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The basque ball was, and still is, played against walls anywhere. At an official level, competitions are held on standard courts or 'frontones', also "The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone" (La Pelota Vasca : La Piel Contra La Piedra) is a documentary movie about the situation in the Basque Country directed by Julio Medem. The director warns us: "We should view this film as if we were a bird, a free bird flying of head in head, but that also flies on the pain and the suffering, and it does with much respect. This bird could to have flown of many ways, but flies as it can…". There has been a lot of controversy about this movie in Spain. The film gives a real, sincere view of what the Basque problem is and what it means, and is at the same time, as objective a view as one from a Basque director can be. I got emotional and I´m not Basque. Food for thought of the best quality. It is the writer Bernardo Atxaga who opens and closes the film from a long road whose end is difficult to discern. "If this conflict is resolved," says Atxaga, "all of us Basques will be walking about 20 centimetres off the floor because an enormous weight will be lifted from us". This photo taken in the "frontón" of the hope (not only is the “frontón” name also is a feeling) is my humble tribute to this film. This "frontón" is in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). 2004-05-15.

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