‘The island of the pheasants’, a thriller about the migration drama of the river Bidasoa

The island of the pheasants, a film presented this week at the Festival of Malaga, is a thriller shot in Basque in a place generally covered by clouds, and not only on the meteorological plane: the river Bidasoa is also the scene of a migration drama almost always distant from the news media. The director of this Basque and French production, Asier Urbieta, begins by recalling a recent fact: in 2024, the reception services of Irun, city crossed …