Movies: Basque

Documentary on the life of the Basque shepherd and oral improviser (or 'bertsolari') Fernando Aire (1920-1976), known as 'Xalbador'....

In this short documentary film about Basque pelota, in addition to showing the different modalities (basket ball, handball, paddle, ratchet...), well-known pelota players of the time take part....

Interview and tribute to Jose Migel Barandiaran, researcher on Basque culture....

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 thu...

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....

Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music....

Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish....

Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country....

The situation of the Basque language in Navarra....

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in Chile....

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,...

Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country....

The troubles of learning Basque in adults....

Short film on the art in the Basque Country....

Documentary on the relationship between the Basque language and its immediate cultural universe....

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....