LIBEREZ LA DIRECTE

France, 35 min

Director: Bertrand Delapierre

NATIONAL PREMIERE

Ice climbing champions Louna and Tristan Ladevant, together with renowned mountaineer Mathieu Maynadier, form an unusual and delightfully entertaining team. Among their ambitions is a bold challenge: to free-climb one of the hardest routes on the North Face of the Grandes Jorasses, the ‘Directe de l’Amitié’, first climbed fifty years ago by a band of unconventional mountaineers. The film follows the three friends through the many obstacles on their journey to success, united by a shared belief: extreme mountaineering, from one generation to the next, can be pursued with joy and a light-hearted spirit.

A CALL FROM THE WILD

Norway, 80 min

Director: Asgeir Helgestad

EUSKADI PREMIERE

Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature in his home country, Norway, which he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm to wild reindeer on the high mountains and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story about our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.