La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Julio Médem. The film's purported intention is to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country. In order to do so, Medem edits the interviews giving a sense of dialogue between parties that refused to sit down and talk. Due to its lack of contextualization, the film may be hard to understand to audiences without previous knowledge of the Basque problem—it is obviously a film designed to be viewed by... Spanish audiences, or people familiar with the issues. The movie also utilizes footage from the Basque portions of the 1955 travelogue Around The World With Orson Welles, and continually intercuts between interviews and jai alai players. One of the main controversies of the documentary is that the two principal protagonists in the controversy, the then incumbent Partido Popular and ETA refused to take part in the interviews.
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| Release date: | September 20, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Julio Médem |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Editor: | Julio Médem |
| Cinematography: | Javier Aguirre |
| Screenplay by: | Julio Médem |