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France, 66 min
Director: Cadot Pierre
EUSKADI PREMIERE
For over twenty years, Vivian Bruchez has pursued a singular vision: to ski all 82 Alpine summits above 4,000 meters in the Alps. An undertaking of extraordinary scale, driven by patience, commitment, friends, and a lifelong relationship with the mountains. But as the project nears completion, something begins to shift. The desire to finish, to complete the list, starts to blur the limits Vivian once believed were clear.
Sweden, 12 min
Director: Marco Tribelhorn
NATIONAL PREMIERE
On a foggy March evening in Norway, free skier Jacob Wester triggers an avalanche and is swept off a cliff. For 75 seconds, he fights for his life inside a roaring mass of snow, while his wife Sofia waits in silence below. '75 Seconds' is an account of chaos, fear, and hope inside an avalanche.
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.
Austria, 43 min
Director: Jakob Schweighofer
NATIONAL PREMIERE
The extraordinary story of Ilse and Fritz Priesner, who have been walking their path together for almost 60 years—far from conventional social norms. In the early 1980s, they leave the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria with their three young sons and set off for India. The trip becomes an adventure playground. Even at an advanced age, Ilse and Fritz continue to shape their lives on their own terms. The film is a love letter to freedom, courage, and a partnership that prefers to set off rather than stand still.
Spain, 24 min
Director: Aner Etxebarria, Pablo Vidal
In 1955, fascinated by the ingenious method of netting pigeons using wooden bats and nets, Orson Welles directed the documentary The Land of Basques. Today, from a mountain hut on the border between Navarre and France, Gerardo Damboriena, a veteran pigeon hunter and leader of the last generation of pigeon hunters in the Etxalar Valley, reveals to us in the Basque tongue the secrets of this tradition, which dates back more than 700 years and is on the brink of extinction. A tale in which the English language learns from the Basque. A story narrated by Gerardo Damboriena and Orson Welles.
South Korea, 48 min
Director: Kim Youngmi, Kim Jeeyoung
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Kim Youngmi's expedition marks the fourth solo crossing of Antarctica and the first by an Asian. For 70 days, she ate, slept, and walked in total isolation. Yet she says nothing is carried out alone, crediting others' prayers and encouragement with carrying her across 1,786 km. The film captures an expedition more than a decade in the making and reflects on the courage to take a single step.
Spain, 67 min
Director: Oihane Ruiz Menéndez
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
“Wood is the material of the future.” Keeping this in mind, architect Oihane Ruiz and landscaper Ane Barrutia explore the life cycle of wood in their native Basque Country, from forest to industry. They are searching for answers to an urgent question: what kind of forest will we leave for future generations? Confronted with a crisis-stricken model, they consult experts, workers, researchers and activists, fostering a dialogue on the connections between our origins, our collective memory and the necessity of envisioning alternative approaches to inhabiting the landscape.
Belgium, 35 min
Director: Léopold Le Grelle
EUSKADI PREMIERE
'Birdlife' is an international documentary exploring the evolution of modern wingsuit flying through the stories of nine of the sport's most influential pioneers and athletes, spanning multiple generations and nationalities.
France, 33 min
Director: Guillaume Broust
In February 2024, in Patagonia, Lise Billon, Fanny Schmutz, and Maud Vanpoulle made the first female ascent of Cerro Torre’s Southeast Ridge, originally known as ‘the Compressor Route’. Beyond athletic prowess and technical difficulty, this film explores the remarkable journey of three friends and elite climbers who discuss, with both levity and seriousness, a woman’s place in a sport still largely dominated by men.
Spain, 43 min
Director: Aitor Intxaurraga Arana
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A documentary journey that narrates a long and demanding trek through 50 peaks over 1,000 meters high in the Gorbea Natural Park, Basque Country, and that links the physical challenge with the memory of the land.
Spain, 6 min
Director: Jordi Meste Lopez
EUSKADI PREMIERE
A collaborative artistic project that brings together music, vertical dance, and audiovisual creation, conceived and developed on some of the planet’s most vulnerable glaciers. Artists from Catalonia, Patagonia, and Ecuador’s Andean region have worked collectively to build a piece born directly from contact with ice and its fragility. The work presents voices, bodies, and sounds that move across different regions of the world, united by a shared concern over the accelerated retreat of glaciers.
Canada, 24 min
Director: Trixie Pacis
EUSKADI PREMIERE
On July 24, 2024, a wildfire tore through Jasper, Alberta, reducing aerialist Sasha Galitzki's home to ashes. Embers connects Sasha's loss in the wildfire and the glacial recession she has witnessed in her creative work to highlight their common cause: climate change.
Canada, 10 min
Director: Angela Percival
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Tying in with a climbing partner means more than just sending the crux together. For renowned alpinists Ines Papert and Sarah Huenekin, the peak of their aspirations comes as they both climb past the age of 50 - pushing themselves harder while learning more about each other, as well as themselves.
Norway, 94 min
Director: Asgeir Helgestad
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Over a decade on Svalbard, the fastest warming place on earth, filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad witnesses the extraordinary life of polar bear named Frost – a mother struggling to raise her cubs in a rapidly changing Arctic. This intimate journey transforms him from observer to storyteller, driven by his passion to connect with nature and to reveal the devastating impacts of climate change on this fragile ecosystem.
United States, 13 min
Director: Tahria Sheather
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Meet Lindsey Hamm: Texan “black sheep” who found her calling as a mountain guide at 25, dedicating her career to others' dreams. Alongside mentor and best friend, climbing legend Katie Lambert, she heads to Yosemite Valley to tackle her first free climbing project, ‘Dream Team’. This climb isn't about making history: it’s a pursuit of self-expression.
Spain, 45 min
Director: Jerónimo López
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Jerónimo López’s return to the same valley in Nepal, 50 years after he first visited it to climb Manaslu, the first of the fourteen eight-thousanders to be scaled by Spaniards. A comparison of the expeditions of the 1970s with that undertaken in 2025 provides an opportunity to discuss the changes that have taken place in mountaineering in the Himalayas. The documentary, dedicated to the memory of Carlos Suárez, showcases the grandeur of nature alongside commentary on the geological and ecological features of the Himalayas, as well as on the effects of climate change and its associated risks.
Norway, 93 min
Director: Barbora Hollan
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Mariann Sæther (42) is one of the best whitewater kayakers in the world. Since she was a teenager, she has challenged many norms and expectations of the society. When she becomes a mother, she is determined she can both be an extreme sports athlete and have a family. But is the life on the river really worth the risk? ‘I Follow Rivers’ is a character driven film about life, death, and finding balance in life.
France, 33 min
Director: Davina & Sébastien Montaz-Rosset
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
One story, two destinies... A virtuoso pianist and cellist, Arthur chose the dizzying heights of great rock faces over concert stages, pushing the boundaries of modern climbing and mountaineering. His twin brother Alexandre, a talented climber who remained in Paris, followed a different path, gradually drawing their worlds apart. Until one slightly crazy dream: to climb an iconic summit together and let their cellos resonate there. High above, music and mountains bring their paths together again and renew the bond of brotherhood.
Spain, 49 min
Director: Euskal Mendi Museoa. Digitalización: Euskadiko Filmategia - Filmoteca Vasca. Donada por: Josema Casimiro. Introducción: Antxon Iturriza. Montaje: Alberto Cáceres.
In 1962, a French expedition led by Lionel Terray and made up of some of the finest Alpine guides achieved the first ascent of Jannu (7,710 m), one of the most demanding and spectacular climbing routes in the entire Himalaya. Images of the climbers straddling a razor-sharp ridge high above immense voids captivated the mountaineering world and quickly became iconic. Inspired by the beauty and audacity of those images, a group of friends comprising Iñaki Aldaya, Xabier Garaioa, Mari Abrego, Josema Casimiro, Javier Muro and Patxi Senosiain set out from Kathmandu in the spring of 1981, bound for Jannu, also known as Kumbhakarna.
Spain, 30 min
Director: Joxe Ramon Agirre
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A group of mountaineers sets out on an epic expedition through the Karakoram, dreaming of scaling the Trango walls and reaching the imposing K2. Beyond the adventure itself, the journey becomes a profoundly human experience. In the small Balti village of Arandu, an elderly man gives Mattin Iñiguez, one of the mountaineers, a cloth scapular embroidered with prayers. He asks him to take it up into the mountains so that they may return to the village with the protection and energy they have received.
Japan, 89 min
Director: Moe Wada
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
In July 2024, two Japanese mountaineers fell on K2, the world’s second-highest peak. Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima were among the world’s foremost alpine climbers. The unclimbed route they set out to tackle on K2’s west face was one of the most difficult challenges even on this mountain. Their love for their families and their passion for a form of climbing that demands everything they have intertwine, raising profound questions about the meaning of life.
Spain, 9 min
Director: Ignasi López Fàbregas
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Nestled in the middle of a secluded valley and surrounded by green meadows and rivers, an imposing mass of snow and rock rises abruptly. The adventurous Lord Cliffrider hopes to be the first to achieve the summit of his longed-for mountain, but as time passes, this dream vanishes like the smoke from his pipe.
France, 43 min
Director: Hugo Clouzeau
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A portrait of Piolet d'Or mountaineer Hélias Millerioux, told in fragments. His alpinism goes beyond the high peaks — he finds just as much meaning in the quiet drift of base camp life. Camcorder rolling, Hélias narrates the world he passes through with warmth and honesty: resolute in spirit, open in direction.
Mexico, 23 min
Director: Irving Serrano & Victor Rejon
NATIONAL PREMIERE
An exploration of the ritual of the Clavadistas de la Quebrada (Mexico), who dive 35 metres into the sea, accompanied by a poem recited by the divers themselves and testimonies reflecting on faith, life, and death.
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.
China, 25 min
Director: Marina Garcia Andreu
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
In a remote village in Yunnan, on the border with Tibet, an elderly man and his family live as guardians of the mountain. The documentary explores a way of life where the spiritual and the earthly coexist in a delicate balance. In the intimacy of their everyday gestures, a profound sensitivity towards nature emerges – nature understood not as a resource, but as an inseparable part of existence itself. It is a world that still endures, but whose future remains uncertain as generational differences begin to come to the fore.
France, 7 min
Director: Yannick Boissennot
NATIONAL PREMIERE
From the first dim light of dawn to the fading glow of dusk, Pierre Hourticq traces the sun’s journey skiing across the mountains. With every passing moment, the landscape transforms, new lines emerge, and the mountain redraws its terrain. The blue hour, the golden hour, the zenith, and the return of shadow unfold as chapters of a single voyage. This is an ode to light — the element that shapes the mountains, guides each trajectory, and reveals the fleeting beauty of an instant.
France, 40 min
Director: Enzo Besson
NATIONAL PREMIERE
An ice climbing athlete, member of the French team, Marion Salmon-Thomas evolves in a world where every movement demands precision and commitment. At the peak of her career, she makes a rare choice in sport: to become a mother without giving up her ambitions, convinced that motherhood and performance can coexist. Between miscarriages, pregnancy, a difficult childbirth, and physical recovery, her body becomes a territory in constant transformation. Eight months after the birth of her child, she fulfils her dream by winning her first World Cup.
Germany , Spain , France , Pakistan, 50 min
Director: Tom Dauer
NATIONAL PREMIERE
David Göttler has found himself on his first winter expedition (2013/2014) to an eight-thousand-meter peak invited by the older and more experienced climber, Simone Moro. The goal is the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat, the highest wall in the world. They are traveling expedition-style, installing fixed ropes and setting up high-altitude camps, until David sets out alone and reaches an altitude of 7,200 meters. “That opened my eyes—everything can be done more easily, faster, and more effectively.” Breaking with the traditional style of ascent is David’s first step on his own path.
Switzerland, 19 min
Director: Mathieu Achermann
EUSKADI PREMIERE
'Nininbaori' follows three climbers with disabilities through fragments of their daily lives, where ordinary domestic gestures intertwine with the quiet precision of athletic practice. Moving seamlessly from one to the next, the film refuses hierarchy, unfolding instead like the pages of a single book written by multiple hands.
Kenya, 12 min
Director: Joel Badia
EUSKADI PREMIERE
An intimate portrait of an athlete who finds in movement a way to understand herself, grow, and continue shaping her own path. Through her preparation, training sessions, and the quiet moments that come before competition, the film approaches Joyce Njeru not only as an elite runner, but as a person shaped by her culture, determination, discipline, and a deep connection with the terrain.
United States, 26 min
Director: Dani Reyes-Acosta
NATIONAL PREMIERE
'Outlier Common' follows three women chasing summit perfection. On an emotional journey through North American mountain ranges, a scientist, a filmmaker, and a disruptor share the deeply personal, turbulent stories of their lives—while pushing toward the summits that define them. From British Columbia’s deep backcountry to the Tetons’ towering peaks, their journey reveals hard-won lessons on tenacity, joy, and solidarity—even when the world feels like it’s crumbling.
Spain, 10 min
Director: Laura Vinyals
EUSKADI PREMIERE
On the highest peaks of the Pyrenees, beneath the rocks, glaciers, and the paths we walk along, there is an almost invisible element that shapes the future of the mountains. Permafrost. 'Permapyrenees' follows a cross-border scientific team from Catalonia, France, and Andorra on a high-altitude research expedition to understand how climate change is transforming the frozen subsoil of the Pyrenees: Besiberri, the Pessons cirque, Vignemale, Pica d’Estats and Maladeta.
France, 54 min
Director: Alexandre Lopez
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Deep within the Nakanaï Mountains of Papua New Guinea, a caving expedition ventures into an unexplored underground world in search of a mysterious underground river of extraordinary scale, hoping to better understand and protect this remarkable karst landscape.
United States, 49 min
Director: Philip Forsey
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Two of the world's most accomplished ski mountaineers, Christina Lustenberger and Guillaume Pierrel, set their sights on the highest and most formidable peak in the Canadian Rockies in February 2025: Mount Robson. They were the first to ski down the Great Couloir on the South Face. The film documenting that feat now becomes a tribute to Guillaume 'Gee' Pierrel, who passed away on June 24, 2026, during an attempt to climb and ski K6 in Pakistan.
Canada, 18 min
Director: Ching Yu
NATIONAL PREMIERE
'She Measures the Earth' follows four women scientists in Canada, Alison Criscitiello, Jocelyn Hirose, Isobel Phoebus, and Chimira Andres, as they reshape what it means to do science, to teach it, and to live it. From the hum of lab instruments to the silence of glaciers, from remote icefalls to the rhythm of a dancer’s steps and the laughter of children in the forest, their stories intertwine across landscapes both physical and emotional.
Canada , United States, 51 min
Director: Drew Smith, Ben Knight
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A season of climbing in Alaska, Wyoming, and Nepal, with Michael Gardner and his long-term partner and friend, Sam Hennessey. As reluctant filmmakers, they question what it all means and unabashedly keep the cameras rolling. In turn, we get a glimpse into their singular, bold, endearing, and mullet-denying approach to life. After Gardner’s death in 2024, while attempting Jannu East with Sam, his friends set out to finish the film as he had originally intended. “It’s not going to be a climbing film,” Michael had insisted. Maybe it’s a rom com?
United Kingdom , Australia , United States, 128 min
Director: Jennifer Peedom
Based on true events, Tenzing chronicles the little-known story of Tenzing Norgay, a gifted Himalayan climber who, alongside New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Mount Everest. Where Western climbers see Everest as something to be conquered, Tenzing reveres Chomolungma as the sacred mother goddess. What follows is an ascent defined as much by the tensions between social backgrounds, classes, and competing ambitions as by the perils of the mountain itself. But high above the world, empire, rank, and aspiration fall away, leaving two outsiders bound by mutual respect and trust.
Canada, 8 min
Director: Evan Lindberg
NATIONAL PREMIERE
An operatic elegy for receding glaciers. Along the Icefields Parkway, a glacial spirit awakens from an endless slumber, entombed in ice, and confronts a rapidly changing landscape. Set to Baroque opera arias by Henry Purcell, the film features bass-baritone Evan Lindberg alongside a Montréal-based string quartet.
Bulgaria, 108 min
Director: Deyan Bararev
NATIONAL PREMIERE
1984 in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, a nation dares to challenge the gods. Socialist Bulgaria sends its best climbers to the deadly West ridge of Mount Everest. 5 summited, but 4 return. 40 years later, the uncensored truth about the most dramatic events during the expedition are uncovered.
United States, 60 min
Director: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
Dean Potter finds in extreme climbing a means of escape, breaking world records while confronting the challenges of his personal relationships.
United States, 58 min
Director: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
As Dean Potter battles his inner demons and pushes his exploits to the limit, a rising climber suddenly emerges and threatens his position at the top: he is Alex Honnold.
United States, 55 min
Director: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
As his rivalry with Alex Honnold intensifies, Dean Potter's mental state begins to deteriorate, and he starts to distance himself from those closest to him.
United States, 61 min
Director: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
Thanks to a new relationship that brings stability to his life, Dean Potter finds a new sense of balance and immerses himself in the world of wingsuit flying.
Germany , Canada, 30 min
Director: Alexi Liotti
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Matt Gunn's 2005 guidebook, 'Scrambles in Southwest British Columbia', helped introduce a generation of mountain enthusiasts to the mountains of British Columbia's Sea-to-Sky corridor. Nearly two decades later, as he works toward a long-awaited follow-up, Matt returns to the
routes that shaped the book's legacy—revisiting old scrambles, establishing new routes, and
reflecting on the impact of his life's work. But what responsibility comes with publishing information that can lead people into beautiful, remote, and dangerous terrain?
United States, 63 min
Director: Todd Jones
NATIONAL PREMIERE
In 1937, Bradford Washburn conquered Mount Lucania but was forced to leave behind irreplaceable gear, including his prized aerial camera, on the Walsh Glacier, a loss he never stopped wondering about. Eight decades later, skier Griffin Post and glaciologist Dora Medrzycka lead a team of skiers, scientists, and explorers back into the Yukon's shifting ice to chase the question that haunted Washburn: could the cache still be out there?
Spain, 20 min
Director: Prunelle Mathet, Ben Suliteanu
EUSKADI PREMIERE
'Trail Keepers' introduces the dedicated people who build and maintain running trails across some of the world’s most stunning landscapes—from northern Sweden to California’s Sierra Nevada and the Spanish Pyrenees—with the support of the Kilian Jornet Foundation. Their work allows runners to enjoy nature safely while helping protect valuable ecosystems and wildlife, ensuring that everyone’s footprints follow the same path.
Norway, 120 min
Director: Christopher Carvasal
Inspired by one of the greatest achievements in climbing history, legendary Norwegian climber Robert Caspersen and his team embark on an expedition to the Karakoram with a dream of becoming the first to summit one of the world’s highest rock faces: the Trango Pulpit. 15 years before, the Norwegian expedition in 1984 was groundbreaking, but it also carried a dark side that would leave a lasting mark on the entire climbing community.
Belgium, 58 min
Director: Paul Lavoine
EUSKADI PREMIERE
Through this documentary, we follow Jean de Biolley, a passionate Belgian paraglider pilot, as he pursues his athletic dream: competing in the Red Bull X-Alps. This extraordinary race involves crossing the entire Alpine range, over 1,200 kilometres, using nothing but the power of one’s legs and a paraglider, all in less than 12 days. This extreme challenge pushes Jean to his absolute limits.
France, 66 min
Director: Laurence Fleury
EUSKADI PREMIERE
An undisputed figure in Pyrenean mountaineering, Patrice de Bellefon first made a name for himself in the 1960s through his exploits, his outbursts, and his book Les 100 plus belles courses dans les Pyrénées. Whilst never renouncing the mountaineering and conquest-driven ethos of his youth, he gradually distanced himself from it to focus more on the people and valleys of the Pyrenees. This film traces the career of this mountaineer who, at the age of 87, continues to write, publish, paint, speak out and scale peaks with an incredible zest for life.
Spain, 50 min
Director: Marc Toralles, Bru Busom, Rubén Sannmartín
EUSKADI PREMIERE
No fixed ropes. No outside support. No easy way back. This documentary chronicles Marc Toralles, Bru Busom, and Rubén Sanmartín’s groundbreaking first complete traverse of Yerupajá, the iconic giant of Peru’s Huayhuash Range. Opening a new 3,000-metre route on its vast east face, they carried out one of the most remarkable achievements in modern alpinism, a feat that would earn them the coveted Piolet d'Or.
Spain, 59 min
Director: Mikel Urriza Pascual
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
The story of a trail race that began 25 years ago with the aim of uniting a town—Zegama—and a mountain—Aizkorri. Built with modest resources, driven by local initiative, and grounded in community work, over the years, it has become one of the most renowned mountain races in the world. Yet its growth brings a question: “How far?” How can it remain a global benchmark without losing the essence of the village, the mountain, and the spirit of community work?
