A singer frozen in old black and white photos. Forever young. Encapsulated. Trapped in the frame, just like her voice on her vinyl records. 

Forgetting that the point of view is chosen. Forgetting that, in addition to being a singer, Lurdes Iriondo is also an essential reference in the transmission of Basque culture. She understood that children were the key, and she worked for them.

Animated short film based on the drawings of the artist Jesus Mari Lazkano and showing us the transformation of the Mer de Glace glaciar in Chamonix. The film opens with an introduction narrating the history of the loss of a painting on the subject by Caspar Friedrich dating from 1824, which disappeared during the desperate flight of the Nazis from Berlin in May 1945. It continues with a physical zoom out, a journey to the outside of the galaxy, serving to go back in time to the last glacial period (2 million years ago).

The musical career spanning 40 years and the relationship of 25 years with his partner provide the excuse to look at the life and history of 60-year-old Mikel Erentxun, one of the most influential artists in the national music scene. Delving into the artist's professional background and his personal life is part of the essence of this film. Embracing his fear of death and, above all, of the passing of time, means that Mikel has to make important decisions in his life.

The documentary Arg(h)itzen features the testimonials of 30 people who were subjected to torture in the Sakana region between the years of 1966 and 2011, through a rigorous and dynamic story. Not only does it show what torture is and how it can be recovered from, but it also reveals, through experts, the State structures of impunity. This is the result of an enormous work of collaboration between neighbours to highlight the truth about torture and create the path towards its complete eradication.

Life loses all meaning for Nicolas (Henry Golding) with the loss of his girlfriend Daniela (Beatrice Grannò). One day he is invited to participate in a clinical trial that will enable him able to control his dreams. He agrees with the hope of recovering. Now Nicolás can dream of Daniela every night and resume their relationship, more blissful than ever. Even if it is in his dreams. And running the risk of forever losing himself in them.

A dauntless film director, an enfant terrible in his early days, confrontational with censorship, always pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicler of the darkest corners of the transition, De la Iglesia will fall into the clutches of drug addiction, being forgotten and sometimes repudiated for more than a decade before eventually shaking off the ostracism to make films once again, that habit he could never kick.

Pheasant Island is the world's smallest area of jointly owned land. For half of the year it belongs to the Spanish state, and for the other half to the French. It stands in the middle of the Bidasoa river, a natural border separating the two states. Laida and Sambou, a local couple, are taking a stroll in front of the island. Suddenly they see two people trying to swim across the river to the other side. Days later a body appears during the event to exchange sovereignty of the island. Who is going to take charge?

The documentary Gregorio Ordóñez, el asesinato que despertó la rebelión contra ETA is an exercise of memory recalling the figure of the People's Party councillor and Deputy Mayor of San Sebastián on the 30th year of his assassination. The production looks back at the circumstances of his attack, the context of the Basque Country and San Sebastián in particular in 1995 and the events that followed his murder. 

The finding of a series of unpublished tapes prompts Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic band Itoiz, to think back over their break-up at the height of their fame, following an obvious change of style towards the pop music that he continues to spurn today. Juan Carlos therefore sets out on a cathartic journey into the essence of the group, reliving its early days as a prog-rock group in the Mutriku of the early 70s as he comes to terms with the past.

Bilbao, mid-August. Jone (20) lives with her father and her younger sister Marta. Her father has had to leave his job, unable to continue due to the complications of Parkinson's. Meanwhile the Big Week festivities kick off in Bilbao, during which Jone will fall in love for the first time. During this summer, Jone will alternate between the sensation of immortality she enjoys with Olga, the girl she falls for, and the fear of being left alone because of her father's disease.

In the working class suburbs of Bilbao in the late 80s, a rhythmic gymnastics team gets ready to compete in a championship to take place in Berlin. When the mothers are unable to accompany their daughters, the task falls to the men, who show scarce interest in the trip, or in the sport, or even in their own daughters. This will be a long journey, as the Berlin Wall falls, during which they will discover a new way to be fathers.

The poet and bertsolari (improviser of Basque verse), Pello Mari Otaño fled to Argentina for the first time to avoid being drafted. Falling ill at the age of 33, he returns to Gipuzkoa. He meets Madalen Alberdi, marries her and sets up home in San Sebastián. He participates in several literary events, where he stands out for his poetical compositions. Unable to maintain his family and his political condition, a liberal republican and supporter of the fuero system of regional privileges, he returns to Argentina for the last time with his wife and three children.

After reading the novel El impostor, Professor Unai Eguía begins an investigation to uncover what happened to Enric Moner, a Catalan republican deported to Nazi camps. At the same time, Antón Gandarias investigates his uncle Anjel Lekuona, who was captured by the Gestapo in exile. Their paths cross and their investigations take them to Prague, where they discover the incredible story of František Suchý and his son, who risked their lives to save the ashes of 2,000 victims of Nazism.

Los domingos / Sundays tells the story of Ainara, an idealistic and brilliant 17-year-old who has to decide what university degree to pursue — or at least that's what her family hopes she will do. However, the young woman says she feels increasingly closer to God and is considering embracing the life of a cloistered nun. The news takes the entire family by surprise, creating a chasm and putting everyone to the test.

Antonio and Estrella are siblings. Their father was a diver. They have spent their whole lives at sea. Antonio is known as The Tiger, an indomitable diver and the perfect buddy to have with you when you risk your life in only a few seconds, every day. Estrella helps her brother on the barge where they work. She keeps him grounded; out of the water, Antonio is a real mess. He has always lived in the moment, never thinking about the future, leaving him with barely a penny to his name. When Antonio has an accident, he is told that his diving days will soon be over. The future looks dark and complicated. However, this situation may just change when they find a stash of cocaine hidden in the hull of an oil tanker. Antonio sees no other option, but his sister Estrella has her doubts. As always.

After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought was long resolved. In this new environment, Vicente must ask himself if he has enough time left to make his peace with others… and with himself. 

She Walks in Darkness draws inspiration from the biggest covert operation against ETA, which marked a turning point in the fight against terrorism in Spain. Based on the historical, political and social context of the 90s and the 2000s, the film tells the story of Amaia, a young Civil Guard who spends more than ten years with the terrorist group as an undercover agent, tasked with finding the hiding places used by the organisation in southern France.

The Basque Country, 1937. Driven from their home when war breaks out, Karmele and her family flee to France, where she is contacted by the Basque cultural embassy in exile, who use music and dance to combat the war. There she meets and falls in love with Txomin, a professional trumpet player. After living in Venezuela for a time, the couple come home with the hope of recovering everything that was taken from them.

Nerea Garcia is having a rough time of it; it’s four years since she was thrown out of the Basque Ertzaintza police force and she now leads a solitary life in her Bilbao home. The appearance of a woman’s corpse, murdered in some kind of ritual, prompts her former boss to ask her for help with the investigation. What Nerea hadn’t realised is that ghosts from the past and present would lead her down into the bowels of the city, where nothing and nobody is what it seems.

San Sebastian, 1978. The workers at the water meter factory hold an assembly to discuss a strike, which ultimately fails. Disappointed, the most non-conformist workers turn their aspirations for radical transformation towards more intimate spheres. Some leave the factory to join an isolated community in the mountains, where dozens of young people embarked on an intense journey of shared cathartic experiences.

In the early 80s, in the Chilean desert, 11-year-old Lidia is raised by a queer family banished to the outskirts of an unpleasant and dusty mining town. They are accused of causing a mysterious disease that’s starting to spread, said to be passed on through a simple gaze, when one man falls for another. In this modern western, Lidia leads the quest for revenge, taking on the violence, the fear and the hatred, where the family is her only haven and love could be the real danger. 

Arrebato (1980) is the greatest cult movie of today’s Spanish cinema and Iván Zulueta, its director, an accursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that forecast the end of the movida, a dark and harrowing reel whose history and intra-history are intimately linked. Arrebato acts as a premonition of the director’s own life. Just like his actors, Zulueta will end up being brought down by drugs and the cinema and, like them, will also disappear.

Alicia teaches book binding to students Maite, Unai and Merche. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue the pages to give the books a longer life. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its different variations.

In a spa surrounded by mountains of salt, guests relax and sunbathe, while workers collect the glowing crystals under the sun. Children run off, escaping the watchful eyes of adults, and a woman drifts through this landscape in a haze, detached from reality. As night falls, the space transforms, shaped by the desires of those who pass through. 

One day, Tetsuro Maeda (Tetsu) leaves home, at the foot of Mount Anboto, makes his way through the forests of the Atxondo Valley and arrives at his restaurant, Txispa. As he works, he recalls his life, since he was born in Tokyo, 40 years ago, until today, when his restaurant boasts a Michelin star. Surrounded by the scents and flavours of Anboto, a mythical mountain for the Basques, Tetsu thinks about his dishes, lending them shape and colour to ensure that those eating them may taste the breathtaking landscape visible from its summit.

Violeta, a young film director who, at one stage in her life, made a porn, lesbian and delectable film, is hired to make a mainstream porn movie. Her take on the gender system - cinematic and sexual - prevents her from making it. Together with her girlfriends, she leaves the southern climes of Buenos Aires for the warmth of São Paulo, finding new ways to tell the story on the way. Nothing satisfies her, until she plunges into the Atlantic Ocean for a swim and comes across an island.

Octavio and Adela were born in neighbouring towns on the same morning as the proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain. From that day on, without them realising it, their lives will be connected, intertwined in the shape of an "8", during 8 crucial moments in the 90 years of their lives. Meanwhile, in the background, is the Spain of their day. Their fates, separate but united, on opposing sides, gradually start attracting one another until finally completely merging in their late but well-deserved love story.

After years as an undercover agent amongst the nationalist left-wing as just another sympathiser of the ETA terrorist group, a police officer achieves her holy grail when ETA gets in touch with her. They need her to take in two members of ETA while they prepare a series of attacks. This is the start of the most difficult mission of her life: to keep her superiors informed whilst living with terrorists who won't think twice about killing her if they have any suspicions whatsoever.

Taking its inspiration from true events, Miss Carbón is a tale of perseverance, passion and dreams that defy gender boundaries. Carlita became the first female miner in a town where women were forbidden from entering the main source of local income: the coal mine. Superstitous belief considered that women meant the threat of cave-ins and that mining work was exclusively for men. 

The Story of Us reconstructs a love story starting with its end. Ángela and Antonio are a couple who, like so many others, fell in love, shared dreams, had children, tried hard not to give up and fell several times. When love ends, the questions arise: Where did it all go wrong? How did we end up like this? On a journey through the highs and lows of their relationship, Ángela and Antonio struggle against the passing of time, the interferences of desire and the idealisation of love. 

Although born as a TV movie, Go!azen is now in its 12th season. In each one the first musical series produced in the Basque Country brings a new summer in the Basakabi camp with covers of well-known songs from yesterday and today. This year's episodes will offer yet another season packed with fun and adventures.

When Heidi finds an injured lynx in the mountains, she sets out on a brave mission with her friend Peter to return it to its family, facing up to an evil businessman who is threatening nature and her home.

It’s 8 in the morning one summer in the early 70s. Ion, an ETA activist, runs for his life through San Sebastian’s Old Town with the police hot on his heels. The city is coming to life, and people are going about their usual routine. As he runs, Ion looks back at the story of his life. His memories of school, where he was forced to renounce his identity, alternate with the look in his father’s eyes and the figure of Madeleine. 

Domingo lives for gambling. He takes bets at rowing boat races, pelota courts and the squares where all sorts of competitions ar. But it’s also an obsession that pushes him to take risks, always in cahoots with his cowardly and cynical sidekick, Kornelio. The loneliness of his wife Marcelina reveals the other side of a tale where tragedy could strike at any time.  

Manuel narrates his peaceful life with his brother Ramón until the arrival of a prostitute turns everything on its head. Esther’s presence sparks tension and conflict between the siblings until things come to a tragic end. The film explores family relations and repressed emotions in a rural environment. 

Based on the novel of the same name by Arantxa Urretabizkaia, the film follows the life of a 30 year-old married woman and her son. The protagonist asks herself what drove her husband, Txema, to leave her alone with their child. Internal monologues serve to explore subjects such as motherhood, loneliness and everyday routine in the Basque society of the late 70s. 

During World War II, the icy Kazakh steppe was home to Spassk99, a Soviet-era labour camp into which the URSS would throw the enemies of the people. Amongst them were Spaniards from opposing sides: republican soldiers trained by the URSS, jailed on wanting to leave Russia at the end of the war in Spain, and volunteers with the Blue Division, captured after fighting with the Nazis in Leningrad. Natural enemies who must put their ideological differences to one side and join forces.

A stunning journey into the soul and roots of Gipuzkoa offering a bird's eye view of its coast, discovering its most spectacular natural landscapes, the history and customs of its towns and cities. With original music by Fernando Velazquez and the collaboration of Toti Martínez de Lezea, Juanma Cembellín and Santi Yaniz. First instalment in the 9-episode documenary series Euskal Herria Hegan.