Aro berria

'Aro berria' is the first feature film by director Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe. It looks back to the spring of 1978 in Donostia, Basque Country. It delves deeper into the universe she has created in her short film ‘Contadores’.

A group of young workers at a water meter factory gathers to discuss a strike that, despite their multiple attempts and efforts, does not succeed. The feeling of collective anger clashes with the reality they find themselves in.

They live influenced by unemployment, disillusionment, and the feeling of suffocation from being part of a system of gears that no longer represents them.

Tired of having their attempts at advocacy silenced by bureaucracy, they leave the factory behind. They venture into a different world, free from chains. A secluded community in the mountains. Unlike the assembly line where they felt enslaved, in this new environment, intimacy and isolation prevail.

The young workers undergo a transformation, taking life from a different perspective. A liberating experience, free from the constraints of time or their own bodies.

A crossing between the intimate and the collective. Workers' politics and youthful spirituality. Life is resistance, the personal is political, and isolation is synonymous with confrontation with reality. 

They learn the consequences of fleeing from a system imposed by those above, does it come at a price? What is the group in a collective context with individual motivations but a shared desire for freedom from each?

• Drama
• History