Ikuska 10: Kontrasteak (1981)
Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.
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Ikuska 19: Euskal kulturaren zabalpena (1984)
Documentary on the relationship between the Basque language and its immediate cultural universe.
Mother Earth (1968)
'Ama Lur' is a documentary, directed by Nestor Basterretxea and Fernando Larruquert, that premiered in San Sebastián in 1968, and it is considered the foundation of Basque cinema.
Pelota (1983)
A documentary view of the Basque ball-game in which a small hard leather ball is hit against a wall. The film gives an impression of the game itself and of those who play it, not only the star performers (and the myths that surround them), but also those who just play in the streets and alleyways. The film sees the game it its cultural context and conveys the emotions and stories that are peculiar to the Basque country.
Ikuska 13: Euskal kanta berria (1982)
Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.
Ikuska 15: Euskaldunberriak (1983)
The troubles of learning Basque in adults.
Ikuska 2: Gernika (1979)
A memory to the victims and a tribute to the survivors of one of the most tragic episodes of the Spanish Civil War: the bombings suffered by the population of Gernika.
Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa (1979)
Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao.
Ikuska 4: Euskal Telebista (1980)
Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).
Ikuska 5: Elebistasuna (1980)
Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.
Ikuska 6: Euskara galdutako Nafarroa (1980)
The situation of the Basque language in Navarra.
Ikuska 7: Barandiaran (1980)
Interview and tribute to Jose Migel Barandiaran, researcher on Basque culture.
Ikuska 8: Arabako herrien heriotza (1980)
Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country.
Zumiriki (2019)
Is it possible to travel twice to the same memory? The filmmaker built a cabin on an isolated riverbank, just opposite his childhood island, which had disappeared under the water after the construction of a dam. The goal was to go back to that place, which had become invisible. Only the trees of the island where he’d played stood firm in the middle of the water, like the masts of a broken toy boat, so the air was the only space left, the only vestige of the past to be conquered. This film is a diary of a castaway in memories: four months of a Walden experience in a lost paradise with two hens, a small vegetable garden and a clock that stopped forever at 11.36 and 23 seconds.
Euskal herri-musika (1978)
An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of fisherman, shepherds and farmers and their relationship with music. The film also describes Basque ancestral instruments, with special emphasis on the origin and history of ‘bertsolarism’ (Basque verse singing) as a form of oral communication.
Amerikanuak (2010)
A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick, about struggling in a different country to make a decent living and about being part of a comunity.
Xalbador gaztain kormutxa (1981)
Documentary on the life of the Basque shepherd and oral improviser (or 'bertsolari') Fernando Aire (1920-1976), known as 'Xalbador'.
Itoiz Summer Sessions (2025)
The discovery of a series of unreleased tapes leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic group Itoiz, to reflect on the dissolution of the band at its peak, after a clear change of style towards pop that he still denies today. Juan Carlos will thus begin a cathartic journey to the essence of the group, reliving the beginnings of the band as a progressive rock group in Mutriku in the 70's, which will serve him to reconcile with the past.
Ikuska 9: Euskal artistak (1980)
Short film on the art in the Basque Country.
Stepping Into the Boundary (2019)
Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, 2011. Maider, a filmmaker, moves to the very same flat where pedadogist Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) clandestinely established the first ikastola, a Basque school, under the harsh regime of dictator Francisco Franco. Despite of her pioneering work, developed throughout thirty years, her story is not well known, so Maider, intrigued, begins to research…
In Ictu Oculi (2020)
The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.