Festival Program

Wed 19
Thu 20
Fri 21
Sat 22
Sun 23

Big Hall

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18:30 20:30 Official Opening Ceremony - Bansko film fest 2025
19:00 19:24 Under the skins

Turzhestvena Hall

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12:30 13:30 break/Exhibitions Opening Ceremony
13:30 13:37 Axie and the Wunder Dachsies
13:37 14:00 The Thief
14:00 14:08 First day of winter
14:08 15:11 Gigio in Nespello
15:11 15:40 Kings of the Forest
15:40 15:51 The Red-Face Zone
16:00 18:30 break/see Exhibitions

Tourist Information Centre

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11:30 11:50 FIFTY
11:50 12:56 Y Ddraig
13:00 13:30 break
13:30 13:43 The wild boar hunt
13:43 14:20 Zazpi
14:20 14:34 CARPENTER
14:34 14:45 break
14:45 14:50 Miavana - to bring together
14:50 15:03 My mom
15:03 15:15 Lynx
15:15 15:47 Billy
15:47 16:10 Mission"Science in the World of Darkness"

Big Hall

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13:00 14:21 Champions of the Golden Valley

Presentation

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17:30 18:15 Presentation of Blagovest Obecanov (Bulgaria) - Presentation “Memory of Metody Banenski
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“
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"
20:00 21:00 Prof. Borislav Alexandrov (Bulgaria), lecturer in Geodesy at the University of Architecture, and Momchil Tsvetanov (Bulgaria), mountain guide – Presentation: “The Waterfalls of Bulgaria“

Turzhestvena Hall

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11:30 12:42 LLULLAILLACO, IN THE ANCESTOR´ SKIN
12:42 13:10 Rale 2024 Exploration and Climbs
13:10 13:40 break
13:40 13:45 La Cimota - my inner mountain
13:45 14:03 The Nordland Trekking Trail
14:03 14:41 Fierce
14:41 15:08 The Extra Mile
15:08 16:10 North Adventure
16:00 17:30 break/see Exhibitions
16:10 17:30 break/see Exhibitions

 

Tourist Information Centre

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12:30 13:00 Opening Path VOL. 2 Greenland expedition
13:00 13:12 The (Bi)Cycle
13:12 14:02 ELSEWHERE
14:02 14:38 Researchers at the End of the World
14:38 14:48 GOLD
14:48 15:17 Mountain Roots
15:17 15:30 Newsreel 87 1943
15:30 16:00 Bansko
16:00 17:30 break/see Exhibitions

Big Hall

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12:30 14:00 Chaos Glacier Country
14:00 14:05 La Cimota - my inner mountain
14:05 14:40 Always Alive
14:40 15:10 On The Blunt End
15:10 15:45 Eternal Solo
15:45 16:30 break/see Exhibitions

 

Presentation

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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 break
18:15 19:00 Milen Bratanov (Bulgaria), certified IFMGA mountain guide, mountain rescuer – 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
21:20 22:30 Presentation of Agnieszka Bielecka (Poland) traveler, photographer, sailor, mountaineer, travel writer

 

Turzhestvena Hall

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11:00 12:15
Lection - Teen Avalanche Workshop - instructors BFSA
12:15 12:30 technical break
12:30 13:00 Samuel Volery: The Slackline Legend
13:00 13:30 Mission sailing
13:30 14:26 TANDEM
14:26 15:00 All In and Everything
15:00 15:45 Expedition Antarctica
15:45 16:01 Keep Going
16:00 16:30 break/see Exhibitions
11:15 11:59 Of A Lifetime

Tourist Information Centre

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11:30 11:47 Jamrock: The birth of Jamaican rock climbing
11:47 00:00 Moving HImalayas
12:09 12:17 Fomo
12:20 13:00 break/see Exhibitions
13:00 13:38 The Line 2 – Crossing the Pyrenees in Winter
14:38 15:50 Project: The wild calls us
16:00 16:30 break/see Exhibitions

 

Bar BaseCamp (Google Maps)

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23:00 03:00 Festival Party Night - bar BaseCamp

"The Wall" guesthouse, Bania village

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10:00 12:00 Climbing competition "Peter Atanasov"

 

Big Hall

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11:15 11:59 Of A Lifetime
12:00 12:50 Odyssea Borealis - The Unknown Still Exists
12:50 14:00 The Shackleton Row
14:00 15:50
The Blue Avalanche - presented by Marcello Apicella, Ambassador of Italy to Bulgaria
16:00 17:00 break/see Exhibitions

Presentation

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15:30 15:50 Screening of the film The Blue Avalanche (Italy) – special presentation by Marcello Apicella, Ambassador of Italy to Bulgaria
16:00 17:00 break
17:00 18:00 Award Ceremony of the best films
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 Presentation “Mountaineering’s Greatest Riddle – The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine”

Turzhestvena Hall

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11:30 12:00 Mountain Roots
12:00 12:30 A Month in The Mountains
12:30 13:00 THE FAST LINE
13:00 13:30 break/see Exhibitions
13:00 13:45 Eho
13:45 14:38 Tribe Within
14:38 15:10
Don't be tha Gama in the land of Lama- Shivling and Bhagirathi II
15:10 16:02 The future of climbing
16:00 17:00 break

Tourist Information Centre

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11:30 12:00 Mount McKinley - one dream
12:00 12:17 NORDEND, Dreaming Beyond limits
12:17 12:23 2 Legs is 2 Easy
12:30 13:10 break/see Exhibitions
13:10 13:35 Everesting: The Challenge
13:35 14:00 Northern Lines
14:00 14:30 BUSHIDO The choice.
14:30 15:25 Beck to the beginning
15:25 15:49 Creators
15:50 15:57 Axie and the Wunder Dachsies
15:50 17:00 break/see Exhibitions

Big Hall

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13:30 15:30 The Cruel Way
15:30 16:22 Painting the Mountains
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11:30 12:15 Klementina Starka 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’”
13:00 13:30 break

Turzhestvena Hall

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12:30 12:44 This Side of Silence
12:44 14:05 Champions of the Golden Valley
14:05 15:00 CHRONOCEPTION
15:00 15:54 B.I.G. - A World First

Tourist Information Centre

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11:30 12:53 Girl Climber
12:53 13:15 break
13:15 13:32 Hungry Gravity
13:32 13:56 TA BO, Opening Paths: Angola Expedition
13:56 14:48 ANDREA
14:48 15:33 Beyond

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