72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Cecilia Bartolomé
Spain
95 min.
Ana, daughter of a bourgeois family, decides to separate from her husband. The occasion is a vacation that undertakes with his daughter Barbara, 12 years. They meet new people, like Ivan, a tour guide whose mother and daughter are feeling more and more connected.
Robert M. Young
USA
110 min.
Roberto Ramírez is one of the many young Mexicans who cross the border illegally to find work in the USA. After numerous avatars he is arrested and deported. Again he crosses the border, and in one of his works he finds his father. But it's too late for them to recognize each other.
Santiago Álvarez
Cuba
22 min.
Short film
"Cyclone" arises from the need to represent the passage of Hurricane Flora through the island of Cuba. His images, taken largely from the ICAIC archive, show the unsuspecting arrival of the natural phenomenon.
Paulino Viota
Spain
96 min.
A company has labor problems and a worker leader, Marcos. The director of the factory hires three thugs who brutally torture Marcos to scare him. A comrade of Marcos, Aurora, hidden in his house and between them is born an intense relationship, but the thugs discover the hiding place, ciolan Aurora and kill Marcos, feigning a suicide.
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
German Democratic Republic
99 min.
Interviews with leaders of the Chilean right-wing opposition to the Popular Unit of Salvador Allende before and after the coup that established the military dictatorship.
Gerardo Vallejo
Argentina
90 min.
Documentary made with an elementary technical team, is a dramatic testimony. Gerardo Ramón Reales and his miserable family not only tell their unjust and cruel life. The story brings us closer to the Argentine reality of the last fifty years.
Manuel Pérez Paredes
Cuba
124 min.
There are still counterrevolutionary bands that try to maintain a focus of terror on the population and restore contact with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. One morning is the body of the administrator, Alberto Delgado, in the Maisinicú estate. Research reveals an intense and violent atmosphere, and a contradictory personality. Alberto Delgado's itinerary in recent months you can know the information of this Cuban counterintelligence services agent among the bandits operating in the area.
Tod Browning
USA
64 min.
In a circus full of deformed beings, cripples and people with various amputations, Hans, one of the dwarves, inherits a fortune. From that moment, Cleopatra, a beautiful trapeze artist, will try to seduce you to get your money. To achieve its goal, draw a plan with the complicity of Hercules, the strongman of the circus.
Santiago Álvarez
Cuba
19 min.
Short film
Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Álvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara's death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingly calls it "a pure distillation of the highly unusual conditions of production" that spurred Alvarez's "urgent cinema." Incorporating Guevara's own speeches and documentary scraps from the Bolivian campaign, Álvarez's resourcefulness is ever astonishing.
Vera Chytilová
Czechoslovakia
100 min.
Anna is a young midwife who is accustomed to working on her own. She is not used to the Prague hospital where she has started to work, especially because of the ironic nature of a doctor, whose attention is immediately fixed on each new nurse who enters the hospital. hospital. Anna, after tricking him into believing that he has made her pregnant, will be really pregnant.
Liliana Cavani
Italy
95 min.
Milan has become a deserted and spectral city; the streets and squares are sown with corpses. The military, equipped for war, are present everywhere, and people walk unperturbed without repairing lifeless bodies. The authorities have ordered that the bodies of dissidents and rebels be exposed in the streets to serve as an example and that another rebellion will not occur again. Antigone is a young woman from the bourgeois family who has lost her brother during the riots. And it revolts, indignantly, against the prohibition of burying the dead. However, nobody wants to help her, nor her relatives, nor her boyfriend Hemón, son of one of the most influential politicians in the country: they all abide by the orders emanating from power. But Antigone meets Tiresias, a young foreigner who speaks a language she doesn't understand, but is willing to help her.
Puppi Avati
Italy
70 min.
The life, loves and dreams of a group of young people who want to become professional jazz musicians and who come to form a small 'jazz band'.
Márta Mészáros
Hungary
88 min.
A young woman appears in a metallurgical complex of an industrial town. The head of the workshop, Janos, invites her out and she rejects it. He insists and achieves his purposes. One day, Janos discovers that Julia has a son. He wants to break with her, but ends up accepting the facts. Julia is pregnant by Janos and Janos, because of his conservatism, does not marry her. Julia flees.
Pilar Miró
Spain
92 min.
Teresa manages since childhood to hide their little evils and make others pay for them. Miguel, her lover, dies in her arms accidentally. And Julian, the dumb neighbor who wants her in daydreams, agrees to take the body out of Teresa's room under a promise of love.
Carles Mira
Spain
82 min.
The history is set in the fourteenth century in Mediterranean lands, among Moors, Christians and Jews. The magic of the earth, sex, music and wine, against the magic of power. Father Vicente preaches in a Self of Faith the Sermon of the pains of hell and all the infidels are baptized. His voice is heard thousands of kilometers away. Form a company of penitents. It is used by the Pope and the King to subdue the people. Preach the end of the world to the multitude. In the middle of his sermon, he collapses from the pulpit and, while he is dying among his disciples, points to heaven.
Jaime Camino
Spain
175 min.
Memory is only subjective memory. There may be an intentional blockage of the collective memory by a power interested in distorting the story, but is it interesting to recover the memory? Would not it be more comfortable to leave it dormant and cling only to pleasant memories? In order to recover the true memory, a confrontation with the facts is necessary. The film presents, with this objective, a series of conversations with several characters from the closest history of Spain.
Marco Leto
Italy
112 min.
Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.
Luis Buñuel
Spain
30 min.
Short film
Documentary short film that makes a portrait of Las Hurdes (Cáceres), one of the poorest and least developed regions of Spain in 1932. Unhealthiness, misery and lack of opportunities cause the emigration of young people and the loneliness of those who remain in this desolate region of Extremadura.
Fernando E. Solanas
Argentina
132 min.
Paraphrase of the poem Martin Fierro interpreted in terms historical-political and located in the contemporary era. Attempt to reconstruct from oral history, the epic starring the Argentine people from the loss of their sovereignty (1955) to the reconquest of it (1973). History, myth and reality fused in a critical parable that transcends any chronology, to express the vicissitudes and desires of the liberation of the Argentine people, in most of what goes of the century.
Orson Welles
USA
105 min.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Luis Martínez Cortés
Spain
85 min.
Marian is a 27 year old woman, married to her cousin Jaime. Marian remains in a strange indifference to the work of Jaime, to expand the business. The figure of the father, who died in the Navarrese Pyrenees, is anchored in his mind. A usurper, whom Marian will reject with all her strength, will occupy in the heart of her mother the place of the disappeared father. This child situation is expressed in despair and frigidity before sexual relations with men, until the encounter with another man costitutes the reincarnation of his own father ...
Vsevolod Pudovkin
USSR
88 min.
Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Máximo Gorki, is set during the Russian Revolution of 1905. It tells the tragic events of that year through the suffering of a mother for her son and her husband, a peasant woman who will become aware of the social struggle only through example and tragedy.
Santiago Álvarez
Cuba
5 min.
Short film
Documentary short film about the struggle for civil rights of the black population of the United States in the 1960s. The text of the song refers to the urgent need to fight, with more effective methods, for the equality of citizens' rights. Racist incidents produced in California in 1965 are shown, suggesting a more decisive call for fighting racists and racial injustice. It is considered the first video clip in history.
Gunnel Lindblom
Sweden
113 min.
Paradistorg is the house in the Stockholm archipelago where every summer Katha, a divorced doctor, meets her parents, her two daughters and her grandchildren, plus some other relatives and friends. Through one of the summers of this family group, the mythical Nordic of the sun, the heat, the summer solstice, the feast of San Juan, the longest day of the year, described through long outdoor meals , country walks, bathing mornings in the sea, silent nights full of love. It is a world dominated by women and plagued by children, where men have disappeared, pass fleetingly or are too old or young to have specific weight, and in which a clearly feminine problem that revolves around the problem of children is debated.
Miguel G. Luxemburgo (José Ganga)
Spain
The film is the projection of a film whose argument has more than similarities with the Spanish political process since a few months before the death of General Franco. The projection is interrupted, an armed fascist group enters the movie theater, the portrait of the deceased dictator presides over the massacre ...
Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz
Poland
62 min.
After World War II, Liza fled from Europe. Until then he had been vigilant in the Auschwitz concentration camp. When he returns years later, during the boat trip he recognizes a face he has not been able to forget ...
Marco Bellochio
Italy
88 min.
A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.
Alfredo J. Anzola
Venezuela
90 min.
Alejandro and his friend Diosa are employed in a furniture store. Alejandro suspects that his employer is mixed up in a murky business and decides to make him fall into a trap by pretending to belong to a powerful organization. Vision of the current Caracas, modern, rich and conducive to easy profits.
Tom Hedegaard
Denmark
85 min.
Action movie with political theme. The central character, the shooter, becomes a terrorist. This activity is inspired journalist Winther in a television debate, but are the journalist and the shooter in the same line?
Dušan Makavejev
Canada
95 min.
A beautiful woman, who has been elected Miss World 1984, marries an eccentric millionaire who ends up repudiating her. Then it goes to a kind of sect that, through hallucinatory therapies, intends that the minds of its members return to childhood. At the same time, a sailor linked to the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) joins the captain of a strange ship, the Survival, who sails proclaiming his only motto: absolute freedom.
Robert Aldrich
USA
111 min.
Charles Castle, a very demanding Hollywood actor with himself, is not satisfied with his latest performances. Therefore, when a producer makes a tempting offer that he considers would damage his reputation, he rejects it. But the producer blackmails him, threatening to reveal facts of his past that would tarnish his prestige more than the role he has offered.
Joris Ivens
USA
54 min.
Medium-length film
A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Rafael Gordon
Spain
101 min.
Juana, Luisón and Álvaro practice activities as 'suspicious' as trust, humor and friendship and do not feel guilty about anything. Meanwhile, the garbage is noticed in the ditches, in the telephone booths, in the teeth and interestingly, the Constitution was being drafted ...
Iñaki Núñez
Spain
60 min.
A court martial. Marta and several of her colleagues, anti-Franco militants, are condemned to death. Everyone is executed except Marta, who saves her life because she is pregnant. She gives birth in jail and there she will live with her son until she is amnestied.
Dziga Vertov
USSR
61 min.
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Vittorio De Sica
Italy
84 min.
Umberto Domenico Ferrari is a retiree who tries to survive with his miserable pension. Immersed in poverty, he lives in a pension, whose owner mistreats him because he fails to raise the money necessary to pay his room rent. The only friends he has in this world are a young maid and especially his dog Flike.
Francesco Rosi
Italy
101 min.
On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.
Larisa Shepitko
URSS
111 min.
The action took place in the winter of 1942 in Belarus. Two guerrillas go in search of food for their companions, until they are reached by their persecutors and subjected to interrogations and torture. Faced with this situation, the two guerrillas will react differently.
Agniezka Holland
Poland
99 min.
Anka sends some photographs to a film production company, in order to escape from the environment that surrounds her. She falls in love with Romek and leaves with him having her first love experience. Upon returning home, she finds a notice from the production company and goes to Warsaw. Pawel, a friend of Romek, falls in love with a doctor, wife of the director of the House of Culture where he has started working. Pawel believes that the best solution is to deal with the matter honestly and talk to the husband. The doctor refuses to leave her husband. Pawel meets Anka in Warsaw.Anka sends some photographs to a film production company, in order to escape from the environment that surrounds her. He falls in love with Romek and leaves with him having his first love experience. Upon returning home, he finds a notice from the production company and goes to Warsaw. Pawel, a friend of Romek, falls in love with a doctor wife of the director of the House of Culture where he has started working. Pawel believes that the best solution is to deal with the matter honestly and talk to the husband. The doctor refuses to leave her husband. Pawel meets Anka in Warsaw.
Alexandr Dovzhenko
USSR
75 min.
An old Ukrainian peasant prepares to die on the land where he has worked all his life. His grandson, Vasil, decides then that the council of the town must buy a tractor to share it among the farmers, who together will overcome the difficulties of nature and the oppression of the rich landowners.
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