Masterclass & Film Screening 
Oreina











Oreina

directed by Koldo Almandoz



Khalil is a rootless young man who lives in the city’s margins, where industrial estates bank onto the river and the marsh. He survives as well as he can, spending his days with a poacher who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he has not talked to for years. On the shores of the marsh the tides mark the time for love and indifference, friendship and revenge.







Photo: Ulises Proust 

Koldo Almandoz

director

Graduate in Audiovisual Communications. Over the last 25 years, Koldo Almandoz has written and directed different cinematographic works. His films (Sîpo Phantasma, Belarra, Ahate Pasa, The last flight of Hubert Leblon,…) have been selected and awarded prizes at important international film festivals (Semaine de la Critique Cannes, Rotterdam Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival, Bafici, Festival dei Popoli, FiCali,…). He was director of the art and culture magazine The Balde (2002-2014). Member of the selection committee of the Film Festival Punto de Vista (2015-2017). Radio fiction writer and director. Book editor. He coordinates and directs artistic projects. He also teaches.





Nerea Mandiola Solozabal

moderator

Nerea is a PhD candidate in Artistic, literary and cultural studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and holds a BA in Philosophy (EHU) and MA in History of Philosophy and Contemporary Thought (UNED). She researches the relationship between contemporary thought, literature and art in the cultural practices of the Basque Country during the second half of the twentieth century. She holds a research grant from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (2024-2025) and she collaborates with the Directed Independent Language Study program at Yale University. For the past two years, she has worked as a lecturer in Basque language and culture at the University of Helsinki.