“Night will fall fourteen times in this film. We will count them.“ So begins this nocturnal, musical journey—a voyage that drifts through the artistic vision of the Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, and which is dominated, above all, by an “Interior, Night” setting: the Basilica of Arantzazu. It is there that the longest night unfolds, beside the sanctuary’s organ, where filmmaker Oskar Alegria shuts himself away to recount these fourteen nights to pianist Iñar Sastre—summoning him to conjure, through the keys, images he wont see. From this challenge emerges a collection of fourteen moons, fourteen darknesses, and fourteen mysteries that form a single frieze. Fourteen, like the number of apostles Oteiza managed to place on the façade of that temple in an artistic challenge that broke all the rules; and fourteen because, as he himself put it, “there was no room for any more.“ – San Sebastián Film Festival
Oskar Alegria
ES 2026 | German Premiere
91 min | Basque
Oskar Alegria
Born in 1973 in Pamplona, Spain. After training as a journalist, he worked in Madrid as a reporter for news channels. He teaches documentary film and audiovisual screenwriting at the University of Pamplona-Navarra. From 2013 to 2016, he was artistic director of the Punto de Vista International Film Festival in Pamplona-Navarra.
Films (selection)
Emak Bakia baita 2012 | Gure Oroitzapenak 2018 | Zumiriki 2019 (15. UX) | Zinzindurrunkarratz 2023 (19. UX) | Fourteen Nights 2026
D+B+DOP+E+S+P: Oskar Alegria Suescun | M: Iñar Sastre Lopetegi, Mixel Etxekopar, Iban Urizar, Jean-Cristophe Galtxetaburu, Raquel Andueza | With Iñar Sastre Lopetegi