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Filmax Boards Sales on Basque Exile Drama ‘Karmele,’ Whose Director Asier Altuna Praises ‘Art as a Form of Resistance’ (EXCLUSIVE)

By Anna Marie de la Fuente Sep 22, 2025 | 4:51 AM

Filmax has picked up international sales on “Karmele,” directed by Basque Asier Altuna and produced by Marian Fernández Pascal at San Sebastián-based Txintxua Films and Esnatzeko Ordua Films. Inspired by Kirmen Uribe’s fact based novel “La hora de despertarnos juntos,” the Basque  drama retraces the life of a real-life figure, Karmele Urresti, a nurse forced […]