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Amaia Merino
Amaia Merino (San Sebastián, 1970) is an actress, director, writer and editor. She lives in Ecuador, where she works as an editor and screenwriter of non-fiction films. During the last fifteen years he has made feature films such as Blak Mama, Más allá del Mall, Resonancia, En espera, El pan nuestro, 1809-1810 Mientras llega el día y Asier ETA biok (Asier y yo).
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Chuquiragua · 2016Chuquiragua
2016
MovieDramaThriller
Agustín escaped to the moor to finish his thesis, he spends his days writing, feeding himself and giving small walks through a place covered by scrubland, steep cliffs and abyss that remain hidden behind an almost permanent fog. Everything changes when Lucía and her boyfriend Santiago arrive and set up their tent next to Augustín’s. What began as a few quiet days in the countryside gradually become a silent nightmare.
Txakun txakür · 2026Txakun txakür
2026
MovieDocumentary
Nobody remembers their first school playtime. That day when the adults had gone. That day, I was in the playground. For eight years I filmed the same group of childen, asking myself: how do we grow under the gaze of others? As the years pass, the playtime games gave way to role playing; the "You're not my friend any more" gave way to the "you're not playing". One day I arrived late. Behind the cries, I could see them hitting Élise. How didn't I see it coming?
Alba · 2016Alba
★ 6.72016
MovieDrama
Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.
Blak Mama · 2009Blak Mama
2009
MovieAdventure
Three paper recyclers depart on a journey to the Door of Forgiveness to pay tribute to Virgin Wolf, a mysterious Andean deity.
Iguana · 1988Iguana
★ 6.01988
MovieDramaThriller
A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.
Irailak · 2026Irailak
2026
MovieDocumentary
"At the end of 1935, Miguel Barga, my great-grandfather, left the family in Tolosa to return to the town of his birth in Burgos. Some time later, the family received word that Miguel had died in the war. His body was never returned. His death was taboo in the family for decades, until in 2018, the DNA programme run by the Gogora Institute identified his remains. By that time we had myriad details, but two important questions remained left unanswered. Why did he go and who killed him?" (Izaskun Arandia)
Komando Marmitako · 2024Komando Marmitako
2024
MovieComedy
If the right place and time are chosen, a bag full of Marmitaco can become a terrorist threat.
Take Me for a Ride · 2016Take Me for a Ride
★ 4.12016
MovieDramaRomance
Starting her senior year in high school, Sara doesn't have many friends and is caught between an overbearing mother, and a more understanding father. With uneasiness at school and tension in the household, Sara escapes to smoke in a little alley alone – that is – until Andrea, a new classmate, arrives. A close friendship develops to all that can see, but behind closed doors, an intimate relationship unfolds, which, when discovered, throws everything into disarray.
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