Direction: Irati Gorostidi
Production Country Spain
Length: 90 min
Screenplay: Irati Gorostidi
Language: Castellano, euskara
Shooting format: 16mm.
Donostia-San Sebastian, 1978. A group of libertarian militants gather to print a statement in view of the imminent signing of a controversial collective bargaining agreement. At the factory where they work, it is obvious that the growing unionisation of the workers' movement has driven their radical political project to irrelevance. Disillusioned, they progressively direct their revolutionary endeavours towards the most intimate areas of their lives. The most radical among them decide to leave the factory and join a free-thinking commune in the mountains of Navarre.
"Anekumen focusses on the move of revolutionary principles to the most private areas of life. Set in the time when workers' autonomy was developing in the 70s, it explores their hostility towards the assembly processes and fragmentation of the workers' movement, observing one of the most typical reactions to political deception: the search for a reduced and isolated model of society in which to be able to put their political ideals into practice, taking a deeper look at the complex contradictions involved in that road"