72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Ridley Scott
USA
117 min.
The action takes place in 2010. A spaceship, carring fuel supply, returns to Earth from a distant planetary system. During the journey strange distress calls from an unknown planet are received; and the tripulation, ignoring the rules, decide to divert the spaceship's route, exposing themselves to serious consequences.
Pál Gábor
Hungary
96 min.
1948. Vera works as a nurse. Her active participation in the hospital's assembly brings attention and makes her being send to the Party's school. There she meets three comrade who are going to wield a strong influence over her personality: Mária, Anna and István. Among them complex interdependence and subordination relations are created, which will provoque in Vera sentiments of insecurity, fear and desires of making her own way by herself.
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
153 min.
Clasic styled methaphorical adventure - in words of Coppola- in which anecdotes and episodes of the Vietnam War are inserted. Willard sails up the river through the vietnamese jungle to face Coronel Kurtz. But the chasing transforms in the introspective journey of a man that ends finding himself: chaser and chased are not but two aspects of the same reality, the madness inside all of us...
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Josep María Forn
Spain
125 min.
Historical reconstruction of fragments of the life of Luis Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya during the Republic, which includes his exile and his handing over to Franco's authorities, as well as the later mock trial which implied the death penalty. The film is a tetimony of the repression placed on the defeated.
Sergio Castilla
Sweden
87 min.
The story of three days in a clandestine prison of the chilean dictatorship, where we watch different types of conflicts between tortured and torturer.
Mansur Madavi
Austria
90 min.
When Peter Bernard tries to follow, in his literary investigations, the trace of María's life -conditionated by an inhuman social system- , he stumbles with the pressures and threats from some people who seem not interested in some of María's life events coming to light.
Imanol Uribe
Spain
134 min.
On December 3, 1970, in Burgos it started the War Council in which sixteen ETA militants would be sentenced to nive death penalties and more than fivehundred years of imprisonment. The film compiles the testimony of the protagonist of that historic event.
Gianni Amelio
Italy
83 min.
Florence, the thirties. Alfred, an englishman who travels to that city in order to write a book about Giotto, meets a boy fond of music and mathematics, with whom starts a great frienship. Alfred leaves for Switzerland, but one days he receives a distressing letter from the boy and returns abruptly to Florence, where he hears the news of his death. Alfred wonders if the death was really an accident...
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
German Democratic Republic
75 min.
Documental testimony of Salvador Allende's last hours and the events which took place in the sorroundings of the Palacio de la Moneda on September 11, 1973. Te film includes unpublished cinemathographic documents, radio and television recordings from that day, as well as interviews with figures who knew the deceased president closely.
Patricio Guzmán
Cuba
80 min.
Third part of La Batalla de Chile, is a documentary testimony of the events that preceeded the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. The film starts with the strike which in October 1972, planned from the USA, intends to paralise the country, and describes the popular reaction against it. The disruptive attempt innitially fails and the revolutionary forces have to reorganize. But soon several questions are raised: Which path to take? How to channel the popular initiative?
Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy
142 min.
Ten years ago the astronauts werw taking photos of the hidden face of the moon. Now, Bertolucci tells us the story of a fifteen-year-old astronaut in search of the hidden face of his mother.
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Carlos Saura
Spain
98 min.
The memories, conflicts and obsessions of different characters who, on occasion of the Mother's birthday party, gather around her in the old house which Saura's cinema lovers will certainly remember.
Woody Allen
USA
96 min.
Bittersweet analysis of New York's Manhattan neighbourghood's life through the story of Isaac David, TV screenwriter who, discontent with his job, decides to quit and dedicate himself to literature. Isaac suffers remorse due to his relationship with Tracy, a seventeen-year-ol schoolgirl, and ends feeling attracted by Mary, his best friend's partner.
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Georgiy Daneliya
USSR
90 min.
The desire of the central character of the film of not offending anyone and of being alright with everybody turns his life ina sucession of uncountable problems and frustrations. Not to give offence to the woman he loves, he hurts his wive without wanting to. The wive abandons him, so does the lover... Weh our man decides to change his lifestyle, both return and everything goes back on track.
Steven H. Stern
Canada
102 min.
Michael is an 34 year-old athlete, with family issues and all kind of issues, who is determined to take part with the USA olimpic team in a marathon, for which, for first time, he trains with dedication. The day of the big event arrives and Michael leads the way through out the whole race. But just before the finish he suffers an accident.
Francesc Bellmunt
Spain
100 min.
It's the chronicle of a wait. The waiting of a generation of men who have turned 30 and choose their city councils, but not their parliaments yet; they know that love isn't eternal, but they marry in a romantic chapel; they believe in men's equality, but are brought down when their partners cheat on them; they think that exploitation is the origin os social disgrace, but all they do is wait...
Menahem Golan
Israel
114 min.
Poland, beginnings of the century. Yasha, a witty magician with elegant manners, dreamer and womanizer, tours villages and cities with his show, while in Lulín, his birthplace, his faithfull wive Esther awaits. Yasha has two ambitions that obsses him: to perform in the Varsovia's Alhambra Theatre and to posses Emilia, a beautiful and arrogant countess.
Wojciech Marczewski
Poland
100 min.
Mikolaj Screbrny, a ten year-old boy whose personality has been developing without conventional hurdles in an old country house in which he lives with his parents, faces a reality full of lies and hypocrisy when, one day, he's removed from his isolation and sent to school. Mikolaj fights for keeping his individuality, but life doesn't help him. After the death of his father, looks for refuge -without finding it- in his sick mother. Soon new problems will arise: the misteries of sex. Years go by and Mikolaj returns to his father's house...
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