Zumiriki

The career of filmmaker Oskar Alegría is defined by his incessant questioning of the folds of reality. His films are offered as enquiries from his most investigative and experimental self and reveal to us, whether in the past as in La casa de Emak Bakia (2012) or Hotza (2018) or the future, as in Zumiriki (2020), the enormous complexity that concerns what can be considered solemn, sacred or atavistic, but also the tenderness or humour behind the trivial.

Synopsis: Zumiriki means "island in the middle of a river" in Basque. In this essay film, the filmmaker returns to a central place of his childhood in the Pyrenees and stages a series of intimate tributes to the spirit of the place. Zumiriki is an affable critique of civilisation and a radical self-experimentation with an uncertain outcome.

After the screening, meet Óskar Alegría in a Q&A session.