BLUE FILES

Ander believes that, like many others, what his father suffered in prison was torture. While he resolves his suspicions, he immerses himself in the world of forensic doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and lawyers who have elaborated the "Research project on torture and ill-treatment in the Basque Country between 1960-2014". Along them, he delves into concepts such as psychological torture or the Istanbul Protocol, giving us an insight into the reality of torture in the global north.

If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie

After living a clandestine love story for 8 years with her Hindu partner, circumstances force Muslim artist Dorine to return to her family in another state of India. She is forced to adapt again to an iron discipline governed by her father, a fervent believer in Islam. Locked in her room, she draws in profound silence, each line reflects a feeling, be it light or darkness. Her paintings speak for her, they reflect her deep sensitivity, her deepest conflicts, her strength and her vulnerabilities.

THE RITE OF SPRING

THE RITE OF SPRING is a story about growing up and learning to relate to pleasure and fear, who one truly is and about how the most unexpected encounter can change our life.

Thirst

Izaro and Clara, both 17, work as instructors at a children’s summer camp. On a hot summer’s day, Clara gives her friend Izaro a passionate kiss. Izaro, filled with desire, feels confused as she tries to process what has happened to her and is willing to follow wherever Clara wants to take her.

THIRD NOTEBOOK

An actress and a filmmaker rehearse a film script. The script gathers fragments from the diary that María Dolores González Katarain, Yoyes, wrote during her exile in Mexico between 1980 and 1985, right after she quit ETA, the armed organization she had led for some time. As the script unfolds, glimpses and references to other women gradually emerge amidst Yoyes' words: Ulrike Meinhof, Simone de Beauvoir, Rocío Díazescobar, Alexandra Kollontai, Tina Modotti. Meanwhile, it gets darker outside.

MY GRANDFATHER DEMONS

Rosa leads a life fully devoted to her work. The death of her grandfather triggers a sudden stress attack that makes her question her life choices. Rosa sets out to find the place and memories form her childhood. Besides the people she will establish new ties with, she will meet a group of clay demons modeled by her grandfather, which sometimes seem to come to life to advise, guide or console her, just like her grandfather would have.

KIMA & AMIK

KIMA lives in town, AMIK lives in a farm. KIMA and AMIK are cousins. There’s nothing KIMA loves more than visiting her cousin in the countryside. There’s nothing AMIK loves more than visiting his cousin in town. KIMA is AMIK spelt backwards. And indeed, as their names suggest, most of the time KIMA and AMIK want opposite things. But that doesn’t stop them from always finding a way to play and have fun together.

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.

NORA

Ignoring her grandmother, a girl named Nora wanders into the forest near the family farmhouse where, much to her regret, she is spending the holidays. There she will meet strange characters, whom she will need to return to the world of humans.

ITOIZ_Udako Sesioak

In the late 1970s a guy from Mutriku decided to start a rock band and he called it Itoiz. Ten years later the band was filling stadiums and breaking sales records. It became a beacon of the Basque music scene. After a successful 10-year career, Juan Carlos Pérez decided the adventure was over. Thirty years later, he has not yet managed to leave the shadow of the band which, to the amazement of his fans, he left at the height of its success.