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Acantilado
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Helena Taberna; Writer: Helena Taberna, Lucía Etxebarría, Natxo López, Andrés Martorell; Stars: Daniel Grao, Juana Acosta, Goya Toledo, Ingrid García Jonsson, Ana Gracia, Josean Bengoetxea, Jon Kortajarena, Maiken Beitia, Ciro Miró, Xabier Elorriaga, Itsaso Arana, Ramón Ibarra, Magdalena Aizpurua, Ayoze Rodríguez Santana, Paulo Martín Rosario)
Out of Competition
Gabriel receives news of a mass suicide by a sect in the Canary Islands. His younger sister, from whom he has heard nothing for years, was one of its members. Travelling to the island, Gabriel is soon deeply involved in the search for his missing sibling.
Baskavígin ( Baskavígin. La matanza de los balleneros vascos)
(Country: Spain, Iceland; Year: 2016; Director: Aitor Aspe; Writer: Aner Etxebarria, Jón Laerdi Gudmundsson; Stars: Sigrún Antonsdóttir, José María Azpiazu, Michael Barkham, Mateo Franco, Ármann Goudmundsson, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Selma Huxley, Xabier Irujo, Tapio Koivukari, José Antonio Lobato, Viola Miglio, Sesselia Olafs, Urko Olazábal, Abraham Puche, Sigurður H. Pálsson)
In June 1615, 86 Basque whalers, captained by Martín de Villafranca, Pedro de Aguirre and Esteban de Tellería sailed to the cold waters of Northern Iceland, where they were involved in the country’s darkest episode.
Beti Bezperako Koplak
(Year: 2016; Director: Ageda Kopla Taldea ; Writer: Maialen Lujanbio)
Zinemira Kimuak
Collective animation against gender-based violence.
Caminan
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Mikel Rueda; Writer: Mikel Rueda; Stars: Maribel Verdú, Germán Alcarazu, Mikel Tello)
Zinemira Kimuak
A road in the middle of nowhere. A car. A bicycle. Two lonely people looking for the same thing. They meet.
Chillida: Esku Huts
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Juan Barrero )
Documentary about sculptor Eduardo Chillida Juantegui.
El Fin De Eta
(Year: 2016; Director: Justin Webster)
Documentary narrating the process leading to the end of ETA’s violence.
False Flag
(Year: 2016; Director: Asier Urbieta; Stars: Maarten Dannenberg, Eneko Sagardoy, Moha El Haddad, David Landatxe, Tanya de Roberto)
Zinemira Kimuak
Adem Lethani has been tortured and tied up in an abandoned garage. He’s trying to cut through the rope round his wrists when a SUV comes into the garage and the light goes on.
Gaur Irekiko Ditu Ateak
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Eriz Zapirain ; Writer: Eriz Zapirain ; Stars: Joan Torrealdai, Martxelo Otamendi, Koldo Izagirre, Lorea Agirre, Beatriz Zabalondo)
Out of Competition
How do you go about creating a daily newspaper in a minority language amid dominant, hegemonic languages? The attempt was made in the Basque Country in 1990.
Gutik Zura
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Jon Maia Soria )
Documentary examining the relationship between the Basque Country and wood.
Hileta
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Kepa Sojo; Writer: Kepa Sojo; Stars: Itziar Atienza, Kandido Uranga, Josean Bengoetxea, Mikel Losada, Martxelo Rubio, David Landatxe, Jose Kruz Gurrutxaga, Susana Soleto, Asier Hormaza, Gorane Chueca, José Ramón Soroiz)
Zinemira Kimuak
In a Basque village, in 1925, a vigil is underway for the young Inge, wife of Mikel Martikorena, who died suddenly. Visited by the village authorities, Martin, the family patriarch, has only one concern: the absence of his middle son Joanes.
House Of Others
(Country: Georgia, Russia, Spain, Croatia; Year: 2016; Director: Rusudan Glurjidze)
Out of Competition
The victors in a war try to come to terms with living in the houses they have been assigned, full of other people's property and memories.
Igelak
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Patxo Tellería; Writer: Patxo Tellería; Stars: Gorka Otxoa, Miren Gaztañaga, Mikel Losada, María Cruickshank, Gurutze Beitia, Josean Bengoetxea, Iñaki Ricarte, Eneko Arcas, Itziar Atienza, Elena Irureta, Itziar Ituño, Ramón Agirre, Javier Tolosa, Javier González de Alaiza, Estibaliz Curiel)
Using a false name, a corrupt banker on the run from the law finds shelter in a house squatted by evicted tenants who are involved in a struggle against his own bank.
Ihesa
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Alejandro Díaz Castaño; Writer: Alejandro Díaz Castaño; Stars: Maria Elorza, Laura Flaño, Koldo Soret, Maider Fernandez, Usua de la Fuente, Iñaki Iñarra)
Zinemira Kimuak
When Maitane tells her husband Iosu that they have a water leak from the upstairs flat, he decides to go up and talk to the neighbours. But the visit will have more than one surprise in store for him.
Iragan Gunea Berlin
(Director: Maider Oleaga )
Following five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin.
Irrintziaren Oihartzunak
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Iratxe Fresneda )
Out of Competition
Story of the creative exile of filmmakerMirentxu Loyarte.
Mara Mara
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: David Aguilar Iñigo ; Writer: David Aguilar Iñigo )
Out of Competition
Two women share their last moments together in a mountain hut.
Nola?
(Country: Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Fermín Muguruza; Writer: Fermín Muguruza; Stars: Bruce Barnes, Doug Belote, Mark Bingham, Brian Coogan, Helen Gillet, George Ingmire, Lily Keber, Derrick Moss, Katey Red, Aaron Walker)
Out of Competition
Documentary about New Orleans, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina.
Oihalak Adarretan
(Year: 2016; Director: Juanmi Gutiérrez Márquez ; Stars: Kristina Kyureghyan, Hélène Handalian, Ara Malikian)
Out of Competition
Documentary about the Armenian diaspora.
Our Walls (Gure Hormek)
(Year: 2016; Director: Maria Elorza, Maider Fernandez Iriarte)
Zinemira Kimuak
The neighbourhood of Housewives. The district of Insomniacs. The newsstand of the Unknown Mother. The underground of The Lonely Women. Our walls pay tribute to the people we love.
Pedaló
(Year: 2016; Director: Juan Palacios; Writer: Juan Palacios)
A fledgling filmmaker follows the steps of three friends on a surrealistic nautical voyage. Aboard a second-hand pedalo, they set out on a journey of 150 kms leaving from the Basque coast.
Pelota II
(Country: Spain, Denmark; Year: 2015; Director: Olatz Gonzalez Abrisketa, Jørgen Leth; Writer: Olatz Gonzalez Abrisketa)
Out of Competition
Documentary about the Basque sport.
Quinta Planta
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Mikel Rueda; Stars: Nana Ponceleon, Rafa Herce, Henry Lee Williams)
What pushes people to do what they do? For what strange reason do some people still decide, in an individualistic world such as this, to spend part or all of their time helping others? Through the different testimonies of different people, we will meet one of these rare birds.
Renovable
(Director: Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga ; Writer: Jose Mari Goenaga ; Stars: Tanya de Roberto, Josean Bengoetxea, Yvette Filanc, Shigeyuki Kasai)
Zinemira Kimuak
Years after they break up, Tania and Josean run into one another at a congress on renewable energies. She’s got plenty to say to him…
Rocknrollers
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa ; Writer: Juanma Bajo Ulloa ; Stars: Kiss, Bob Dylan, Gov´t Mule, The Black Crowes, Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Bad Religion, The Cult, Gregg Allman, etc. )
Documentary about the Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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