Twenty short films in Basque for the awards of the Basque Film Festival
The Lekeitio film festival, the oldest dedicated to Basque cinema, has organized special screenings of Goose on the horizon, Zahartzaro feminista, Boga-Boga and Aro berria, and will pay tribute to José Ramón Soroiz.
Twenty short films in Basque will compete, from 14 to 18 October in Lekeitio, for the highest awards of the 49th edition of the Basque Film Festival of the coastal town of Bilera.
A jury composed of actress Edurne Azkarate, filmmaker Irati Gorostidi and curator, editor and researcher Aimar Arriola will choose who will take the awards for good films, direction and screenplay, as well as the public's EITB Award, the Jury Award for Experience and the Benito Ansola Young Jury Award.
The participating films include Eñaut Rodriguez, Iban del Campo, Aitor and Izaro Arruti, Beñat Gereka, Elene Mengyu Larrinaga, Ekaitz Bertiz, Elene Ocariz and Josu Martinez.
The short films will be shown on 15 (19:00), 16 (19:00) and 17 (12:00), in the Ikusgarri cinema, and the award ceremony will be held on Saturday, 17 October, at 7.30 p.m.
Outside the Official Section, the documentaries Goose on the Horizon and Towards Feminist Old Age, Boga-Boga, as well as the screening of Irati Gorostidi's feature fiction film The New Age, have been scheduled.
Legorretard actor José Ramón Soroiz will also receive the Euskal Zinema Begirada Award, which he has awarded to cinema and television in tribute to everything, at the closing gala.