“In the summer of 1967, 22 Basque political prisoners organized an escape from one of Franco's most infamous prisons, the Segovia Jail. Uribe's Escape from Segovia is a taut, thoughtful thriller that chronicles this historic event in painstaking detail. Uribe's protagonists, some of whom were played by ex-inmates of Segovia who participated in the escape, are never romanticized; an odd assortment of workers and intellectuals, they quietly engineer their escape, digging their tunnel in almost the precise spot where months earlier a previous escape attempt had been discovered. Constantly shifting narrative focus from one character to another, the film avoids close identification with any individual prisoner, but rather emphasizes collective effort.” Richard Peña