Movies by Xabier Elorriaga

Thesis

Thesis

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...

To an Unknown God

To an Unknown God

José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively.

La conquista de Albania

La conquista de Albania

King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men.

El rey y la reina

El rey y la reina

Ke arteko egunak

Ke arteko egunak

One day, Pedro Sansinenea left family, friends and country, an environment that drowned him. Twenty years later he returns to the Basque Country for several reasons, where he finds old hatreds, new conflicts and even a dramatic love story.

The Burned City

The Burned City

The film depicts ten years of Catalan history, from 1899 with the defeat of the Spanish side in the Cuban War of Independence to the Tragic Week 1909.

Los planes de Cecilia

Los planes de Cecilia

La oscura historia de la prima Montse

La oscura historia de la prima Montse

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.

Virginia, la monaca di Monza

Virginia, la monaca di Monza

The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.

Black Island

Black Island

The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.