A Basque Auteur for a New Generation: The Case of Kepa Sojo

Abstract

The work of Kepa Sojo offers an ideal window into the global dissemination opportunities available to contemporary Basque cinema through online streaming and international festival circuits. Sojo’s career as a filmmaker, academic and festival operator presents an exciting insight into ever-growing Basque film production as it negotiates regional and national boundaries. Sojo’s as yet critically under-addressed oeuvre furthermore provides insight into the pervading generic and stylistic trends of twenty-first century Basque filmmaking and their interaction with both the history and the future of this regional cinema