 18 December 2024

Bilbao, December 18, 2024. The 17th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia was held from December 6^th to the 15^th and gathered 9,837 spectators, an increase of 34% over last year's number of spectators.

In addition, it has covered 81% of the capacity of the cinema sessions offered (77% with all the events of the program included). This percentage of occupancy represents a new record, the best of all editions so far, surpassing the 74% of 2022, and recovering from last year's drop of 60%.

In the venues of Euskalduna Bilbao and Sala BBK, this year a total of 23 film sessions have been offered, and in 10 of them the cinemas have filled, the tickets being sold out.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 14 December 2024; Last Updated: 17 December 2024

Bilbao, December 14th 2024. The Norwegian film ‘Songs of Earth,’ which has captivated the Jury and the festivalgoers at the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia, has won the Grand Price of the 17th edition. It is the work of director Margreth Olin, a film based on her parents and the love of Nature inherited from them. The Jury highlighted that it has "magnificent cinematography, a poetic narration and a sublime soundtrack". “The director provides a crystal-clear gift of what we’ve been given when we slow down and listen: nature is calling us,” they emphasize in their verdict..

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 09 December 2024; Last Updated: 09 December 2024

The 17th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia festival is getting off to a great start and with a lot of energy. Top class filmmaking, full venues at the Euskalduna Congress Centre in Bilbao, Commencing with an emotional Opening Session, many international and local protagonists, memorable conferences... Everything red hot, just like the image on the poster for this year's edition.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 26 November 2024; Last Updated: 27 November 2024

L-R: Ruth López (WOP), Sabin Astorkiza (Japan Car), Begoña de Ibarra (BFA), Joselu Blanco (ETB), Koldo Bilbao (BBK), Leixuri Arrizabalaga (BFA), Jabier Baraiazarra (Mendi Film), Iñaki López de Aguileta (Bilboko Udala), Iñigo Iturrate (Euskalduna Bilbao), Alberto Iñurrategi (Ternua), Ibon Mujika (Deia) and Argiñe Areitio (SUA edizioak).

Bilbao, November 26, 2024. The BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia festival presents its 17th edition to offer fans of the genre the best mountain cinema once again between December 6 and 15.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 07 November 2024; Last Updated: 07 November 2024

49 films will be screened this year at the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia film festival. These are mountain, adventure, extreme sports and nature films, all current productions, at most 2 years old.

Details: Category: Noticias 2024; 24 July 2024; Last Updated: 24 July 2024

Mendi Film and the Biscay Provincial Government announce the 5th edition of the Mendi Film Beka grant, aimed at the creation of documentary film projects whose aim is the audiovisual promotion of Mountain Culture.

Details: Category: Press; 15 May 2024; Last Updated: 15 May 2024

The 17th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia to be held from 6 to 15 December 2024 now has its official poster. It is titled Fuego, by the French photographer Jean-Baptiste Liautard, and it has been awarded the Mendi Film festal poster prize along with 700 euros in the international mountain activity photography contest CVCEPHOTO organised by the Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, club of San Sebastian.

Details: Category: Press; 15 May 2024; Last Updated: 15 May 2024

It has been done so in recognition of their historical contribution to mountaineering and mountain values, coinciding with the celebration of the centenary of their founding.

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