When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithful reflection of their own selves.
Direction
Jone turns inherited footage into accidental self-portrait.
Production
Basque cinema history told through basement VHS archaeology.
Director
Nere Falagan Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ibarretxe brothers operated during Franco's suppression of Basque language and culture, making their regional cinema inherently political. The documentary never blasts this — it just shows the stubborn persistence of making art in Euskara.
Jone's realization that her father's films were autobiographical mirrors the documentary's own structure — she becomes the fourth Ibarretxe filmmaker without planning to, completing the family project she thought she was merely observing.
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