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Obaba<br />
Young Lurdes takes on a trip to the Pyrenean Obaba<br />
territories, all along the ’87 curves’, to the place full of<br />
riddles and mysteries. With her video camera she sets out<br />
to capture Obaba’s reality and its people, but she will find<br />
much more, maybe her inner self and meaning.<br />
In Merche, Ismael, Tomás or Miguel she finds friends but<br />
she sees also that they seem trapped in a past they cannot<br />
escape. Gradually, she learns about them diving into their<br />
childhood and brings about the common threads that<br />
link them together. But as Lurdes tries to solve the puzzle,<br />
there is always something missing, something that escapes<br />
that neither she nor her video camera can hold or explain,<br />
like the mysterious behavior of the lizards that live<br />
there …<br />
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of<br />
Production 20<strong>05</strong> Director Montxo Armendáriz Screenplay<br />
Montxo Armendáriz Director of Photography Javier<br />
Aguirresarobe Editor Rori Sáinz de Rozas Production Design<br />
Julio Esteban, Julio Torrecilla Producers Puy Oria, Montxo<br />
Armendáriz, Karl Baumgartner, Michael Eckelt Production<br />
Companies Oria <strong>Films</strong>/Madrid, Pandora Film/Cologne, Neue<br />
Impuls Film/Hamburg Principal Cast Pilar López de Ayala, Juan<br />
Diego Botto, Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Peter Lohmeyer,<br />
Mercedes Sampietro, Héctor Colomé, Pepa López, Lluis Homar,<br />
Txema Blasco, Iñake Irastorza, Juan Sanz, Ryan Cameron, Christian<br />
Tardío Length 107 min, 2,943 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85<br />
Original Version Spanish Subtitled Version English Sound<br />
Technology Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Toronto 20<strong>05</strong><br />
(Masters), San Sebastian 20<strong>05</strong> (Opening Film/In Competition)<br />
With backing from Televisión Espagñola, Canal+, EITB,<br />
Gobierno de Navarra, Eurimages, Ministero de Cultura/ICAA,<br />
MEDIA, FilmFoerderung Hamburg, ICO<br />
Montxo Armendáriz’s other films include: Tasio (1984), 27<br />
Hours (1986), Letters from Alou (1990), Stories from<br />
the Kronen (1995), Secrets of the Heart (1997), Broken<br />
Silence (2001), and Escenario móvil (2004).<br />
World Sales<br />
Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH · Thorsten Schaumann<br />
Bavariafilmplatz 8 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/<strong>German</strong>y<br />
phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20<br />
email: bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de · www.bavaria-film-international.de<br />
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Scene from “Obaba” (photo © José Luis López de Zubiría)
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