Association of women working in the audiovisual sector and scenic arts in the Basque Country.
A discussion by female programmers at a number of film festivals on their operations, in order to dispel myths on how films succeed in becoming part of their programming, and the functioning, objectives and challenges faced by each of them.
A conversation on the design and implementation of joint projects by businesses, public bodies and universities.
Conference on the experiences and challenges faced by José Luis Ágreda in directing art for the Robot Dreams film by director Pablo Berger and the graphic novel by Sara Varon
Lorea's reference points are her mother and her grandmother. Through these two generations she observes the bond that women have experienced around motherhood. Now it is up to her to decide whether or not to become a mother herself and to look for answers to pending questions.
Prequel to the popular story Mateo Txistu: Basque Country, late 19th century. In a small village, parish priest Mateo disappears without trace. As locals tattle, the Archbishopric sends two priests to get to the bottom of the occurrence.
Non-fiction short film about the fragility of memory and the places that human beings create to safeguard it. People disappear, like the buildings they lived in, the places where they worked and were happy. Those faces and those lives were once part of the written memory, a memory that will disappear because nothing is forever. What the water brings, the water takes away.
Spark, an eight-year-old kid, walks peacefully through a devastated post-apocalyptic street when a tiny light reveals an old projector. Thanks to his discovery, Spark will see a moving image for the first time.
By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
Kana, a tender creature who travels through the desires of the young, helps a friend with a problem by delving into her subconscious, where nothing is as it seems.
After 9 years in deep space, the Kepler space telescope is running out of fuel and about to turn off. Haley, a 12-year-old kid saddened by the news, goes to the field to bid farewell to Kepler.
The Saitua Iribar family gathers for dinner on Christmas Eve. Elizabete, mother and grandmother of those present does not remember where she is and all she wants to do is go to sleep.
Rita and Berta are thieves. In an old red car, they travel the backroads in search of the adrenaline they can't find in their daily lives. But every high comes with a low. Berta needs a change, and she has made a big decision—one that might break the bond between her and Rita.
Seven-year-old Billie is driving a wounded man home in the middle of the night. By the morning he's unable to move, and she's sure something is stuck inside him that needs to come out.
It´s getting cold. The houses look empty. The wind shakes the trees. The meeting is in the forest. It´s always there.
Can Marguerite Duras cure us of madness? Can that woman who is soul-muted be crazy? This film, through analog casting, explores the representations of madness in silent films of the 20s and 30s.
Two brothers meet again and are forced to fight a duel in a definitive game of chess.
Mikel works in his father’s company. When the firm decides to sell up and lay off the workforce, Mikel tries to take a stand in favour of his co-workers. His intentions are good, but the workers decide to conceal their sabotage plan from him.
Mario, a scientist conducting experiments at an advanced food research center alongside his colleague Karla, turns to his boss Juana when the new environmental policies for employees become unbearable.
This short film tries to highlight those simple pleasures that are peculiar to each person, but which to a large extent, coincide. Situations and acts that go unnoticed, those that one does not put on the list when telling another person what they have done to their advantage that day. Things that are exhausted in themselves and that do not lead to great arguments when one reflects on them, on why they are pleasurable, but which nevertheless seem to hide some wisdom, something profound that is only revealed in their mere execution.
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.
Farah, an Iranian woman is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people's memories in form of Super 8 and 8mm films and records and archives her own, to create an alternative history of Iran.
The discovery of some unpublished recordings leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic band Itoiz, to ponder the dissolution of the band at the height of their success, after having adopted a more accessible pop style which he now disowns. Juan Carlos begins a cathartic journey to the essence of the band, reliving their beginnings in the 70s as a progressive rock group in Mutriku, in an attempt to reconcile with the past.
After his death, Fernando Ruiz Vergara left dozens of film sketches that he was never able to make. The Andalusian filmmaker had only directed one documentary, Rocío, heartbreaking and fascinating, cursed after its judicial censorship in the early years of democracy in Spain. Since then, his projects have remained latent in imagination and desire. In this film, we fabulate with those dreamed projects to bring them to the cinema from the present, as a gesture of resistance.
Marta is a twelve-year-old girl who suffers bullying at school. It seems that she is going to celebrate her birthday until someone very special pops up to prevent her from falling apart: her Fairy Godmother. The fairy godmother's strategy is to invite Marta to meet her future selves so that she sees that her current worries will be solved. But each of the Martas bring their own worries from the future. The fairy godmother will have to use her wits to cheer up the girl's birthday so that, all together, they discover the importance of always having hope.
Matixa, 22, lives with her parents. Her bedroom and her stability are in disarray: the situation is explosive. Helped by her friend Leire, she looks for support outside the family. Convinced that cutting ties with her mother will make her freer, she decides to leave home.
If the right place and time is chosen, a bag of stew can become a terrorist threat.
As every summer, tomato day arrives. Nella and her family reunite to celebrate the family tradition at their summer holiday home in Italy.
Ane and Andrea have sex and an enormous thirst and, while outside life continues, they want to go on, they don't want to stop until they are together once and for all. They kiss and screw to the limits of their energy, until outside care has to come to the rescue.
An unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other, offering an unprecedented look at right—wing activists as they search for purpose and power—with dire consequences.
Mikel, a married man, a pharmacist in a small town on the Basque coast, and a leftist militant, will see his life practically conditioned by his homosexuality. He will take time to accept this, and somehow, it will lead him inexorably to a tragic end.
