Directing
Maria Elorza Deias (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1988) is a filmmaker and editor. She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, with a master's degree in Creation and Research in Art from the EHU/UPV.
At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their films, their points of view, their dreams, their efforts to get somewhere, their contribution to the cinema and to society.
A woman was almost called Avioneta (Small Airplane) at birth. Another had a library in the back seat of her car. Yet another fractures her finger with the rebel shelves of her bookshop. Lectors read to cigar makers while they work. Women remember poems while they iron. And to them all I sing.
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
There are pictures that do not exist. And pictures that exist twice. Neither of these places exists any more.
The neighbourhood of Housewives. The district of Insomniacs. The newsstand of the Unknown Mother. The underground of The Lonely Women. Our walls pay tribute to the people we love.