Undergraun: A family of surfers travels around Australia.
Underground (Under graun): A term to describe everything that cannot be seen on magazines, films..anywhere. Actually, maybe that is the reason why a great majority of surfers doesn’t buy magazines and couldn’t care less about surf movies. The future?

Teatro Principal
11 June
17:00

Little Black Wheels

Dir: Mick Waters. 2009. Australia. 56 min. The essence of Australian underground. This film features surfers in playful waves, warm water and relaxed surfing, and a bunch of true ferals, who live in...

Ocean Room

Dir: Héctor Barrero. 2009. Spain. 22 min. Ocean Room was born as a simple personal urge; an effort to understand our present, getting familiar with our past. An approach to Tom...

Bizarre, freak, exotic: the ultimate surfing frontiers.
Obviously, surfing is no longer limited to Californians, Hawaiians or Australians. Obviously there are as many ways of seeing surfing as there are countries with sea and ocean. However, how much further are we going with surf scenes that are only getting more and more extravagant and passionate?

Teatro Principal
11 June
19:00

Keep Surfing

Dir: Björn Richie Lob. 2009. Germany. 91 min. The story of surf culture at the Eisbach river in Munich, Germany, the world river surfing capital. This documentary film, directed by Björn...

Raw surfing essence? sheer pleasure!
Enough of cheap philosophy! We are fed up of hearing that surfing is more than a sport, that it’s a way of life, that the simple fact of touching the water blah, blah, blah. How many films are there which show nothing but clichés you don’t even know how to swallow? Good thing we have guys like Trefz, Kidman and a few others to get straight to the point.

Teatro Principal
11 June
21:00

Idiosyncrasies

Dir: Patrick Trefz. 2010. USA. 65 min. Idiosyncrasies is a group of people with very peculiar sensitivities and progressive approaches to surfing. Surfers who have paved their own path without...

Modernist Basque Surfing

Dir: Iker Treviño & Xabier Zirikiain. 2010. Basque Country. 12 min A trip to the most choreographic approach to surfing. Five characters perform by the sea one of the most ancient dances...