72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Jaime Chávarri
Spain
104 min.
José García, a magician by profession, investigates his past by linking two distant moments in time: July 1936 and Spring 1977. His is the buried and intimate story of a resurrection will.
Sidney Pollack
USA
124 min.
Bobby Deerfield, champion of races of Formula 1, is obsessed by the idea of death that apears in each comperición. Visiting an injured companion, he casually meets a woman whose lack of prejudices and sensual and disturbing character obsess him. The deal with her will slowly transform his life and the closed world in which he obsessively hides his true nature
Ken Hannam
Australia
112 min.
Tom, wounded during the war, returns in 1920 to his birthhome to work in the local newspaper. Married to Beth and waiting for the arrival of his first son, both are reaching the breaking point of their unstable marriage union. One morning he meets a painter arrived from Melbourne, Alice, a lonely and independent woman, capable ot facing the curious and the scandal that hers and her friends free lifestyle create in the village.
Closing film out of competition
Luis Buñuel
France - Spain
103 min.
A man of a certain age, with wealth and without worries, finds a Spanish girl much younger than him, who works in France. He likes the girl, he wants her, but the girl, despite the tenderness that the man inspires him, is denied saying that she is a virgin. The man says that he is willing to do everything for her and this is demonstrated by his actions. But the girl is changeable, unstable, capable of going from sweetness to insult, and desperately capricious. It promises, but it does not keep its promises. When he sees that situation becomes difficult, he disappears, to appear again unexpectedly, provocative and chaste, innocent and sensual, always unexpected. The relationships between these two beings leads them to violence and absurdity. At the same time a subtle and strong bond is created between them, which no one can break.
Sergio Renán
Argentina
85 min.
Milo, a thirteen-year-old boy in the threshold of adolescence, lives in the home of a failed old man and with him he meets the old glories of vaudeville, the false Russian doormans of restaurants, the contortionists and fire-swindlers who try to survive in the big cities today
Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel
Federal Republic of Germany
143 min.
In 1933, a German family, formed by Sellman the baquer, his wife, his son Heinrich and his three daughters, Katharina, Sophie and Christine, moves from the German town of Dessau to Prague. The story of this family runs on the bottom of the 'golden city', until the end of the world war. It is the story of an European idyll promising at the beginning , but affected by with somber and fateful points, during which the Sellmans try to adapt to their new environment
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.
Not in competition
Richard Loncraine
United Kingdom
98 min.
After the tragic death of her daughter, Julia flees from her husband and takes refuge in a new house. The past terrifies her and each night he faces unusual details that indicate the possibility that his own experience has in a way related to a girl who previously lived in her current home.
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Federal Republic of Germany
125 min.
Heinrich von Kleist has fought with his writtings against Napoleon. In paris, his sister Ulrike, a woman with masculine characteristics, tries to be a man for his brother's love sake. But Kleist leaves for Switzerland with his friend Pfuel. Kleist burns his work, works with a carpenter and ends up with Ulrike and Pfuel. In the gates to Berlin, the frenchmen detein him as spy and lock him at Joux Fountains where he writes the most important part of his wokr, before dying according to his times and romantic ideas.
Jon Lindström
Sweden
90 min.
Harri, a young Finnish worker, has emigrated to Sweden in search of work, but is not comfortable and feels marginalized, while being aware of the failure of his marriage to a Swedish intellectual. The greeting of this situation is violence, hurting a compatriot and taking refuge in his hometown. Try to find yourself, taking stock of your past life.
Marco Bellochio
Italy
120 min.
The action takes place during a summer and on the shore of a lake. Medvedenko, a village teacher, falls in love with Macha, who does not belong to him. Both go to a platform, in which Constantine, Sorine's nephew, prepares a show. This is celebrated in front of the mother of Mdvedenko, her lover, the doctor and the old Pauline. The only admitted spectator is Sorine, to whom the young intellectual confesses the anguish of feeling ignored, in the shadow of his mother. He also expresses his contempt for conventional theater.
Antonio Mercero
Spain
91 min.
During a day of his life, a four-year-old boy, from the time he gets up to the time he goes out, alternates games and mischief, as well as the relationship with his family. Through his adventures the daily life is reflected and the difficult coexistence of the parents of the small Lolo.
Laurent Heynemann
France
112 min.
Algeria in 1957. Henry Charlègue, director of Alger Démocratique, the only newspaper that opens its columns to the Algerian national opinion, is forced to go underground after the closure of his newspaper. One morning, when he goes to the house of his friend Maurice Oudinot, arrested the day before, he falls into a trap and is caught. He is taken to El Biar, a building transformed into a prison, where he will be interrogated to begin a long stay in the prison.
Manuel Octavio Gómez
Cuba
87 min.
In the 1940s, thousands of Haitians were taken to Cuba as cheap labor. There they live with the hope of one day returning to their land with their savings until, unexpectedly, He rhey are repatriated. Pedro Limón, after many years, returns to his village, which he finds different in his men and landscapes. Remembers his miserable life and the violence of repatriation. He also remembers happy moments. Pedro has to decide between a magical world and a human, real world, between "the earth and the sky"
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Spain
109 min.
Aurora Rodríguez decides to have a daughter who, educated from the beginning, can dedicate herself to the liberation of women. Looks for a healthy and intelligent man, who asks to renounce to his parental rights. The girl, Hildegart, is just like her mother wants. At twelve, she enters the Socialist Party, at the age of seventeen she concludes her law studies and begins as a political columnist. Until the day her mother begins to discover deviations in her line of battle, with which she does not agree
Nikita Mijalkov
USSR
103 min.
On the farm of the widow Ana Petronova several guests gather. Platanov discovers in Sofia his first youthful love, realizing that she, emancipated, speaks of the welfare of the people and of science. The conversation between the two ends in a scandal, when Sofia's husband, Serguei, realizes that he is leaving the farm angrily. Platanov realizes that his attempts are futile and decides to make a decision.On the farm of the widow Ana Petronova several guests gather. Platanov discovers in Sofia his first youthful love, realizing that she, emancipated, speaks of the welfare of the people and of science. The conversation between the two ends in a scandal, when Sofia's husband, Serguei, realizes that he is leaving the farm angrily. Platanov realizes that his attempts are futile and decides to make a decision.
Walter Hugo Khouri
Brazil
98 min.
Marcelo, a veteran filmmaker, arrives with Ana, his assitant director, to the studio where he must supervise the set of his next movie. In front of the set he thinks about his work, the moment of his career and faces the ghosts of his nightmares and obsessions, mixing reality and fantasy.
José Bolaños
Mexico
112 min.
Juan Preciado and the arriero Abundio walk towards the town of Comala, commenting among themselves on their origin, and discover that both are children of Pedro Páramo. Juan enters into a relationship with Eduviges and other characters who knew his father, the powerful Pedro Páramo, and discovers the life of beings like his stepbrother Miguel, tragically deceased leaving behind a trail of rapes and murders
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.
George Lucas
USA
127 min.
From the arid planet where he lives, the young Luke throws himself into a colossal galactic adventure in search of a princess kidnapped on a neighboring planet. With his two robots and thanks to the help of his friend Han and the elderly Ben, the boy will run incredible adventures that will culminate in an unprecedented space battle, to conquer the gigantic planet "Star of death"
Dan Pita
Romania
115 min.
The cruel and despotic Tanase Scatiu, is taking over in the nineteenth century the fortune of his wife's family, quickly rising to the society of large landowners. The arrival of the Minister of the Interior uses it for his own benefit, instead of listening to the legitimate claims of the peasants, which will cause an unsustainable tension
Stuart Cooper
Canada
100 min.
Celandine, the wife of Jan Mallory, disappears after nine years of marriage. Mallory works for an international criminal organization and its mission is to be a "murderer of murderers". His past and present life, his missing wife and the new crime he must commit converge in a mansion in the English countryside.
Not in competition
Daniel Schmid
Switzerland
95 min.
Doña Violanta has a daughter, Laura, who is close to marrying David. Violanta was married to Simon whom he murdered, although his crime is not known by anyone. Sylver, son of a previous marriage of Simón and Laura, returns to the town to attend the wedding of his sister and with her lives a strange experience in the mountain, which finishes the day of the nuptials
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