Alazne Ameztoy

On October 4th, 2007 Arantza, the director of the film, was detained and taken to prison. She remembers a few things about those days: endlessly walking around the prison exercise yard, swimming competitions, Rasha's prison journey... After 918 nights locked up, Arantza is set free. From then onwards, she recorded her memories and doubts, which are heard throughout the documentary as a kind of fragmented memoir.

Maixabel Lasa perdeu seu marido, Juan María Jaúregui, assassinado pelo ETA em 2000. Onze anos depois, recebe um pedido inusitado: um dos assassinos pediu para se encontrar com ela na Cadeia de Nanclares de la Oca / Álava, no qual cumpre pena por ter rompido os laços com a quadrilha terrorista. Apesar das dúvidas e da dor imensa, Maixabel concorda em se encontrar cara a cara com pessoas que acabaram a sangue frio com a vida de quem era sua companheira desde os dezesseis anos.

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.

Durante os anos finais da última guerra Carlista, uma jovem garota é resgatada de um orfanato por uma misteriosa mulher que mora no bosque. Machucada e perto da morte, a garota acredita que ela é um anjo que a veio levar pro céu, mas logo descobre que esse estranho ser na verdade lhe deu o dom da vida eterna... ao transformá-la em uma vampira.

The story of the transformation of traditional cooking into nouvelle cuisine through 100 years of history at Donostia's Arzak restaurant, run by Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena Arzak.

Entrails, a flock of sheep, one spring. The cooing of doves and songs hummed. Some vultures, bones, flowers and many hands. Hands which feed, milk, stroke, shear, film; hands that kill. Hands which inhabit the doubts and contradictions about using other species.

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.

Espanha, 1936. Higinio e Rosa estão casados á alguns meses quando começa a Guerra Civil. Higinio, temendo ser perseguido pelos rebeldes, decide usar um buraco escavado na sua própria casa como refúgio temporário…

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.

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

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

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.

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...

Suddenly, ducks cross the screen.

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.

'Sarean' is a short documentary about fishing in the Northern Seas.