Koldo Almandoz: "I hate nice, moving characters and people."

At one point, one of the characters confronts bestsellerswith reality. What has been your relationship, in this genre work, with credibility, likelihood, realism, reality and fiction?

The character Nerea Garcia insists on one side and the other, "That only happens in the series," or "That report looks like bestseller. "

I like the fact that the character suddenly becomes aware of his fictional character, which is like breaking the fourth wall and, contrary to what it seems, makes him a more realistic character because it makes him equal to the viewer.

I like the black genre. Nowadays, in movies and series, there's always a clear cause, a morally indisputable proclamation, or a topic on the agenda.

The genre makes it possible to talk about social issues, but without the banner always in front of it.

The black genus allows pudding, along with discretion and self-criticism, a behavior that is about to disappear. 

In an earlier interview, you said that thewill and illusion of those of you who participated in Hondar Ahoak had covered material and temporal deficiencies. Have these conditions changed for this second?

The sand mouth was an unrepeatable miracle. The team was generous, but I want to make it clear that we all paid above the convention. It wasn't amateur work.

We've been a part of ETB since the beginning, but we've been very fair and there are things that could have been done better if we had had more support from those who should have promoted fiction in Basque.

Sometimes it seems to me that the fascination with platform logos confuses the goals and strategies of our leaders. What we did four weeks ago, we did five weeks ago. Better? Yes. Enough? No. That's why I'm proud of the work the team has done and very grateful for their loyalty to us.

This second story has given you the opportunity to develop the character of researcher Nerea Garcia. How has Nerea gone all these years?

Well, it's been five years. He was fired from the Ertzaintza. He lives on a flat in Bilbao.

He maintains his sarcastic and strict personality, but he has other dependencies and weaknesses. We've respected the five years that have really passed, and I think the characters and the story are favored by the eyes and wrinkles. 

How do you relate to your characters? In the case of Nerea, for example, the viewer is given information to make his behavior understandable, but it is not necessarily enjoyed, for example, to be loved by the public.

Nerea Garcia has a lot of me, and I think Nagore Aranburu has given her a lot.

He's not too sympathetic, he's grumpy, he's shy, he's ruthless to himself, he's ruthless to others. He's not happy and he's sick.

One of my mantras is that loving characters doesn't mean that we have to forgive them everything. I really hate nice, moving characters. And people. People who invest their whole lives to please everyone on their funeral day to fill the church with people. 

Within the skeleton established by the conventions of the genus, a more personal and profound substance appears in the series, full of symbols, symbols, and gestures. How do these two worlds sew together?

I think these gestures and references are extraordinary, because The Mouth of Heaven is addressed to the Basque public. I am so excited to spread the series around the world, but it is made for us, so it needs our references.

It is essential to have our own cosmology and self-referentiality, which makes The Mouth of Heaven a unique and distinctive work.

For example, the mattress, which looks like the phrase of Berri Txarrak (there is a mattress painted "Born. Work. Dead" next to a corpse), has another layer: it is a tribute to the work of the Duranguese artist Ismael Iglesias, who has spent years painting with pink spray the mattresses left in the streets of Bilbao and the surrounding area with his slogans and his thoughts.

And by the way they are also ours, because we have brought them to us, Genet, Passolini, or Spider Man, because we Basques live in the world and today, and not just in the Mythology, ha ha ha.

Sky Mouthhas been selected for the Official Section of the Festival. It's not your first time at the Festival, far from it.

For a small series like this, it's important to have a showcase like this. Normally, you don't get that kind of opportunity. It gives visibility to the work and to those of us who've done it.

The series will be seen on the big screen and in its entirety in San Sebastian, with the four episodes in a row, starting and ending.

I don't understand how we'd rather bore people in the halls than leave them wanting.

But in this case, look, it benefits us.