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Saturday, December 06, 2025

09:00	WORKSHOP RELIEF ENGRAVING Euskalduna Bilbao 6 Dic 9:00 Euskalduna Jauregia RELIEF ENGRAVING MYRIAM GESALAGA, VICTOR RÍOS Y ELI AZURMENDI Saturday December 6 – 9:00-11:45 Euskalduna Bilbao Monographic workshop on relief engraving, using linocut. Images of different mountains will be addressed, which will necessarily be synthesised using different graphic resources (high-contrast drawing) for transfer to the linoleum support, subsequent carving using gouges, and finally, printing on different supports. • Group of 10-12 participants • Ages 16 and up • 4 hours: 2 hours of drawing and carving the linoleum matrix and 2 hours of printing Myriam Gesalaga Professor and doctor in the Engraving and Graphic Techniques Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Victor Ríos Academic in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for 28 years in the Printing Department. Eli Azurmendi Co-author and coordinator of the Expo croquis project, which includes the book 'El arte en el croquis de escalada-Art in climbing topos', the exhibition 'HARRI, ORRI, ARkatz' and the documentary of the same name.
09:30	WORKSHOP HIGHLANDER CUFFLINK-MAKING Euskalduna Bilbao 6 Dic 9:30 Euskalduna Jauregia HIGHLANDER CUFFLINK-MAKING. Inspired by the Culture and Folklore of Podhale (Poland) Saturday December 6 – 9:30-11:30 Euskalduna Bilbao Cufflinks (spinki) are an essential part of a highlander man’s attire—metal fasteners used to secure shirts, rich in history and cultural significance. In this hands-on workshop, participants will have the unique opportunity to craft their very own cufflink, guided by traditional techniques and inspired by local folklore of Podhale, the southernmost region of Poland, located in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains. Partners: Mendi Film and EMMOA Project co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland within the framework of the Inspiring Culture Programme. • Open to adults and young people • Limited to 10 participants
09:30	WORKSHOP CLIMBING INJURIES Euskalduna Bilbao 6 Dic 9:30 Euskalduna Jauregia CLIMBING INJURIES. Symptoms, treatment and prevention ANDONI ORMAZABAL Larunbata abenduak 6 – 9:30-11:30 Euskalduna Bilbao This talk addresses the most common injuries in climbing from an informative and entertaining perspective. It lasts 2 hours and includes some practical demonstrations of bandaging and specific exercises. Andoni Ormazabal He is a physiotherapist with a master's degree in sports physiotherapy, osteopathy and traditional Chinese medicine. He has more than 25 years of clinical experience, the last 20 of which have focused on specific injuries caused by climbing and mountaineering. He is a physiotherapist for the EMF (Basque Mountain Federation) and FEDME (Spanish Mountain and Mountaineering Federation). He has given many training courses to climbing and mountaineering teams, as well as to physiotherapists, and has taken part in conferences and other types of training as a speaker. ESKALADA LESIOAK. Sintomak, tratamendua eta prebentzioa
12:00	Euskalduna Bilbao 6 dic 12:00 MONT BLANC ÉTERNEL?, Mendi Talk EDURNE PASABAN Euskalduna Jauregia MONT BLANC ÉTERNEL? 2025, France, Italy, 50min Director: Bertrand Delapierre EUSKADI PREMIERE Mario Colonel, a professional photographer and mountaineer, journalist and author of many books, has been based in Chamonix for 42 years and is now embarking on his latest photographic campaign. Familiar with the most beautiful places in the Mont Blanc massif and himself affected by the climate change that is affecting the most beautiful mountains, he invites us to follow him along the high mountain trails. On his journey, he meets a wide variety of characters, including an old guide, a philosopher, mountaineers, environmental activists, a painter, a sociologist, and a refuge warden. With them, he discusses the upheavals underway, but also looks for grounds for hope. EDURNE PASABAN RAMÓN OLASAGASTI, CÉSAR LLAGUNO, FELIPE H. NAVARRO Y PEDRO VILLAREJO Saturday December 6 – 12:00 Euskalduna Bilbao She was the first woman to climb all fourteen mountains over eight thousand metres high. Her name and person were forever linked by the fine thread of history, like eternal snow clinging to the rock on the great mountains. She could have been Irati or Amaia, but she is Edurne: snow, in Basque. “Everything that has a name exists”, as the saying goes, but this comic does not look to create a myth. Edurne is not a mythological creature: though capable of climbing those 14 revered altars, her essence is fragile, like the snow flower that only grows in the steep, high mountains. To escape the clutches of depression, she had to conquer the most difficult nine thousand metres of her life, a journey on which she was supported by her childhood friend, Asier Izagirre, and many others. A rich vocabulary appears emerges from the snow, language that is proper even for summarising Edurne's career: the snowstorm that sets in, aided by passion, the frozen tears shed in the face of misfortune, the fall into the snow pit, the thawing of the bitter feelings macerated in that gloomy corner... The path travelled by Edurne was blazed by other women: Pili Ganuza, Amaia Aranzabal, Miriam García Pascual... whose footprints are captured in these pages, firm and beautiful, like the ethereal marks left by birds on the snow. Mendi Film & Sua Edizioak comic collection: • Everest: 1980 Basque expedition (2018) • Iñurrategi brothers: hearts devoted to the mountains (2020) • Andres Espinosa: solo and free (2022) • Edurne Pasaban (2025)
16:00	Mendi talk UNA VIDA ENTRE MONTAÑAS. GORETTA Y RENATO CASAROTTO Euskalduna Bilbao 6 Dic 16:00 Euskalduna Jauregia UNA VIDA ENTRE MONTAÑAS. Goretta y Renato Casarotto RAMÓN PORTILLA Saturday December 6 – 16:00 Euskalduna Bilbao A beautiful story about love, life, and passion for the mountains: Renato, a visionary solo climber, as tough and cold as the rocks and ice he climbed, broke all the moulds, taking mountaineering to unimaginable levels where ethics, commitment and physical and mental endurance push the limits of human possibility. Goretta, the tireless narrator of this story, spends most of her time at base camp, showing us the sometimes equally harsh reality of the insecurities and fears of those waiting at the foot of the wall. Inseparable, the couple leave behind a shared legacy that we are now recovering for the first time in Spanish.
17:00	Euskalduna Bilbao 6 dic 17:00 PASTRANA, IN COLD BLOOD, B.I.G. - A WORLD FIRST Euskalduna Jauregia PASTRANA 2024, Brazil, 15min Director: Gabriel Motta, Melissa Brogni NATIONAL PREMIERE While reliving memories, images and conversations, downhill skateboarder Melissa endeavours to create a tribute to her friend Pastrana. As she retrieves the past, with the aid of her friends and family, Pastrana's inherent presence helps her fill the silence left behind and gain a deeper understanding of what is time. IN COLD BLOOD 2025, France, 35min Director: Alex Heitler NATIONAL PREMIERE An intimate mountain film told through the inner voice of Victor de le Rue, a snowboarder and adventurer torn between fear and obsession. As he moves between high stakes freeride competitions and raw backcountry adventures, we witness the search for balance between adrenaline and family, ambition and peace. No interviews, no bragging. Just one man’s honest dialogue with the mountains. A visual and emotional journey into what truly drives us. In the end, it’s not about the best ride—it’s about feeling fully alive. B.I.G. - A WORLD FIRST 2025, Austria, 54min Director: Johannes Mair NATIONAL PREMIERE On September 20th, 2023, Jakob Schubert makes climbing history by doing the first ascent of B.I.G., formerly known as Project Big in Flatanger, Norway. Originally bolted and set up by Adam Ondra a decade ago, the route was regarded as a contender for becoming one of the most demanding climbing routes in the world. While in 2022 Schubert and Ondra famously join forces on the project, Jakob goes all in on a different setting the following year, bringing not only a film crew to Norway, but also the idea of livestreaming his attempts.
19:45	Gala Inauguración Euskalduna Bilbao 6 dic 19:45 Euskalduna Jauregia OIARZÁBAL. ENTRE JUAN Y JUANITO 2025, Spain, 110min Director: Javier Álvaro Palomares INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Juanito Oiarzábal needs no introduction. He was the third person in history to climb all 14 eight-thousanders without supplementary oxygen, has climbed a total of 26 eight-thousanders in an attempt to ‘do a second lap’ of these 14 mountains, and has been a regular guest on many television programmes over the last two decades. But do we really know the real Juanito?