71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Kutsidazu bidea, Ixabel / Show Me the Way, Ixabel

Fernando Bernués , Mireia Gabilondo
Spain
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Juan Martin, a young boy from San Sebastian, decides to spend the summer in a remote hillside farmhouse to improve his Basque. But there he discovers that the language they use has little in common with his classroom learnings. The family consists of the father, the grandmother and four children. On the one hand are the linguistic problems, and on the other our star?s lack of savvy in this new rural world. Although the sensual Ixabel, the youngest daughter in the family, awakens feelings previously unknown to him, she already has a partner in Anjel Mari, a handsome pelota ace. The climax arrives at the village celebrations where we are treated to a magnificent pelota game, bets, dances, and the way personal relations take shape; or in other words, who goes out with who.
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Fernando Bernués (Spain), Mireia Gabilondo (Spain)
Screenplay
Carlos Zabala, Nagore Aramburu, Joxean Sagastizabal
Photography
Gaizka Bouryeau
Music
Iñaki Salvador
Cast
Mikel Losada, Ainere Tolosa, Mireia Gabilondo, Iñake Irastorza, José Luis Ugartemendia
Running Time
97 m.
Country
Spain
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