For the first time, the festival will set up its base camp in the heart of the university campus. The kickoff will be on Thursday, November 19, starting at 6 PM in the renowned Amphi Weil of UGA, with screenings of original films exploring mountains worldwide, human and sporting adventures, and scientific discoveries.
The program includes films such as "Rendez-vous sur la falaise" (first festival screening), "Gulbara, guardian of the ice" (a portrait of a Kyrgyz mountaineer studying glacier melt), "Aurora Borealis, the grand rendezvous," and "Blatten, contre nature" (revisiting the collapse of a Swiss village in May 2025). Each screening will be followed by discussions with scientists and filmmakers.
During the day, on November 19 and 20, sessions will be organized for school groups, with over 3,500 students expected. Subsequently, the Montagnes & Sciences Encounters will travel across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and beyond until March 2027, with stops planned in Clermont-Ferrand, Valence, Chambéry, Lyon, and Chamonix, among others.
Admission is free within the limits of available seats, but booking is strongly recommended. All public films will be subtitled in French (ST-SME), and the venue is accessible to people with reduced mobility (PRM).
