Xabier Erkizia Movies

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.

If you want to know who you are, dance. Oskara traces Basque culture, its myths, from its origins to the present, through the "dantza".

In 1969, artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi made the short animated film Homenaje a Tarzán (Homage to Tarzan), which ended with an enigmatic «to...

St. Agatha's Eve is a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris),...

The film aims to answer two questions: What is flamenco? Who is the singer Niño de Elche? This child prodigy, who inspired artists such as C....

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s...

The Basque word hezurbeltzak does not appear in dictionaries. It is a non-existing word used to describe socially invisible groups. Its literal...

The documentary helps us rediscover the life and figure of the Basque sculptor through testimonies from those closest to him: his children, friends,...

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the...

Arid soil, sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayers bring the rain.

I told him I was a filmmaker... and nothing has changed. Amid these landscapes traipses the soul, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own...