La fuga de Segovia (Segoviako ihesa)
In collaboration with the Filmoteca Vasca (Basque Film Archive) and the Basque Cultural Institute, as part of the saison Québec-Pays basque, we are presenting a program of films bearing witness to a troubled period in the last half of the twentieth century in Spain, when a far-left, anti-Franco autonomist movement was developing.
In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 1976, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the tunnel they are digging. The inmates, far from being discouraged, start a second tunnel.
Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer, born on February 28, 1950 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Although born in El Salvador, Imanol Uribe is of Basque descent. He was raised in Madrid. In 1972 he graduated from the official school of journalism in the Spanish capital and continued his studies in film directing at the Madrid Film School from which he graduated two years later. In 1975 he founded his own production company, Zeppo Films, through which he made short films about the Basques, such as Off in 1976 and the documentary* Ez* the following year. Several of his films are dedicated to the socio-political situation in the Basque Country, such as El proceso de Burgos (1979), a documentary-plea for the ETA militants, who were court-martialed during Francisco Franco's presidency in 1970.
