Michel Gaztambide

Michel Gaztambide is a screenwriter and poet born in Provence in 1959, son of emigrant parents, who later returned to Pamplona, where he lived until 1983. Since then he has lived in San Sebastian.

Works

Close Your Eyes

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Release Date:2023-08-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:91

Libertad

Libertad is a combination of intense drama, villainy , betrayal , romance , heroism and redemption . Dealing with revenge, justice , ambition and redemption that turns out to be the main axis of the plot . This is a Bandoleros movie regarding outlaws in 19th century Andalucía, Spain, who alone or in bands , engulfed the region with merciless assaults and ominous murders , while authorities carried out terrible punishments and bloody executions

Release Date:2021-03-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Libertad

Set in the 19th century, the series tracks a mother and her son following their release after spending the first seventeen years of the boy’s life in prison together. Having been granted their freedom, the two just want to live in peace. Unfortunately, they find themselves between conflicting interests of two bandit clans and the local governor, fighting over trade routes.

Release Date:2021-03-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:23

The Vault

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.

Release Date:2021-03-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:964

The Invisible Line

The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.

Release Date:2020-04-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:21

The Influence

After moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.

Release Date:2019-06-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:256

Petra

Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthless man. On her path to uncovering the truth, Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the story of these characters begins to intertwine in a spiral of malice, family secrets and violence that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path to hope and redemption.

Release Date:2018-10-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:38

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.

Release Date:2018-04-15

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

Neckan

Release Date:2017-03-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Cain's Father

The Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In an atmosphere of tension and fear, where the harassment of separatist nationalism and the violence of ETA terrorist gang are a constant in life, Eloy, a young civil guard from Madrid, arrives at the Intxaurrondo base, in San Sebastián, as a volunteer; a hostile environment that causes havoc among his companions: alcoholism, depression and suicides reign. The so-called “Northern Syndrome” kills as much as bombs do.

Release Date:2016-12-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:10

Kalebegiak

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.

Release Date:2016-09-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Amama

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.

Release Date:2015-10-16

Department:Crew

Job:Script

Vote Count:12

Release Date:2001-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Cows

A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years.

Release Date:1992-02-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:58

Muerto de amor

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Flight 8714: Take Off to Disaster

A dramatic re-creation of a 2008 airplane crash in Madrid that killed 154 people.

Release Date:2010-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

A Tram in SP

In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share a house with their memories and the ghosts of the people they have loved throughout their lifes. They know that sooner or later they will buy their ticket for their final journey. Marcos and Roma are young and alone. She's a nurse and paints windows that embellish the views from her room. Marcos is a street performer with no home of his own, clinging to his accordion and a pile of questions. They don't know that sooner or later they will all set out on a journey together.

Release Date:2008-04-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Box 507

Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.

Release Date:2002-08-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:72

Chatarra

Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.

Release Date:1991-10-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest

Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.

Release Date:1990-07-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer