Directing
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
Three elders return to their homeland seventy years after being forced to leave it because of the Spanish Civil War.
A woman entrusts her belongings to a stranger while she goes into the sea to take a swim. But when she comes out again, the stranger has disappeared, taking everything with him, including the keys to her house.
Five directors portray five Basque political prisoners. A young woman counts the days remaining before she is arrested. A man returns to society after 17 years in prison. A mother records every phone conversation she had with her imprisoned daughter on 125 cassette tapes. An intellect and professor of journalism tries to find himself from the solitude of his cell. And a former ETA leader reconnects with a close friend from his youth, now a filmmaker. 'Windows Looking Inward' gives a brief insight into the lives of the people behind the bars, behind the events, behind the headlines.
It was a time when life was a suspense novel and you never knew how it would end. More than sixty years later, we return to the scene of one fateful night in a farmhouse in the Pyrenees when six strangers from five different countries were arrested. The strands of each person's story unravel to tell the larger story of the hundreds of ordinary people who formed a vast escape network during WWII
