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.
Adolescence is a difficult time. Just days before the regional championship, Judoca suffers a racist attack and has a crisis. In order to compete, she must work on self-control and self-esteem.
Mikel writes a last poem to his mother. Elizabeth prepares her suitcase for one last trip with José. Ainhoa keeps a frame without photos in a box. Three stories united by grief that try to complete each other.
Science is capable of predicting the path of a wave from its origin to its end. But the complex relationships that humans have established with nature escape its reflection. At the moment the surfer and the wave meet, the explainable becomes inexplicable, and science can no longer decipher that passion.
Samuel's soul finds itself in a digital world he does not know. A strange voice from the sky seems to show him the way home.
Every morning the lands of Xiberoa bloom singing. Strength of tradition and territory of creativity. Where time rests and freedom breathes. As beautiful as it is violent, as narrow as it is varied. The protagonists of the show Xiberoa Kantuz Loraturik know very well what it means to use their heritage as a tool and build intergenerational bridges. This is a look at a creative process and the emotions of a country.
Is artificial intelligence a disruptive revolution that will change the way animation is done forever? Round table on the ethical, technical and artistic challenges which arise from making AI part and parcel of animation, and also exploring the opportunities afforded by this technology and how its tools can transform the future of this sector.
Public service to facilitate and streamline the work of all audiovisual productions opting for Bilbao-Bizkaia as scenarios to carry out their projects.
A dialogue between Esther Garcia, a renowned Spanish producer, and Santiago Tabernero, journalist, scriptwriter and film director on the production of contemporary cinema, its weaknesses and strengths in the local film industry.
How to perform an analysis of half a century of documentaries and short films from material on deposit with Filmoteca Vasca - Euskadiko Filmategia. A research project by the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola Film School.
In the theatre of the Cold War, astronauts lost in the Darien Gap are besieged by their deepest fears when surprised by an indigenous person. Did they think they were going to be decapitated, or eaten by a wild cannibal? A deconstruction of film and propaganda archives from tropical survival training challenges the colonial narrative inscribed in the conquest of space.
Portrait of Mexico City. Centre of chaos. Anonymous characters crosses each other self-absorbed in their daily life and existence. She, in movement; he, in paralysis. Both living in the past evading the present. They inhabit the realm of cycles trying to free themselves from attachment and suffering. Movement and paralysis intertwine in a city trapped in the cycles of earthly and recurrent existence.
He develops and imagines a world in a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue about latent, invented images, about the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness. This short film explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.
The shop manager of a floating bordershop-container in the Baltic Sea, casts off the chains to shore to save the universe of love she and her employees have created inside.
Bureaucratic systems and cultural traditions have always tried to tell me “who I am”, while today's AI industry, capable of creating “magic”, is destroying it through homogenization.
The only memory left to Morî from his father is the audio recording of the story he told him. Morî listens to this tale from time to time. One day, a new teacher comes to school. When Mori sees the teacher, he thinks he is his father. Morî's insistence on this issue turns into an emotional bond between him and his teacher.
People working backstage, during a theatre play.—Alles gut? —Alles gut? They act according to time. —Alright. They wait for the right time to act. Moin! The accident happens.
A social satire told in five acts delves into our society, its behaviors and flaws. The narrative conveyed through light and attractive visuals serves as a cautionary tale about the potential consequences if we fail to eliminate foolish behaviors, lack of empathy and a lack of responsibility.
In gaming's online realm, sleep becomes an art. Streamers blend dreams, gamers doze mid-game, revealing life's quirky essence. ASMR experts craft a soundscape and a game designer imparts characters a tool: time-sensibility. Sleep, digital engagement and games turn sleep into poetic online tales.
In 1952, Anita Conti, France's first female oceanographer, embarked on a trawler to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen, alone with her camera and sixty men for six months. Using her 16mm film rushes and photographs, the film reveals her scientific and yet tender gaze for the workers of the sea. This pioneering woman foresaw the need to protect the oceans.This film explores the modernity of her struggle, as well as the hazy, rhythmic beauty of her writing and photography.
In 1967, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a group of seminarians thirsty for freedom founded the group Enarak. They played pop, rock and psychedelia, styles that were foreign to the society of the time, and all of it entirely in Basque. After hundreds of concerts, they mysteriously disappeared in 1971. Fifty years later, the singer's son, Beñat, sets out to find traces of the group, immersing himself in a film labyrinth that mixes ornithology, collage and eccentric research.
In 1979, the Virgin of Zikuñaga disappeared, leaving its inhabitants without her iconic image. A gap in the niche; a collective void. This is a film about gaps. My father, the filmmaker Juanmi Gutiérrez, passed away some years ago. Now, from a distance, I return to his films in an exercise of personal memory through the image, or rather, through its absence. Can the lack of an image be as strong as its presence? And in that case, what do we do with this emptiness?
Sound and image stare each other in the face as Oksana Karpovych contrasts quiet compositions of everyday life of Ukrainians since the full-scale invasion with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
Emakume helduek beren ezkonbizitzaz hitz egiten dute, "lehen aldiaz", sexualitatearekin duten harreman intimoaz. Antzinako erritu horiek errepikatzean, zuzendariak zalantzan jartzen du ezkontzarik eta seme-alabarik ez izatea, eta, horrekin batera iraungitzen den ama-alaben arteko harreman-kate bat.
Documentary film about bullfighting based on the portrait of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey and his cuadrilla.
Conversation on the connection there has always been between the world of films and the world of graphic design. This is also an excellent opportunity to share a look back at the posters that have accompanied the presentation of each new ZINEBI festival over the last quarter of a century.
