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Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.
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Is it possible to travel twice to the same memory? The filmmaker built a cabin on an isolated riverbank, just opposite his childhood island, which had disappeared under the water after the construction of a dam. The goal was to go back to that place, which had become invisible. Only the trees of the island where he’d played stood firm in the middle of the water, like the masts of a broken toy boat, so the air was the only space left, the only vestige of the past to be conquered. This film is a diary of a castaway in memories: four months of a Walden experience in a lost paradise with two hens, a small vegetable garden and a clock that stopped forever at 11.36 and 23 seconds.
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Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, 2011. Maider, a filmmaker, moves to the very same flat where pedadogist Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) clandestinely established the first ikastola, a Basque school, under the harsh regime of dictator Francisco Franco. Despite of her pioneering work, developed throughout thirty years, her story is not well known, so Maider, intrigued, begins to research…
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I'm Not From Here
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Amerikanuak
A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick, about struggling in a different country to make a decent living and about being part of a comunity.
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Pelota
A documentary view of the Basque ball-game in which a small hard leather ball is hit against a wall. The film gives an impression of the game itself and of those who play it, not only the star performers (and the myths that surround them), but also those who just play in the streets and alleyways. The film sees the game it its cultural context and conveys the emotions and stories that are peculiar to the Basque country.
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Ikuska 15: Euskaldunberriak
The troubles of learning Basque in adults.
1983
Ikuska 13: Euskal kanta berria
Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.
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Ikuska 10: Kontrasteak
Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.
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Ikuska 9: Euskal artistak
Short film on the art in the Basque Country.
1980
Ikuska 4: Euskal Telebista
Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).
1980
Ikuska 5: Elebistasuna
Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.
1980
Ikuska 7: Barandiaran
Interview and tribute to Jose Migel Barandiaran, researcher on Basque culture.
1980
Ikuska 8: Arabako herrien heriotza
Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country.
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Ikuska 2: Gernika
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Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa
Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao.
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Mother Earth
'Ama Lur' is a documentary, directed by Nestor Basterretxea and Fernando Larruquert, that premiered in San Sebastián in 1968, and it is considered the foundation of Basque cinema.
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