March 3 The Association will award Paul Laverty for Working Environment Film Week
The festival will be held at the Arkabia Hall in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and the Scottish screenwriter, a regular colleague of Ken Loach, will attend the closing gala. The cycle will also include Estibaliz Urresola and Irati Gorostidi.
On Thursday, the movie "The Old Roble", directed by Ken Loach and written by Laverty, will be shown.
Organized by the March 3 Association, the Working People's Film Week will be held from 13 to 16 April in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Arkabia Hall, with the collaboration of the San Sebastian Film and Human Rights Festival and the Bilbao Film and Labour Festival.
At the closing gala of the festival, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty will be awarded the award for "his career in supporting the working class in the cinema." Laverty, screenwriter of most of Ken Loach's films and co-worker of Iciar Bollaín, will also be at a colloquium before receiving the award, and the day will end with the screening of the popular film "The Old Roble."
During the four days of the festival, the public will be able to watch for free (with prior invitation) several films about the workers, both international and local, and the filmmakers Estibaliz Urresola and Irati Gorostidi will also take the floor at the Vitoria-Gasteiz film festival.
The week will begin on April 13 with the screening of the film Made in EU (Stephan Komandarev, 2025), followed by a colloquium on the exploitation of working women in the peripheries of the European Union; on Tuesday, April 14, the documentaries Disonancia (Raquel Larrosa) and Room without a view (Roser Corella) will be seen.
On Wednesday, April 15, two sessions will be held in Arkabia. In the first, Irati Gorostidi will present Contadores and Estibaliz Urresola will do the same with Cuerdas . In the second session, Inor Ez ikusi da, a short fiction film produced by the Association March 3 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the saraskia, will be shown.
On Thursday, April 16, journalist and filmmaker Bertha Gaztelumendi will speak publicly with Paul Laverty, the March 3 Association will award the award to Paul Laverty, and finally the film "The Old Roble" by Ken Loach will be shown.
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