Movies: Basque

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

'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....

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 dict...

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...

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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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

The troubles of learning Basque in adults....

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

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