Couplets for an Everlasting Eve

Couplets for an Everlasting Eve

6 mins | Drama, Animation | Oct. 20, 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.

Couplets for an Everlasting Eve

6 mins | Drama, Animation | Oct. 20, 2016

Couplets for an Everlasting Eve
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.
Producers Lekuk Kultur Elkartea
Original title Beti bezperako koplak
Directors Ageda Kopla Taldea
Writers Maialen Lujanbio

Cast

Maialen Lujanbio

as Voice