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2023-01-30 / 2023-02-03

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CONTADORES

A group of libertarian militants spend a night in 1978 printing a leaflet. The agreement for the metal industry of the province of Gipuzkoa is about to be signed and they defend the need to continue the struggle. While writing and printing the leaflet, they reflect on personal relationships and speculate on communal living. The next day, in the entrance hall of the factory where they work, they join a workers' meeting and encourage their fellow workers to fight for better conditions. But the growing unionization of the workers' movement has taken away the influence they once had, moving their radical political project into irrelevance.

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CHORDS

The women’s choir to which Rita (90) belongs is in danger of breaking up because they’ve lost the municipal subsidy which allowed them to rent their rehearsal room. Now the choir has to decide whether or not to accept sponsorship by one of the companies causing most pollution in the valley, a sponsorship that would guarantee the choir’s existence.

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FAITH

The Virgin appeared to Sofia. Then she traveled to Lourdes and was cured of something incurable. In another time and place, a group of doctors meet to analyze her case. What happens when science and religion meet?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MALDITA, A LOVE SONG TO SARAJEVO

Neither the weight of arms, nor the envy of those seeking a “pure” world have managed to destroy Sarajevo. Božo Vrećo, the most revolutionary of the Balkan artists, perfectly embodies the soul of the “innocent city” and, with his uninhibited attitude, builds bridges between men and women, between origins and regions. Maldita, a Love song to Sarajevo is a love story between two cities, Sarajevo and Barcelona, which were able to find each other in hard times, never to be parted again.

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LOOP

In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.

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LA CONCHA

Eli is a fun-loving, sexual and rather cheeky woman, but she is also full of doubts and a bit broken. Eli and her baby daughter June spend the afternoon at the beach with her friends, who are almost family. Eli has become a single mother against her will. Having failed miserably in her relationship with her daughter's father and having to leave their home, Eli’s economy is in trouble. A colorful and summery story that portrays a young woman struggling to maintain her joy and dignity as everything around her is falling apart.

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EXCURSIÓN

Two young friends accompany two other friends on their first climb to the mountain, strengthening their bonds of friendship.

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SWIFT

A couple in crisis invites a sleeping beauty to spend the night with them on a sailboat to try to cure their insomnia.

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TULA

Tula is the cleaning lady at a private school for girls. During her workday, the meets the headteacher’s fourteen-year-old daughter in the toilet. The girl is going to tell Tula her secret. Tula will have to decide whether to help her or not.

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TEN MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

Singing rap. Biting your nails. Eat a whole apple with its seeds. The yellow pill. Your golden watch. And act for people. Ten minutes to midnight and it´ll be the last time we see each other.

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SUTAN

Donostia, 1813. At the height of the Spanish War of Independence.  The citizens are trapped in a city destroyed by both sides. Among them, Juana, who to escape from the bombs, the shots, the cries for help and the horror, seeks refuge in the closet of a room. Prisoner of his own innocence and ignorance, she must face his last minutes of life. He must face the last hard moments of life. Two soldiers coming for her will set the limit. But to deal with this situation, she has a companion...

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TITO NAZARE

We travel to one of the most emblematic corners of the surfing world, Nazaré, to meet the basque surfer based there Tito Ortega. Together with his partner Toni Laureano, we get into the filming of part of his surfing season in Nazaré in 2021.

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The puppet

A female puppet appears locked in a room, prostrate on the floor and immobile. After several experiences, ropes are attached to her body and her movements begin to be more and more fluid. Each of the strings is associated with a scene related to an aspect of women's social problems, such as the body, equality or gender.

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THE BIG PARTY

A typical (or not) party. Sex, drugs and rock'n roll.

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OUR YEARS

A group of young researchers enters a film archive and provide a view into its life. It is from that process of work and afier the visit to prehistoric caves that questions arise regarding the function of an archive, the passage of time or the human imprint.

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FROM SKIN TO SKIN

Within lines and shapes, hands touch, feel and experience each other, searching for the limits beyond their skin.

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LIVING KULTUR

Living Kultur is a transmedia project that narrates and shows the living culture within a given territory: Navarre. It seeks to elevate these activities to a beautiful and museum-like form that is accesible to all and that will be, at the same time, a way to isolate and frame the beauty of intangible heritage.

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BREACHES

- You really loved him? - Yes, I stopped loving him recently. (Interferences. Silences. Fissures. Two women talking. A radio-graphy).

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SERENDIPITY

A Basque virologist confines herself to a hi-tech laboratory in search of the coronavirus vaccine. Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery.

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TOWARDS THE MIST

An essay documentary that emerges from my contagion, isolation and release with the the COVID-19 at Quebec, Canadá. The Point of view from my isolation windows filmed in Super8, thoughts, sets and gadgets serve as counterpoint to the distance, uncertainty and yearning.

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ABOVE 592 METRES

When a land is utterly changed, what possibilities for life remain? On the slopes of the Navarre Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land 592 metres above sea level today marks a dividing line in the valley: below that level, water; above it, life goes on.

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Flower Under Water

The view is cloudy. The ground opens up under my feet. Weightlessness guides my steps while the knot in the pit of my stomach cuts off my breath. The murmur around me plugs my ears. Everything becomes liquid, slippery and viscous. I scratch my belly and hold my breath. I couldn't tell anyone. I was alone.

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BI ARNAS

“Bi arnas” is a testimony about torture. It reflects injustice and presents a conversation which has never been heard before. There are two protagonists: a mother, Maria Nieves Diaz, and her tortured daughter,Iratxe Sorzabal. This documentary tells the story of two breaths: on the one hand Iratxe Sorzabal breath; on the other, her mother`s, Mari Nieves Diaz. Both, each on their own way, have been suffocated by torture.

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THE DANUBE RIVERS

A writer travels along the Danube in search of the river's origin. It is said that its waters originate from a badly closed tap in a house. On the way he meets a young fugitive who escapes from his house by descending the river. Does the young fugitive come from the source of the Danube? What story does the young fugitive hide? A film loosely inspired by Claudio Magris' Danube tales.

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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.

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THE MARISCO

The Marisco are the last witnesses of a time in which the Civil Guards that wouldn't let being bribed made bullets whistle in this harsh valley of Navarre in the French frontier. Almost every family that lived there were worked as smugglers and the Marisko where the bosses. Today, they are just ranchers and Juan and Carmen are celebrating their diamond wedding.

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IN A NEARBY FIELD

A man, a woman and their young daughter live together in an apartment in the Basque Country. Domestic chores and everyday gestures are superimposed onto lush, green landscapes. The filmmakers and their stand-ins reinterpret fragments of a diary. Music fills the house while children's drawings come to life. Combining quiet observation and moments of fantasy, 'In a Nearby Field' is a film about support, heredity and the invisible little labors which sustain us.

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ABOUT SECOND SEX, COLLAGE

Based on some of the reflections appeared in "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir, this audiovisual collage plays with images of current events with testimonies of different feminist women.

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INVISIBLE SCREAM

Katia is a young single woman with visual impairment who combines her work as a lawyer in the Unit for Access to Justice and Gender of the Judicial Branch of Panama, with the education of her two children. Her heartbreaking testimony in a peculiar women's center will cause a brutal catharsis among them. A story of pain but full of hope.

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PEIO AND HIS WORLD

Peio (15), is the new promise of Basque skateboarding. The young man from Sopela has been practicing the sport for years, leaving everyone speechless at national and state level. A journey through his most recent history and his most memorable moments in the skate parks that are his second home: Mungia, Leioa, Sopela… Spectacular images of Peio on a board and four wheels.

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LONDON REFLECTS

Questions with no answers. How do you really see me? Do you see who I am? Or do you see a reflection of who you want me to be? It’s the city itself who speaks. Everyone of us see and feel his place in a different manner. A delightful poem in first person walk with us in this fascinating thoughtful trip.

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EL BAILE DE LOS INFANTES

In Pamplona, during all year, the arrival of the summer is expected, and with it comes the Running of the Bulls of San Fermin. The smallest ones dream to run when they become grown-ups

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LAS PELOTARIS

In September 2014 Zinacantepec Mexico City hosted the World Basque Pelota Championships . Gold at a world title is the maximum that can suck a woman in this sport. It is the roof of pelota . No professional women , can not earn a living from the pediment , as other men do . But until this year, the best athlete on the pediment was a woman.

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SECOND LINE

The Broken Brothers Brass Band visits the Andrés Muñoz Garde public special education school in Pamplona. And through their interaction with the workers, the volunteers and even the beneficiaries, the work that is done there is revealed, the universe that is hidden there.

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EKI.LIBRIO

A trip to the Valley of Salazar, in the Navarrese Pyrenees. People united for the love of the earth. A story full of hope. People transformed by an encounter.

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NEITHER SUN NOR SHADE

Nerea is disoriented in the middle of the forest, a man appears behind her and proposes her. After that odd event the real relationship that bonds them will be unveiled and why Nerea is with him.

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CARLOTA

Carlota knows the world of surfing well, she has been in it for several years, but now it’s time to know who is behind the statal surfboard champion. The woman who could be the next reference for future generations tells her experience and her experiences in this short documentary to help those who come after her.

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THE LICENSE

You carry lots of cards in your wallet; when you drive, for the gym, the library… However, when it comes to having a child, the most important decision someone makes in life, no card or accreditation is needed. This leads us to the following question, who hasn't asked himself, why is there not such a thing like a paternity card?

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