‘Sin libertad’ was a 30-minute medium-length film directed by Iñaki Arteta in 2001 where a series of relatives of Basque victims murdered by ETA or persecuted by the group gave their testimonies. Twenty years later, how have these same people assimilated this period of so many changes, including the cessation of terrorist violence and the incorporation of the ultra-nationalist circles into politics? Five young Journalism students in their twenties are selected to interview several of these witnesses.
He was born in Bilbao in 1959. He studied Technical Architecture at the University of Barcelona and in 1988 he founded Leize Producciones . Since 1986 he has combined artistic, advertising, fashion and journalistic photography with the production of TV commercials and his feature-length documentaries for the silver screen, which have ganerned numerous awards. His filmography includes the short films ‘Material sensible’ (1998) and ‘Sin libertad’ (2001); and the documentaries ‘Voces sin libertad’ (2004), ‘Agustín Ibarrola. Artista indomable’ (2017) and ‘Trece entre mil’, the winner of Time of History’s second prize in the 50th edition of Seminci’s documentary slot Time of History. He also participated in the same section of the Valladolid Festival in 2008 (‘El infierno vasco’), 2012 (‘Testigo involuntario. Nicolás Redondo’), 2014 (‘1980’), 2016 (‘Contra la impunidad’) and 2020 (‘Bajo el silencio’).