Nora

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SYNOPSIS:

Nora is 30 years old; she lives with her Argentinian grandfather Nicol·s and regularly takes care of her friend Meri’s children. She writes the horoscope for the town newspaper, although her dream is to be a travel writer. When her grandfather dies, she inherits an old Dyane 6. Despite being a terrible driver, Nora will set out aimlessly on a road trip along the Basque coast so that her grandfather’s ashes may finally rest beside those of her grandmother. The road will soon teach her that she’s not a born traveler and that her dream had nothing to do with roving, but was only an excuse for the chance to be free, to grow, to close wounds and, for the first time, to find her own happiness.

More Info: https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2020/sections_and_films/zinemira/7/680071/in

2020, directed by Fernando Bernues, color, in Euskara & Castilian with English subtitles, 95 minutes

• Showing at the San Francisco Basque Cultural Center, 7:30 p.m.  |  FREE

About the Director – Lara Izagirre

Lara Izagirre (Amorebieta-Etxano, Bizkaia, 1985) graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the University of the Basque Country, continued her film studies at the New York Film Academy, and completed the master’s degree in script writing at the ESCAC. In 2010 she founded the production company Gariza Produkzioak, from where she has written, directed and produced the short films Bicycle Poem (2010), Kea (2012), Next Stop: Greenland (2012), Sormenaren Bide Ezkutuak (2013), presented in the Culinary Zinema section at San Sebastian, and Larroxa (2013). In 2015, she premiered her first fictional feature, Un otoÒo sin BerlÌn (An Autumn without Berlin), at the San Sebastian Festival’s Basque Cinema Gala. Its leading actress, Irene Escolar, won the Goya for Best New Actress. Nora was selected for the Co-Production Forum at San Sebastian in 2018.