2024, Spain, 7min
Director: Dani Castillo
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‘Noie’ (‘I'm going’ in Basque) is the last word that Ainhize says to her father before taking her feet off the ground to give the final push to her project: Iñi Ameriketan, 9a+. Noie marks the beginning of a journey through the doubts and uncertainty that settle in the mind of some-one who faces something that probably won't go well. In Noie there are no images, only words. It is a fusion between Ainhize's brainstorming and the echoes of the Baltzola cave, the sounds of her effort and her quickened pulse. On September 7, 2024, the 18-year-old Ainhize Belar climbed Iñi Ameriketan. With this route, in addition to scoring the fourth repetition and being the first female to do so, Ainhize makes history by becoming the first Spanish woman to achieve 9a+.
