72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Opening Film
Francis Girod
France
131 min.
Paris in the thirties. Emma is a beautiful and ambitious woman who runs a bank, seeking the support of small investors. She loves life, luxury, love and power. She is madly in love with a young MP. Yet the way she runs her business opposes her to traditional bankers and makes her stand as an enemy of established values. Yet there are revengeful judges and unscrupulous jounalists.
Louis Malle
Canada
104 min.
Grace came to Atlantic City to take part in a contest, which will award a prize to the girl who most looks like Betty Grable. She is classified third, but she becomes acquainted with Lou, a professional gambler. They belong to those people who don't appreciate much the new image of the city.
István Szabó
Hungary
105 min.
In a historical situation, 1944, a man and a woman are living together, shut up in a house. The only bond between them is the necessity to remain hidden. Kata comes from a bourgeois milieu and Janos' life has led him to be distrustful and dommed to loneliness. The days they are living are full of fear and distrust. The love arising between them is no easy solution. At the moment of the Liberation they haven't yet prepared their destiny, but they have found trust through suffering.
Rui Simões
Portugal
127 min.
On April 25th 1.974, with the "Revolution of the carnations", Portugal enters a new historical process. This film tries to show the events that took place between this date and November 25th, 1975.
Jaromil Jires
Czechoslovakia
85 min.
On his doctor's suggestion, lawyer Lukasek leaves Prague to settle in a small provincial town. There he won't deal with important cases, as he is used to. Yet, through his first client, old Novakova, he discovers a whole circle of corruption, the key figure of which is Joun.
Carles Mira
Spain
94 min.
Juan falls in love with the singer of an orchestra of blind musicians. He eventually ends up in a lunatic asylum where he pretends to be the queen of the "Fallas". The unexpected apparition of the singer causes, in the end, the death by electrocution of a nun.
Andrzej Wajda
Poland
101 min.
Marta, a violinist in a provincial orchestra conducted by her husband, Adam, goes to New York for a three months stay. There she meets a famous conductor, Jan Lasocki, who was in love with her mother. Adam feels jealous and reproaches Lasocki with leaving Poland. Lasocki does not attend a tribute concert organized in his honour in Paris, and goes back to his native village, to conduct the local orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Yet, the confrontation between Adam and Jan becomes harsher and harsher.
Fernando Méndez-Leite
Spain
103 min.
Pedro Liniers, a Bachelor of Arts, leaves Barcelona to return to Madrid, when his wife, Elena, decides to abandon him after ten years of married life. In his new life as a teacher in a girls school, he meets Aurora, as well as Maite and Berta. He comes across old friends from his university time and has a brief encounter with Elena. It seems nobody is able to interest him enough.
Jaime de Armiñán
Spain
107 min.
In a town near Salamanca, Don Alejandro, an eccentric and lonely widower, lives a boring life until he meets Goyita, an intelligent, imaginative and sensitive 13 years old girl. It is a platonic kind of love, however, some influential neighbours are unconfortable with the relationship.
Alan Parker
USA
130 min.
Eight young people are trying to get a position in the world of music, theatre and dance. It is a struggle for success in the huge city of New York, in its streets and in the rooms of the High School of the Performing Arts.
Carlo Lizzani
Italy
139 min.
In the village of Fontamara, nothing happens but disasters. And its inhabitants, despite all their efforts to overcome their misery and their numerous protests to the authorities, simply cannot get a solution to their problems. Young and strong Berardo is the natural leader of Fontamara. But he is tired to struggle in vain and he leaves for Rome, where he hopes to improve his economical situation and to marry Elvira. He eventually becomes involved in underground struggle.
John Cassavetes
USA
121 min.
Gloria, a former night-club hostess, has been the lover of a gangster and now prefers to live quietly and anonymously, in a solitary and remote district. Jack Dawn, one of her neighbours, has been threatened with death, for he knows some financial secrets of a gang, led by Gloria's former lover, and for which he used to work as an accountant. In the face of the danger that is hounding them, Gloria is eventually forced to assume the responsability of the Dawn's child.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy
129 min.
A queen witnesses the murder of her husband after their wedding night. This king, who used to build highly expensive castles anywhere, had raised opposition and hatred. The young and unfortunate queen retires to her palace, while the people, not knowing her, utters slander against her and determines to kill her. Young poet Sebastian, who has been charged with murdering her, is persecuted by the police and seeks shelter in the royal mansion. The queen and Sebastian fall in love.
Malvina Ursianu
Romania
140 min.
Alexandru Lapusneanu, the last descendant of the princes of Musatini, returns in 1.564 from the exile he has been banished to, after being betrayed by the nobles of Moldavia. Alexandru endeavours to create a united and centralised Moldavia, but his policy meets the opposition of a whole sector of the corrupted aristocracy.
Fernando Colomo
Spain
95 min.
Manolo Falceto, 33 years old, lives a totally idle life at his parents. One day he meets Mariano Garrido, an old schoolmate, whom he hasn't seen for 20 years. Mariano is the author, under the pseudonym of Mac Guffin, of a thriller which is a bestseller in the States. Some odd events make Manolo and a friend os his, a journalist, suspect it is an autobiographical novel. Yet a third man will bring Manolo back to reality.
Alfredo J. Anzola
Venezuela
90 min.
Manuel is a priest who does not want to be a conventional minister. In the village where he has been destined, he supports the fishermen in their struggle against the building of an urbanization, which will put an end to their resources, and he is not afraid of establishing and intimate relationship with Alma Rosa, the wife of his friend Aparicio.
Alain Resnais
France
123 min.
Fate has brought together three lives: Jean, a middle-aged man from Brittany, René, a farmer, and Janine, a young worker. The famous biologist, Henri Laborit, gives the key to our behaviour by using the three protagonists.
Archibaldo Burns, José Luis Urquieta
Mexico
105 min.
In 1934, a Government civil servant comes to a village, to carry out the distribution of the land. He will have to confront the big landowners and the ignorance of the natives, bound by religious habits. "La Alazana" eventually becomes the lover of the village local ruler, in order to help her husband. Yet, everything will lead to a cruel disaster.
John Huston
Canada
94 min.
It is the story of doctor Peter Ross, a young and famous psychiatrist, specialized in the treatment of aberrant behaviour, who has dedicated his whole professional life to those criminals, which society considers too unbalanced, even to imprison them.
Tony Garnett
UK
97 min.
A film on "the oldest job in the world". Sandra is a prostitute from Birmingham who wants to achieve prosperity. She agrees to work in a London massage institute, hoping she will get in touch with businessmen and, why not indeed, with some Arab who will make her wealthy. Her room is rented by Louise, a social worker who will thus know, first hand, the life of the prostitutes, among them Rose, who has four children and is sentenced to jail.
Miguel Faria Jr.
Brazil
100 min.
A policeman, a famous actress, a judge, a journalist and a young lady from the high society are caught together in the disturbed climate of corruption and organized murder. All this occurs in the dark period (1968 to 1972) where the murders committed by the "Death Squadron" reach their climax.
Sebastián Alarcón
USSR
90 min.
Over a hundred South-American political prisoners are confined, without a trial, in a concentration camp, isolated from the world. The military officers, who are in charge of guarding them, are unable to force them to abandon their ideals and their spirit of resistence. Thanks to a transmitter, the prisoners manage to inform about their situation and the camp authorities are obliged to transfer them to another place.
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Poland
120 min.
Nowak, a wellknown geriatrician, is travelling with Madga from America to Poland. During the crossing, Nowak becomes aggressive and unbearable, without any reason to it whatsoever. What was supposed to be a pleasure journey, gradually piles up irritation and charges.
Closing Film
Stanley Kubrick
USA
146 min.
Jack Torrance, a failed writer, agrees to work as the manager of a completely isolated hotel, in Denver, while the establishment is closed to the public. Reincarnation phenomena, murders, as well as Torrance's progressive loss of balance, build up as complicated a maze as the garden around the hotel.
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