'BIdeOtik. Attending other audio-visual narratives' 2020

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Attending to other audio-visual narratives

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Video-creation, the art of narrating reality BIdeOtik, the Azkuna Zentroa - Alhรณndiga Bilbao video-creation programme, came about 5 years ago with the purpose of attending other audio-visual narratives and other ways of resorting to video to tell stories. Similarly, it is aimed at generating a meeting place between the public and the people who work behind these projects.

It is a place to share audio-visual creations and promote dialogue on the creative processes and different film trajectories.

Over these years, the programme has aroused interest among those seeking to enjoy audiovisual projects and those wanting to know the ins and outs of audiovisual production.

With the change in the management of the Centre in 2018, a reflection process was launched, among other reasons, to add value to the Azkuna Zentroa trajectory and optimise programming, by creating connections between people and contemporary culture. The purpose was to influence context while contributing to the construction of a more creative, critical and diverse society.

The result of this reflection was the startup of new projects and update of others, such as BIdeOtik. The support for contemporary creation, which defines this new stage, has led us to encourage participation regarding audiovisual creation with the launching

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for the first time of a public call. BIdeOtik is already a consolidated programme in the Centre, in which 50 professionals and students have already taken part and created very diverse audio-visual works.

The launching of this call allows us to have access to unexpected collaborations and verify the convening power of this programme, which has turned out to be huge.

Over 300 works from local and international artists and video-creators have been presented from which some of the works to be screened during 8 weekly sessions were selected.

These works are feature films and short documentaries which include animation films, biopics, and family stories, some of which are first works. In the selection of works, we have placed particular emphasis on those produced from 2017 onwards, dedicated to that which, over the last years, has been called non-fiction film.

Such works have been created from an aesthetic perspective and contemporary audio-visual practice, and tackle topics related to personal experiences, biographies and life stories.

This is the case of the 3 films we open the programme with, i.e. Woman (2019),

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by Raúl de la Fuente; Brothers in Syria (2018), by Víctor Suarez; and Born in Gambia (2019), by Natxo Leuza. They reflect the reality of populations that live in a situation of constant repression and violence or are obliged to flee from situations of conflict in their countries of origin.

With Le ciel, la terre et l´homme (2018),

by German director Caroline Reucker, we discover the simple nomad and subsistence lifestyle of families living in the Moroccan desert, likewise their wishes and feelings of belonging.

The programme continues with the curated film [M]otherhood (2018), by directors Laura García Andreu and Inés Peris Mestre, which defends normalisation of non-maternity in a documentary project which deconstructs society’s myths that continue to judge women who do not want to be mothers. This film was selected based on the way it handles such a sensitive yet real subject which crosses borders and lends a voice to different generations and professionals from different fields.

Basque video creators Jorge Moneo – Orbainak (2019)– and Oier Fuentes –Azken saskia (2017) and Gogor atzea (2018)–

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have recovered vital recollections and experiences from previous generations whose stories have survived time.

Domestic matters, migration, care, aging, and oblivion are topics intimately related to the daily lives of families. In Andrómedas (2019), director Clara Sanz focuses on how these topics co-exist in a fragile balance that topples when one of them disappears.

Marc Serena lends his voice to Juan Tomas de Ávila Laurel, a political refugee persecuted for denouncing Teodoro Obiang’s dictatorship. His work, El escritor de un país sin librerías (2019), plunges us into the reality of Equatorial Guinea, one of the most isolated African countries, upon gaining independence from Spain 50 years ago. Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (2019), by ‘nucbeade colectivo’ (Quiela Nuc & Andrea Beade); Patchwork (2018), by María Moneo; and Capas (2018), by Celia Dosal & Roxana Popelka, represent different female perspectives through women belonging to diverse generations and life experiences. We close the programme with the Basque Country premiere of the documentary Zumiriki (2019), by Basque director Oskar Alegria, selected together with [M]otherhood (2018) via curatorship.

It is an inspiring imaginative film to rethink life and reconnect to nature, which received an ovation at the last Mostra de Venecia.

This film, which shares the values of this new stage of BIdeOtik, has been chosen to close the programme.

BIdeOtik has evolved though it maintains its differential value as a meeting point focused on exchange and dialogue on audio-visual creation, and a space for cultural and social reflection and transformation. Therefore, all the creators of these works will be present in the sessions to explain their motivations and creative processes to us, besides getting live feedback from the audiences attending this programme. We hope it will be an interesting and enriching exchange for both parties.

See you at BIdeOtik.

Fernando Pérez, Rakel Esparza, Itxaso Díaz, Ainara Bilbao.

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Session 1

We start BIdeOtik with three Documentaries, where production and artistic creation combine with humanitarian co-operation. The purpose is to show the reality of populations living under a continuous situation of repression and violence or obliged to flee from conflicts in their countries of origin.

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Woman (2019) Raúl de la Fuente Brothers in Syria (2018) Víctor Suárez Ballesteros Born in Gambia (2018) Natxo Leuza

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Woman Raúl de la Fuente

2019 // Documentary // Spain In Mozambique, the case of Josina Machel, daughter of the first president, shows that gender-based violence makes no distinction between social classes. Other women suffer terror daily, with no means to defend themselves.

Their gender defines them from birth, society wants them to surrender, and male violence kills them.

Now, a new generation of powerful polyhedral, passionate struggling women raise their voices to combat inequality through hip-hop, rap, poetry, justice and social movements.

February 4, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 20’ D/P: Raúl de la Fuente S: Ivan Zahinos, Amaia Remírez, Raúl de la Fuente, Nagore Eceiza I: Josina Machel, Dama do Bling, Iveth Mafundza, Natalia Malembe, Enia Lipanga, Graça Julio PD: Amaia Remírez PR (Mozambique): Violeta Bila MO: Nagore Eceiza, Raúl de la Fuente M: Mikel Salas, Dama Do Bling, Iveth SO: Ernesto Santana PR: KANAKI FILMS OV Portuguese. Spanish subtitles kanakifilms.com

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«Art has an enormous power to reach society, as a rebellion against gender violence. We want to show that women are not only as society defines them; we want to awaken society; and to show that women are capable of transforming the world».

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Raúl de la Fuente is a director, writer and editor. His feature film Another day of life premiered in Cannes Official Selection (2018) and received the EFA, Goya and Platino Awards as Best Animated Feature, and the Zinemaldia Audience Award (2018). Nömadak Tx got 2nd Place at IDFA?s Top20 and the Best Young Director Award at Guadalajara IFF. His first short documentary Minerita got the Goya Award and was Oscar shortlisted.

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Brothers in Syria

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2018 // Documentary - Animation. Opera Prima // Spain Two Syrian brothers, members of the White Helmets in Aleppo since this civil organization was setup, come to the rescue after a bombing in the city. On arriving where the city had been bombed, they were surprised by a second attack.

When you are helping others, sometimes you may also need help.

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ZOOM-ZBLIZENIA (Poland) Lecce Film Fest – Festival del Cinema Invisible (Italy) Ethno Kino (Switzerland) FES! (Spain) DOCS Valencia (Spain)

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February 4, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema

Documentary/Animation, 5’.

Opera Prima D/S/MO/SO: Víctor Suárez Ballesteros DR: Marta Torres García PR: Al Berro Producciones VO English. Spanish subtitles alberroproducciones.com

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Víctor Suárez (Valencia, 1986). inished his Higher Degree in Sound (2008, Henri Matisse, Paterna) and complemented these studies with a Graphic Designer Assistant course and an Upper Grade in Electronic Product Development (2010). He has worked at Orbital Sound (London).

As a freelancer in the audio-visual field, he has worked in a wide range of genres specialising in recording live music and events, as well as in the documentary genre, working as director, sound technician, cameraman or editor. He is an active member of La Cosecha Producción Audiovisual, and has taken part in documentaries such as Carrícola, un pueblo en transición, Pedales de vida and Francis et la menuiserie, as well as in interactive video workshops with schools and associations.

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«The goal of Brothers in Syria, which began as an interview with a Syrian refugee in Greece, is to raise awareness about the conflict. The best thing has been to be able to put a ‘speaker’ to that powerful message that the protagonist transmits. The short documentary, is now alsoan illustrated album».

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Born in Gambia Natxo Leuza

2018 // Documentary // Spain Hassan is a 14 years old child living on the streets, whose brother was accused of witchcraft and burned alive in front of him. Because his stepfather tells him the devil is inside, he runs away so that they won’t kill him. The only thing Hassan takes with him is a tape recorder.

Born in Gambia is a way of reflection to try to respect the basic rights of children, and for all of us but especially governments, to make commitments to prevent and eliminate all violence against children all around the world.

February 4, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 27’ D/S: Natxo Leuza EP: Patricia Irurzun, Bilale Keita AP: Galapán PR: Miguel Ángel Santos GD: Fermín Urdanoz OV Wolof-Afrikaans. Spanish subtitles borningambia.com

EGENSTROOM IFF (Netherlands) International Film Festival Zoom-Zblizenia (Polonia) Curtas Fest – Festival Internacional de cine y cómic de Vilagarcía de Arousa (Spain)

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«Born in Gambia is a way of reflection to try to respect the basic rights of children, and for all of us but especially governments, to make commitments to prevent and eliminate all violence against children all around the world».

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Natxo Leuza is a filmmaker, screenwriter, editor and post-production editor. He has a long career in the documentary world, and has worked on many projects in several countries worldwide: Sierra Leone, Benin, Togo, Mauritania, Gambia, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador, Qatar, Haiti, Germany, etc. He is currently finishing his project Born in Gambia, and directing Enrique Villareal’s musical feature film, ‘El Drogas’.

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There are alternative living styles in the 21st century. There are families and populations who intentionally choose a simple subsistence nomadic life style. Through the Moroccan desert landscapes, we get to know the day-to-day life, desires and feelings of belonging of these families.

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Le ciel, la terre et l´homme (2018) Caroline Reucker

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Le ciel, la terre et l´homme Caroline Reucker

2018 // Documentary // Germany, Morocco Le ciel, la terre et l’homme endeavours to hold onto the impressions of the Moroccan desert landscape, where the wind blows non-stop, and of those people living there, to tell their stories. In the filmic reality a meeting place with Ahmed, Yussef, Lahcen, and Idir is being developed and their stories allow the viewer to witness their daily lives, desires and sense of belonging.

February 11, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 70’ D: Caroline Reucker PR: Caroline Reucker, Gotz Reinicke PR: Filmakademie Badenwürttemberg Gmbh Photography Design: David Finn Sound Design: Volker Ambruster MO: Moritz Laux, Max Clouth OV Arabic. Spanish subtitles caroline-reucker.de

Do Pão - International Documentary Film Festival (2019) Edera Film Festival. Official Selection (2019) Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (2019) European Film Festival Palic (2019) Dok Leipzig (2018)

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«Le ciel, la terre et l’homme tries to seize the impressions of the Moroccan desert landscape, through which the wind is constantly blowing, as well as the people who live there and tell their stories».

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Caroline Reucker (Marl, Renania del Norte-Westfalia, 1985). After graduating from high school in 2006, she began training as an Image & Sound designer and has worked in various film and television productions. From 2010 to 2016, Caroline studied documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, where she graduated with a diploma. She lives and works as freelance filmmaker in Ludwigsburg, BadenWürttemberg.

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The main aims of this Documentary project is to contribute to the normalisation of women who decide not to have children, break down the numerous myths surrounding maternity, in addition to questioning the taboos these myths have generated in a society which continues to judge women who decide not to become mothers.

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[M]otherhood (2018) Inés Peris & Laura García

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[M]otherhood Inés Peris & Laura García 2018 // Documentary // Spain

[M]otherhood has the answers which will stop you from ever questioning again any woman who does not want children. A group of women decided to talk, and their stinging solid arguments stab a knife in the ideal of contemporary maternity.

They break taboos, question maternal instinct and discuss regret.

February 18, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 55’ D: Laura García Andreu, Inés Peris Mestre PR: Suica Films SO: Emilio Alena M: Sara Marco Caballero OV in several languages. Spanish subtitles m-otherhood.com

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Inés Peris Mestre. Producer and Camerawoman. Senior Image Technician. Master in Video and Television. She has over 15 years’ experience in the audio-visual industry, and has combined her skills as camerawoman, editor and producer in different production companies.

She has worked over 8 years in the Valencian Public Television channel.

She took part in the Documentary Five Days to Dance (2014) which received international recognition.

Laura García Andreu is a graduate in Audiovisual Communication and Anthropology with over 10 years’ experience in the audio-visual sector.

She has worked in television channels such as TVV and Communication Package (Brussels). She specialised in ethnographic film documentaries in Lima. She scripted a programme on literature for the autonomous Valencian television channel ‘À Punt Media’: Una habitación propia. She is also a professor in the UJI Communication Sciences Department (Castellón).

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«People are presupposed a path to follow, a path that seems to have been manufactured especially for women. It seems that we are not complete women if we do not have children.

And that social pressure at times becomes unbearable.

Motherhood must be an option, not a social obligation».

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Session 4

In this Basque session, the memory, recollections and experiences recovered, take us back to a hard difficult life through family experiences. A tribute to past generations whose stories live on through time.

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Orbainak (2019) Jorge Moneo Gogor atzea (2018) Oier Fuentes Azken saskia (2017) Oier Fuentes

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Orbainak Jorge Moneo

2019 // Documentary // Basque Country The personal stories lived by the uncle, father and son, respectively, form a tragic experience portrayed throughout a timeline. This etched line is not only like a crease in the family album, but also a crack in the walls of the paternal home. It is like an open wound on drilling a Mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginarium of a nation, where the idea of salvation meets a tragic fate in the political struggle. And what is at the end of this line? Will old battle songs suffice to navigate that fate?

Orbainak (2019) is Moneo´s first solo film. It premiered in Punto de Vista 2019 and won the Best Photography award for a Spanish film in the Filmadrid 2019 competition.

Punto de Vista 2019 Festival Internacional de cine FILMADRID L’Alternativa – Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona

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February 25, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 29’ PR/S/MO/P: Jorge Moneo Quintana SO: Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran PR: Kleinen Filmak OV Basque. Spanish subtitles

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«Orbainak is an oblique look at recent Basque political history and the concept of injury in the Basque collective unconscious. Rather than offering answers about what has happened during the last four decades, this film is about certain questions».

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Jorge Moneo Quintana (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1988). Graduated in Fine Arts at UPV/EHU. He studied at UVigo and UAD in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He has forged his career between visual arts and film, and his works have been shown in cultural institutions and different international festivals. He completed his education in film photography at ESCAC and in Documentary film at the UAB Barcelona Master´s Degree in 2017: Filmography: Où est la jungle? (Brazil, 2015- production assistant), La Ciutat Interior (2017), coproduced by RTVE (Spanish public TV) and premiered at IDFA (Netherlands), Orbainak (2019), Begirada (2020) and Almanaka (in progress).

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Gogor atzea Oier Fuentes

2018 // Documentary // Basque Country Experiences, recollections, forced silences, or pieces lost on the road of memory, as fragile and as unbreakable as a hard life.

This work shows and hides in about 6 and a half minutes, what is shown and hidden during a conversation of approx.

6 and a half hours between a grandson and his 91 year old grandmother.

February 25, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 7’ D/PR: Oier Fuentes M: Claudio Nuez I: Pilar Etxaburu, Monika Agirre OV Basque. Spanish subtitles katubi.eus

Euskal Zine Bilera 2018 Giza Eskubideak Herrira III. Nazioarteko Korto Lehiaketa, Ordizia 2018 HUHEZINEMA 2018

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ÂŤAn exercise in memory of a lifetime that serves as a tribute to everything that dies and survives generation after generationÂť.

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Oier Fuentes produced his first works in the Lourdes Lovers collective. Since then, he has continued working on Documentaries and experimental lines, alternating with several fiction works.

He has received several awards and his films have been presented at several international festivals.

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Azken saskia Oier Fuentes

2017 // Documentary // Basque Country Jesus Mari is the last basketmaker of Navarre. He makes his last basket in a short documentary where we can contemplate about the future of handicrafts through his voice.

With him, dies a culture, a human being likewise a special way to feel and understand the world and earth. Now, everything is plastic... there are no chestnuts anymore.

February 25, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 10’ D/PR: Oier Fuentes I: Jesús Mari Sein OV Basque. Spanish subtitles katubi.eus

Laburbira (32 proiekzio + ETB) Festival International Khanty Mansiysk 2017 Festival de Films Pour L’Environnement, Québec 2017

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ÂŤThe current society, consumption habits and the level of industrialization clash with artisans like JesĂşs Mari. They are few, they are barely around us and the relationship they have with nature, the way of understanding and feeling the world is disappearingÂť.

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Oier Fuentes produced his first works in the Lourdes Lovers collective. Since then, he has continued working on Documentaries and experimental lines, alternating with several fiction works.

He has received several awards and his films have been presented at several international festivals.

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Domestic, migration, care, oblivion. All these topics are intimately related to the day-to-day life of families. They co-exist in a fragile balance and topple when one of them disappears.

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Andrรณmedas (2019) Clara Sanz

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Andrómedas Clara Sanz

2019 // Documentary - Opera Prima // France, Spain In a small village in La Mancha, Spain, several women meet in a house. 90 year old Rosita lives here with Maria, the Equatorian woman who has been looking after her for seven years. And Clara, Rosita’s granddaughter, films their relationship.

March 3, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 85’. Opera Prima D: Clara Sanz PR: Eugenie Michel Villette PR: Les Films du Bilboquet SO: Thomas Fourel VO Castellano lesfilmsdubilboquet.fr

Festival Márgenes 2019 Gijon Film Festival 2019 L´Alternativa – Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona

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«Clara Sanz’s first feature film is a Franco-Spanish documentary brimming with life, truth and love, shot in a town in La Mancha and focused on her 90-year-old grandmother and caregiver».

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Clara Sanz studied Human Sciences, Communication and Visual Anthropology.

She also earned a Masters Degree on Creation Documentary at Lussas (France) and is a member of the Lumière Association. She has worked with different associations and festivals, such as Videodrome 2 cinema in Marseilles, Mostra Ficção Viva in Curitiba and Asociación Ardèche Images, with whom she currently works imparting film workshops.

Andrómedas is her first feature film.

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The perspective of Juan Tomás de Ávila Laurel, a refugee in Spain for denouncing Teodoro Obiang’s dictatorship, takes us into the reality of Equatorial Guinea, one of the most isolated African countries after giving up its status as a Spanish colony 50 years ago.

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El escritor de un paĂ­s sin librerĂ­as (2019) Marc Serena

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El escritor de un país sin librerías Marc Serena

2019 // Documentary // Spain, Ecuatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea got its independence from Spain 50 years ago and is now one of the most unequal, isolated and repressive countries in Africa. We dive into it with Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, the country’s most translated writer, who went on a hunger strike against Teodoro Obiang’s regime, which forced him to leave in 2011. Since then, he has been living in Spain as a refugee.

Through his books we discover a corner of Africa still living under the influence of two centuries of colonial domination.

The film includes animation, archive images and music by the country’s most international singer, Concha Buika.

L’alternativa Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona Festival Rizoma - Premio Rizoma de Cine Festival Gollut Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid - Seminci

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March 10, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 79’ D/S: Marc Serena M: Pau de Nut P: Josep Gutiérrez OV Spanish @guineadoc

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Marc Serena (1983) made his feature film debut with Tchindas (2015), which premiered in Bilbao Zinegoak. The film co-directed by Pablo García Pérez de Lara was nominated for the Nigerian AMAA Awards, considered the Oscars of African cinema. It was screened by TVC and PBS (US). He recently codirected the Documentary Freshwater fish (in salt wáter) (2018), and received awards from FECIDISCOVI Madrid, the Zapping Awards and the Spanish Television Academy. He has published 3 books, which include ¡Esto no es africano! (Xplora), a portrait of Africa through its forbidden loves.

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«This movie wants to “break the silence” about a country that was a colony of Spain for almost a century, and today lives under one of the longest and most closed dictatorships in the world».

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Session 7

In this session we discover different female perspectives.

How different generations of women see their world, from which prism and what concerns they have. These issues can deal with the importance of hair at some stages in our lives or the experiences as regards a liver transplant.

And, through what is virtually an archaeological study, we will discover the experiences, fears and interests of women subjected to repression under the Women’s Welfare Agency in San Fernando de Henares, a centre opened in the 40s and closed in 1985.

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Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (2019) nucbeade colectivo (Quiela Nuc & Andrea Beade) Patchwork (2018) MarĂ­a Manero Capas (2018) Celia Dosal & Roxana Popelka

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Una dedicatoria a lo bestia nucbeade colectivo (Quiela Nuc & Andrea Beade) 2019 // Documentary // Spain

As if engaging in an archaeological task, Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (A Walid Dedication) presents different objects found at the Woman Welfare Agency’s headquarters in San Fernando de Henares, which was operational from 1944 to 1985.

Which affective memory do these ‘souvenirs’ trigger and how can they be integrated in the historic account on the Franco regime, Spanish Transition and early years of democracy?

Alcances, Festival de Cine Documental. Mejor Cortometraje IX Festival Márgenes

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March 17, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 11’ D/S/PR: Nucbeade Colectivo (Quiela Nuc y Andrea Beade) I: Clara Dios y Suss Serrán SO: María Angulo & Clara Alonso OV Spanish quielanuc.es

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nucbeade [Quiela Nuc (1990) & Andrea Beade (1988)]. Through audio & video works, installations and performance, nucbeade works to destroy standardised landscapes to meet the need to live in other ways and languages. Their first work/manifest, War (2017), has been exhibited internationally at festivals, museums and galleries, such as Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien (Berlin), Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki) and Espositivo (Madrid). Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (2019), won the Best Short Film Award at the Alcances Documentary Film Festival (Cádiz) and was part of the Scanner Section at the IX Margenes Festival (Madrid) and the collective exhibition Pedagogías feministas.

Otras formas de hacer mundo (Miguel Hernández University, Elche). In the field of education, it is worth mentioning their work Lesboanimitas (2018), a research project on lesbian desire in Spain from 1930 to 1980, which was part of Weird Space, a project selected by Ayudas a la Creación Injuve 2017.

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«Can a space built for female sexual repression lead to rebellious attitudes?».

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Patchwork

March 17, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema

María Manero

4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es

Patchwork is the story of Loly, a 60 year old woman who needs a liver transplant.

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2018 // Short film-Animation // Basque Country

The ‘donor’ tells the story. How many organs must you replace so you are no longer you and start being somebody else?

Alcine, Festival de Cine de la Comunidad de Madrid Festival de Málaga Festival Prime the Animation

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Short film/Animación, 8´ D: María Manero Muro OV Spanish

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María Manero is a graduate in Fine Arts at UPV/EHU, where she specialised in audiovisual and discovered animation. Since then, she has undertaken several projects, such as Mapping, animated theatre, documentaries, musical clips and mixed technique projects. She earned a StopMotion Animation Masters degree at UWE Bristol, UK, through a Grant from the Navarre Government for Artistic Studies. Immediately afterwards, she continued her direction studies at the UPV Animation Master, Valencia, where she is carrying out the Patchwork project with a CAN Foundation Grant.

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«Animation is the perfect excuse to create a new world without limits».

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Capas Celia Dosal & Roxana Popelka 2018 // Documentary // Spain

Two generations of women from different districts of Madrid share a hobby, i.e. hair care. However, it does not mean the same thing for all of them, as each one understands hair as a different part of their identity. Through different episodes in their lives we will discover what ties them together regardless of age.

March 17, Tuesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 25’ D/S: Celia Dosal Carabias, Roxana Popelka MO: Paula Damiolini M: Me estoy peinando by GENERADOR P: Antonio Sánz Jiménez I: Virginia Payamp Sánchez, Gabriela Carbonero Jurado, Paula Dosal Pablo, Mayte López Fernández, Marte, Juana Ruíz-Tapiador, Alba Barrios López, Benita Haro Martín, Enriqueta Sánchez Gay, María Ángeles Bascarán Aramendi OV Spanish @CAPASDocumentary

Festival de Gijón Directed By Women Spain

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Celia Dosal Carabias (Madrid, 1998) has directed the following short documentaries: Tanto sueño (2016), award for the best short in the Madrid City Council’s Young Creators’ Competition 2017); and Capas (2018), directed with Roxana Popelka. Dosal constantly combines carrying out audiovisual projects with plastic formats like fanzine, with taking part in projects which include youngsters in the programme, such as FesTeen (2015), EQUIPO of Reina Sofía Museum, Puwerty Festival and Cinezeta.

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«We are interested in telling those daily actions that we forget the impact they have on our day to day, by the time we invest on them, and by shaping our identity. Like hair caring».

Roxana Popelka (Gijón, 1966), has developed extensive experience in producing documentaries, art exhibitions, performances, likewise poetry books and fiction publications.

She recently published her 8th book titled Preparados, listos, ya (2017).

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We close BIdeOtik with Zumiriki, the latest feature film of the Basque director Oskar Alegria. It is an inspiring imaginative film to rethink life and reconnect to nature. It received an ovation at the last Mostra de Venecia.

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Zumiriki (2019) Oskar Alegria

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Zumiriki Oskar Alegria

2019 // Documentary // Basque Country «I went to the forest because I wanted to live with a purpose; to tackle on my own the essential facts of life, and see whether I was capable of learning what it had to teach me, as opposed to realising, when my time came, that I had not lived it».

That is how Walden starts, and how Thoreau, Oskar Alegría, spent 4 months alone in the forest searching for a reconnection with his roots and nature. The shipwrecked Crusoe of ‘Zumiriki’, an island in the middle of a river, that Alegría awaits among tiny rituals, discoveries, recollections and a peculiar sense of humour. An inspiring imaginative film to rethink life and reconnect to nature, which received an ovation in Venice.

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March 25, Wednesday 7:00 pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema’s window and golem.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 122’ D/S/P/MO: Oskar Alegria M: Ainara LeGardon, Xabier Erkizia, Mixel Etxekopar, Xavier Garcia, Justa Mentaberri SO: Haimar Olaskoaga PR: Emak Bakia Films OV Basque. Spanish subtitles oskaralegria.com

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Oskar Alegria (Pamplona, 1973). A journalist by profession, Oskar writes travel articles for El Viajero supplement of El País newspaper, and is also the creator of an artistic photography project called Las ciudades visibles (Visible Cities), supported by the writer Enrique Vila-Matas. He is a professor of documentary screenplay for the MA course in Audiovisual Screenplay at the University of Navarre, and in 2013 he was named artistic director of Punto de Vista, International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre.

His first feature length film, Emak Bakia baita (The Emak Bakia house), has toured 70 international festivals, it has been awarded 15 prizes and has been translated into 13 languages.

Zumiriki (2019) premiered at the Venice Festival.

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«‘Zumiriki’ means ‘the island in the center of the river’, in Basque language, spoken in that area and already lost.

The film also wants to play with that. The word is sunk, like the island itself, but with the magic of cinema we can steal death its last word».

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TICKETS 4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema window and golem.es USEFUL INFORMATION • All screenings will be in original version (OV) with Spanish subtitles.

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ABBREVIATIONS D: Director DR: Drawing S: Script PR: Production / Production Company EP: Executive Production AP: Associated Production GD: Graphic Design OV: Original Version PD: Production Director MO: Montage M: Music SO: Sound P: Photography I: Interprets

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Session 1 FEBRUARY 4

7:00 pm

Woman (2019) Raúl de la Fuente

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Brothers in Syria (2018) Víctor Suárez Ballesteros

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Tuesday

Session 2 FEBRUARY 11

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Born in Gambia (2018) Natxo Leuza

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7:00 pm

Le ciel, la terre et l´homme (2018) Caroline Reucker

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7:00 pm

[M]otherhood (2018) Inés Peris & Laura García

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7:00 pm

Orbainak (2019) Jorge Moneo

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Gogor atzea (2018) Oier Fuentes

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Azken saskia (2017) Oier Fuentes

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Tuesday

Session 3 FEBRUARY 18 Tuesday

Session 4 FEBRUARY 25 Tuesday

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Session 5 MARCH 3

7:00 pm

Andrómedas (2019) Clara Sanz

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7:00 pm

El escritor de un país sin librerías (2019) Marc Serena

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7:00 pm

Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (2019) nucbeade colectivo (Quiela Nuc & Andrea Beade)

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Patchwork (2018) María Manero

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Capas (2018) Celia Dosal & Roxana Popelka

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Zumiriki (2019) Oskar Alegria

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Tuesday

Session 6 MARCH 10 Tuesday

Session 7 MARCH 17 Tuesday

Session 8 MARCH 25

7:00 pm

Wednesday

February 4 > March 25 7:00 pm. Golem Alhóndiga Cinema 4€ / 3€ with Az Card. Tickets: Golem Alhóndiga Cinema window and golem.es 53

Cinema in Az

At Azkuna Zentroa - Alhรณndiga Bilbao we tackle film and the audiovisual media in a broad context via stable programmes, premieres, festivals, thematic cycles, etc., in dialogue with the rest of the Centre programme and in conjunction with different agents and bodies.

Want to find out about the next BIdeOtik cycle?

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ZINEMATEKA With over 30 years’ in the city, Zinemateka maintains a programme with classic movies and more contemporary creations.

It is one of the basic pillars of our audiovisual programme, which allows us to delve in-depth into film language knowledge via non-mainstream works.

This programme is developed with local and international specialists in the sector with a different track record.

Classic films In 2020, Zinemateka continues with its classic film cycle dedicated to the ‘jewels’ of film history. When making our selection for this transversal review, we have given priority to quality, the importance of these titles in the common imaginarium, and the necessary recognition of both men and women who have made history in this art form.

Contemporary films At the same time, this year’s first contemporary film cycle will be Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, by film director and critic Mark Cousins, in collaboration with Zinebi, the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film. Women Make Film is an exceptional analysis of film history through the lens of some of the best female directors worldwide, all of whom are women. It is narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda and others, and written and directed by Mark Cousins.

Life, love, politics, humour and death are spelt out and examined in this unique road movie.

ATTENDING OTHER AUDIO-VISUAL NARRATIVES BIdeOtik, the Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao video creation programme, focuses on creations with a differentiation factor in relation to other ways of recording and representing audio-visual vocabulary.

The aim of this programme is to provide visibility for artistic audio-visual creation as a cultural social creation, reflection and transformation tool, fostering the use of new languages through moving images and digital art. Furthermore, the format, as a meeting place and space for reflection and dialogue with creators, provides an important differential value.

Ciclo de cine FESTIVAL VENUE contemporáneo

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