CONTADORES (Spain, 2023, 20′)

Friday, October 4, at 5 pm, Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

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Director: Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe
Screenplay: Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe
Production: Apellaniz y de Sosa, Tractora and Pirenaika
Producers: Usue Arrieta, Ainara Elgoibar, Maddi Barber, Leire Apellaniz
Photography: Ion De Sosa
Editing: Sergio Jiménez
Sound editing and mixing: Iosu González
Sound mixer: Unai Giménez González
Cast: Santiago Fernández de Mosteyrín, Jaume Ferrete, Claugia Pagès, Iskandar Rementeria, Maite Mugerza Ronse, Natalia Suárez, Marina Suárez

1978. A group of activists spends the night printing a flyer: the deal for the metallurgical industry is about to be signed and the group wants to continue fighting. During the writing and printing of the flyer, the group meditates on their personal relationships and the community coexistence. The day after, the group joins a labour assembly held at the factory lobby. The assembly tries to encourage their coworkers to fight for better working conditions, but the growing unionisation of the labour movement brought down the influence that those people once had.

Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe (Egüés Valley, 1988) is a filmmaker currently developing her first feature film, Anekumen. Her previous works have been shown at international festivals and museums. She studied art and cinema in Bilbao and Barcelona and was a Fulbright student in New York.

Filmography: Pasaia bitartean (m.f., 2016), Euritan (co-directed with Arantza Santesteban, s.f., 2017), Unicornio (s.f., 2021), San Simón 62 (co-directed with Mirari Echávarri, s.f., 2022), Contadores (s.f., 2023).