The Arditurri mines closed in 1984. Nineteen years later, those who enter them have no idea that true terror awaits inside.
Maite, Unai and Merche are Alicia's bookbinding students. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue sheets to extend the life of books. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its variations.
Bicycle Face is an audiovisual essay reflecting on the relationship between women and bicycles from a contemporary perspective. Through film fragments, archives, texts, fiction, and sounds, it creates a collage that celebrates women’s freedom, struggle, and resilience. It stems from a 19th-century event, when a fictional disease was invented to discourage women from riding bicycles.
When her father is involved in a scandal he doesn't want to talk about, Izaro tries to protect her little sister by keeping her out of it.
A poetic and experimental essay on the idea of returning to live in the countryside. Filmed in Super8 and through camera editing, this project pays special attention to the smallest details, which often go unnoticed, and tries to make the return home more pleasant. Through animation and text, questions are raised about what it means to be human; the city tends to destroy the animals that we are.
Aurora, Dessi, and Samara, three Roma women, head to the centre of Bilbao to buy a birthday present for their niece Sarai.
A courageous film director, an “enfant terrible” in his early days, who fought against censorship and constantly pushed the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicling the darkest side of Spain’s Transition, would fall into the depths of drug addiction. For more than a decade he would be forgotten, and at times even rejected, but he managed to emerge from ostracism to return to filmmaking, the addiction he was never able to quit.
Joxepi, eldest daughter of the Iparragirre farmhouse, has to carry out her father's job after falling ill: transporting a heavy package across the border with France. The night is dark and not as smugglers often say, for her the police are not the worst thing that the forest hides...
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.
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.
Nora, a non-binary person living in Barcelona, reflects on them gender identity by connecting images of her childhood recorded by her mother with images that they have recorded on the streets of the city.
Next to La Cumbre palace there are two bus stops with the same name. From one you can see the other, and from both you can see the entrance to the palace. The building, impassive, is sheltered within its walls while everyday life goes on.
‘It is said that very soon, if God does not intervene, we women will have to go to war’ is the first verse of an old song that haunts Inés when she hears it in the voice of her grandmother Esperanza. A search full of women in whom Inés recognises her present.
Two friends chat about life on the shore of the sea.
Memory is fragile, and mine perhaps even more so. I make notes or create clues that allow me not to forget, but at the same time help me cross the threshold of death. My seven-year-old daughter Iune has battled rhabdomyosarcoma. To find healing from the experience, I created a four-part ritual in four directions. A journey back home to Mexico. A journey that has been abstract and confusing, yet filled with symbols and meaning. This expanded cinema experience is built from the director’s random, yet sometimes methodical and systematic notes.
Two transgressive journalists decide to transform a hundred-year-old wedding dress atelier into the first feminist culture center in the city. What if they wanted the entire work to be done only by women?
It’s the beginning of summer, and Ane is turning 30. After blowing out the candles with her family around the table, Ane finds out that her father did not die of natural causes as her mother Carmen had told her when she was a child. This revelation changes Ane’s life. At the end of the summer, Carmen tries to reconcile with her daughter by spending the day together at the swamp.
NATURA FUGIT, an animated short constructed frame by frame from nearly 3,000 large-format drawings by artist Jesus Mari Lazkano over a period of four years.
Based on the painting by C. D. Friedrich in 1824, which depicts the Mer de Glace in the Alps, seized by the Nazis and disappeared. Standing on the glacier, we experience a time travel that dramatizes the progressive humanization of the mountains, as well as the indisputable reflection of climate change, global warming, and the disappearance of glaciers.
Traditionally, women's bodies have been the object of regulation from different spheres, becoming regulated and disciplined bodies in order to fit into a specific statute, woman, in singular.
Joseba Lekuona, a stone artist, sculpts exclusive pieces of art only within the reach of a few. Simeón Hidalgo, a retired teacher with a passion for rural Romanesque art, barely maintains the Petrus museum, a tiny and exciting cultural project in the middle of nowhere. Elsa Plano, mayoress of the area, has made the survival of the Izagaondoa valley, in Navarre, her crusade, regardless of political parties. The paths of Joseba, Simeón and Elsa come together, paths in which, each in their own way, they make everyday life a form of resistance.
Sensei tells the story of a coach, Aritza Saratxaga, and her students. The generations that have passed through her school have left a legacy of surfers unique in the history of surfing in the Basque Country. A coach with a unique character who works hard to raise his students to the top of the competition. A unique vision in which you will see reflected the different situations that surfers and coaches go through.
This is a mockumentary inspired by the real-life kidnapping of the “Sireno de Getxo” for protest purposes, which constructs a fictional story: ten years later, this same group of activists kidnaps Marijaia, the patron saint of the Bilbao festivities, to draw attention to climate change. Through fictional interviews with neighbors and witnesses to the kidnapping, it humorously shows how a rumor can become news and how it is possible to construct a collective narrative through a hoax.
This documentary attempts to reflect the role played by Pello Rubio a person living in a Basque farmhouse who, in 1999, decided to unite two politically opposed worlds: Paco Egea of the PSE (Basque Socialist Party) and Arnaldo Otegi of the Basque Nationalist Left. It took nearly six years of silent conversations that bore fruit with the end of ETA. Pello Rubio's role was key to bringing this entire process to fruition. This documentary captures his experiences, his fears, and his work promoting dialogue.
Three kids are looking for something to do on the outskirts of the city. One of them finds a dying animal. The three boys engage in a discussion about what to do with it that will determine their moral judgement.
Claudia works. Maider reads. Claudia cooks and Maider keeps reading. Who takes care of those who make movies?
Ibai, a young consultant, is tasked with securing the ecological approval for the construction of a new Guggenheim museum in Basque Country's only biosphere reserve: Urdaibai.
Behind the orchard that surrounds the squatted neighborhood of Errekaleor, the constructions of tall and new buildings of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz grow.
While its inhabitants resist the threats of eviction creating a collaborative network, other species grow in the orchard and begin to dialogue with the community.
VIENTO is a visual story in super-8 where migrants remember and live the Andean wind from their memory. The two migrant directors collect seven testimonies and create a common story about the memory of the wind as a sensation, sound, smell, taste, image. The wind as a subject of movement, as a companion of migration, as that interstice of nostalgia where the mourning of migrating and the joy of moving meet.
In the 1960s (Basque Country), Gartzia, Miren, and their baby are barely getting by in an isolated farmhouse. In a desperate attempt to escape poverty, Gartzia buys a fighting bull, but the plan backfires when the animal becomes uncontrollable. Tension builds until one day, the baby disappears.
Cristina isn't well, but not because of the imbalance her husband claims. She's devastated because she has discovered a terrible family secret. Amid all the pain, Cristina gathers the strength to bravely confront the true cyclops who has destroyed their lives.
