Maider Oleaga

Maider Oleaga

Birth : 1976-03-23, Bilbo, Bizkaia, Euskal Herria

History

Maider Oleaga is a Basque filmmaker. She has written and directed the documentaries 'Muga deitzen da pausoa' (2018), 'Iragan gunea Berlin' (2016), 'Esperanza' (2012) and 'Amaren ideia' (2010), as well as several fiction shorts.

Profile

Maider Oleaga

Movies

Thirst
Executive Producer
Izaro and Clara, two teenagers of 17, work as supervisors at the summer camps. On a hot day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, full of desire but stunned, is barely able to handle what has happened, but she is ready to follow Clara wherever she wants to take her.
Thirst
Screenplay
Izaro and Clara, two teenagers of 17, work as supervisors at the summer camps. On a hot day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, full of desire but stunned, is barely able to handle what has happened, but she is ready to follow Clara wherever she wants to take her.
Thirst
Director
Izaro and Clara, two teenagers of 17, work as supervisors at the summer camps. On a hot day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, full of desire but stunned, is barely able to handle what has happened, but she is ready to follow Clara wherever she wants to take her.
Kinka
Idea
Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Kinka
Director
Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Kuartk Valley
Screenplay
Late 2005 in Kuartango, a remote valley in the province of Araba (Basque Country). Two men pledge to make an old dream come true: to shoot a western. With neither money nor technical crew, they convince their community to play some of the characters in the film.
Kuartk Valley
Director
Late 2005 in Kuartango, a remote valley in the province of Araba (Basque Country). Two men pledge to make an old dream come true: to shoot a western. With neither money nor technical crew, they convince their community to play some of the characters in the film.
A Portrait of N. B.
Self - Narrator (voice)
Through his own photographs, the Basque artist Néstor Basterretxea (1924-2014) is portrayed by the art critic and exhibition curator Peio Aguirre, a great connoisseur of his work and personal archives.
Stepping Into the Boundary
Writer
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…
Stepping Into the Boundary
Editor
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…
Stepping Into the Boundary
Executive Producer
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…
Stepping Into the Boundary
Director
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…
Stepping Into the Boundary
Herself
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…
Gure oroitzapenak
Director
The countenance of Joseba Sarrionandia is multi-faceted, not only for having dabbled in all literary forms of expression, but for having been capable of creating his own imagery, composed of endless worlds. Thus, several of the elements appearing in the literary world will undoubtedly appear here: the sea, the port, childhood, trains, uprooting, war, destruction, love, drifting, pain, fantasy, mystery, initiation, torture...
Verabredung
Writer
Verabredung
Director
Iragan gunea Berlin
Editor
'Iragan gunea Berlin' follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another life somewhere else, trying to ascertain where to go.
Iragan gunea Berlin
Screenplay
'Iragan gunea Berlin' follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another life somewhere else, trying to ascertain where to go.
Iragan gunea Berlin
Director
'Iragan gunea Berlin' follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another life somewhere else, trying to ascertain where to go.
Esperanza
Screenplay
A day in the life of Esperanza, a Quechua girl who lives in the remote mountains of southwestern Bolivia.
Esperanza
Editor
A day in the life of Esperanza, a Quechua girl who lives in the remote mountains of southwestern Bolivia.
Esperanza
Director
A day in the life of Esperanza, a Quechua girl who lives in the remote mountains of southwestern Bolivia.
Vacant Spaces
Screenplay
Two women live awaiting the return of their husbands from across the border, where they went seeking fortune. During their long wait, each one tries to find a way to deal with the absence.
Vacant Spaces
Director
Two women live awaiting the return of their husbands from across the border, where they went seeking fortune. During their long wait, each one tries to find a way to deal with the absence.
Mum's Idea
Editor
Three elders return to their homeland seventy years after being forced to leave it because of the Spanish Civil War.
Mum's Idea
Screenplay
Three elders return to their homeland seventy years after being forced to leave it because of the Spanish Civil War.
Mum's Idea
Director
Three elders return to their homeland seventy years after being forced to leave it because of the Spanish Civil War.
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
Self - Interviewer
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.