Pedalo

A Spanish filmmaker living in Denmark travels back home to Basque Country to follow three friends on a surreal nautical voyage. Riding a second-­hand paddle boat, they pedal over 150km along the entire Basque coast from Hendaia (French ­Basque), to Bilbao (Spanish­ Basque), in an attempt to rediscover their country’s shoreline. From the cold suburbs of Copenhagen, the filmmaker imagined a romanticized summer story; but, as a second-­hand paddle boat is not made for the rough Basque sea, things don’t go as planned. The journey becomes a delirium with unforeseen accidents, folkloric parties, hangovers, a shaman, a funeral... Documenting the expedition of these “sailors” on his own, the filmmaker finds himself on a parallel inner journey.