
Directing
Jon Garaño
Born
1974-11-18 (51)
Place of birth
Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Euskal Herria
Known for
Directing
Credits
28 titles
Jon Garaño (San Sebastian, 1974) is a Basque filmmaker. He is a member of the film production company Moriarti.
Known for
6.6Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Giant
2017
6.9A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
The Endless Trench
2019
6.9Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Marco: The Invented Truth
2024
7.0San Diego, California. A Spanish taxi driver collects a client who asks to be taken to Miramar Street. These words are sufficient for the driver to feel that something in his life has just changed.
Miramar St.
2006
5.5Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter's ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to be Maite, her best friend when teenagers. They have not seen each other for more than 50 years. The hospital visits will show that the close relationship they had when teenagers is still alive. Their relationship was very special fifty years ago but nowadays the same feelings flourish. Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire?
For 80 Days
2010
6.8Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these gallantries increase, always on a Thursday and always with an anonymous sender, Ane’s life takes on a new direction. The life of Lourdes is also sent into turmoil by beautiful bouquets of flowers: Since the death of her husband in a traffic accident, flowers have been deposited regularly at the scene. Lourdes’ mother-in-law, Tere, is determined to get to the bottom of the anonymous flowers. Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga’s feature film debut pays charming homage to three headstrong women and the power of flowers.
Flowers
2014
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.6Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Giant
2017
6.6Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Giant
2017
6.9A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
The Endless Trench
2019
6.9Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Marco: The Invented Truth
2024
6.9Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Marco: The Invented Truth
2024
7.0San Diego, California. A Spanish taxi driver collects a client who asks to be taken to Miramar Street. These words are sufficient for the driver to feel that something in his life has just changed.
Miramar St.
2006
7.0San Diego, California. A Spanish taxi driver collects a client who asks to be taken to Miramar Street. These words are sufficient for the driver to feel that something in his life has just changed.
Miramar St.
2006
5.5Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter's ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to be Maite, her best friend when teenagers. They have not seen each other for more than 50 years. The hospital visits will show that the close relationship they had when teenagers is still alive. Their relationship was very special fifty years ago but nowadays the same feelings flourish. Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire?
For 80 Days
2010
5.5Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter's ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to be Maite, her best friend when teenagers. They have not seen each other for more than 50 years. The hospital visits will show that the close relationship they had when teenagers is still alive. Their relationship was very special fifty years ago but nowadays the same feelings flourish. Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire?
For 80 Days
2010
6.8Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these gallantries increase, always on a Thursday and always with an anonymous sender, Ane’s life takes on a new direction. The life of Lourdes is also sent into turmoil by beautiful bouquets of flowers: Since the death of her husband in a traffic accident, flowers have been deposited regularly at the scene. Lourdes’ mother-in-law, Tere, is determined to get to the bottom of the anonymous flowers. Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga’s feature film debut pays charming homage to three headstrong women and the power of flowers.
Flowers
2014
6.8Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these gallantries increase, always on a Thursday and always with an anonymous sender, Ane’s life takes on a new direction. The life of Lourdes is also sent into turmoil by beautiful bouquets of flowers: Since the death of her husband in a traffic accident, flowers have been deposited regularly at the scene. Lourdes’ mother-in-law, Tere, is determined to get to the bottom of the anonymous flowers. Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga’s feature film debut pays charming homage to three headstrong women and the power of flowers.
Flowers
2014
NRInaxio Perurena is a young stone-lifter who aims to achieve his most important record: lift the 300 kilos stone. His father, the legendary Iñaki Perurena, was the first man lifting that stone in 1987.
Perurena
2011
NRInaxio Perurena is a young stone-lifter who aims to achieve his most important record: lift the 300 kilos stone. His father, the legendary Iñaki Perurena, was the first man lifting that stone in 1987.
Perurena
2011
9.0This film offers a picture of the tense situation in which the Sahrawi people have lived for more than 30 years. The yearly celebration of a marathon in the Sahrawi refugee camps serves as the central focus of the story.
Sahara Marathon
2004
NRFather lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the finger as the net went out.
The Gold Ring
2011
NRSent to work, sent to earn a living. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth.
Asämara
2009
NRSent to work, sent to earn a living. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth.
Asämara
2009
NRYears after their break-up, Tanya and Josean meet again at a conference on renewable energy. She has a lot to tell him...
Renewable
2016
7.5After a period of time without seeing his mother, Anjel Mari decides to bite the bullet and go and visit her at the nursing home to which she has been admitted. He doesn’t like seeing how his mother has disappeared under the skin of a senile old woman who does not recognise her own children.
Mateo's Mother
2019
NRThe documentary shows the work of Mirentxu Egiguren and her colaborators in the Civic house known as 'La casa del Nazareno'.
La casa del nazareno
2010
NRThe documentary shows the work of Mirentxu Egiguren and her colaborators in the Civic house known as 'La casa del Nazareno'.
La casa del nazareno
2010
9.0The Dragon House portrays the confrontation between tradition and modernity which the Kingdom of Bhutan is currently experiencing. This is done by means of two Bhutanese characters: a young Buddhist monk, heir to the local tradition, and the first disc jockey to dare to play House and Techno music in the small Himalayan kingdom.
The Dragon House
2005
9.0The Dragon House portrays the confrontation between tradition and modernity which the Kingdom of Bhutan is currently experiencing. This is done by means of two Bhutanese characters: a young Buddhist monk, heir to the local tradition, and the first disc jockey to dare to play House and Techno music in the small Himalayan kingdom.
The Dragon House
2005
NRIn the outskirts of Caracas, in Petare, one of most violents hoods in South America, a woman teaches with "el método Julio" writing and reading.
El método Julio
2010
NRIn the outskirts of Caracas, in Petare, one of most violents hoods in South America, a woman teaches with "el método Julio" writing and reading.
El método Julio
2010
7.0An ordinary Saturday in the South of California. Adam, a lower middle class North-American man, sees off his wife and children to carry out his weekly task.
On the Line
2008
7.0An ordinary Saturday in the South of California. Adam, a lower middle class North-American man, sees off his wife and children to carry out his weekly task.
On the Line
2008

