Maixabel
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 presence of Bingen Zupiria, Basque Minister of Culture
Maixabel Lasa loses her husband murdered by ETA in 2000. Eleven years later, one of the assassins has asked to meet with her. Despite her doubts and immense pain, Maixabel agrees to meet face to face with the people who killed her partner in cold blood.
Icíar Bollaín
Icíar Bollaín is a Spanish director, screenwriter and actress, born on June 12, 1967 in Madrid. In 1991 she founded a production company, Producciones La Iguana, with Santiago García de Lean iz and Gonzalo Tapia. It was at this time that she took her first steps in the world of directing. Baja corazón (1993) and Los amigos del Muerto (1994) are some examples of her early work. La Iguana has produced almost twenty films since its creation. In 1995, Iciar took another turn in her career when she decided to accompany director Ken Loach, with whom she had worked in the Spanish Civil War film Land and Freedom (1995), on the shooting of the social drama Carla's Song (1996) in order to write a book about this English director. The book is entitled Ken Loach, un observador solidario and was published in 1996 by the publishing house El Pais-Aguilar.
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Maixabel by Icíar Bollaín
Maixabel by Icíar Bollaín
Maixabel by Icíar Bollaín
Maixabel by Icíar Bollaín
Maixabel by Icíar Bollaín
