Iraia Elias

When you own a non-denominational funeral parlour. When you’ve lost your driver’s license for drinking too much. When you fall in love with an office trainee 25 years your junior. When your daughter begins to understand that you’re not the father she thought you were. When the retired boxer who lent you money is on your back. When death seems more interesting than life... What could go wrong?

A young agent leaves everything behind to pose as a member of ETA, risking her life to uncover the terrorists' hideouts in the south of France.

A director returns to his childhood home to recreate, with actors, the argument that drove his parents apart when he was four years old. Through improvisation and a film shoot that reveals his own artifice, he builds memories to which he never had access. But as the scene repeats itself, the indications lose their clarity and the border between reconstruction and desire start to blur.

When knowing her father has been hospitalized, Nora (20) returns home. Once there, the reality of what has happened will end up overrunning everything distorting the family relations.

Zazu, a teenager in the midst of discovering their identity, must choose whether to take part in their village’s traditional celebration by assuming a predetermined role, or stay true to what they feel.

Khalil is a young man torn from his roots who lives on the edge of town, where the industrial estates merge into the river and the marshes. Khalil gets by as best he can and spends his time with an old poacher, who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he hasn't spoken to in years. On the banks of the marshes, the tides mark the time of love and heartbreak, of friendship and revenge.

The elderly Amaia has Alzheimer's and can no longer recognize Nerea, her own daughter. From her point of view, reality is distorted, and being in a confined space makes the relationship between mother and daughter unbearable.

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.

Past years full of resentment, unhealed wounds and unrequited affection. With covid-19 and lockdown as the enemy at the doors, María Luisa and Mai, mother and daughter, will spend a whole night together.