Maixabel
Maixabel
DIRECTOR
Icíar Bollaín
SCREENPLAY
Icíar Bollaín, Isa Campo
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Javier Agirre
EDITING
Nacho Ruiz Capillas
MUSIC
Alberto Iglesias
PRODUCERS
Kowalsky films, Feelgood media, Maixabel film
CAST
Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela, Urko Olazábal, Bruno Sevilla, Mikel Bustamante, Paule Barcenilla
YEAR
2021
COUNTRY
Spain
RUNTIME
115 min.
AWARDS:
Premio Goya per la migliore attrice protagonista 2022 · Blanca Portillo
Premio Goya per il miglior attore non protagonista 2022 · Urko Olazabal
Premio Goya per la migliore attrice rivelazione 2022 · María Cerezuela
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Maixabel
Maixabel
Maixabel Lasa loses her husband, Juan María Jáuregui, in 2000 at the hands of the ETA. She later becomes director of the Basque office for terrorism victims. Jáuregui’s killers have been sentenced to prison where they start to reject violence. Eleven years later, she receives an invitation for an interview from one of the killers of her husband, who is serving his sentence in a jail at Nanclares de la Oca in Álava, after cutting his ties with the terrorist group. Despite doubts and immense pain, Maixabel accepts the invitation and comes face to face with the man who took her husband’s life.
Opening Title
Icíar Bollaín
Madrid, Spain 1967
Director, screenwriter, actress
Iciar Bollaín (Madrid, 1967) has directed the feature films Hola, ¿estás sola? (Hi, Are You Alone, 1996); Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from Another World, 1999), awardwinner at the Cannes Critics’ Week; Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes, 2003), for which its two lead characters received both Silver Shells in San Sebastian and which landed seven Goyas; Mataharis (Official Selection, 2007); También la lluvia (Even the Rain, 2009), Panorama Award in Berlin; En tierra extraña (In a Foreign Land, Special Screenings, 2014); El olivo (The Olive Tree, 2015), Goya for Best New Actress; Yuli (2018), Jury Prize for Best Screenplay in San Sebastian, and La boda de Rosa (Rosa’s Wedding, 2020), Goya for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song and Special Jury Prize and Silver Biznaga for Best Supporting Actress in Malaga..
◊ Hola, ¿estás sola? (Hi, Are You Alone?, 1995) ◊ Flores de otro mundo (Flowers From Another World, 1999) ◊ Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes, 2003) ◊ Mataharis (2007) t-También la lluvia (Even the Rain, 2010) ◊ Katmandu (2011) ◊ El olivo (The Olive Tree, 2016) ◊ Yuli (Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story, 2018) ◊ La boda de Rosa (Rosa’s Wedding, 2020)
