Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa

An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of fisherman, shepherds and farmers and their relationship with music. The film also describes Basque ancestral instruments, with special emphasis on the origin and history of ‘bertsolarism’ (Basque verse singing) as a form of oral communication.

'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.

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.

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.

Olairon: Las entrañas de Bilbao

The discovery of a series of unreleased tapes leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic group Itoiz, to reflect on the dissolution of the band at its peak, after a clear change of style towards pop that he still denies today. Juan Carlos will thus begin a cathartic journey to the essence of the group, reliving the beginnings of the band as a progressive rock group in Mutriku in the 70's, which will serve him to reconcile with the past.

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.

Ninety minutes in the Cathedral worth to live a historic moment. The temple quintessential Spanish football said goodbye in July 2013 to make way for the new stadium of the Athletic Club of Bilbao, but the essence, the color, the claw and the history of San Mames remain in the memories of their members, their supporters, of whom feel inside Atletico colors and those players who played on their turf to the sound of aupas, irrintzis, eups and alirones of the athleticzale fans. Documentary directed by journalist Unai Larrea to honor the centenary of the legendary stadium Bilbao, blend the images of the parties lived in the Cathedral interviews with over 80 people involved in the club's history, Bilbao and stage, as players the club itself Julen Guerrero, Joseba Etxeberria, 'Txopo' Iribar, Andoni Zubizarreta or Red Txetxu, Iker Casillas, Xavi Hernandez, Johann Cruyff or Juanlu-last player to score in San Mames, and coaches like Jorge Valdano, Vicente del Bosque and Luis Fernandez.

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…

Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.

Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.

The troubles of learning Basque in adults.

A memory to the victims and a tribute to the survivors of one of the most tragic episodes of the Spanish Civil War: the bombings suffered by the population of Gernika.

Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).

Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.

The situation of the Basque language in Navarra.

Interview and tribute to Jose Migel Barandiaran, researcher on Basque culture.

Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country.

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?