Basque producers hope for a similar breakthrough, positioning their language not as a handicap but as a marker of distinction. Taken together, this year’s slate forms a wide canvas from exile and ...
From 35mm gambles to Basque-language epics, producers harness local financing and co-productions as San Sebastián showcases a booming industry A 100% Basque production, “Maspalomas” dramatizes a ...
For the first time in over a decade, thousands of people from around the world will gather in Boise’s Basque Block to celebrate Jaialdi. The six-day festival honoring Basque culture through food, ...
Boise has waited 10 long years for this. Jaialdi is back and will be bigger than ever, starting Tuesday, July 29, and running until Sunday, Aug. 3. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the ...
The voice rang clear even as the din of Jaialdi and its hundreds, perhaps thousands, of attendees surrounded it. The older gentleman who called out waved his drink in the air, a smile splitting his ...
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The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists, the fascist leader Franco established a ...
MADRID, March 31 (Reuters) - Spanish filmgoers are queueing up for a surprise hit comedy about Basques and separatist guerrillas - complete with jokes about car-bombings - in a film that would have ...
San Sebastián is where Basque cinema’s strategy plays out at scale. This year’s bumper lineup – 13 Basque world premieres and 38 total projects across features, shorts, docs and retrospectives – ...
Basque cinema is punching above its weight at San Sebastián, with 75% of Spanish competition titles fully or partially Basque, underscoring how regional industries, once seen as peripheral, are ...
From exile epics to pop-rock portraits, Basque filmmakers showcase resilience and range with 13 World Premieres - led by Asier Altuna’s ‘Karmele,’ José Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi’s ‘Maspalomas' and ...