All the cards were on the table, so Muguruza had won earlier. Broken Brother Brass Band led the ceremony. Few Christians, but the faithful are sold in second line by the Non-Citizens. Muguruza did what came out with How? In the brass band, and for the big party, you have to bring the biggest ones.

They've started at 18:00, of course, not on time. The rain hasn't helped, but the bar outside was yes. Gradually, the rain falls and people begin to get closer. By drip at the beginning, by balance, at the end. Two long rows to access the film. Because with this crazy music, he's forgotten more than one that we've come to see a movie today.

On the velodrome, again

The historical symbolism of the velodrome is well known, you know: Red winters 1 – Galindo 0. Filling the velodrome twice and creating material for history. For Muguruza, and all his team, has once again made his velodrome his own. It is easy to say, but more than 3,000 men and women have to be included.

And the presenters of the Zinemaldia have come out and they have started to thank the Spanish Lottery and fiu fiuuu! Over 3,000 men and women have responded to chilies. Because, yes, we're at Zinemaldia. But people don't come here leaving values at home. They whistle public institutions, multinationals and banks in line with the contradictions. To the artists, to the Aratz restaurant and to Katakraki, applause. And so it must be, what a devil.

And the presenters have finally presented, one by one, the actors who have voiced the characters, and the musicians and cartoonists. And what a party. All next door, together, dancing. And in the end, yes. At the end came the teachers of the film: Producer Jone Unanua and director Fermin Muguruza. Before the director took the microphone, it has been heard from the floor: Ari, ari, ari, Jone lehendakari. Because maybe someone hasn't noticed, but everyone who's followed closely knows that Unanua is the primary guarantee to get these films through.

When Muguruza has taken the floor, then yes, a great party has started: “I said to those of the festival: ‘I want the 160 people who have participated in the film on the tabside.’ The people of Zinemaldia told him that he was “crazy”, on the other hand, and has invited the 160 in a different way. Not all of them, but almost all of them have mentioned them, and at one point they have gone through the stage: musicians – among them, Kaki Arkarazo by Negu Gorriak- producers, more actors and, between applause, former director and former political prisoner of Egin, Jabier Salutregi, who has a leading role in the film, etc.

“In an animated film,” says Muguruza, the only thing the director has to do is coordinate talent.” And it's clear that Muguruza is the most skilled. The work of the entire team stands out: “As I have always claimed: community and mutual care. Let's break the chain."

‘Black is beltza II’

With so many people and emotions, almost forgotten, we were watching a movie. And what a movie! Definition for those who know what a mash up is. It looks like an 86-minute trailer: sequence changes, interrelated with the other, hidden references everywhere – Gernika de Zumeta in the living room of one of the grandmothers of Pamplona in 1988 – countries, names, conflicts…

Is anyone surprised? This chaos is one of Muguruza's main virtues. Mixing, bonding, collecting. Just like Negu Gorria was a think tank, this film is also a ground. Report of an era with free ties. But, eye, not random. Because Cuba and Nicaragua had an enormous impact on the imaginary of the young Basques. And the wars in Afghanistan and the heroin trafficking in the veins of the young Basques: “San Sebastian is the city with the highest average worldwide consumption of heroin.” These jobs are necessary because we easily forget each other.

Because the goal is not a poetic image, it's not emotional. The goal is memory. In fact, the moments when stories want to embrace development are the ones that stay the most in the movie: The seconds and a half that last tears after Diego's death appear for another movie, and probably the sex scenes.

In any case, all the jumps allowed by the rhythm of the script are justified. And so we see Joseba Sarrionandia aka Martin, Beñardo aka Isidro, Amaia Apaolaza, Jabier Salutregi, Santi Muguruza, members of Kortatu and a thousand other characters, and we hear Mahmud Darwish, June Jordan, Vladimir Mayakovsky and many more. Streets, posters, concerts, records... a collection of very rich references for those who are attentive.

These points where fiction and reality are intertwined also have something that uniqueness the movie. Ainhoa, a black Cuban woman of Basque origin, learning Euskera with Martín and Isidro, who were abused in Cuba; journalists in direct contact with Beirut and Afghanistan, director of Egin.

Muguruza has always made a chronicle of his time in his music. This frenetic synthesis of this chronicle is the Black is Beltza II.

30 September in cinemas

In the applause of the film, Unanua took the floor. That the journey has only just started and you need to see it in cinemas. With the velodrome standing in front, he calls for the rooms to be filled as of 30 September, which will be the only option to keep making films.

Take the floor Muguruza. And he said what we knew. Dedicate the film to his brother Iñigo Muguruza. He could not resist the crying and some tear would have fallen to more than one. Brother Iñigo is immortal in the film remembering humor and militant commitment. Handia Iñigo.

I am full of the velodrome, as in 1998, Jon Maia took the floor. Because you have to look for a little bit of emotiveness.

The last one who was here at the Velodrome where he was here, freedoms today


are also the expression of the Red Winters of that time, that spring of


tomorrow does not interrupt a thread, here we celebrate life, it is not only the cinema that has sung here screaming



a people under fire.
Welcome to the world
Ainhoa eskerrik asko
Velódromo is Iñigo omena:
Our victory!

And finally, as it couldn't be otherwise, the Brokendo come back. Agur Jaunak and Nicaragua Sandinista for the film. As Kattalin Miner said: “So the films show up!”