The 22nd Bidasoa International Archaeology Film Festival-FICAB
Awards
- Grand Prize of the Festival: "Les etrusques, une civilisation mysterieuse de la Méditerranée", directed by Alexis de Favitsky
- Special Audience Prize: "El sueño de la vida de eterna", directed by Javier Trueba.
- Prize of the Educational Section: "The Antikythera Cosmos", directed by Martin Freeth.
- Special Mention of the Educational Section: "Arte paleolitikoa argitara", directed by Alaitz Ochoa de Eribe
- Arkeolan Prize for Contribution to Science: "L´Appia Minturnae. Il videodiario di scavo", directed by Gianmatteo Matullo.
IRUN, CAPITAL CITY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CINEMA
The mayor of Irun, José Antonio Santano, accompanied by the director of Oiasso Roman Museum, Juanjo Jiménez, and the director of FICAB, Aizpea Goenaga, presented this year´s edition of the Bidasoa International Archaeology Film Festival. The 22nd edition of the event, taking place from 14 to 19 November, will boast some new features. To provide information about the contents of this edition, many of the protagonists attended the presentation. Among them were representatives of the Donostia-San Sebastián Aquarium, Tabakalera, Euskadi ONCE [National Association of the Blind], as well as Toki Alai, a school in Irun playing a special part in this year´s educational section.
"It is a unique film festival and a source of pride for the city to have an initiative which puts us on the map thanks to heritage and archaeology. In addition, this 22nd edition arrives at a time when we want to give a new boost to this great Roman museum with the rehabilitation of the thermae, which will be a significant milestone in Irun´s commitment to continue bringing its citizens closer to our past," stated the mayor.
To begin with, the jury, which in this edition will be chaired by the actress Itziar Ituño, was officially revealed this Monday. She will be accompanied by jury members Amaia Arranz, Doctor of Archaeobotany and specialist in Prehistory, Carlos Coros, anthropologist and Director of the Archaeological Museum of the Andes (Chile), Fernando Pérez, Director of Azkuna Zentroa [Bilbao Society and Contemporary Culture Centre] and Mertxe Urteaga, Doctor of archaeology and member of the Historical and Artistic Heritage Department of the Gipuzkoan Regional Government. Some of them will take part in the presentations and discussions which will be held after the screenings.
In addition, the renowned archaeologist Xabier Peñalver will attend the discussions held at 5 PM from Monday to Friday in the conference hall of Amaia KZ. This can be accessed from the side of the hall, from Aureliano López de Becerra street.
We will also welcome Javier Trueba, who will attend as a guest to present his latest film, El sueño de la vida eterna [Eternal Life Dream], on Wednesday 16 November at 7 PM in the Amaia KZ auditorium. This film, in collaboration with ONCE, is the selected documentary made available to people with visual impairment thanks to the AUDESC system. Those who wish to attend this film must download the Audesc application onto their mobiles beforehand, in order to gain access to the audio description of the film.
Educational Section
This year, the Educational Section will be reinforced by the ARK-MO initiative, where, thanks to the support of schools, young people emphasise the value of their area´s heritage by means of 5-minute-long short films which will be presented in the Education Section of the FICAB Festival. These short films will be followed by films chosen by the students and subtitled in Basque. Schools will also have access to the pedagogical project carried out by Ikertze concerning the film Arte Paleolito Argitara.
Another great new feature is the window devoted to Historical and Archaeological Memory, where two films on this subject will be screened on Saturday 19 at 11 AM. We will also continue to enjoy our collaboration with the Donostia-San Sebastián Aquarium, where films about underwater themes will be screened, with the presence of Mertxe Urteaga and Ander Arrese. The festival´s presence in San Sebastián will be doubled because this year we have a new collaborator: Tabakalera, which will host the educational session for students from the Donostialdea region.
Meanwhile, Bizinema Irun will collaborate with the festival again this year by decorating the Amaia KZ hall, and holding a thematic photocall, and will also enliven this edition´s prize-giving gala. The decorations can be enjoyed throughout the week of the festival and, with Prehistory and Ancient Egypt providing the themes. The closing film of the 22nd FICAB will be Monty Python´s interpretation of the Arthurian Middle Ages: Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
About thirty films
With regard to the competing films, 29 films have been selected for the 22nd edition, as well as 5 ARK-MO short films. From 14 to 19 November, there will be a total of 37 screenings, plus the closing film. Tickets for all sessions are free of charge, and are now available via the internet https://amaiakz.sacatuentrada.es/. The prizes to be distributed are as follows:
- Festival Grand Prize: Prize 2,000 euros.
- Special Audience Prize: Prize 1,000 euros.
- Educational Section Prize: Prize 750 euros.
- Arkeolan Prize for Scientific Dissemination: No financial prize.
The FICAB complete programme is now available and all information concerning the FICAB Festival is included in the websites www.irun.org and www.ficab.org. Once again, it will also be possible to watch all the films online during the festival via the platform https://tv.festhome.com/.
It is worth pointing out that this year´s poster, the work of Juantxo Tolosa, is an homage to the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun´s tomb. Lastly, once the festival has finished and thanks to the collaboration with the Arkeologi Museoa de Bizkaia [Archaeological Museum of Bizkaia], FICAB will visit Bilbao, where the four winning films in the 22nd edition will be screened on 23, 24, 29, and 30 November.
technical information
22nd EDITION
Year: 2022
Data:: between 14th and 19th November
- PROGRAM
Monday, 14 November 2022
17:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HISTORY PILLS Amaia KZ conference room. Irun.
17:00. Tlalocan, below the city of gods. Production: Mariana Lizárraga Rodríguez. Direction: Carlos R. Montes de Oca. México, 2022, 97 minutos. Language: Castellano.
Tlalocan, Below the City of Gods tells the Teotihuacan origin myth, when the rain discovered the entrance to the Underworld. Alongside the archaeologist Sergio Gómez Chávez, we explore the tunnel discovered beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in the Teotihuacan archaeological monument zone. A historical find which provides evidence for the greatness of ancient Mexican cultures and their connection with nature and the cosmos.
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
11:00. EDUCATIONAL SECTION. Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun
11:10. Paleolithic art brought to light. Direction: Nagore Rementeria Direction: Ochoa de Eribe, Alaitz. España, 2021, 13 minutos. Language: Euskera.
A team of archaeologists from the Paleolithic Research Institute of Cantabria has made a 3D reconstruction of the shelf of the horses in Atxurra cave. They want to see paleolithic art with the same illumination used by its creators. They have tried different lighting systems, such as grease lamps and torches, and have carefully measured the lighting power of each one. The result of their work is really amazing.
17:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HISTORY PILLS Amaia KZ conference room. Irun.
19:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun.
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
11:00. EDUCATIONAL SECTION. Tabakalera. Donostia-San Sebastián
11:00. ARK-MO: Makka. Txile/Chile. 2022 5'
11:05. ARK-MO: Tabla de rape. Txile/Chile. 2022 5'
11:15. The Champollion brothers. Production: TSVP. Production: ARTE France. Production: ARTE France. Direction: Jacques Plaisant. Francia, 2022, 92 minutos. Language: Francés.
On the morning of 14 September 1822, in a room under the roof in Paris, Jean-François Champollion finally reached his goal. The decoding of a last cartouche had just provided him with the missing elements. A thousand-year-old civilisation had found the word... It was the culmination of a quest lasting almost 30 years. Crazy with joy, he rushes into the arms of the man who was his mentor over the decades: his elder brother, Jacques-Joseph. History has only remembered the younger brother, yet the deciphering of the hieroglyphs was that of a duo: two brothers who believed in their destiny, and one by one pushed back the obstacles to finally succeed, where generations of researchers had given up.
17:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HISTORY PILLS Amaia KZ conference room. Irun.
17:00. Arqueomanía: death on the Nile. Production: La Nave de Tharsis. Production: RTVE. Production: RTVE. Direction: Manuel Pimentel. España, 2022, 29 Minutos. Language: Castellano.
Zahi Hawass, the great "pope" of Egyptian archaeology, gives us an exclusive look at the latest discoveries in the Golden City of Luxor and provides an in-depth assessment of the work of Spanish Egyptologists in their missions inside Egypt. Manuel Pimentel goes to Egypt to make a journey from Upper to Lower Egypt. We will be on the spot for discoveries revealing the life of the great Pharaohs and their people. Kings and workers come to light after 3,000 years.
17:30. Egypt: the temples saved from the Nile. Production: Sequana Productions. Direction: Olivier Lamaître. Francia, 2018, 53 Minutos. Language: Francés.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the rescue of the Abu Simbel Temples by UNESCO, this film follows in the footsteps of the French and foreign missions that faced deserts and floods and managed to preserve some temples, although they had to leave others at the bottom of Lake Naser. Combining archives, stories and 3D animations, it brings to life the great adventure from Paris to the Nile which led to that spectacular rescue and gives us something to think about regarding heritage in danger today.
19:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - Aquarium. Donostia-San Sebastián / Auditorium Amaia KZ Irun
19:00. Aquarium. Donostia- San Sebastián. The wreck of the Bou Ferrer de la Vila-Joiosa: an extraordinary discovery. Direction: Moya, José Antonio Direction: Museo Arqueológico de Villajoyosa. España, 2021, 20 minutos. Language: Castellano.
The Bou Ferrer shipwreck is a large Roman trading ship which sank off the Atlantic coast when travelling between Cádiz and Rome in the first century after Christ. It was discovered by accident in 1999, and since then there have been several scientific excavations, with surprising results. The boat was carrying 4,000 amphoras of fish sauce produced in Cádiz and a shipment of lead ingots from the mines of Sierra Morena.
19:00. Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun: The Kheops world. Production: Gedeon Programmes. Direction: Tran, Florence Direction: Josselin Mahot. Francia, 2019, 53 Minutos. Language: Francés.
Kheops. The immensity of the edifice fascinates and gives way to the most irrational explanations: aliens, secret societies, Atlanteans, etc. Most of these theories are based on the pure and simple negation of two centuries of scientific research. It is time to tell the real story, to expose the facts, to show them, to give the keys to engage the passion and the critical spirit of the audience.
19:20. Aquarium. Donostia-San Sebastián: Undersea heritage. The museum at the bottom of the sea. Production: RAI Cultura. Direction: Eugenio Farioli Vecchioli Direction: Marta Saviane. Italia, 2021, 59 Minutos. Language: Italiano.
A journey to discover Italy's extraordinary underwater heritage. A true liquid museum, full of treasures. The wonders of the sunken city of Baia. The Albenga shipwreck, the largest Roman honour ship found in the Mediterranean. The dancing satyr of Mazara del Vallo, a masterpiece of Greek bronze statuary, found in the depths of the Sicilian Channel. And the amazing discovery of the naval rostrums from the battle of the Egadi Islands, on the island of Levanzo, where the Romans defeated the Carthaginians, ending the First Punic War.
19:55. Auditorium Amaia KZ Irun: Eternal life dream. Production: Madrid Scientific Films. Direction: Trueba, Javier. España, 2020, 53 Minutos. Language: Castellano.
The Djehuty Project discovers and carries out digs at the necropolis of Luxor, ancient Thebes, the first funeral garden in Pharaonic Egypt. This Spanish scientific achievement provides the backbone to a documentary about beliefs, rituals, art and objects associated with another world in the country on the banks of the Nile four thousand years ago. The common principle is the exciting archaeological work that brings them back to life, combining diverse gazes to offer a complete vision of the dream of eternal life and, by this means, interesting aspects of the environment and daily life of ancient Egyptians.
20:20. Aquarium. Donostia-San Sebastián: Arqueomanía: beneath the Mediterranean. Production: La Nave de Tharsis. Production: RTVE. Direction: Manuel Pimentel. España, 2022, 29 Minutos. Language: Castellano.
The waters of Portitxol Bay in Jávea, Alicante, are crystal clear and warm for most of the year. Its natural bays are a real safe haven. And they have been since the earliest days of Antiquity. An undersea expedition to one of its shipwrecks will provide proof. No one would guess that in Can Pastilla, in Mallorca, right near the shore, just 50 metres from where the waves break, a Roman ship is hiding its thousand year-old cargo from the from the view of tourists. The sea is the greatest archaeological site within our reach.
Thursday, 17 November 2022
11:00. EDUCATIONAL SECTION. Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun
11:00. ARK-MO: Herri bat, hamaika estrategia. Espainia/España. 4'
11:10. Paleolithic art brought to light. Direction: Nagore Rementeria Direction: Ochoa de Eribe, Alaitz. España, 2021, 13 minutos. Language: Euskera.
A team of archaeologists from the Paleolithic Research Institute of Cantabria has made a 3D reconstruction of the shelf of the horses in Atxurra cave. They want to see paleolithic art with the same illumination used by its creators. They have tried different lighting systems, such as grease lamps and torches, and have carefully measured the lighting power of each one. The result of their work is really amazing.
11:25. Talaiotic Menorca. Production: Espiral Producciones TV. Direction: Manuel Balaguer. España, 2021, 37 minutos. Language: Catalán.
For more than a thousand years, the Talaiotic people raised stone monuments reflecting not only their way of life, but also their social organisation and their beliefs and rituals. An exceptional culture which bequeathed hundreds of monuments which today make up an essential laboratory for the study of prehistory in the Balearic Islands. The Menorca Consell Insular [Island Council] is backing this documentary to support the candidacy for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List. This project aims to confront the challenge of continuing to look after their conservation and to take advantage of the opportunity to discover and share this journey, a journey through a civilisation which is still alive and present in all of this island's landscapes.
12:05. The Antikythera Cosmos. Production: Tony Freeth. Production: Images First. Direction: Martin Freeth. Reino Unido, 2021, 30 Minutos. Language: Inglés.
The Antikythera Research Team at University College London (UCL) struggle to create a model of the front of the iconic Antikythera Mechanism -a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1901. This scientific detective story solves a fiendish 3D jigsaw puzzle to reveal a dazzling display of the ancient Greek Cosmos -a creation of genius, combining cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato’s Academy and ancient Greek astronomical theories.
17:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HISTORY PILLS Amaia KZ conference room. Irun.
17:00. The Etruscans. A mysterious mediterranean civilisation. Production: ARTE France. Production: Galaxie Presse. Direction: Alexis de Favitski. Francia, 2022, 90 minutos. Language: Francés.
In 2019, in Aleria, Corsica, an archaeological team discovered an important Etruscan tomb dating from the fifth century BC. That tomb and all of its contents brought the island's Etruscan past back to the surface. Said civilisation was one of the most prosperous in the ancient Mediterranean, but also one of the most enigmatic. Starting out from that exceptional discovery, as well as through the most prestigious Etruscan sites in France and Italy, a group of passionate archaeologists and historians reclaim its history, from its apogee to its decline.
19:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun.
19:00. The Antikythera Cosmos. Production: Tony Freeth. Production: Images First. Direction: Martin Freeth. Reino Unido, 2021, 30 Minutos. Language: Inglés.
The Antikythera Research Team at University College London (UCL) struggle to create a model of the front of the iconic Antikythera Mechanism -a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1901. This scientific detective story solves a fiendish 3D jigsaw puzzle to reveal a dazzling display of the ancient Greek Cosmos -a creation of genius, combining cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato’s Academy and ancient Greek astronomical theories.
19:30. Briga, the lost city. Production: Court-Jus Production. Production: France Télévision. Direction: Geoffroy, David. Francia, 2020, 52 Minutos. Language: Francés.
The mysterious ruins appeared in a Normandy forest. The first archaeological investigations, carried out in the 19th century, provided a glimpse of the presence of a monumental Roman sanctuary. At the beginning of the 21st century, while the sanctuary was plundered repeatedly, the archaeologist Etienne Mantel undertook new excavations. Confronted with the importance of the finds, Etienne had a feeling that the forest could really be hiding the remains of a lost Roman city. Spectacular discoveries followed, until he achieved the dream of many archaeologists: the revelation of the name of the lost city!
20:25. The Appian Way in Minturnae. The video diary of an excavation. Direction: Gianmateo Matullo Direction: SABAP di Latina, Frosinone e Rieti. Italia, 2021, 33 Minutos. Language: Italiano.
In 2020 a new archaeological campaign was led at Minturnae within the area called ‘Castrum'. The excavations brought to light a new stretch of the Appia Road and amazing public buildings facing the 'Ragina Viarum' (queen of all the roads). This is the videodiary by the archaeologist Gianmatteo Matullo of the excavations and the amazing discoveries done during the extraordinary archaeological campaign that unveiled an unknown history of the Appia at Minturnae.
Friday, 18 November 2022
00:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HISTORY PILLS Amaia KZ conference room. Irun.
11:00. EDUCATIONAL SECTION. Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun
11:00. Paleolithic art brought to light. Direction: Nagore Rementeria Direction: Ochoa de Eribe, Alaitz. España, 2021, 13 minutos. Language: Euskera.
A team of archaeologists from the Paleolithic Research Institute of Cantabria has made a 3D reconstruction of the shelf of the horses in Atxurra cave. They want to see paleolithic art with the same illumination used by its creators. They have tried different lighting systems, such as grease lamps and torches, and have carefully measured the lighting power of each one. The result of their work is really amazing.
11:00. ARK-MO: Gazteluzar bost mende Bidasoako zaindari. Espainia/Spain. 2022 5'
11:25. The islamic Baydha project. Production: Micaela Sinibaldi. Direction: . Jordania, 2021, 21 Minutos. Language: Árabe, Inglés.
Baydha is located outside Petra, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, and after the Byzantine period, it became one of the main centers of settlement in the area. The site of Islamic Baydha holds today the most significant and accessible evidence of Islamic-period settlement, as well as the only two mosques ever excavated in the region. The Islamic Baydha Project, part of a broader project, the Late Petra Project, investigating the Islamic period in the Petra Region, is a project of archaeological investigations, archaeological training and community engagement where these aspects work in close synergy.
11:45. Ateius and the Terra sigillata italica. Production: Altair4 Multimedia. Direction: Galifi, Pietro. Italia, 2022, 4 minutos. Language: Inglés.
The manufacture of a new type of pottery commenced in around 50 BC in Arezzo. In just a few decades, it became very successful, reaching the furthest Roman provinces: the so-called Terra Sigilata Italica. One of the most enterprising manufacturers was Ateius.
11:50. Ludus talorum. Direction: Alicia Satué Direction: Alicia Satué. España, 2022, 27 minutos. Language: Latín.
Sixth-form Latin students from Rentería and Oiartzun reconstruct the Roman game of knucklebones in a film in datylic hexameters, paying tribute to the lost work by the Emperor Claudius about Roman games, while also making references to the TV series I, Claudius, inspired by the Robert Graves novel.
17:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HISTORY PILLS Amaia KZ conference room. Irun.
17:00. Petra expedition, on the rail of the nabateans. Production: Laurent Pilatte. Direction: Nathalie Laville. Francia, 2021, 90 minutos. Language: Francés.
The archaeologist Laïla Nehmé has set herself a crazy challenge: to lead an expedition in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Jordan to find the exact route of the incense route. Through this unprecedented archaeological investigation, in the form of a road movie, we will explore an entire civilization: that of the Nabateans, the masters of the desert. Who were they? How did they manage to build such a powerful kingdom? What was their religion, their beliefs? How did they live? The latest archaeological discoveries made in Hegra and Petra, the capital of the kingdom, will complete the portrait of this still very mysterious civilization.
19:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun.
19:00. Roman engineering- structures. Production: Digivision. Direction: Muñiz, José Antonio. España, 2022, 56 Minutos. Language: Castellano.
The public works engineer Isaac Moreno takes us on a journey of discovery to the most spectacular and ingenious structures and buildings of the Roman Empire, uncovering the technologies and engineering that made them possible. We will see that modern architects and engineers inherited Etruscan architecture and were inspired by Greek architecture, and how they incorporated extraordinary innovations to them in the fields of technology and materials. We will reach the understanding that, in this way, Rome became the biggest and most monumental city in Antiquity and large constructions flooded the empire.
20:00. Langobardi, Alboin and romans. Production: Matteo Grudina. Production: Invicti Lupi. Direction: Simone Vrech. Italia, 2021, 53 Minutos. Language: Italiano.
This movie is an innovative docufilm about history of Lombard with an interaction between cinema and historical disclosure. It is focused on the story of Alboin, the first Lombard king arrived in Italy with his population. In the midst of the events of this legendary king will be shown innovative images and strong emotional impact, where you will see how the Lombard people lived.
Saturday, 19 November 2022
11:00. OFFICIAL SECTION - HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEMORY. Auditorium Amaia KZ. Irun.
11:00. Fire memories. Production: Irineu Cruzeiro Neto. Production: Leandro Olimpio. Production: Leandro Olimpio. Direction: Rita de Cassia Melo Santos. Brasil, 2022, 8 minutos. Language: Portugués.
For many of the indigineous people, not always the fire can be dominated. Going through a history marked by fascination, greed, destruction and revolt, the fire associates itself in all the world's oprimited people fights. What is left when everything turns into ash?
11:10. Pico Reja. The truth hidden by the earth. Production: Singular Producciones. Direction: Remedios Malvárez Direction: Arturo Andújar. España, 2021, 92 minutos. Language: Castellano.
The Spanish Civil War followed by Franco’s regime has left a legacy of terror: tens of thousands of murdered civilians, buried anonymously and lost to oblivion. Not only were they denied the right to live but also the right to a dignified burial, the right to be remembered. Decades later, Spain has been left riddled with mass graves. The grave known as Pico Reja is one of the largest mass graves in Europe. Located in the cemetery of Seville, it is estimated that more than 2000 civilian victims of Francoist repression are buried here. “Pico Reja” is not a history documentary, but rather a reconstruction of historical memory in an attempt to create a space for reflection, analyzing the past and the keys for understanding the present.
18:30. CLOSING AWARD CEREMONY. Auditorium Amaia KZ Irun
19:00. Closing movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Production: Mark Forstater. Production: Michael White. Direction: Terry Gilliam Direction: Terry Jones. Reino Unido, 1975, 92 minutos. Language: Inglés.
King Arthur and his most loyal knights receive the divine task of looking for the Holy Grail. Throughout their endless quest, they must fight with the most dangerous enemies of the Faith, from bloodthirsty beasts, witches, soothsayers, rival knights and even a man-eating rabbit. The Monty Python team parody medieval England, and the legendary story of King Arthur and his Knights in this satire full of humour, irony and sarcasm.
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