In France, to “sing like a Basque” means you sing “loudly, well, and often,” according to Mark Kurlansky’s Basque History of the World. And it is no wonder why on chant comme un Basque is a French ...
In “Karmele,” one of the Basque films at this year’s festival, the Basque language itself comes under threat. For centuries, rulers sought to stamp out cultural difference, Franco banning Basque from ...
San Sebastián is where Basque cinema's strategy plays out at scale. This year's bumper lineup – 13 Basque world premieres and 38 total projects across features, shorts, docs and retrospectives – ...