DIRECTOR: Amaia Merino y Miguel Angel LLamas
PRODUCTION: Izaskun Arandia, Miguel Angel LLamas
INTERVIEWS: Ion Arretxe, Idoia Aierbe, Garbiñe Garate, brothers and nieces of Mikel Zabalza.
COUNTRY: Spain
LANGUAGE: Euskera, Spanish.
YEAR: 2021
GENRE: Documentary
DURATION: 80 m.
PREMIERE: February 26, 2021
NON DAGO MIKEL?
November 1985. Mikel Zabalza, a young bus driver, is arrested along with other people by the Civil Guard as part of an anti- terrorist operation. When the rest of the young people are released, they report having been savagely tortured.
But Mikel is missing.
Although the authorities allege that he has escaped, everything indicates that he did not survive the torment and they try to hide it. And while the hopes of finding him alive are fading, the streets of the Basque Country burn with a shout:
“Where is Mikel?”
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
- 68º San Sebastian International Film Festival.
- Jury Special Mention in the IRIZAR Award.
- Lauaxeta Award for Best Basque Cinema
AMAIA MERINO
Since 1995 she has worked professionally as a film editor, having edited more than 25 documentary and fiction feature films (co-screenwriter in many): El Plan Nuestro, Blak Mama, Chuquiragua, Resonancia, Fantasía, Panóptico Ciego, La Mala Noche, Hezurren Memoria etc. .
She is co-director, co-writer, co-producer and editor of the feature-length documentary Asier ETA Biok, a Hispanic-Ecuadorian co-production, winner of the Irizar Prize at the 2013 San Sebastián Film Festival, among other international awards, and commercially released in movie theaters in Spain, France and in Ecuador.
MIGUEL ANGEL LLAMAS
He has worked in different media outlets, participating in their creation. Currently, he works at Ahotsa.info, where they have done several reports and documentary projects. Non dago Mikel? (2020) is his first author’s work.
