Transylvania Mountain Festival 2025 in Cluj!

Between November 18 and 23, Cluj will once again become the capital of mountain culture in Romania! The TMF Association is honored to invite you to the eighth edition of the Transylvania Mountain Festival, organized around the theme: Free Spirit.

Transylvania Mountain Festival will welcome mountain lovers, athletes, filmmakers, photographers, explorers, and innovators with an exceptional program that includes film screenings accompanied by thematic discussions, photography exhibitions, and sports workshops. The most anticipated moment of the festival is, of course, the TMF 2025 Awards Gala on November 22 at Cinema Victoria, alongside our beloved actor Bogdan Bob Rădulescu.

Film screenings will take place exclusively at Cinema Victoria, photography exhibitions at Atelier Café and Institut Français à Cluj-Napoca, and recreational activities will be organized at Gravity Climbing Hall and outdoors, around the city of Cluj-Napoca.

The international audience will have the opportunity to discover the incredible adventures and life philosophies of practitioners of skiing, snowboarding, freeriding, MTB, climbing, mountaineering, free flying, sailing, and mountain hiking!

This year, the festival attracted competitors from 24 countries who submitted their projects and works to the festival’s competitions.

Program overview:

This year, TMF – Transylvania Mountain Festival 2025 program, FREE SPIRIT edition, includes:

18–22: screening of mountain films from the TMF 2025 competition at Cinema Victoria
18–23: TMF 2025 mountain photography exhibitions at Atelier Café and Institut Français à Cluj-Napoca
22: TMF Gala – Transylvania Mountain Festival 2025
23: Hike organized by the Romanian Alpine Club Cluj Branch and climbing workshop organized by the Gravity team

The complete program can be viewed in the program section. It will be constantly updated as we approach the week of the event.

TRANSYLVANIA MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL 2025 GALA

The highlight of the festival is the TMF Awards Gala. Already a tradition, the winners of the Transylvania Mountain Festival awards and trophies will be announced at an official ceremony by actor Bogdan Bob Rădulescu on the stage of Cinema Victoria on November 22 for the following categories:

TMF 2025 Award for Mountain Photography
TMF 2025 Award for Mountain Film
TMF 2025 Award for Innovation in the Mountain Environment
TMF 2025 Award for Mountain Activity

TMF 2025 Film Line-Up

As the most beloved moments for nature, sports, and adventure lovers, as well as movie buffs, the Transylvania Mountain Festival 2025 film screenings will take place at Cinema Victoria between November 18 and 22. The program includes new documentary and artistic film productions such as:

Out of The Ordinary (Canada, directed by Jeff Thomas)
The Future of Climbing (France, directed by Guillaume Broust)
Mountain of Mystery (USA, directed by Jake Hopfinger & Justin Fann)
In Cold Blood (France, directed by Alex Heitler)
Endless Power. Ramon Julian’s Climbing Journey (Spain, directed by Ivan Torres)
Run Again (France, directed by Alexis Berg)
Radu, esti OK? (Romania, directed by Radu Restivan, Lucian Șuhan)
Odyssea Borealis (Italy, directed by Alesandro Beltrame)

The selection will also include a series of new short films covering various mountain sports and recent expeditions.

About TMF Association

The TMF Association promotes knowledge and exploration of the mountain environment through sports, education, art, and science—and the Transylvania Mountain Festival is where athletes, explorers, innovators, and creatives who love nature and the mountains come together! We hope that this program will inspire the local and international community, generating new initiatives and projects that bring back the spirit of the mountains and a love of nature among us.

Friends and Organizers of TMF 2025:

Outdoor technology partner: GARMIN Romania
Academic partner: The Faculty of Geography – Babeș-Bolyai University
Sports partner: Maramont
Expo gallery partners: Institut Français de Cluj, Cinema Victoria, Atelier Cafe
Printing partner: PMA Invest
Mountain safety partner: SMURD Cluj, Salvamont-Salvaspeo, EEMGA – Eastern European Mountains Guide Association
Profile partners: Clubul Alpin Român – Filiala Cluj,
Image and graphics: Black Wolf
Media partners: com, Info Traffic, Transilvania IT, Visit Cluj, Rock FM, cinefun.ro
Organizer: Asociația TMF

Tickets and Full Passes:

Individual and full passes will be announced here: https://transylvaniamountainfestival.ro/ro/bilete/
The access to photography exhibitions is free.
The access to hikes and educative workshops is free.