During lockdown, Telmo Esnal recovered a long-forgotten project: UR, a tale by Pablo Azkue taking a deep look at the conscience and the sea. Urtzen is a special cinematic essay, a curious collage which, recycling and reusing dialogues, images and music, reflects on existence.
Telmo Esnal (Zarautz, Gipuzkoa. 1967) has directed with Asier Altuna the short films Txotx (1998) and 40 Ezetz (1999) as well as the feature films Aupa Etxebeste! (2005), which competed in New Directors and won the Youth Award at San Sebastian and its sequel, Agur Etxebeste! (2019), premiered last year at the Basque Cinema Gala. Solo he has put his name to the feature films Urte berri on, amona! (2011) which participated in New Directors and Dantza (2018), which received the Glocal in Progress Award in 2017 and was shown the following year in the Official Selection at San Sebastian. In 2018 he contributed with a segment to the anthology film Gure Oroitzapenak, screened in Zinemira.