Directing

Mirentxu Loyarte

Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

Mirentxu Loyarte (Pamplona, 1938-2025) was a filmmaker, considered the first female Basque filmmaker. She made two short films: 'Irrintzi' (1978) and 'Ikuska 12: Euskal emakumeak' (1982). They are politically committed films, as she was in favor of cinema as a political weapon for the transformation of society. In recent years her work has been vindicated by various feminist filmmakers and researchers.

Acting credits

An account of the creative exile of Mirentxu Loyarte, one of those brave, unknown pioneers of European cinema, examining her memory and work; the search for a cinematographic treasure made of flesh and bone…

Echoing Calls

2016

Behind the camera

Dialogue with four basque women on the situation of women in the early '80s in the Basque Country.

Ikuska 12: Euskal emakumeak

1981

Dialogue with four basque women on the situation of women in the early '80s in the Basque Country.

Ikuska 12: Euskal emakumeak

1981

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7.0

An experimental film set during the transition period after the death of Franco that explores Basque identity and state oppression of the Basque population.

Irrintzi

1978

No artwork available

7.0

An experimental film set during the transition period after the death of Franco that explores Basque identity and state oppression of the Basque population.

Irrintzi

1978