Directing
David Imaz had to flee from the Basque Country in the mid-seventies, repudiated by his people, accused of betrayal. Despite having found happiness in California, his past still weighs him down and the feeling of guilt prevents him from being able to settle down and peacefully enjoy the last days of his life. Joseba Altuna, his childhood friend, comes to say goodbye and to settle the score while he's at it. It's been a long time since they saw one another, but the time has come to face the truth.
Mugaldekoak is set in the early 40s, when, on this side of the border, the wounds of the Civil War were still open and, on the other, they were living under occupation by the German Army. The tale revolves around the Comète Network, an initiative developed during World War II on the border with Navarre: the clandestine evacuation of British pilots brought down in enemy territory.
At the death of his father, Paulo, the youngest son, will have to be in charge of his mentally handicapped brother Daniel. Based on the novel by Bernardo Atxaga.
A con artist owner of a bankrupt film company tries to lure in an investor by hiring a movie star's look-alike and passing him off as the real deal.
Alicia is a judge like her father was, murdered by ETA twenty-seven years ago. Now she lives with her husband Ricardo in a residential area in the suburbs of Bilbao. In the house next door lives Rosa, a great friend of the couple, along with her daughter Maria, a teenager confronting the world who has just started a troubled relationship with Andoni, a youngster quite like her who lives with his father Antonio, a former member of the terrorist band, in the slums of the city. Six characters who will find themselves dragged by the very same current of events, both present and past, until a shared feeling of orphanage comes to the surface in all of them.
María and Javi are two lifelong friends. Even though they have drifted apart over the course of the last year, when María suffers an accident that leaves her at the verge of dying, they reunite and discover that they have always been in love. Now Javi has to decide whether he continues with his new life with an Uruguayan girlfriend, or give a chance to a childhood love that could die out any second.
Mario, a member of the terrorist group ETA during Franco's dictatorship, drastically changes the course of his life when, with democracy in place, the organization decides to continue killing.
An economist Basque (Gorka Ochoa) based in Barcelona becomes embroiled in a difficult emotional dilemma between his girlfriend (Bárbara Goenaga), who is pregnant, and a childhood friend (Sara Cozar), heart condition, which is declared by compassion convinced that he would die. The problem arises when the patient makes a miraculous recovery and he is forced to pretend he loves her.
Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement. Abandoned by his superior (who got him involved in the heist), Pello escapes from the court room and goes on the run. With no papers, no money and no family or friends he can trust, he changes identity so that he can stay undercover for a time. By chance he ends up hiding in a building that has been occupied by a group of people evicted from their homes who are fighting his bank. Pello gains their trust, all the time planning to steal money from them to pay for false documentation so that he can escape abroad and start a new life.
The story of Fran, a young businessman who, seeing his fortune threatened by his marital problems, decides to devise a complex plan to get rid of his wife. What he doesn't know is that he will have to face Klara, a police officer specializing in serial killers, who has very personal reasons for pursuing murderers of women.
The spiritual journey of a teenager who discovers a passion for painting in the context of a hard working neighborhood gray Bilbao during recent years of the Franco dictatorship. In this hostile environment of beauty and art, a group of foundry workers spends his free time painting. They are fond of painting by pure love of art.
