Elías Querejeta

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta (2012)

La conspiración (2012)

Al final del túnel (2011)

Full-length documentary about this very decisive moment in time for the future when ETA is apparently ceasing their violence. Using first-hand testimonies by people whose lives have either revolved or are still revolving around the consequences of the Basq ...

Cerca de tus ojos (2009)

Ana is a journalist taken by her work to all sorts of different places the world over. Ever since her youth, influenced by her father, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its contents have been a place from which she observes the individual and c ...

Seven Billiard Tables (2007)

Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man's lover, explains the dire traits suffer ...

Goodbye, America (2007)

Documentary about Al Lewis. He sits in the make-up chair and remembers part of his 92 years life. ...

Noticias de una guerra (2006)

January 1, 1936, general elections in Spain. Is the second time that women can vote. The electoral campaign shows clearly the differences between left and right. February 1, the 72% of the census has voted. Narrowly wins "Frente Popular". Since that momen ...

Avant l'oubli (2005)

Jeanne fled the Franco regime at the end of the 1930s. Married and mother of a little girl, she worked in a soap factory leading a peaceful life until the day she was asked to pass out leaflets in her factory. to Algerian workers. ...

Winter in Baghdad (2005)

A look at the effects of the American occupation of Iraq, told by various people living in Baghdad. ...

Pursued (2004)

Basque Country, Spain. No one seems to know them. Some glances avoid theirs. Their social circle becomes smaller and smaller. They live under escort, watched by those who protect them and by those who threaten them: it is the experience of living in the sh ...

Condenados al corredor (2003)

The condemned man Thomas Miller the day the U.S. Supreme Court halted his execution. That day began filming a new documentary about his case and that of other prisoners on death row. It also tells the story of Dorothy Miller, the partner of Thomas, who has ...

Mondays in the Sun (2002)

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficia ...

Assassination in February (2001)

A reflection on the assassinations of social democrat politician Fernando Buesa Blanco and his bodyguard Jorge Díez Elorza, perpetrated by the terrorist gang ETA in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, on February 22, 2000. ...

The Back of the World (2000)

This documentary looks at "the back of the world": small children working as quarrymen in Peru, Kurdish political refugees from Turkey, and families and inmates awaiting the end on Mississippi's Death Row. ...

By My Side Again (1999)

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has ...

Barrio (1998)

Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex c ...

Shampoo Horns (1998)

Sensationalistic group portrait of New York City ''club kids,'' makes you long for those good old days when Andy Warhol's self-appointed superstars brought a certain humor and bohemian sense of style to his semi-improvised films. ...

Robert Rylands' Last Journey (1996)

Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there. ...

Family (1996)

Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry ...

The City of Lost Children (1995)

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process. ...

Stories from the Kronen (1995)

Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers ...

The Devil's Breath (1993)

A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled hunter, his wife Priscila, and their two children, a mute son named Pablo and a beautiful daughter named ...

A Passing Season (1992)

As he does at the end of every summer, Antonio climbs onto his roof to sweep out his chimney. From this vantage point, he sees that repairs have begun on one of the neighbouring houses - the one formerly inhabited by the "Nazi" (a guy's name), which after ...

Letters from Alou (1990)

A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the letters h ...

El viaje del agua (1990)

Water is a constructive element of life and man needs to order it, distribute it and above all, appreciate it as a necessary good. ...

27 Hours (1986)

Drama on juvenile delinquency, unemployment and drugs. Jon, a boy of twenty, gets up at seven o'clock and from that moment we can see how he lives the friendship, love, family relationships and his dark passion for drugs. ...

Tasio (1984)

The childhood, love adventures, and ordinary life of Tasio, a coal maker in rural Navarre. ...

Ferocious (1984)

After Pablo runs away from being shackled in a cabin, he spends the winter in a cave and emerges as a bear. With the help of a writer, Pablo tries to renter human society. ...

El Sur (1983)

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father. ...

Sweet Hours (1982)

Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the ...

A través del fútbol (1982)

Short documentary on the history of spanish football with the colaboration of the Real Sociedad football club. ...

Faster, Faster (1981)

Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo's gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward obl ...

Dedicated to... (1980)

A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair ...

Los primeros metros (1980)

Eight young people have the opportunity to express themselves through film. They had no prior filmmaking experience. Once each project is finished with complete freedom, they stand in front of the camera and explain how they made it, what they learned, how ...

Mama Turns 100 (1979)

Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. ...

Blindfolded Eyes (1978)

A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins to receive threatening letters. ...

What Max Said (1978)

A mature man tries to ease his loneliness with fleeting encounters with friends, his lover, old acquaintances and his teenage daughter. ...

To an Unknown God (1977)

José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively. ...

Elisa, My Life (1977)

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and he ...

The Disenchantment (1976)

This film is a documentary about the poet Leopoldo Panero. His widow and his sons talk about death in general in this special case, and also about their own family problems. ...

Cria! (1976)

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother. ...

Pascual Duarte (1976)

In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits a horrible act during a day of such heat that enervates his disturbed mind and his anger, which he will no ...

Cousin Angelica (1974)

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who w ...

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existi ...

Yankee Dudler (1973)

After years in prison, a gang of criminals are deported from Bavaria and arrive as free immigrants to America. They kill an Indian by accident and do different jobs such as cleaning latrines, until they get installed in an abandoned house next to an Indian ...

Anna and the Wolves (1973)

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family. ...

Love Letter of a Murderer (1972)

A man (José Luis López Vázquez) walks into a bar and shoots four people dead. Next day everybody is talking about the murders. The police know who the killer is and have his photo, but the man himself remains at large. Blanca (Serena Vergano), a lonely ...

The Garden of Delights (1970)

The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory. ...

Las secretas intenciones (1970)

Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, t ...

The Challenges (1969)

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the American male in all three. ...

Honeycomb (1969)

Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth. ...

Stress Is Three (1968)

Set in one-day, three people embark together on a car trip from Madrid to Almeria. Antonio (Cebrián) is a successful industrialist, however he is dismayed that his personal life does not reflect his glittering career. He is insecure about his faltering ma ...

Smashing Up (1968)

Matilde is a former prostitute who gets married to an american soldier with an uncertain future, due to the possibility of being recruited to the Vietnam War. ...

Peppermint Frappé (1967)

Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman. ...

De cuerpo presente (1967)

After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work. ...

Next Fall (1967)

Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois French tourist girl and a Spanish working class boy. ...

The Last Meeting (1967)

A flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl. ...

The Hunt (1966)

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up. ...

The Innocents (1963)

A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial. ...

Summer Night (1963)

Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie during the time between two Saint John's eve festivals. ...

A través de San Sebastián (1960)

A peculiar walk through the Basque city of San Sebastián along twisting roads never traveled by guidebook users. ...

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta (2012)

The Footprints of a Spirit (1998)

The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973. ...