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Festival Program
Wed 19
Thu 20
Fri 21
Sat 22
Sun 23
Big Hall
| Start | End | Title |
| 18:30 | 20:30 | Official Opening Ceremony - Bansko film fest 2025 |
| 19:00 | 19:24 | Under the skins |
Turzhestvena Hall
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 13:00 | 14:21 | Champions of the Golden Valley |
Presentation
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 11:00 | 12:15 |
Lection - Teen Avalanche Workshop - instructors BFSA
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| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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)
| Start | End | Title |
| 23:00 | 03:00 | Festival Party Night - bar BaseCamp |
"The Wall" guesthouse, Bania village
| Start | End | Title |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | Climbing competition "Peter Atanasov" |
Big Hall
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
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| 16:00 | 17:00 | break/see Exhibitions |
Presentation
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
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| 15:10 | 16:02 | The future of climbing |
| 16:00 | 17:00 | break |
Tourist Information Centre
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 13:30 | 15:30 | The Cruel Way |
| 15:30 | 16:22 | Painting the Mountains |
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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
| Start | End | Title |
| 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 |









