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Abstract In the wake of the first Autonomous elections in 1980, the Basque nationalist government seeked to generate countervailing discourses of national identity through the production of films which obsessively highlighted the “differential facts”. By the early 1990s, this project had lost momentum and failed to develop a filmic pedagogy capable of establishing their particular nationalist identities owing to the growing public disenchantment with the imposition of essentialist concepts of individual and group identity. Despite the fact that Basque young film directors in the 90s ignored and tried to avoid nationalist imperatives by building autonomous fictional worlds, a close look at their filmographies shows a common source of meanings shaped by the nationalist ideology. This study points out seven characteristics shared by Basque films produced in the 80s and 90s that highlight a prominent continuity drawn by the Basque nationalism.

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