72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Santiago San Miguel , Liko Pérez
Venezuela - Spain
90 min.
With her mother dead, Alicia lives with her father and the servant Emilia. She runs a cinema in an Andean city, where Alicia watches all kinds of movies. Alicia lives dedicated to her readings, forging a world of images together with a desire to escape. Alicia, now a woman, is the protagonist of what she has read and seen. In the end, the world of desire and duty, intermingle and try to destroy each other.
Luis Armando Roche
Venezuela
94 min.
After practicing an infinity of professions, Jacinto became a traveling projectionist, to take the cinema to town and flee the city. He decorates his truck in the shape of a whale, to attract attention. Manuel, an eleven-year-old orphan, offers to work with Jacinto and a French girl joins his wanderings on roads and villages
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Spain
114 min.
A country in Latin America is governed by a dictator, benefactor for some, and a "dog" for others. Two prisoners are chased by a dog, which kills one, and the other, old professor, is returned to the prison, where he is interrogated about an alleged plot against the dictatorship. Arístides Ungría, political prisoner, manages to flee from the prison, catching up with the dog and being handcuffed by Zancho. Once again he manages to free himself and in his continuous flight, the dog pursues him implacably to the great city.
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Mario Robles
Peru
98 min.
This film is about the miners of Peru, who were once peasants and many before, free men. It deals with its history hidden among the folds of the Andes mountain range, in the deep tunnels of the mines and in the offices of their governments. It deals, in short, with the struggle and dispossession suffered by a people of all their rights, their land and their riches and the very meaning of life.
Terry Gilliam
United Kingdom
104 min.
The evil monster Jabberwocky ravages the medieval kingdom of the sovereign Bruno, senile monarch eager to marry his daughter with the noble knight who liberates the country from the monster. Dennis, a peasant as naive as lack of resources, must leave his fat lover to make his fortune in the city, where he is mixed in spite of himself in a delirious tournament and in the erotic assaults of the voluptuous Lady Betty.
Gonzalo Herralde
Spain
78 min.
Using the material filmed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia for his film Raza (written by Francisco Franco) the relationships between the main character and the writer, his experiences and biography are analysed. Simultaneously Pilar, Franco's sister, and Alfredo Mayo, main character of the cinematographic version are interviewed.
Manuel Pérez
Cuba
135 min.
Tirso Fabro, a militiaman and cooperative farmer and Chano Carrillo, raised counterrevolutionary in the area of Escambray, receive the news of the invasion of Playa Girón or Bahía de los Cochinos. The irreconcilable enmity between both protagonists, given their ideological positions, has its roots in the Cuban revolution. His old personal hatred is politicized and gradually the process is manifested by which both characters affirm themselves in their aptitudes.
Luis Correa
Venezuela
85 min.
Venezuela, 1952, during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. National Security, with a huge number of officers and confidants, kidnaps more than one hundred and thirty thousand Venezuelans. To a prison located on an island, a political prisoner arrives, who must face a prison universe that he does not know and with which he must try to survive.
Antoni Padrós
Spain
240 min.
Based on an anecdote, the film tells how and why Shirley Temple did not play The Wizard of Oz. Shirley arrives at the Emerald Country where the magician lives and is converted into a Shirley-Cinderella. Among parallel stories, the film presents a critique of the ghost myths created by the history of cinema.Based on an anecdote, the film tells how and why Shirley Temple did not play the Wizard of Oz. Shirley arrives at the Emerald Country where the magician lives and is converted into a Shirley-Cinderella. Among parallel stories, the film presents a critique of the ghost myths created by the history of cinema.
Fernando Colomo
Spain
93 min.
Juan and Carmen, a marriaged couple with a four-years-old son -Iván-, maintain friendly relationship in spite of being separated. After a trip to Italy, where she makes new friends, Carmen introduces her husband to the office worker Alberto, also separated and with marital problems. Alberto will try to take the Carmen-Juan relationship as a model to apply it to his own situation.
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