The music group Akelarre closes a chapter of more than 30 years on stage with a documentary that reviews its origins and the most representative moments of its prolific musical career. Akelarre: marearen kontra is a film that unites the life of the group Akelarre with its fans through their passion for music. This documentary is a recognition of a way of understanding life.
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.
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?
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.
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.
