A demon haunts Adela’s house, tormenting her and causing her harm. This drives her to visit a psychiatrist, where medication is presented as the ultimate cure for all her problems. But what she truly needs is for someone to listen to what is really happening to her. The only place where her reality seems to fit is within religion and folk rituals, leading her to visit a healer to whom she confides how and when it all began.
FUCK THE POLIS is a film about an intimate connection with the world: a profound attempt to look at what surrounds us, where history coexists with the present and our memories and emotions intertwine with the objectivity of reality.
A group of children visits the ethnographic exhibition at the San Telmo Museum (Museum of Basque Society and Citizenship in Donostia) accompanied by their tutor. The exhibition narrates the last 200 years of Basque Country history, up until 1980. After exploring the exhibition, they share their thoughts about what they saw.
Midnight. Jaime, a baker since he was a child, faces his last dance. The bakery machinery at the establishment works like an orchestra. In an intimate dialogue with the space, the man revisits the place where he has spent most of his life, as the actions of his everyday activities mix together with his memories.
A child plays basque ball and has fun playing around the building.
Following the death of his mother in 2011, the director embarks on an intimate journey through the personal belongings and memories she left behind. This short documentary delves into grief and illness, exploring their ties to dignity, caregiving, and legacy. It reclaims cinema as a powerful tool to unearth the past.
In an imaginary island, childhood inhabits a time without hierarchies. Among ancient trees, scattered branches, and a ship wrapped in mist, the film explores ways of coexistence that require no armor or systems of control. Inspired by real community experiences, Gombaut inhabits a shared territory between species, where life finds other ways of existing.
When death is more present in their lives than ever before, two friends decide to start a new chapter and move together to a rural village.
The summer of 1936 saw two thousand people executed throughout La Rioja, and among the “tumbados” (not fallen) was Agustín Martínez Royo, the Republican mayor of a small village on the banks of the river Ebro, Alcanadre.
When his body was exhumed during the years of the Transition, an almond tree had grown over his chest. This tree, born from spilled blood, serves as the guiding thread of this auteur documentary, where the search for truth intertwines with the uncovering of the senselessness of a dark and fateful time.
