Kepa Junkera Berpiztu

The documentary 'Kepa Junkera Reborn' tells how the life of Basque musician and composer Kepa Junkera, the master of the trikitixa instrument and who spread Basque folk music around the world, took a turn on 6 December 2018 on a stage in Ghent, Belgium, where he suffered a stroke while on his 'Maletak' tour.

Junkera, the man who generated almost an album a year in his 32-year career and became the most international Basque musician disappeared completely from public life. There was talk of his stroke, his emergency admission, his recovery, but then nobody knew anything more about Kepa. Until now, with the documentary 'Kepa Junkera Reborn', which tells the story of the two years of hard rehabilitation he underwent to try and become who he was before: to learn to move his body, to learn to speak, to be able to eat, to turn his head, to move his hands, to live. In spite of this, Kepa is still Kepa, and he continues to live, create and be moved by all the arts, from poetry to photography, without forgetting his beloved music.

This is Fermín Aio's directorial debut, with appearances by great stars such as Kepa Junkera himself and Ara Malikian, as well as Santiago Auserón, Pablo Milanés, Pedro Guerra, Estrella Morente, Dulce Pontes, Joseba Tapia, and Ibon Koteron.

• Documentary