Movies: Basque

Juan Martin, a young boy from San Sebastian, decides to spend the summer in a remote hillside farmhouse to improve his Basque. But there he discovers that the language they use has little in common with his classroom learnings....

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....

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....

'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....

The troubles of learning Basque in adults....

Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music....

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

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

Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao....

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

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

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

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....

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

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 i...