El camino de la coproducción en el largometraje de animación vasco

The Animation of the Basque Autonomous Country, although it has not been recognized neither by the Academia nor by the industrial environment, is one of the biggest cinematographic exponent of the territory. With 40 features released between 1985 and 2014, the collaborations of the film production companies have been increasing. During the first decade, there are only examples of totally Basque productions. After the second decade, the co-productions between Basque and Spanish enterprises have grown, and in the last years we also found international co-productions. As the varieties of co-productions raised, the plots of some films still showed a local setting with stories about universal values. At the same time, we found some films that get close to the terror genre. In the last decade, there has been also time to experiment with animation techniques. We found examples of films made by Flash and stop-motion techniques. All these considerations are exposed in the following paper, in which the type of production, plots and techniques join to identify the main tendencies of the industry in the last decade.