72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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János Dömölky
Hungary
80 min.
Sandor and his wife discover on a trip through Europe a saber that served to behead two terrorists in 1671. This discovery will complicate their lives, transforming their lives to unsuspected extremes.
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.
Lino Del Frá
Italy
127 min.
In 1928 Antonio Gramsci enters the prison of Turin. In his long years in prison, his broken health suffers the rigors of confinement and the political vicissitudes of Italy, which can not live as his desire would. The only link that links him to the outside is his sister-in-law Tania, who visits him sporadically without daring to reveal the precarious state of mind of his wife Giulia. The party judges hard what it considers as errors and deviations of Gramsci, who takes refuge in his writings and experiences while waiting for the end
Hans-Christoph Stenzel
Federal Republic of Germany
84 min.
Rosy Selavy arrives in New York, with her chessboard under her arm. occupying Duchamp's place at the Washington Square chess table (where he converses with the composer John Cage) later invites his suitors to a game. Rosy comes in contact with John Cage, with Broadway star Jean Halbert, with French singer Janet Maillard and Soho artist Hannah Wilke, before embarking on a long journey across the country, where she meets Mary Jane Collins , singer of Memphis Blues' stumbles upon a colony of Puritans, meets some hippies in the Far West, being finally raped and murdered on a beach in Los Angeles by psychiatrist Hal James.
Miguel Sabido
México
88 min.
Free and iconoclastic adaptation of La celestina. Calixto requires the loves of Melibea. His servant Sempronio sends him to Celestina, who awakens with her arts the sexual desire of Melibea. Lust and love for money possess Celestina, who makes an appointment.
Miguel Ángel Diez
Spain
99 min.
Santiago, who is doing the Military Service in Cartagena, gets four days of permission to make his Final Film for a Film School. Ana, Edurne's roommate, phones Santiago, whom she does not know, initiating a love story that is not consummated. New characters are appearing on the scene, specifying a certain era, demonstrating that any time spent was NOT better.
Chumy Chúmez
Spain
84 min.
Sagrario, servant of all the life in house of its señorito, feels a deep hatred towards the new wife of this one, of which suspects with foundation that deceives to him. He will try everything to commit it to the owner of the house.
Bruce Beresford
Australia
91 min.
Don's friends come to his villa to celebrate the victory of the Social Democratic Party in 1960. After flirting and drinking abundantly and interspersing social compliments, relations between Don's guests vary from face to face and take another dimension.
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.
Bárbara Kopple
EEUU
113 min.
The film draws a parallel between the bloody repression in Harlan County in 1930 and the mining strike of 1973. The miners decided in that year to join the union, at the same time that the employers refused to sign the collective agreement, which It provoked strikes and demonstrations, trials against protesters and the repressive intervention of the Federal Police. This fight lasted thirteen months.
Enrique Brasó
Spain
100 min.
A writer returns to Spain, after ten years of absence. He remembers a previous love relationship, hoping to rediscover his past. That previously frustrated love appears on the scene. The woman leaves, trying in vain to find him, since she is told that she had died ten years ago. The rival of the writer initiates the conquest of the woman, before whose fact the jealousy tortures him.
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.
Jan Halldoff
Sweden
117 min.
Jack, aspiring writer and poet, is limited to live his life with his band of friends, between bottles and haschich pipes. All their young companions get high and drink disproportionately, while waiting for autumn to arrive and leave for the island of Gotland. Between fights and drunkenness, Jack tries to recover his summer love.
Nicolás Sarquis
Argentina
108 min.
Sebastián Arache arrives at a village in the interior, immersed in superstition and fear, of which he only has references by stories of his mother. There he meets Ana Tamayo, a woman who is the living memory of the people, the cacique Juan Gregorio Valdés and other beings who live miserably. Sebastian must face a series of opposing forces.
Ana Carolina
Brasil
99 min.
The journey by car of a married couple with their teenage daughter, whom they wish to marry, becomes a seemingly absurd and absurd flight. After an attempt to assassinate her husband, the wife is mixed in a series of crazy situations, driven by the diabolical mentality of her daughter.
André Faria
Brasil
200 min.
Two guerrillas arrive at an island governed by a semi-feudal family and take refuge in an abandoned church. They are soon joined by a woman with magical powers, a link that unites the worlds of madness and nightmare and that embodies Mother Nature.
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.
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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