
Writing
Michel Gaztambide
Apt, France
Michel Gaztambide is a screenwriter and poet born in Provence in 1959, son of emigrant parents, who later returned to Pamplona, where he lived until 1983. Since then he has lived in San Sebastian.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.8Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.
The Vault
2021
7.1Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Close Your Eyes
2023
6.5Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.
Box 507
2002
5.2A handyman named Hans moves to a small town in Majorca where his his presence strikes a discord with the local residents.
Me
2007
4.8After moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.
The Influence
2019
6.5Libertad is a combination of intense drama, villainy , betrayal , romance , heroism and redemption . Dealing with revenge, justice , ambition and redemption that turns out to be the main axis of the plot . This is a Bandoleros movie regarding outlaws in 19th century Andalucía, Spain, who alone or in bands , engulfed the region with merciless assaults and ominous murders , while authorities carried out terrible punishments and bloody executions
Libertad
2021
9.0A middle-aged widower, who lives surrounded by memories of his marriage, receives a letter from the City Council informing him that his wife's remains are going to be moved to the communal ossuary.
Muerto de amor
1996
6.0Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
No Rest for the Wicked
2011
6.2Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthless man. On her path to uncovering the truth, Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the story of these characters begins to intertwine in a spiral of malice, family secrets and violence that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path to hope and redemption.
Petra
2018
7.0Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
Kalebegiak
2016
War correspondent David Jiménez becomes editor of El Mundo newspaper and discovers hidden deals with elites while pushing digital changes. His fight for editorial independence leads to his removal after a year.
El Director
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5.7In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share a house with their memories and the ghosts of the people they have loved throughout their lifes. They know that sooner or later they will buy their ticket for their final journey. Marcos and Roma are young and alone. She's a nurse and paints windows that embellish the views from her room. Marcos is a street performer with no home of his own, clinging to his accordion and a pile of questions. They don't know that sooner or later they will all set out on a journey together.
A Tram in SP
2008
6.5An act of cowardice influences the lives of two Basque families over three generations.
Cows
1992
7.0Fito (Juan Sanz) is a poker addict truck driver and labor problems that his wife Juana (Zay Nuba) tries to overcome. A day will come Pedro (Jose Coronado), the brother Fito, absent from his life for 13 years.
La vida mancha
2003
6.2The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.
Amama
2015
5.8Fernando, lives in the heart of Barcelona's Chinatown, which seeks life peddling amphetamines and alternating with a peculiar gallery sinister characters. In one of those sunrises stolen life, Fernando meet Elsa, a young teenager, fresh and lively, with a passionate and self-destructive personality who unwittingly become the most addictive. Together they try to survive in a shadowy villain and Barcelona at the end of the day is taken by the renegades of society and their particular codes.
El idioma imposible
2010
NRA film crew travels to the Valley of Baztan to make a film about certain events that occurred in the seventeenth century is the history of discrimination suffered by so-called "agotes", people who were forced to live apart from the rest almost to our days.
Baztan
2012
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Neckan
2017
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Hombre sin Hombre
2001
10.0Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.
Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest
1990
7.0Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.
Chatarra
1991
