They came home from war to fight their own children. The weapon? A stick named Anti.
Winter of 1921. After fighting for France for four years, the combatants of Bizkarsoro (Lower Navarre, France) have returned from the battlefront. Like the yellow star of the Jew or the ear of the Cagots, children who speak Basque are marked with an stick called ANTI.
Direction
Martínez wields silence like a weapon—brutal restraint.
Acting
Hervé's teacher embodies institutional cruelty without villainy.
Director
Josu Martínez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Anti' was real: Basque children in France faced systematic punishment for their language until the 1960s. This isn't period fiction—it's barely history.
The father-son classroom confrontation mirrors postwar Europe's larger wound: veterans returning to enforce the very oppression they fought against abroad.
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