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.
In 1980, the Spanish Basque Battalion group kidnapped and made Jose Miguel Etxeberria disappear. His brother Eneko was 15 then and has been searching for his body for 44 years. A police mercenary has given information that locates the body in an oak grove near the French town of Mont-de-Marsan. Eneko? Could it be true? This documentary raises questions as: How long would you look for the body of a family member? When is the hope lost?
Twelve-year-old Jakes runs through the woods, he is lost. Along his way he will come across Amaia, a 27-year-old who offers him shelter at her place. This unexpected union will lead Jakes to face his fears.
The fungus Microsphaerella dearnessi, which affects the insigne pine variety, has stained the forests of the Basque Country brown, even infecting the painted forest of Oma, the artwork of the Basque artist Agustin Ibarrola. This work belongs to the Land Art movement, which is mainly characterised by its ephemeral nature. Within this movement, artists leave their works on display at the mercy of weather conditions and other elements beyond human control.
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.
Bernardo and Esperanza met in Bilbao in 1978, when both were students at university in the midst of the turbulent political circumstances of the time. They had an on-off relationship—brimming with passionate encounters and inexplicable misunderstandings—until in 2001, during a trip to Havana to visit the aunt and cousin she had never met, the two forever went their different ways.
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.
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.
A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best as it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?
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.
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.
If the right place and time is chosen, a bag of stew can become a terrorist threat.
It´s getting cold. The houses look empty. The wind shakes the trees. The meeting is in the forest. It´s always there.
Elderly Amaia has Alzheimer's and can no longer recognize Nerea, her daughter. From her point of view, reality is distorted and being in a closed space makes the relationship between them unbearable.
Guided by a voice that narrates the journey of a woman through the Kurdish mountains, the images delve from the poetic into the political issues inherent to the Kurdish territory as a result of a warlike past and a turbulent present. The materiality of the Super 8 camera and the beauty of distant landscapes immerse us in an almost dreamlike odyssey in which the dark burden that lies behind the bucolic landscapes is slowly revealed.
Two brothers meet again and are forced to fight a duel in a definitive game of chess.
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.
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.
As every summer, tomato day arrives. Nella and her family reunite to celebrate the family tradition at their summer holiday home in Italy.
This short film talks about bodies that move, walk, swim, advance. Bodies that support other bodies, communicate, organise themselves. Complex movements that inscribe in the bodies the obstacles, the borders, the farewells, the walls, the family, the hopes, the arrival.
The change of place, the journey; as power, as possibility, as future.
Two actors meet at an audition for a film. When both are cast, a relationships starts to bloom through their characters. But our best intentions in fiction, do not always work out in reality. But, does it matter? Or is it more important to try?
Esti returns to Oiartzun after spending six years living in Sweden. Even though she had promised herself not to come back, financial instability and job insecurity force her to return. She realises that the town remains unchanged, and Esti is unwilling to adapt.
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.
The forest is full of spiritual and subconscious experiences, and art is the best vehicle to represent them so they can be understood and embraced. People often believe that remembering is simply looking back, whereas Ibarrola believed just the opposite, that it is marching forward.
