Zinzindurrunkarratz

Synopsis

Oskar Alegria decides to retrace the seasonal migration path once taken by the shepherds of his village into the mountains. Only he can't find any living witnesses who can remember. His idea is to film it with his family's old Super 8 camera, but he discovers that, after 41 years of disuse, it no longer records sound. The forgotten path and the mute camera, along with a donkey named Paolo, become the protagonists of a journey filled with memories, questions and silence.

In this new poetic chapter by this acclaimed filmmaker, he once again delights us with an ode to slowness. Minimalistic cinema, almost a silent film on vanishing ways of walking and the role of sound in constructing our memories.

Biography and Films

Oskar Alegria (Pamplona, 1973) is a filmmaker, programmer and screenwriting teacher. A great number of his films have been screened at l'Alternativa, where he was featured in the _Satellites section in 2021, including his first two feature films, Emak Bakia baita (2012) and Zumiriki (2019), and his shorts Aritzakoa (2020), Erleketa (2020), Hotza (2018) and La lengua de los dioses (2018).

Emak Bakia baita played at over 70 festivals and won 17 awards, and Zumiriki premiered in the Orizzonti section at the 76th Venice Film Festival and won the New Waves Award for Best Non-Fiction Film at the Seville Film Festival.

He also programmes films and was artistic director of Punto de Vista festival from 2013 to 2016. He is also the author of the essays TIME and Oteiza al margen. Zinzindurrunkarratz is his third feature.