Opening gala

Association of women working in the audiovisual sector and scenic arts in the Basque Country.

Turn your love into a weapon. This film reads Soviet revolutionary and sexual activist Alexandra Kollontai’s writings on female sexuality and emancipation, on the abolition of the family and the need to “change hearts and minds”. This reading traces a complex web of connections between 20th century European Marxist feminism and 21st century Latin American transfeminisms, and between the melancholic gaze of disenchantment and the furious, tender, and imperious demand that the Revolution, finally, fulfil its promise.

Turn your love into a weapon. This film reads Soviet revolutionary and sexual activist Alexandra Kollontai’s writings on female sexuality and emancipation, on the abolition of the family and the need to “change hearts and minds”. This reading traces a complex web of connections between 20th century European Marxist feminism and 21st century Latin American transfeminisms, and between the melancholic gaze of disenchantment and the furious, tender, and imperious demand that the Revolution, finally, fulfil its promise.

A dead body has appeared in the Arga river. No one has missed him or reported his disappearance. Although it seems like it will be another normal working day for the detective Ana Miravalles, she will experience for the first time the disadvantages of working in her own town. In fact, she suspects that his daughter Eukene might know something. From that moment on, Ana will have to make a decision.

In 1980, the Spanish Basque Battalion group kidnapped and made Jose Miguel Etxeberria disappear. His brother Eneko was 15 then and has been searching for his body for 44 years. A police mercenary has given information that locates the body in an oak grove near the French town of Mont-de-Marsan. Eneko? Could it be true? This documentary raises questions as: How long would you look for the body of a family member? When is the hope lost?

In 2006, as Israeli shells relentlessly rain down on Beirut, Sariah (13), her older sister Nayla and their mother take refuge in the mountains, making sure not to mention the war raging in Lebanon. Sharp tensions between the three women soon resurface, and the rivalry between the two sisters escalates when Nayla's boyfriend pays her a visit