The Basque Terror, beyond the Film Festival

On the last Friday of August, at the International Centre for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastián (Tabakalera), the International Film Festival, which begins on 18 September, will take place thepresentation of films that will be spectacular and in competition. As is customary, there have been more who have presented themselves hoping for a screen than those who have chosen.

The dazzling glow of the festival would be of little benefit to so many films. They will be more at ease, more at ease, more free in the company of the beings of darkness. We will still be in summer in September, and a couple of films that have been made in the Basque Country are much better off with an autumn that will lead us to winter.

I will bring to these lines one of the Basque films that, rather than a sweet shelter in glitter, I will have to look for and ask for in grim corners, theSalitreofproducer Norma Vila , born in Bilbao, who has run the Arab world and studied at the ECPV/EHZE Film School; the one that has been shot in Rrigorriaga, Bermeo, Mundaka, still in post-production.

Although Salitren. Norma's past is long, the billionaire is a wounded film with a lot of experience, with a lot of experience, with a lot of cinema, that he has worked in all the essential trades of a shoot. He has been an electrician and a camera assistant, and a director of photography. His short film The End of All Things was chosen at many film festivals, and he created, along with Oak Zubillaga, the production house Demeter .

Next to Norma is Kiko de la Rica, who has worked with filmmakers like Pablo Berger, Julio Medem, Maider Oleaga, and we find Candela Echenique writing the film and Aranzazu Calleja, who has created a soundtrack of cutting-edge proposals like Night, Maspalomas, Sorda, Emotional Architecture or Five Lobitos.

In this audacity of Norma we have the actor Haizea Carneros Maguregi, who debuted at the age of 12 with Igor Legarreta's All Moon , and who we will soon see in Sacamanteas, by David P. Sañudo. Sheis not alone. She plays the daughter of Nagore Aranburu.

Each and every one of the creaturesin the sea, including those who live in our finest nightmares. No one in public says that Salitre is a horror film. They put seven attempts into the perfect psychological terror, which is the emotional relationship between mother and daughter, but we know that a monster is coming across the sea.

On the last Friday of August, the Basque cinema will be presented at the San Sebastian Film Festival, but many of us have no doubt, the underwater hospitality is often sweeter.