
Maialen Sarasua Oliden
Editing
Biography
Maialen Sarasua Oliden is a Basque editor and filmmaker. She has combined a personal filmmaker career, as writer and director of several short movies, with a constant work as a video editor and post-production artist.
Known For

Cristóbal Balenciaga makes his debut as a designer in Paris, but the designs that set a trend in Spain don't work well in the sophisticated empire of fashion where Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy set the trends. Guided by his obsession with control in all aspects of his life, Balenciaga will define his style and end up becoming the greatest of all.
Cristóbal Balenciaga

After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought was long resolved. In this new environment, Vicente must ask himself if he has enough time left to make his peace with others… and with himself.
Maspalomas

Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Kinka

Martinón is the last inhabitant of Auzal, a village in the mountains where he lives in communion with nature. He only goes down to the valleys twice a year to trade and to buy provisions. But one day he’s convinced to take a wife, a decision intended to soften his calloused soul—but in some ways his real struggle is only just beginning.
The Skin of the Wolf

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Ikuspuntuak

"Caracremada" ("Burnface" in Catalan), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco's regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 the CNT ordered the retreat of its militants; however Ramon Vila remained in the woods of inland Catalonia where he restarted the fight operating on his own.
Burnface

Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Marco: The Invented Truth

In the borderless Europe of the 21st century, one border still separates Spain from France, marked by the Bidasoa River. On this river lies Pheasant Island, a tiny piece of land that alternates between Spain and France every six months. When the body of an illegal immigrant is discovered on the day of the border shift, Nassim, one of the survivors, becomes the target of a violent manhunt by French authorities as he tries to cross the border. This chilling event will change the lives of Laida and Sambou, an interracial couple.
Pheasant Island

This is the third time that Vik and his family have moved to a different city. Vik is a shy child who finds it hard to make new friends, and whenever he finally does start to open up to someone, his father's job inevitably causes the family to up sticks and relocate to a different part of the country, and Vik has to start all over again. Luckily for him, this time he soon meets Mai and Oto in the city park.
Yoko and His Friends

An analysis of the impact on the United States Latino community of immigration policies promoted by President Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump, Pardon the Interruption

A yacht sets sail with three people on board. Two women and a man form a triangle as strange as it is mysterious. Swimming in the high seas, nighttime conversations and sexual tensions. A feverish sleeplessness and the need for freedom will mark the direction of their navigation.
Sorbeltza

In a non-existent town, five true stories based on oral testimonials and texts by writers take place between 1914 and 1982. Through them, we see the social changes experienced throughout the 20th century by a small town in the Northern Basque Country, the deep-rootedness and approximation of a language, and the struggle for survival.
Bizkarsoro

Every day, Martin fills the set he works on with excitement. However, in his personal life he feels a great emptiness.
If They Knew

Nerea is 37, is married and has a daughter. Professionally Nerea is a journalist and has to spend most of the day in the newspaper, subtracting much time to her family. The difficulty in balancing work and personal life greatly overwhelms the protagonist and the problem does not get worse when her mother, Luisa, Alzheimer patient is admitted to hospital.
Amaren eskuak
Imanol is four years old. Alert and imaginative, cruel and innocent, the only thing that matters to him is to survive. Upon anything and anyone.
Hemen nago

Izaro and Clara, two teenagers of 17, work as supervisors at the summer camps. On a hot day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, full of desire but stunned, is barely able to handle what has happened, but she is ready to follow Clara wherever she wants to take her.
Thirst

When Miren recognises Elena, who is driving a rental car, she starts chasing her on the road.
The Eternal Night
In 1935, a storm caused an English ship carrying coal to run aground in Bizkaia. Residents of Algorta gathered to rescue the coal, but Sabas Jauregui ignored their pleas and dragged his children into the storm.
The Blind Ants

Fernando (71) and Manolo Mier (70) are brothers. They are two of the last shepherds left in Picos de Europa. They transmit, with unusual generosity, wisdom and happiness in equal parts. In an environment where many would not survive, they enjoy life. They are legend and memory of Picos, at the same level as El Urriellu or the wolf. A way of life and a wisdom that can disappear with them.
Los últimos pastores

Winter of 1921. After fighting for France for four years, the combatants of Bizkarsoro (Lower Navarre, France) have returned from the battlefront. Like the yellow star of the Jew or the ear of the Cagots, children who speak Basque are marked with an stick called ANTI.