El Vasco / Dear Grandma

DRAMA / COMEDY
SHOWING: MARCH 14

SYNOPSIS:

Mikel has decided to change his life and accepts a distant relative’s invitation to travel to Argentina and settle there. However, it’s not long before he realizes that his uncle Chelo is nothing more than an affable gambler and drinker who has nothing to offer him. As if that wasn’t bad enough, things become even more complicated when Chelo’s mother Amuma Dolores awakens from a lethargy of ten years on hearing Mikel sing a lullaby in Basque and mistaking him for her brother Juanito, Mikel’s grandfather. From then on, the whole village sets about making Dolores believe that she is still in her native Bermeo of the 50s. Mikel will have nothing better to do than act as a peacemaker between Dolores’ squabbling children, Chelo and Begoña, with the help and complicity of Inés, the eternally cheerful caregiver of Amuma Dolores.

2022, Directed by Jabi Elortegi, 100 minutes, color, in Euskara & Spanish with English subtitles

• Showing at the Basque Cultural Center, Thursday, March 14, 2024  |  FREE

About the Director – JABI ELORTEGI

Jabi Elortegi (Bermeo, Bizkaia. 1969) studied audiovisual production at the CEV in Madrid. He has directed feature-length fictions including Zorion perfektua (New Directors, 2008), TV movies such as Go!azen (2009), winner of the Academia de Televisión Award (ATV) for Best Children’s Programme, documentaries like Galerna. The Uknown Storm (2012) and 1983. Euskadi inundada (2013). He has also directed the series: Goenkale (2004-2007), Balbemendi (2006-2007), Aitaren etxea (ETB Gala, 2015), Go!azen (2016-2018), Ihesaldia (2019) and Beti mugan (2020).