Maider Oleaga
Director · b. 1976 · Bilbo, Bizkaia, Euskal Herria
Maider Oleaga is a Basque filmmaker. She has written and directed the documentaries 'Muga deitzen da pausoa' (2018), 'Iragan gunea Berlin' (2016), 'Esperanza' (2012) and 'Amaren ideia' (2010), as well as several fiction shorts.
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MovieDocumentaryHistoryDonostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, 2011. Maider, a filmmaker, moves to the very same flat where pedadogist Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) clandestinely established the first ikastola, a Basque school, under the harsh regime of dictator Francisco Franco. Despite of her pioneering work, developed throughout thirty years, her story is not well known, so Maider, intrigued, begins to research…
Movie6.5DocumentaryHistoryAn attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.
MovieDocumentaryAt last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their films, their points of view, their dreams, their efforts to get somewhere, their contribution to the cinema and to society.