Iratxe Fresneda is a Basque filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, lecturer and researcher whose work blends audiovisual research with artistic practice. After a decade directing and writing for the Basque public broadcaster, she moved into independent cinema. A lecturer in Audiovisual Communication at UPV/EHU since 2004, she has been a visiting researcher at CUNY, the University of Nevada, Lund University and Toulouse II. Her acclaimed Trilogy of the Register explores identity, historical memory and migration, whether political, geographical, metaphorical or creative, runs through several of her major works. Her feature debut, Irrintziaren Oihartzunak (The Echoes of Irrintzi, 2016), focuses on creative exile: it brings Mirentxu Loyarte (1938–2025), one of the great pioneers of Basque and European cinema, out of obscurity. Forced into exile for political reasons, Loyarte spent decades away from her homeland and out of the public eye, and the film asks what it means for an artist to be cut off from her community and her own filmmaking. Tetuán (2022), the third instalment of the trilogy, approaches exile across generations. Through four true stories, including her father’s own experience in North Africa, it travels from Almería and the Sahara to Tétouan and the Basque Country, redefining the ideas of refugee and exile and showing how the loss of one’s roots transforms the identity and memory of those forced to move. Her films, which also include Lurralde Hotzak (2018) and Errotatiba (2024), have premiered at San Sebastián, FICX Gijón and ZINEBI and screened at Documenta Madrid, Cartagena and Cinequest, and the Trilogy of the Register received a retrospective at Arsenal in Berlin. She is a member of the Spanish Film Academy.