Movies: Isabel Herguera

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian....

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...

Inés, a Spanish artist, lives in India and stumbles upon Sultana's Dream, a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes Ladyland, a utopia in which women rule the country while men live in seclusion and are responsible for h...

A blind man accidentally loses his guide-dog. Alone in the dark in a big city, he discovers that his strength lies in recognising his own vulnerability....

The story of a pioneer of the engine who dreamt of dragonflies as a child and died living out his dream....

The animation is based on a sound piece of Xabier Erkizia, created from an interview given by the musician Santiago Irigoyen....

A fortune teller convinces the deceased in a cemetery in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico to cross the U.S. border....

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse g...

Animated documentary which uses the voices and drawings of a group of children who live in a clinic in India. The guitar, the dances, a trip out to sea, the cats Sweety and Kitty, and the sisters who look after them are just some of the treasures and...

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In Ahmedabad, Isabel gives an animation workshop on Mehndi design to a group of temporary tattoo artists. She asks them about their dreams: Ramia would love to fly, Saadiya dreams of an all-woman parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland...

Inés travels to India to visit her friend Ámár, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Inés remembers the last days they spent together and her promise to return....

A van approaches the lighthouse of Monte Igueldo on the bay off San Sebastián. A woman and her dog live in the tower. The moving boxes are packed with files and paper. Before the driver can load them, we are given access to the unusual interior of th...

This family story contains a private reading of ten years in the history of Spain, from the birth of two brothers of the author until the death of the Spanish dictator in 1975....

This animated girl’s portrait is the result of a workshop with Mehendi artists in India that was part of the project development of the feature-length film “Sultana’s Dream”. Detailed henna drawings illustrate 15-year-old Sadhya’s tale. Her family ar...

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love that slowly vanishes into the winter landscape...