Movies: Kanaldude

In a non-existent town, five true stories based on oral testimonials and texts by writers take place between 1914 and 1982. Through them, we see the social changes experienced throughout the 20th century by a small town in the Northern Basque Country...

The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her lifetime. But what to do with all the accumulated things? As her granddaughter Céline begins to film this material legacy,...

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Luixa and her friends are growing up in Bañolet. That special village celebrates an important ceremony when children turn 11. The big day to move from childhood to adulthood is coming......

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October 2011. Three generations of women try to safeguard their affective and family ties despite the end of the complicated armed conflict in the Basque Country. Events overwhelm little Amaia, who is reinventing her own story, as naively as compulsi...

"In the mid 20th century Jon Mirande demonstrated with his prose that the Basque language was capable of producing cultured, universal literature. Everybody recognises its importance. But he is still a taboo subject. De Mirande is said to have been a...