71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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El vasco / Dear Grandma

Jabi Elortegi
Spain - Argentina      100 m.
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Mikel has decided to change his life and accepts a distant relative's invitation to travel to Argentina and settle there. However, it's not long before he realises that his uncle Chelo is nothing more than an affable gambler and drinker who has nothing to offer him. As if that wasn't bad enough, things become even more complicated when Chelo's mother Amuma Dolores awakens from a lethargy of ten years on hearing Mikel sing a lullaby in Basque and mistaking him for her brother Juanito, Mikel's grandfather. From then on, the whole village sets about making Dolores believe that she is still in her native Bermeo of the 50s. Mikel will have nothing better to do than act as peacemaker between Dolores' squabbling children, Chelo and Begoña, with the help and complicity of Inés, the eternally cheerful carer of Amuma Dolores.   

Director
Jabi Elortegi (Spain)
Screenplay
Xabi Zabaleta, Arantxa Cuesta
Production
Pausoka Entertainment (Spain)
Xabi Zabaleta, Itziar Zeberio, Jabi Elortegi
Prisma cine (Argentina)
Antonio Pita
Oeste Films (Argentina)
Marcelo Ortega
Sales
Filmax (Spain)
Distribution
A Contracorriente Films (Spain)
Photography
Jon Sangroniz
Edition
Raúl López
Music
Fernando Velázquez
Sound
Hernan Conen, Xanti Salvador
Cast
Joseba Usabiaga, Eduardo Blanco, Itziar Aizpuru, Inés Efrón, Laura Oliva
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
100 m.
Original language of the film
Basque , Spanish
Country
Spain - Argentina
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