Javier Agirre Erauso

The first step is taken inward and in silence.

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.

Quando um esqueleto surge misteriosamente numa pequena aldeia basca, uma série de estranhos acontecimentos passa a aterrorizar os habitantes do lugar.

País Basco, 1609. Para adiar sua execução, um grupo de mulheres acusadas de bruxaria se oferece para realizar um Sabbath para o inquisidor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.

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.

Um suicídio em massa envolvendo membros de um culto tem lugar nas Ilhas Canárias. A irmã mais nova de Gabriel, Cordelia, que ele não vê há anos, foi uma dos seguidores do culto. Gabriel decide viajar para lá e descobrir o que aconteceu.

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.

Ane (Nagore Aranburu) é uma mulher em crise, descontente com o marido. Um dia, ela recebe flores em sua casa, sem conhecer o autor do gesto. Aos poucos, começa a receber ramalhetes com frequência, nutrindo um afeto cada vez maior pelo correspondente anônimo. No entanto, uma tragédia envolvendo um colega de trabalho força Ane a também comprar flores, para honrar o falecido. Enquanto enfrenta o luto, ela conhece duas outras mulheres, Tere e Lourdes, respectivamente mãe e esposa do colega morto.

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.