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Director's Statement
Maixabel Lasa has become a benchmark on the path that the Basque Country travels today towards coexistence. Her work as director of the Basque Government's Office for Victims of Terrorism is well known, but her personal involvement in the 2011 Restorative Meetings is not so much. There is something profoundly human about what Maixabel does: to confront the men who killed her husband to let them know the pain she suffered, to ask for answers to the questions that only they can answer, to hear them say that they deeply regret the pain caused and to assess whether there is sincerity in those words. On the other hand, these two men have made a long and difficult journey: they have left behind the justifications that one day pushed them to wield a gun to stay alone, face to face, with what they have done. They are three lives united one day by horror. Three roads that are crossed. Each one will make a different journey to the same place: hope and reparation, in a face-to-face encounter in which they go through anger, anguish, shame, and fear, but also for gratitude and for the hope of planting something even good within so much horror. The film addresses through these characters the consequences and the human cost of violence, especially for those who suffer it, but also for those who exercise it and for the whole society that houses it. With MAIXABEL we wanted to tell this story of our recent past with emotion, sincerity and, above all, a lot of respect for its protagonists.