Orbainak

Las historias personales que vivieron respectivamente el Tío, el Padre y el Hijo forman una experiencia trágica que se dibuja a lo largo de una línea en el tiempo. Esta línea hendida se parece a una arruga en el álbum familiar, pero también a una grieta en los muros de la Casa paterna. Se asemeja a la herida abierta al perforar una Montaña, pero también a una cicatriz en el imaginario colectivo de un pueblo, donde la idea de la salvación encuentra en la lucha política un destino trágico. ¿Qué hay al final de recorrer esa línea? ¿Serán las viejas canciones de guerra suficientes para sortear ese destino?

  • Jorge Moneo Quintana
    Director
    La Ciutat Interior (The Interior City)
  • Jorge Moneo Quintana
    Writer
    La Ciutat Interior (The Interior City)
  • Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran
    Producer
  • Jorge Moneo Quintana
    Producer
  • Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran
    Sound Design
  • Jorge Moneo Quintana
    Director of Photography
    La Ciutat Interior (The Interior City)
  • Benito Macías
    Sound Mixing
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    Documental Experimental
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 14 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 12, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Basque
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 35 mm still photographs
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Punto de Vista 2019 - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Navarra
    Pamplona
    Spain
    March 12, 2019
    World Premiere
    Sección Oficial
  • FILMADRID 2019 - Festival Internacional de Cine de Madrid
    Madrid
    Spain
    June 8, 2019
    Premio a la Mejor Fotografía de una película española en competición
  • ALCANCES 2019 - Festival de Cine Documental de Cádiz
    Cádiz
    Spain
    October 1, 2019
    Sección Oficial de Cortometrajes
  • WIZ-ART 2019 - Lviv International Short Film Festival
    Lviv
    Ukraine
    August 22, 2019
    International Premiere
    'Archives of Memory' Section
  • L'ALTERNATIVA 2019 - Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona
    Barcelona
    Spain
    November 12, 2019
    Mención Especial del Jurado - Sección Internacional de Cortometrajes
  • 42. EUSKAL ZINE BILERA 2019
    Lekeitio
    Spain
    November 26, 2019
    Sección Oficial
  • BISFF 2019 - Beijing International Short Film Festival
    Beijing
    China
    November 30, 2019
    Asian Premiere
    FRESCO- Official Selection (Non-Fiction films)
  • TRANSCINEMA 2019 - Festival Internacional de Cine de Perú
    Lima
    Peru
    December 8, 2019
    Latin American premiere
    'Resistencias' - Sección Competitiva
  • ATLANTIDOC 2019 - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Uruguay
    Montevideo
    Uruguay
    December 8, 2019
    Estreno en Uruguay
    Sección Oficial Internacional - Cortometrajes
  • IRUDIENEA 2019 - Durangoko Azoka
    Durango
    Spain
    December 8, 2019
  • MIRADAS DOC 2020 - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Tenerife
    Guia de Isora
    Spain
    Sección Oficial Nacional
  • BIdeOtik 2020 - Nuevas Narrativas Audiovisuales
    Bilbao
    Spain
  • DOCU FILM LEÓN 2020 - Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental
    León
    Mexico
    March 28, 2020
    Official Selection - 'Reinventar el Documental' programme
  • Bogotá International Experimental Film Festival 2020
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    Estreno en Colombia
  • BIDEODROMO 2020 - Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental de Bilbao
    Bilbao
    Spain
    October 13, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Semana del Cine Documental Vasco
    Vitoria-Gasteiz
    Spain
    October 28, 2020
    Official Selection
  • CÁMARA LÚCIDA 2020 – V Festival Internacional de Cine No ficción, Experimental y Poéticas Expandidas
    Cuenca
    Ecuador
    November 10, 2020
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Kleinen filmak
    Country: Spain
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Jorge Moneo Quintana

He was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 1988. He achieved his Bachelor degree at the University of the Basque Country and also carried out studies at Universitatea de Arta si Design din Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Universidade de Vigo (Spain). Over the past few years he has developed his artistic career in visual arts and audiovisual media, enrolling in personal projects both as author and cinematographer. His creations have been displayed in several cultural institutions such as Artium, Montehermoso or Matadero and in numerous film festivals in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In 2015 he collaborated as assistant director in the film "Where is the jungle?" directed by Ivan Castiñeiras and produced by LeFresnoy Studio. He completed his film studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona where he co-directed "The Interior City" that premiered at IDFA 2017, and at ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema I Audiovisuals de Catalunya). "Orbainak" is his first film on his own and it had its premiere at Punto de Vista 2019 and was awarded at Filmadrid. He is currently working on the development of his first feature film, 'Almanaka', at the same time as he finishes a short film for the collective movie 'Begirada'.

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Director Statement

"Orbainak" explores the idea of wound in the collective Basque unconscious through the history of a family of farmers. This family condenses several aspects of the contemporary Basque political history, from the context of the War of 1936 and the post-war situation and Franco's dictatorship through the formation of a more or less incipient ETA and thus to the present time where the very idea of the Basque is in crisis. It is at the core of this crisis where "Orbainak" has its anchor and where the wound lies under its scars, which are a mark on the crust of time. For that reason, the elements that the film employs are at the same time document and something else: allegory.

In this way, "Orbainak" works with different image registers and the choice of aspect ratio serves as a methodology to force the original archive images -still photographs- to be reframed. This process, that we could call an archaeological method of the image, allows us to activate aspects of the image that were hidden until now and which condense the features of what we have been calling: the scars. From the perspective of film-essay, the images and sounds in the film are related to the problematic of memory in a critical and active way.