20th Anniversary Edition – 15th Basque Window
dir. Negu Collective, Mikel Ibarguren, Ekain Albite
with Anita, Beñardo, Kitxa
Spain | 2023 | 90 min | cert. PG
In Basque and Spanish with English subtitles
In 2011, when ETA announced the definitive cessation of its armed activity in Spain, a young woman arrives to Zubieta, a small village by the Bidassoa river and the border with France. She wants to cross the border but, waiting for the sign, she will have to wait much longer than expected. In this isolated place, time, scopes and perspectives begin to blur. Negu Hurbilak is a powerful and unconventional project exploring the consequences of having to bear silence and the cost of working under secrecy, including the disappearance of individual identity as well as family and emotional ties. The directing credit of Negu Collective keeps the consistency between the production of the film and its story, the ruins of the Basque conflict.
Ciné Lumière
at the Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
South Kensington
London SW7 2DT
Box Office: 020 7871 3515
Riverside Studios
101 Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith
London W6 9BN
Box Office: 020 8237 1010
We’d like to thank as well for their personal efforts, interest and support:
Marina Díaz López, Juan Blas Delgado, Nickolas Grace, Michela Bertolini, Antonio Molina Vázquez, Natacha Antolini, Prof. Maria Delgado, Prof. Peter W. Evans, Diane Gabrisiak, Thomas Riley, Bea Segura, Javier Fernández and Clara Caleo Green.