“Irati” will premiere in the Official Section of the Sitges Festival

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“Irati”, the second feature film by Alava-born filmmaker Paul Urkijo (“Errementari”), will be in the Official Section of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which is being held in Sitges from 6 to 16 October. It will be the world premiere of the film, according to the Catalan festival.

Starring Edurne Azkarate and Eneko Sagardoy (“Handia”, “Patria”, “Maitasunaren itxiera”…), the film, in which EITB participates, is set in the Pyrenees, at a dark time in the Middle Ages, while religions hegemons fought among themselves.

With Basque as the main language, along with Sagardoy and Azkarate, Iñigo Aranbarri, Nagore Aranburu, Elena Uriz, Iñaki Beraetxe, Ramón Agirre, Kepa Errasti and Itziar Ituño participate in the cast.

“Irati” has in the technical team Nerea Torrijos in charge of costumes, Mikel Serrano art director, Maite Arroitajauregui and Aranzazu Calleja in charge of the soundtrack, David Heras and Jon Serrano in special effects and Gorka Gómez as director of photography. .

‘Irati’

Synopsis

8th century.

Christianity spreads across Europe while pagan beliefs disappear. Before the attack of Charlemagne’s army crossing the Pyrenees, the leader of the valley asks the ancestral gods for help. Through a blood pact, he defeats the enemy by giving his life in exchange, but first, he makes his son Eneko promise to protect and lead his people in the new era.

Years later, Eneko meets that promise with a mission: recover the body of his father buried in a pagan way next to Charlemagne’s treasure. Despite his Christian faith, he will need the help of Irati, an enigmatic pagan from the area. The two young people will enter a strange and inhospitable forest where “everything that has a name exists”.