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Nantes, France. The Nantes Film Festival showed 16 Basque productions this year.  Four of them were in the official selection in the competition: Miel de Naranjas (Imanol Uribe, 2012), Emak bakia baita (Oskar Alegria, 2012), Deus et machina(Koldo Almandoz, 2012) and Hamaiketakoa (Telmo Esnal, 2012). The first two were awarded the People’s Choice Award and the Best Documentary respectively.

The rest of the films were shown in the Fenêtre Basque, (Basque window) section organized by the festival thanks to an agreement of collaboration with the Etxepare Basque Institute.  In this section the following feature films were shown: Blancanieves (Pablo Berger, 2011), Bypass (Patxo Telleria, Aitor Mazo, 2011), La conspiración (Pedro Olea, 2011), Gernika bajo las bombas (Luis Marías, 2012), Mur-Mur (Juanmi Gutierrez, 2012), To say goodbye (Matt Richards, 2012) and Zuloak (Fermin Muguruza, 2012).

[Joxean Fernandez, director of the Basque Filmoteca, film-maker Imanol Uribe and Aizpea Goenaga, director of the Etxepare Institute attended the Festival in Nantes (photo Jorge Fuembuena)]

There was also a selection of shorts that were part of the Kimuak program including: Beerburg (Ander Mendia, 2012), ¡Agua! (Mikel Rueda, 2012), Casa vacía (Jesus Mª Palacios, 2012), Los monstruos no existen (Paul Urkijo, 2012) and Bajo la almohada (Isabel Herguera, 2012).

Emak Bakia baita in Madrid

The documentary, Emak Bakia baita, is enjoying international acclaim with an extensive tour of festivals and international programs.  Last Saturday, it was shown very successfully at the Cineclub Detour in Rome, in a stop organized by the Euskara Basque Cultural Association and the Department of Euskera and Basque Culture at UPTER.

The next stop will be in Madrid at the Cineteca de Matadero Madrid, where it will premiere tomorrow and will be shown at several more places until the 26th of the month.