Amama

The film is about a conflict inside a Basque family. What comes up against each other are two ways of living. On one side the village and the tie to the land, on the other the city. On one side the past, on the other the present. Parents and children sit at the same table but do not want the same thing. The oldest person in the house, the grandmother, watches it. She does not speak; her silence becomes the account itself. In Basque, amama means grandmother. The film builds where the family is going through her look. Kandido Uranga and Iraia Elias take the leads in Asier Altuna’s Spanish film of 2015.