Javier Agirre Erauso

The first step is taken inward and in silence.

In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.

The sculptor Cristina Iglesias has made what is probably the most important work in her career to date, Hondalea. Her intervention in the Lighthouse on San Sebastian's Santa Clara Island. Taking her inspiration from the island's wild nature and the peculiar geology of the Basque coast, the sculpture by Cristina Iglesias transforms the interior of the lighthouse, now restored and converted into a vertiginous sculptural space. The cast-metal geological strata and the water flowing to the rhythm of the waves and the tides will offer the visitor a profound experience. This film looks at the process of building the work.

가리스멘디 농가에서 묻혀있던 해골이 발견된다. 부부는 아들 네스토르를 불러 이 사실을 경찰에 신고하지만, 경찰이 도착했을 때는 이미 해골이 감쪽같이 사라진 후다. 바스크 지방의 한 농가를 배경으로 전개되는 독특한 스릴러에서 유골의 발견은 한 가족의 오래된 상처와 어두운 비밀을 끄집어낸다. 네스토르의 쌍둥이 형제 에이토르가 오래전 비극적인 사고로 죽었다는 사실이다. 아버지는 지금 아무것도 하지 않으면 그들이 다음 희생자가 될 거라고 아들을 설득한다.

200년 전, 저주에 걸려 봉인된 마녀신 아슈라. 아슈라의 영혼이 깨어나면, 마녀들은 강력한 힘을 얻을 수 있다. 아슈라를 깨우는 의식을 치르던 중 마녀 한 명이 죽자 남은 마녀들은 빈자리를 채우기 위해 새로운 인물을 찾아 나서는데...

During lockdown, Telmo Esnal recovered a long-forgotten project: 'UR', a tale by Pablo Azkue taking a deep look at the conscience and the sea. 'Urtzen' is a special cinematic essay, a curious collage which, recycling and reusing dialogues, images and music, reflects on existence.

스페인에서 최초로 미쉐린 별을 획득한 셰프 후안 마리 아르작과 그의 레스토랑 이야기. 후안 마리 아르작이 어머니에게 조리 학교에 가고 싶다고 말했을 때, 어머니는 그에게 더 나은 미래가 있는 직업을 선택하라고 설득했다. 60년이 지난 지금, 미식에 대한 사회적 위상은 엄청나게 달라졌다. 오늘날 많은 부모들은 자신의 아이들이 훌륭한 요리사가 되기를 원한다. 산 세바스티안의 알토 데 미라크루즈에 위치한 가족식당 아르작은 세계 최고의 레스토랑 중 하나이며, 현재 세대 교체가 이루어지는 중이다. 딸 엘레나 아르작이 레스토랑을 맡아 운영하고 있으며 후안 마리는 은퇴를 준비하고 있다. 전통 요리가 새로운 요리로 변모하는 과정을 되돌아보고, 삶의 전반을 살펴봐야 할 때가 왔다.

After a period of time without seeing his mother, Anjel Mari decides to bite the bullet and go and visit her at the nursing home to which she has been admitted. He doesn’t like seeing how his mother has disappeared under the skin of a senile old woman who does not recognise her own children.

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

When the rain ends, life sprouts from the earth. A fruit grows and becomes the apple that gives life to the cider. Then comes the time of harvest, toasting and celebrating love. A story about the cycle of life and death, of the struggle for survival. Where the passage of time is marked by the course of nature, music and dance.

Khalil is a young man torn from his roots who lives on the edge of town, where the industrial estates merge into the river and the marshes. Khalil gets by as best he can and spends his time with an old poacher, who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he hasn't spoken to in years. On the banks of the marshes, the tides mark the time of love and heartbreak, of friendship and revenge.

During a football training, two friends celebrate a goal effusively, which causes an unexpected reaction in one of them.

19세기 스페인, 카를로스 전쟁이 벌어지자 평범한 농부였던 마르틴과 호아킴 형제는 징집당할 위기에 놓인다. 결국 형 마르틴만 전쟁에 참여했다가 겨우 살아 돌아오는데, 그 사이 동생 호아킴의 키가 놀랄 정도로 자란다.

Two-player tennis are about to have an intense match. The game ends abruptly in the first point.

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.

A mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.

Pushed by the fear of losing her friends, Silvia has invited them to a sleepover. But things can be complicated when your home is not exactly what your friends may call a home...

A sinister tale of ships and shipwrecks, love and cinema, ghosts and vampires. Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, his wife Florence Balcombe and her relationship with Oscar Wilde. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and the lurking shadow of Count Orlok, the undead, the nosferatu. A mysterious cruise ship, a profaned tomb, an exciting adventure.

Years after their break-up, Tanya and Josean meet again at a conference on renewable energy. She has a lot to tell him...

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.

폐경 진단을 받고 낙심한 ‘아네’의 앞으로 어느 날 정체불명의 꽃다발이 배달된다. 남편의 깜짝 선물을 기대한 그녀의 예상과는 달리 보낸 사람의 정체는 밝혀지지 않은 채, 꽃다발이 매주 배달되기 시작한다. ‘아네’는 어느새 꽃다발을 익숙하게 받아 들고, 평범했던 그녀의 삶은 예기지 못한 방향으로 흘러가는데…

Often, when Miren goes to order her coffee, so­meone jumps the queue. But the day she reali­ses that a blouse has been stolen from her shop she decides to put her foot down.

Arid soil, sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayers bring the rain.

Moritats are old folk songs about crimes and are typical of Central Europe. Zela Trovke is a moritat from Slovakia which the Holland Baroque Society has recovered to include in its Barbaric Beauty programme. Maite Larburu, the orchestra’s violinist, unveils the song's hidden secrets.

Mentxu and Lourdes Arrieta cannot speak. They cannot control their muscles. Two sisters born with a congenital disorder, labeled "retarded" or "lost" even by those who loved them, with no way to communicate, created a unique language for themselves.

Cholera: Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.

Gorka has long postponed again and again the answer to the pressing questions that his son Aitor asks about his past. Gorka, a member of ETA political-military until its dissolution in the early eighties, ends joining the guerrillas in Central America. A life experience shared with Maddalen, a nurse and committed Christian, with José, an indigenous guerrilla member, and Andrés a former military, head of the insurrection. An experience that will transform them all.

Every day, at the same time, Antonio and Santi have a strange conversation. Three women are witness to it.

The employee comes to the factory every day. He is the only person who is qualified to do his particular job. It is precise, mundane, and repetitive work. Every morning he goes through the same drill, starting up each machine. Today, though, he has made a decision...

Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the finger as the net went out.

At the death of his father, Paulo, the youngest son, will have to be in charge of his mentally handicapped brother Daniel. Based on the novel by Bernardo Atxaga.

The misfortunes of a couple who have to take care of the wife’s elderly mother.

In the outskirts of Caracas, in Petare, one of most violents hoods in South America, a woman teaches with "el método Julio" writing and reading.

Short film in homage to José Luis Rebordinos and Olaciregui Lucia, who had left the direction of the Fantasy Film Horror of San Sebastian, after 21 years in charge

Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter's ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to be Maite, her best friend when teenagers. They have not seen each other for more than 50 years. The hospital visits will show that the close relationship they had when teenagers is still alive. Their relationship was very special fifty years ago but nowadays the same feelings flourish. Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire?

The documentary shows the work of Mirentxu Egiguren and her colaborators in the Civic house known as 'La casa del Nazareno'.

Sent to work, sent to earn a living. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth.

Suddenly, ducks cross the screen.

An ordinary Saturday in the South of California. Adam, a lower middle class North-American man, sees off his wife and children to carry out his weekly task.

There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che Guevara or saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver, the leader of the Black Panthers. There is only one who has done all that, and also brought to its knees the most powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without missing a single day of work in his construction job. He is Lucio Urtubia, from a tiny village in Navarra in North of Spain. Lucio, 75, now lives in Paris, still raising anarchist hell.

The same day that the Etxebeste Family are leaving for their holidays, they lost all their money. They have to keep up appearances in front of the residents, so they will hide them selves at home. During their stay at home the Etxebestes will throw each other miserys and lies but later they will enjoy the best holidays in their life.

A collection of 7 shorts that explores the relationships between gay men and straight men. Includes: Coffee Date (2001); In the Name of the Father [Em Nome do Pai] (2002); Misguided Piss (2002); Popcorn & Coke (2004); Space 2 [Espacio 2] (2001); Truth or Dare [Verdade ou Consequência] (2002); Uninhibited (2004).

The Dragon House portrays the confrontation between tradition and modernity which the Kingdom of Bhutan is currently experiencing. This is done by means of two Bhutanese characters: a young Buddhist monk, heir to the local tradition, and the first disc jockey to dare to play House and Techno music in the small Himalayan kingdom.

A woman entrusts her belongings to a stranger while she goes into the sea to take a swim. But when she comes out again, the stranger has disappeared, taking everything with him, including the keys to her house.