About this Event
Join us for the 2023 NYC Basque Film Festival, a collaboration between the Delegation of the Basque Country to the United States, the Etxepare Basque Institute, and the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Department at CUNY Graduate Center.
Schedule & Details:
Wednesday, October 25, 6:30 pm20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS)
Village East by Angelika
Film: 20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 Especies de Abejas)
Director: Estibaliz Urresola
Venue: Village East by Angelika, 181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
Running Time: 128 min.
Language: OV with English subtitles
Synopsis: Eight-year-old Cocó struggles to meet others' expectations and can't understand why. Everyone around the child uses the name Aitor, a name that feels foreign to Cocó. Ane, the siblings' mother will take advantage of the holidays to take her three children to the house where her mother Lita and her aunt Lourdes live, with close ties to beekeeping. This summer that will change their lives will oblige these women from three very different generations to confront their doubts and fears.
Thursday, October 26, 6:30 pmLULLABY (CINCO LOBITOS)
Village East by Angelika
Film: Lullaby (Cinco Lobitos)
Director: Alauda Ruiz
Venue: Village East by Angelika, 181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
Running Time: 104 min.
Language: OV with English subtitles
Synopsis: Amaia has recently become a mother. Her partner is away for months at a time and she is overwhelmed, unable to take care of her baby and return to her work as a translator. She decides to hole up at her parents house in the hope that they will take care of both herself and her baby in the place where she grew up, a pretty coastal town in the Basque Country. But life has other plans; her mother falls ill and it is Amaia who has to look after them all. She finds herself obliged to live her mother's life of thirty years ago. She becomes a housewife, with an absent partner, in charge of a baby and an ailing grandmother. The family roles are reversed, forever changing their relations. The daughter becomes everyone's mother. Amaia, who had only loved her mother until now, will also start to understand her.
Friday, October 27, 5:30 pmA DEEP BREATH, WOMEN FILMMAKERS (ARNASA BETEAN, EMAKUME ZINEGILEAK)
CUNY Graduate Center (Segal Theater)
Film: A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers (Arnasa Betean, Emakume Zinegileak)
Directors: Berta Gaztelumendi and Rosa Zufia
Venue: CUNY Graduate Center Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Running Time: 75 min.
Language: OV with English subtitles
Synopsis: Finally, women’s voices are being heard in cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary starring Basque filmmakers of yesterday and today, which shows a universal vision of the subject.
Three female divers guide us through the themes of their films, their perspective, their dreams, their efforts to get ahead and, above all, their contribution to cinema and society. We will discover the pioneers, and be surprised by the works of veteran filmmakers, young people who are triumphing in the latest festivals.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Village East by Angelika & CUNY Graduate Center (Segal Theater), 181-189 2nd Ave, New York, United States
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