Capirú Studios & Katz Estudio present

Abata

Name: Abata
Released: 2026-06-25

directed by Aner Etxebarria Moral & Pablo Vidal

“A short documentary film narrated by Orson Welles and Gerardo Damboriena, one of the last pigeon hunters of Etxalar”

202624m

Capirú Studios & Katz Estudio present

Abata

directed by Aner Etxebarria Moral & Pablo Vidal

“A short documentary film narrated by Orson Welles and Gerardo Damboriena, one of the last pigeon hunters of Etxalar”

202624m

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§ Synopsis

In 1955, fascinated by the ingenious pigeon hunting with wooden paddles and nets, Orson Welles directed the documentary The Land of the Basques. Today, from a mountain hut on the border between Navarre and France, Gerardo Damboriena, a veteran pigeon hunter, reveals to us in basque the secrets of this more than 700-year-old tradition, now on the verge of extinction.