11/01/2017

Montxo Armendariz wins the Eusko Ikaskuntza award

At a ceremony in Pamplona, film director Montxo Armendariz received the Eusko Ikaskuntza-Caja Laboral award for the most outstanding lifetime of achievement in the Basque Country in the field of the humanities, culture, arts and social science. In his acceptance speech he quoted the line with which Navarre-born writer Javier Eder (himself inspired by Juan Benet) described his film-making: “describe the shepherds of your village and you will have described the world”. In other words, if a local theme is described well it takes on universal value.