Movies Similar to Pelota

Exergo(2024)

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.

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The Scars(2019)

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

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I'm Not From Here(2016)

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in Chile.

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Ikuska 2: Gernika(1979)

A memory to the victims and a tribute to the survivors of one of the most tragic episodes of the Spanish Civil War: the bombings suffered by the population of Gernika.

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Ikuska 4: Euskal Telebista(1980)

Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).

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Zumiriki(2019)

Is it possible to travel twice to the same memory? The filmmaker built a cabin on an isolated riverbank, just opposite his childhood island, which had disappeared under the water after the construction of a dam. The goal was to go back to that place, which had become invisible. Only the trees of the island where he’d played stood firm in the middle of the water, like the masts of a broken toy boat, so the air was the only space left, the only vestige of the past to be conquered. This film is a diary of a castaway in memories: four months of a Walden experience in a lost paradise with two hens, a small vegetable garden and a clock that stopped forever at 11.36 and 23 seconds.

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Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa(1979)

Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao.

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Ikuska 13: Euskal kanta berria(1982)

Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.

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Mother Earth(1968)

'Ama Lur' is a documentary, directed by Nestor Basterretxea and Fernando Larruquert, that premiered in San Sebastián in 1968, and it is considered the foundation of Basque cinema.

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Ikuska 5: Elebistasuna(1980)

Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.

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Ikuska 9: Euskal artistak(1980)

Short film on the art in the Basque Country.

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Ikuska 6: Euskara galdutako Nafarroa(1980)

The situation of the Basque language in Navarra.

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Itoiz Summer Sessions(2025)

The discovery of a series of unreleased tapes leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic group Itoiz, to reflect on the dissolution of the band at its peak, after a clear change of style towards pop that he still denies today. Juan Carlos will thus begin a cathartic journey to the essence of the group, reliving the beginnings of the band as a progressive rock group in Mutriku in the 70's, which will serve him to reconcile with the past.

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Ikuska 7: Barandiaran(1980)

Interview and tribute to Jose Migel Barandiaran, researcher on Basque culture.

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Ikuska 8: Arabako herrien heriotza(1980)

Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country.

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Amerikanuak(2010)

A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick, about struggling in a different country to make a decent living and about being part of a comunity.

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Pelotari(1964)

In this short documentary film about Basque pelota, in addition to showing the different modalities (basket ball, handball, paddle, ratchet...), well-known pelota players of the time take part.

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Ikuska 10: Kontrasteak(1981)

Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.

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Xalbador gaztain kormutxa(1981)

Documentary on the life of the Basque shepherd and oral improviser (or 'bertsolari') Fernando Aire (1920-1976), known as 'Xalbador'.

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Stepping Into the Boundary(2019)

Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, 2011. Maider, a filmmaker, moves to the very same flat where pedadogist Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) clandestinely established the first ikastola, a Basque school, under the harsh regime of dictator Francisco Franco. Despite of her pioneering work, developed throughout thirty years, her story is not well known, so Maider, intrigued, begins to research…

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