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THE LAST ONE
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.
View +HUNT
Prequel to the folk tale "Mateo Txistu". Basque Country, end of the 19th century. In a small village, the parish priest Mateo disappears without a trace. Quickly, rumors and hearsay begin among the villagers, who attribute the disappearance of the parish priest to a strange paranormal event. In response, the Archbishopric sends two emissaries: the young Eneko (as Mateo's temporary substitute), and the veteran Father Manuel (obsessed with learning the truth about the disappearance).
View +THE ROTARY PRESS
‘The rotary press' is a 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.
View +HORIZONTAL
Billie, a seven year old child, 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.
View +MADWOMAN IN THE ATTIC
A cinematic journey through female characters and the representation of madness. How do you play a madwoman? Who says how do you play a madwoman?
View +ITOIZ SUMMER SESSIONS
The discovery of some unpublished recordings leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic group ITOIZ, to ponder the dissolution of the band at the height of their success, after having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.
View +Enarak
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 strange in the society of the time and, to make matters worse, only in Basque.After hundreds of concerts, in 1971, they mysteriously disappeared. 50 years later, the singer's son, Beñat, sets out in the footsteps of the group, immersing himself in a film labyrinth that mixes ornithology, collage and eccentric research.
View +THAT WORLD THAT GIVES YOU NOTHING
Between Bilbao and Havana, Bernardo looks for Esperanza. Cristina and her boyfriend try to make ends meet without any problems. About physical and emotional uprooting, waiting for better moments and certain unexpected situations of the class struggle.
View +THIS IS NOT HOLLYWOOD
From her maturity, Jone, daughter of Josemi the screenwriter, approaches her father and her uncles through their filmography and the people who accompanied them. A cinematic journey to know, understand, and accept the lights and shadows of the Ibarretxe brothers.
View +When it comes (it will have your eyes)
A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best 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?
View +GOODBYE KEPLER
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.
View +These aren't the hours
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.
View +Empty boxes
Mikel writes a last poem to his mother. Elixabet prepares her suitcase for one last trip with José. Ainhoa keeps the frame without photos in a box. Three stories united by grief that try to complete each other.
View +FOR THE PLANET
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.
View +A PLEASURE
Plazer bat 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.
View +Pomo d'oro
As every summer, tomato day arrives. Nella and her family reunite to celebrate the family tradition at their summer holiday home in Italy.
View +THE THIRD LANDSCAPE
The fungus Microsphaerella dearnessi, which affects the insignis pine variety, has expanded across the landscape of the Basque Country even infecting the painted forest of Oma, the artwork of the Basque artist Agustin Ibarrola.
View +Replica
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?
View +TASIO
Tasio works as a charcoal burner since he was 14 years old, in a small village in Navarre. Life changes, but mountains stand always there: abrupt and beautiful. Mountains are his playground during childhood, but they are also the place in which he finds food for his family. This is a period of rural exodus, but, Tasio prefers the solitude in his mountains to safeguard his freedom.
View +HERE LIVES LOVE
Matixa, a 22-year-old, lives in his parents' house. With the room and her lifes stability upside down, she explodes. He seeks refuge outside his family in her friend Leire, that will try to help her. Determined to make herself free, she choses to leave home.
View +PRIORITIES
Ane and Andrea are in their bedroom having sex. Life goes on outside, but they have lost track of time: they talk, laugh, fuck, and sweat. It’s hot and they’re thirsty. Although they sometimes think they are thirsty, they want to seize their moment together and hug each other again, until their bodies can’t take it anymore and help arrives from outside to save them.
View +THE FAIRY GODMOTHER
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.
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