David Caiña Depicts ‘Shameful, Tragic, Gruesome’ Adolescence During the Basque Conflict in ‘Makarras’
variety.comHolly Jones It’s 1996 in Bilbao, and adolescent strife reaches a crescendo in David Caiña’s series concept, “Outcasts” (“Makarras”), attending Spain’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment Market to pitch to industry leaders as part of the SGAE Foundation selections slated for presentation.
The comedy focuses on teens struggling to fit in as their experiences parallel the era’s Basque conflict. Noting a wish to focus on the intimate and interpersonal instabilities of youth, the director will emphasize how those similarities are shared across cultures. “We have a huge volume of narratives about the conflict in Spain.
I don’t fancy that narrative. It looks like the conflict was the center of our lives. It looks, depending on the side telling the story, like there was a ‘good side’ and a ‘bad side,'” Caiña told Variety. “I want to tell another story.
For me, the son of Galician immigrants, the conflict was not the center of my life. The center of my life was that the girl I liked didn’t like me back.
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