74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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Oskar Alegria Suescun
Spain      91 m.
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“Night will fall fourteen times in this film. We will count them.” So begins this nocturnal, musical journey—a voyage that drifts through the artistic vision of the Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, and which is dominated, above all, by an “Interior, Night” setting: the Basilica of Arantzazu. It is there that the longest night unfolds, beside the sanctuary’s organ, where filmmaker Oskar Alegria shuts himself away to recount these fourteen nights to pianist Iñar Sastre—summoning him to conjure, through the keys, images he wont see. From this challenge emerges a collection of fourteen moons, fourteen darknesses, and fourteen mysteries that form a single frieze. Fourteen, like the number of apostles Oteiza managed to place on the façade of that temple in an artistic challenge that broke all the rules; and fourteen because, as he himself put it, “there was no room for any more.”

Director
Oskar Alegria Suescun (Spain)
Screenplay
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Production
Emak Bakia films (Spain)
Oskar Alegria Suescun, EITB - Euskal Irrati Telebista .
Photography
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Editing
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Music
Iñar Sastre Lopetegi, Mixel Etxekopar, Iban Urizar "Amorante", Jean-Cristophe Galtxetaburu, Raquel Andueza
Sound
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Featuring
Iñar Sastre Lopetegi
Format
DCP
Run time
91 m.
Original language of the film
Basque
Country
Spain
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