The 20th edition of Rio Mountain Festival, already a traditional Brazilian mountaineering event, will show, between October 15 and 19, 30 mountain adventure, nature and culture films at the Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro Cultural Center (CCBB RJ) – they, six Brazilians. And to celebrate Children’s Week, the festival will also have free activities for the little ones. There they will be able to climb the climbing wall, balance the slackline, and “fly” in the wing simulator. In addition, there will be an object painting workshop with an emphasis on the nature led by the artist Adriane Ferreira, known as Drilifyart, who will guide painting of backpacks, helmets, water bottles and ecobags along with the kids.
“To celebrate our 20 years, I believe the event could not be better,” says Alexandre Diniz, mountaineer, creator and director of the festival. He recalls that after he entered last year in the prestigious International Alliance for Mountain Film, the Film Show gained even more body. In this edition, there will be 30 films, with more sessions, as well as several other cultural activities.
“At first, it was just a film festival, was born as an international mountain movie show, but we were including books, conversations with authors, lectures, exhibitions and various activities, creating the great festival that is today,” says Diniz.
Like, say, the heart of the event are still those films that it is difficult to find anywhere else, Diniz highlights Pablo Damián Schiel’s Argentine “Billy”, who tells the story of a 70 -year -old grandfather who leaves for a voyage of skiing, “women and the wind”, by Velejador Alizé Jireh, who shows the journey through the North Carolina Plastic Plastic movement United, to Europe for the Gulf Chain, and “elsewhere” by Gabriele Canu, about the friendship of Italian climbers in an expedition for an unexplored place.
Already among the national films, highlight the feature “The Entry that climbed Everest,” Ian Lucas’s feature film that reports the journey of Rosier Alexandre, who came out of a poor childhood in the Brazilian caatinga to win the seven highest summits on each continent, including Everest.
Felipe Lombardi and Jurandir Santos are also caught the attention of Amarildo Chermont’s solo climbing on the east of Friburgo Pico, in the Três Picos state park, and the documentary “Serra Fina: In addition to the ashes”, by Leo de Souza Santos and Roberta Sauerbronn, which shows the challenge of erasing the large forest fire in Serra Fina.
The movie “Out of the Blue” will also be screened by Sébastien Montaz-Rosset, awarded by the International Alliance for Mountain Film, which shows the union of street acrobats and climbers at the Switzerland peaks.
Parallel to the films, there will be the photographic exhibition “Patagonia, Mountains of Water”, by Luan Chaves, and encounters with authors such as Jorge Cáceres, who wrote “on the way of Santiago”, Susi Saito, author of “Alma Traveler Cycle” and the launch of the “signaling guide for cycling and trail routes in Brazil”, with Luiz Saldanha.
There will be no shortage of the already traditional photo contest “Mountains of the World”, open to amateur and professional photographers, who will compete in the Corcovado Trophy.
Rio Mountain Festival 2025
- When: October 15-19, 2025
- Where: Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rua First of March, 66, Centro, Rio de Janeiro
- Entrance: R $ 10,00 (full) and R $ 5,00 (half price) on the site bb.com.br/cultura or at CCBB box office
- Students, the elderly and customers with Banco do Brasil cards pay half-price.
- Check out the full schedule: https://rimantainfestival.com.br/edicao-2025/programacao/
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