Haizea Lekue Gil

Winner of the Best Basque Language Short Film (Mejor Cortometraje en Euskara 2025) award at the 17th Express Cinema Festival of Portugalete. Following the festival's requisites, the short was made in under 10 hours and revolves around the prompt all entries shared: the invisible.

As usual, four women meet on the same bus on their commute to work. During this daily ten-minute journey they share experiences to let off steam from their suffocating routines, becoming a microcosm of society. Though each woman bears a distinct burden, their collective journey serves to diminish the struggle, ultimately showing us that the meaning is found along the way, and not at the last stop of our odysseys.

A phone call, 50 years later. Amid longing, their voices cross paths again. Isabel and Maria, Maria and Isabel. High school, Durango '73, perhaps even love and rebellion… were left behind.