Maixabel

Sinopsis

Fiction. Maixabel Lasa lost her husband, Juan María Jaúregui, assassinated by ETA in 2000. Eleven years later, she receives an unusual request: one of the men who killed him has asked to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Alava, where he is serving sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist gang. Despite the doubts and the immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with the people who ended the life of who was his partner since she was 16 years old. "Everyone deserves a second chance," she says when asked about the reasons for sitting in front of the man who killed her husband.

Iciar Bollaín

Director, screenwriter and actress, Icíar Bollaín (Madrid, 1967) began in the cinema as an actress at the age of 15 under the command of Víctor Erice in El sur (1983). In 1991, she founded Producciones La Iguana to promote her own projects as a director. Hola,¿estás sola? (1995) was her first feature film. Later came films like Flores de otro mundo (1999); Te doy mis ojos (2003), for which he received two Goya awards for Best direction and Best screenplay; Mataharis (2007); También la lluvia (2010), with a script by Paul Laverty and Kathmandu, un Espejo en el cielo (2011). The filmmaker tries the documentary genre with En tierra extraña (2014) to return to fiction with El olivo (2016). Two years later, she releases Yuli (2018) and in 2020 she directs Candela Peña in La boda de Rosa. Founder of CIMA (Association of women filmmakers and audiovisual media), she is one of the Spanish directors who has succeeded in putting together closeness to viewers with her own style that combines sensitivity and elegance.