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Jon Garaño
Born November 18, 1974 · Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Euskal Herria (age 51)
Jon Garaño (San Sebastian, 1974) is a Basque filmmaker. He is a member of the film production company Moriarti.
Known For
Miramar St. · 2006Miramar St.
★ 7.02006
MovieDrama
San Diego, California. A Spanish taxi driver collects a client who asks to be taken to Miramar Street. These words are sufficient for the driver to feel that something in his life has just changed.
Giant · 2017Giant
★ 6.62017
MovieDramaHistory
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Close Friends · 2011Close Friends
★ 7.02011
MovieDrama
Ekaitz and Roman meet in a hostel during their holidays and promise a lifetime friendship. But something goes wrong. Either their life is too long, or their promise too weak... but now they will have to come to terms with it.
The Endless Trench · 2019The Endless Trench
★ 6.92019
MovieDramaHistory
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
Maspalomas · 2025Maspalomas
★ 6.72025
MovieDrama
After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought was long resolved. In this new environment, Vicente must ask himself if he has enough time left to make his peace with others… and with himself.
Perurena · 2011Perurena
2011
MovieDocumentary
Inaxio Perurena is a young stone-lifter who aims to achieve his most important record: lift the 300 kilos stone. His father, the legendary Iñaki Perurena, was the first man lifting that stone in 1987.
Marco: The Invented Truth · 2024Marco: The Invented Truth
★ 6.92024
MovieDramaHistory
Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Sahara Marathon · 2004Sahara Marathon
★ 9.02004
MovieDocumentary
This film offers a picture of the tense situation in which the Sahrawi people have lived for more than 30 years. The yearly celebration of a marathon in the Sahrawi refugee camps serves as the central focus of the story.
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