Hotzanak, For Your Own Safety
- Spain
- 4"
- 2013
Synopsis
I told him I was a filmmaker… and nothing has changed. Amid these landscapes traipses the soul, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence, while the body is and is and is and has no place of its own.
Festivals and awards
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián
Izibene Oñederra
Azkoitia, 1979. Studied Fine Arts, creates and produces animated films by hand, as well as collaborating in the projects of other producers. Her first production, Hezurbeltzak, una fosa común, received numerous awards at prestigious international festivals. She is a member of the MAPA collective, which organises symposia on contemporary cinema at Arteleku in San Sebastian. She currently teaches animation and is preparing a thesis on the figure of the anti-hero.
Hezurbeltzak (2007)
Berbaoc (2008)
Eguneroko mina (2011)
Hotzanak, For Your Own Safety (2013)
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