Completed - BASQUE - Documentary - 79 minutes
In order to defend the woman’s home I will enter its cracks and I will burn in that darkness. I don’t know if it will remain in place.
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Maider OLEAGA Cast : Miren TIRAPU Producer(s) : Izaskun ARANDIA (IZAR Films), Jose luis RUBIO (REC Grabaketa Estudioa), Lara IZAGIRRE (GARIZA Films)
Two women will met at an apartment in San Sebastian, one is alive and she is the filmmaker, the other one is called Elvira Zipitria Irastorza, and she died in 1982. The filmmaker will find out very soon that Elvira run the first Basque clandestine school in that same apartment, for 30 years, under the harsh Franco dictatorship. She made a huge effort to protect Basque language and culture in different fields. And despite her pioneering work, she is not much known in the Basque Country or elsewhere. The filmmaker, stunned and hungry to know more, starts researching to find out who that woman was. The quest won’t be easy, as she will encounter many closed doors. And so she starts different types of research methods, one of the main ones being making the film itself.
Country(ies) : SPAIN
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Xixon International Film Festival 2018San Sebastian FF 2019 ZinemiraMuestra de Cine Vasco 2019Zinemaldia.cat, 2019 (Best Documentary)Play Doc Festival 2019Espanoramas 2019Rome Independent Prisma Award 2019Indie Visions Film Festival 2019 (Best Feature Documentary)