Banskofilmfest 2025

Presentations Program 2025

Big Hall, Culture Center “Nikola Vapcarov”

20 November

Thursday

17:30 / 18:15 – Blagovest Obetsanov (Bulgaria), mountain rescuer – Presentation: “In Memory of Metody Banenski – A Man Who Dedicated His Life to the Mountains and the People in Them, Longtime Dean of the Mountain Rescue Service in Bansko”

18:15 / 19:00 – Assoc. Prof. Aleksandar Shopov (Bulgaria), lecturer at the Department of Mountaineering at the National Sports Academy – Presentation: “100 Years Since the Birth of Prof. Georgi Atanasov – ‘Dzidzi’, Founder and Longtime Head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Mountaineering, Who Completed Over 600 Ascents”

19:00 / 19:15 – In Memory of Svobodin Dimitrov and Nikola Landzhev

19:15 / 19:30 – Break

19:30 / 20:00 – Nikolay Petkov (Bulgaria), alpinist – Presentation: “In Memory of Kiril Tafradzhiyski, Who Left an Unforgettable Mark on Bulgarian Mountaineering”

20:00 / 21:00 – Assoc. Prof. Borislav Alexandrov (Bulgaria), lecturer in Geodesy at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), and Momchil Tsvetanov (Bulgaria), mountain guide – Presentation: “The Waterfalls of Bulgaria"

21 November

Friday

16:30 / 17:15 - Tsvetan Parov (Bulgaria), physicist, speleologist, researcher of glaciers in Antarctica – Presentation: “Antarctic Blue”

17:15 / 18:00 – Nikola Kalistrin (Bulgaria), ski mountaineer – Presentation: “Modern Trends in Ski Mountaineering Competitions”

18:00 / 18:15 – reak

18:15 / 19:00 – Milen Bratanov (Bulgaria), certified IFMGA mountain guide, mountain rescuer, paraglider pilot, climbing and mountaineering instructor – Presentation: “48/48 – The High Peaks of Switzerland”

19:00/20:00 –Presentation of Martin Sieberer (Austria), ice and mixed climber, mountain guide, alpinist

20:00 / 20:15 – break

20:15/21:20 – Presentation of Stefano Ragazzo (Italy), alpinist, mountain guide, climber, explorer

21:30/22:30 – Presentation of Agnieszka Bielecka (Poland), traveler, photographer, sailor, mountaineer, travel writer

22 November

Saturday

15:30 / 15:50 – Special presentation by Marcello Apicella, Ambassador of Italy to Bulgaria of the film The Blue Avalanche (Italy)

16:00 / 17:00 – break

17:00/18:00 - Award Ceremony of the best films

Technical break

18:00 / 19:00 – Presentation of Matteo della Bordella (Italy), explorer, climber, member of Ragni di Lecco, motivational speaker

19:00 / 19:30 - Doychin Boyanov (Bulgaria), alpinist, lecturer at the National Sports Academy – Presentation: “The History of Ascents of Vihren Peak”

19:30/19:40 – break

19:40/20:50 – Presentation of Oswald Rodrigo Pereira (Poland) climber, extreme film director and cinematographer

21:00/22:30 – Jochen Hemmleb (Germany) - Presentation “Mountaineering’s Greatest Riddle – The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine”

23 November

Sunday

11:30 / 12:15 – Klimentina Straka and Margita Aleksova present Time2Dare – The Story of the Only All-Female Crew in the Finals of the Aegean 600

12:15 / 13:00 - Raya Lakova and Kalin Hristov (Bulgaria), cavers – Presentation: “Cave Pokémonс or the Young Hopes of ‘Pod Ruba’”