Ángeles González-Sinde shoots 'El commensal' in Bilbao

Okolin Film Productions, Litmus y Enbabia Films They have started filming the film in Bilbao The diner under the direction of Ángeles González-Sinde.

Based on the novel of the same name by Gabriela Ybarra, which received the 2016 Euskadi Literature Prize and has been a finalist for the Man Booker International Awards, the film stars Susana Abaitua (From the shadows, Homeland), Ginés García Millán (Who Killed Sara?, America's Bride), Adriana Ozores (invisible) and Fernando Oyagüez (45 Revolutions).

The diner It is the first-person account of two different ways of facing the consequences of 40 years of terrorism: facing it or remaining silent to survive.

Iciar (Susana Abaitua) and Fernando (Fernando Oyagüez) are young. The two go through the most traumatic experience of their short lives: the loss of one of their parents. But Fernando and Iciar cannot share the pain or the strategies to manage it. They live in different times. Fernando in 1977 in Bilbao faces the kidnapping of his father by ETA. Iciar in 2011 in Navarra faces the devastating cancer of his mother Amalia (Adriana Ozores).

From this unexpected loss, Iciar becomes aware of the tragic kidnapping and murder of his grandfather, whom he never met, at the hands of ETA in 1977. Given the refusal of Fernando (Ginés García Millán), his father, to talk about the matter. Iciar embarks on his own in a reconstruction of the tense days of the kidnapping forty years ago. Thanks to her efforts to bring family memory to light, she and her father will reunite in a new way of looking at the past to live the future.

González-Sinde, who also signs the script, comments that "Gabriela Ybarra's perception of terrorism is very characteristic of a new, younger generation, born in full democracy and that wants another model of social coexistence. The beauty of Ybarra's story lies in connecting the detailed narration of the family relationship and her mother's illness, an intimate experience, with the social experience of ETA terrorism and the consequences it had by dictating a way of relating inside and outside families."