SPOKEN CINEMA: Bidasoa 2018-2023, Fermin Muguruza

Spoken Cinema

Fermin Muguruza will tell us about the process of the film Bidasoa 2018-2023.

Iñigo Muguruza would turn 59 on December 17. On that special day his brother Fermin Muguruza will explain to us how the creative process is conditioned by his brother's absence in the Spoken Cinema program.

The presentation will be in the Basque language with traslation into Arabian language.

Bidasoa 2018-2023, Fermin Muguruza, Spain, 2023

Police control and the closure of certain crossings on the Bidasoa river, natural border of the Pyrenées-Atlantiques Department, imposed by France in summer 2018 to prevent the entrance of immigrants on their way to other European countries, caused 10 deaths in a single year. Seven people died from April 2021, drowned in the waters of the River Bidasoa between Irun and Hendaia, while another three lost their lives in October 2021, hit by a train in Ziburu. This documentary, as well as putting a voice and face to several of the activists who work on either side of the river, as representatives of the Harrera Sarea (Reception Network) and Bidasoa Etorkinekin (The Bidasoa with Migrants) associations, also recalls those who lost their lives, giving them a name and an age, following their journey and their dreams, discovering the history and the people behind the cold figures of the deceased, giving the tragedy a more human aspect.

Original versión with subtitles in Arabian language.