Antxón Eceiza
Directing
Biography
Antonio Eceiza, (San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain, September 4, 1935 – San Sebastián, November 15, 2011) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, who directed eleven films between 1960 and 1995. Law graduate and animator from San Sebastián film clubism, he went to Madrid in 1958 to train at the Institute of Cinematographic Research and Experiences. He formed a tandem with his friend Elías Querejeta with whom he shot two documentaries and worked in advertising films. Films like “De cuerpo presente”, “Último encuentro” and “Las secretas intenciones” positioned him as one of the strongest props of what came to be called the “new Spanish cinema” of the sixties. Between 1973 and 1978 he stayed abroad. Upon his return to Spain, he founded the production company Bertan Filmeak, which sponsored the Ikuska series. In 1989 he shot “Dias de humo / Ke arteko egunak”, and in 1995 “Felicidades, Tovarich.”
Known For

A grandfather, a veteran communist militant, runs away on his birthday with his granddaughter Adriana.
Felicidades, Tovarich

A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.
The Innocents

Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie during the time between two Saint John's eve festivals.
Summer Night

One day, Pedro Sansinenea left family, friends and country, an environment that drowned him. Twenty years later he returns to the Basque Country for several reasons, where he finds old hatreds, new conflicts and even a dramatic love story.
Ke arteko egunak

After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work.
De cuerpo presente

Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.
Ikuska 13: Euskal kanta berria

Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested.
Mina, viento de libertad

A memory to the victims and a tribute to the survivors of one of the most tragic episodes of the Spanish Civil War: the bombings suffered by the population of Gernika.
Ikuska 2: Gernika

A flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl.
The Last Meeting

A peculiar walk through the Basque city of San Sebastián along twisting roads never traveled by guidebook users.
A través de San Sebastián

Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.
Las secretas intenciones

Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.
Ikuska 10: Kontrasteak

The boredom of a young middle-class woman at home a Sunday afternoon. Not to be confused with Carlos Saura's short of the same name produced in 1957.
Tarde de domingo

In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
The Mongol Plot

The first film of the 'Ikuska' series, on the situation of schools in Basque language.
Ikuska 1: Ikastolak

Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao.
Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa

Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois French tourist girl and a Spanish working class boy.
Next Fall

The troubles of learning Basque in adults.
Ikuska 15: Euskaldunberriak

Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country.
Ikuska 8: Arabako herrien heriotza

Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.