The Deer

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Khalil is a rootless young man who lives in the city’s margins, where industrial estates bank onto the river and the marsh. He survives as well as he can, spending his days with a poacher who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he has not talked to for years. On the shores of the marsh, the tides mark the time for love and indifference, friendship and revenge.

"It boasts scenes of extraordinary beauty, and a novel take on the real Basque country and a stealth phenomenon of immigration, happening now over much of Europe, but somehow ignored in much mainstream discourse. " — John Hopewell, Variety

"There is something magical in looking at pure nature, without artifice, through the camera of Koldo Almandoz." — Janire Zurbano, Cinemanía

"The Deer brings a documentarian's eye and sense of revealing gesture and larger social trends to the tale of a second-generation Maghreb immigrant." — John Hopewell, Variety

"Set in the Basque region of Spain, The Deer (original name Oreina) is a film about the changing social and cultural landscape of the country and the meeting of the old and new, with the subsequent contention being the driving force behind the film." — Nico Marrone, The Wee Review

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Main credits

Almandoz, Koldo (film director)
Olaizola, Erika (actor)
Elias, Iraia (actor)
Ahmed Saleh, Laulad (actor)
Bisquert, Patxi (actor)
Agirre, Ramón (actor)

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Cinematography, Javier Agirre; editor, Laurent Dufreche; music, Ignacio Bilbao, Elena Setien.

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