Direction: Laida Lertxundi

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Laida Lertxundi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Cry When It Happens (S)

2010 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Cast Lindsey Hoffmann · Beau Johnson · Laura Merando · Albert Ortega

Plot Los Angeles City Hall is reflected onto the window of the Paradise Motel. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural expanse of California. Here, we discover...

7.3

109 votes

7.3

109 votes

Footnotes to a House of Love (S)

2007 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Cast Sandy Ding · Eliza Douglas · Laura Merando · Sally Oviatt

Plot A series of shots in a California desert landscape in which there is a play between on frame and off frame, sound and image. There is an effort to create...

6.9

118 votes

6.9

118 votes

Utskor: Either/Or (S)

2013 · Documentary · 7 min. · Norway

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot In the town of Utskor in the region of Bø, northern Norway, we find memories of a political past intertwining with domestic, familial moments during the midnight sun. (LL)

6.9

79 votes

6.9

79 votes

My Tears Are Dry (S)

2009 · Movie · 4 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Cast Tanya Rubbak · Laura Steenberge

Plot A film in the three parts of a dialectic. Hoagy Land's song is played and interrupted as guitar makes sound, two women, a bed an armchair, and the beautiful outside....

6.9

73 votes

6.9

73 votes

The Room Called Heaven (S)

2012 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot Laida Lertxundi's intimate composition of intrinsically cinematic human actions. The locations, sunlight and snippets of music evoke a mysterious emotion that resounds in every image during the exact length of...

6.9

96 votes

6.9

96 votes

We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning (S)

2014 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot Crossing desert and sea, screen and page, between Los Angeles and San Diego, and a moment in a story by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

6.8

53 votes

6.8

53 votes

Live to Live (S)

2015 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

6.8

129 votes

6.8

129 votes

025 Sunset Red (S)

2016 · Movie · 14 min. · United States

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Cast Emilio Luarca · Ren Ebel · Forouzan Safari · Kane Lafia

Plot Laida Lertxundi continues her exploration of the American West with the intimately scaled 025 Sunset Red, which folds in autobiography as she looks back to her parents' radical activism in...

6.7

113 votes

6.7

113 votes

Words, Planets (S)

2018 · Documentary · 11 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot Shot in Cuba and California, extends from the filmmaker's twin interests in landscapes and portraiture by incorporating fruit, Wong Kar-wai, Raúl Ruiz, cacti, the words of Lucy Lippard and R.D...

6.4

74 votes

6.4

74 votes

A Lax Riddle Unit (S)

2011 · Documentary · 6 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body.

6.3

75 votes

6.3

75 votes

Farce Sensationelle! (S)

2004 · Documentary · 2 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

6.0

48 votes

6.0

48 votes

Autofiction (S)

2019 · Documentary · 14 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot Autoficción (Self-fiction) sets up a game between two genres of film in a tense relationship with each other, direct film and fictional film, drawing on the style of Agnès Varda...

5.6

82 votes

5.6

82 votes

Inner Outer Space (S)

2021 · Movie · 16 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Cast Helena Estrela · Ren Ebel · Mariana Sánchez Bueno · Unai Ruiz Ameztoy

Plot A group of non-professional actors develops a series of sensory exercises including telepathic conversations, going for walks with their eyes covered and plein air drawing in the sea and mountain...

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In a Nearby Field (S)

2023 · Documentary · 18 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Plot A man, a woman and their young daughter live together in an apartment in the Basque Country. Domestic chores and everyday gestures are superimposed onto lush, green landscapes. The filmmakers...

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Affirmation (S)

2020 · Documentary · 8 min. · Spain

Direction Laida Lertxundi

Cast Rosi Braidotti

Plot We live in convulsive, contradictory times that demand of us a new way of being in the world: an ethics of generosity and working together, and recognition of our reciprocal...

Not rated

Not rated