Lara Izagirre

Lara Izagirre Garizurieta graduated in Audiovisual Communication from UPV/EHU in 2007 and later specialised in film directing at the New York Film Academy. After working at the independent production company Forensic Films in New York, she returned to the Basque Country and founded Gariza Films in 2010. Between 2010 and 2014, she wrote and directed several short films, including Bicycle Poem, Kea, Next Stop: Greenland, Sormenaren Bide Ezkutuak and Larroxa. Her debut feature, An Autumn Without Berlin, premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2015, and her second feature, Nora, premiered there in 2020. In 2025, she released the short film The Gift and the documentary Empoderío. In 2026, she shot Yerma, a contemporary reinterpretation of Federico García Lorca’s play, co-written with playwright María Goiricelaya.