THE TRUCE

Reyes and Salgado, two young men who fought on opposing sides in Spain, must now share suffering and hope in a Soviet gulag during the Second World War. Living together will force them to join forces and face the cold, hunger and horror that lurks behind the barbed wire. They will have to strip away their ideologies to discover the person hidden beneath each uniform.

QUEEN OF COAL

Inspired by true events, “MISS CARBÓN” is a story of resilience about passion and dreams that know no gender. Carlita became the first woman miner in a town where women were forbidden from entering the main source of the region’s livelihood: the coal mine. A superstition held that women were a threat of collapse, and mining work was reserved for men. Carlita, as a trans woman, managed to enter the mine, breaking the system from within and sparking the flame of a revolution.

LOS TIGRES

Antonio is the Tiger, an unbeatable diver who risks his life on every dive. Estrella, his sister, assists him on the boat where they work. After an accident, the future looks bleak. Everything could change when he comes across a stash of cocaine.

SUNDAYS

‘Sundays’ tells the story of Ainara (Blanca Soroa), an idealistic and brilliant 17-year-old who has to decide which university degree she will study. Or, at least, that is what her family expects her to do. However, the young woman says that she feels closer and closer to God and that she is thinking of becoming a cloistered nun. The news comes as a surprise to the whole family, causing an abyss and a trial by fire for everyone.

Variations

Alicia teaches book binding to students Maite, Unai and Merche. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue the pages to give the books a longer life. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its different variations.

HOMBRE BALA. A documentary film about Mikel Erentxun

Mikel Erentxun’s 40-year musical career, his 60 years of age, and his 25-year relationship with his partner serve as an excuse to tell the life and story of one of the most influential artists on the national music scene. Moving between the artist’s professional path and his personal life is part of the essence of this film. Embracing his fear of death and, above all, of the passage of time leads Mikel to make important decisions in his life.

MOLD

After a terrible day, Arnau discovers a patch of mould in the bathroom. Obsessed with removing it, he channels his anxiety into it, spiralling into paranoia. Unable to distinguish reality, he ends up sacrificing Cristina.

AND NOW WHAT?

Traditionally, women's bodies have been the object of regulation from different spheres, becoming regulated and disciplined bodies in order to fit into a specific statute, woman, in the singular.

ZERU AHOAK

Nerea García is going through a rough patch and lives in seclusion in her home in Bilbao. It’s been four years since she was expelled from the police. The discovery of a woman's body, murdered as part of some kind of ritual, leads her former boss to ask for her help with the investigation. What Nerea doesn't suspect is that the ghosts of her past and present will force her to descend into the underworld of the city, where nothing and no one are what they seem.

The shadow of the ombú

Born in 1857 into a humble family of bertsolaris in Zizurkil (Gipuzkoa, Spain), Pello Mari Otaño has left an important legacy, both in the world of “bertsolarismo” and in popular poetry. His life was marked by emigration to the diaspora, melancholy, and a constant search for identity. At the end of the 19th century, fleeing the conflicts and instability that ravaged the Basque Country, he decided to emigrate to Argentina, a common destination for many Basques seeking a new beginning. He herded cattle with the gauchos, worked at many trades, and read popular poets such as Rufo Tolosa and José Hernández. In Buenos Aires, he began teaching Basque language at the Laurak Bat Basque Center and wrote the libretto for a couple of operas. Otaño felt Argentinean in Europe and Basque in the Pampas. Melancholic under the shade of the ombú, a tree of the pampas, Otaño found inspiration by transforming this tree into a symbol of the emigrant's nostalgia, alleviating the longing of generations of Basque emigrants.