74th San Sebastian Festival - 18/26 September 2026
74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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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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Official Section - Short Films
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Opening Film
Mauro Azkona
Spain
Short film
This documentary is about Bilbao in 1920, its squares, buildings and monuments, which offer a completely different view from that of today.
Not in competition
Opening Film
Mauro Azkona
Spain
Short film
LAYA FILM, a production company attached to the Propaganda Commissariat of the Generalitat de Catalunya, produced nearly 90,000 metres of film for its newsreels and documentaries since its creation in November 1936. This short film shows the news from the Basque Country that was shown to the Catalan people.
Not in competition
Opening Film
Mauro Azkona
Spain
30 min.
Short film
This film, shot in the midst of the civil war, tells the story of the inhabitants of a Castilian village who want fairer wages. While they are denied even the most basic necessities, the rich locals live in abundance and despise the poor. The struggle undertaken by the peasants is not tolerated by the local bosses, and a massacre ensues. The final sequences were destroyed during the war, so the film is incomplete, but its content is clear enough to be understood.
Not in competition
Jorge Sáenz Calero
Colombia
11 min.
Short film
The aim of this short film is to show how a homeless man overcomes his circumstances after finding a baby one night at the door of a church. The central character's greatest fear is that, after being transformed by the girl he found, who is not his own, one day someone will claim her and destroy his newfound hope in life.
Not in competition
Roger Christian
United Kingdom
25 min.
Short film
When Sir Maddox returns home after a war, he finds his entire family dead and his lands in ruins. As he sets out in search of revenge, he has an accident and is saved by a maiden. Following her, he realises that she is a prisoner of the Black Angel and decides to save her life in gratitude.
Not in competition
Marcelo Taranto
Brazil
17 min.
Short film
El Circo de las ilusiones (The Circus of Illusions) is an awareness of human existence, seen through the daily life of a palace of the lowest order. The circus serves as the setting for the entire process of reflection, as if the camera were merging with the mind.
Not in competition
Antonio Flores Martínez
Spain
Short film
The film deals with interpersonal relationships, communication, absence, memory, and love. All these themes are explored as a reflection on the relationship between two characters who are going through a break-up.
Not in competition
Antonio Flores Martínez
Spain
Short film
Childhood, imagination, tenderness, play, etc. are the themes of this story. A girl imagines a relationship with a monstrous being, experiencing it through her innocent lens. The film is related to the myth of Frankenstein.
Not in competition
Petr Sís
Czechoslovakia
8 min.
Short film
Experimental film made using artistic ideas about heads to demonstrate practical wisdom and meditation on life.
Not in competition
Janusz Sijka
Poland
Short film
The fire brigade band marches across some fallow fields. Along the way, a few incidents occur. After one of them, the drum major is replaced.
Not in competition
Francisco Avizanda
Spain
7 min.
Short film
The action takes place in 1955. The last maquis are trying to reach the border. A boy is in the outskirts of a village. Suddenly, a shot rings out.
Not in competition
Juan Antonio Cadenas
Spain
12 min.
Short film
A supporting actor, marginalised by the professional jealousy of the leading actor, decides to break with the situation and take on his own role, precisely on the day of the premiere. The film, in the words of its own director, aims to be an "aesthetic reflection on a parable of anarchist formulation".
Not in competition
Guillermo Suso
Spain
11 min.
Short film
Two beautiful young women, a grotesque man, different love affairs, violence and death, worship, waiting and despair, isolation and monotony.
Not in competition
Antonio Navarro, Javier Reyes
Spain
20 min.
Short film
This film presents itself as "a tribute to all those directors and actors of silent cinema, particularly comedy." The film features all the typical characters of classic silent cinema: the painter, the villain, the strongman, etc.
Not in competition
Closing Film
José Luis Garci
Spain
Short film
Documento que homenajea a una de las figuras más irrepetibles del cine español, el crítico Alfonso Sánchez.
Not in competition
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