In "Karmele," one of the Basque films at this year's festival, the Basque language itself comes under threat. For centuries, rulers sought to stamp out cultural difference, Franco banning Basque from ...

The limited release Oct. 30 at New York’s Paris Theatre of Basque-language film “Loreak” (“Flowers”), Spain’s Foreign Language entry for the 88 th Academy Awards, lays down a milestone for the newly ...

In France, to “sing like a Basque” means you sing “loudly, well, and often,” according to Mark Kurlansky’s Basque History of the World. And it is no wonder why on chant comme un Basque is a French ...

Mari Carmen Totorica grew up in Basque Country, but she had to move to Idaho to learn Basque songs. Totorica was born in Gernika, in northern Spain near the border with France. The town was the site ...

Basque producers hope for a similar breakthrough, positioning their language not as a handicap but as a marker of distinction. Taken together, this year’s slate forms a wide canvas from exile and ...