Film · Drama, Animation

Couplets for an Everlasting Eve (2016)

St. Agatha's Eve is a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris), singing verses to the beating of long sticks. Building on this celebration, bertsolari Maialen Lujanbio composes a stark denunciation of gender violence. In verse after verse, she condemns the different manifestations of sexist violence and our inability to combat it.

Director

Ageda Kopla Taldea

Writers

Maialen Lujanbio

Country

Spain

Language

Basque

Release date

October 20, 2016

Original title

Beti bezperako koplak