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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Andrzej Wajda
Poland
156 min.
The strikes in Gdańsk and the struggles waged by the Solidarity trade union are some of the defining features of modern Poland. These events give rise to a story of love and politics within the Polish puzzle.
Markus Imhoof
Switzerland
101 min.
During the Second World War, a group of refugees, brought together by chance, manage to cross the Swiss border. They are unaware that "racial criteria" are not sufficient to guarantee political refugee status. To avoid problems with the police, they decide to pretend to be relatives in order to obtain certain favours. But despite everything, they continue to be victims of racist persecution. After a series of dramatic events, they are handed over to their persecutors at the border.
Peter Patzak
Austria
113 min.
A certain person who knows about the incredible dirty dealings of an Austrian construction company decides to expose them. To avoid scandal, the company hires an American hitman. A body is found in a car, but it is not the one they expected. There is another killer. The police and a journalist investigate, without success. The scandal breaks, publicised by the press, and takes on municipal overtones, until it becomes a political case.
Josefina Molina
Spain
90 min.
During the performance of Delibes' play Cinco horas con Mario (Five Hours with Mario), actress Lola Herrera suffers an identity crisis. In her desire to find herself, she seeks the apparent solutions offered by her social environment. She confronts her ex-husband, talks to her children and struggles to discover the keys to her past life.
François Truffaut
France
106 min.
Bernard and Mathilde, after loving each other passionately, are forced to separate abruptly. Fate brings their lives together again. Seven years have passed. Mathilde has married Philippe and they move into the house next door to where Bernard lives with his wife, Arlette, and their child. Inevitably, this neighbourly relationship will make it more difficult to forget the past.
Eric Rohmer
France
106 min.
François and Anne love each other but can never see each other because he works at night and she works during the day. One morning, he sees her leaving her house accompanied by an aviator who has been her lover, and François makes a jealous scene. In the afternoon, instead of sleeping, he wanders the streets and sees the aviator with an unknown woman. He follows them and they head to the Butter Chaumont gardens, where he meets Lucie, a schoolgirl, while trying to see Anne again.
Imanol Uribe
Spain
108 min.
After Franco's death, an ETA militant who escaped from Segovia recalls the mass escape to a journalist before ending his exile in the summer of 1977.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federal Republic of Germany
115 min.
A builder, Von Bohm, arrives in a small town dominated by the upper class in the midst of Germany's reconstruction. Von Bohm's intentions are to put an end to the corrupt establishments, and in one of them he meets the mysterious Lola. He is immediately attracted to the young woman and is later horrified to discover that she is a cabaret singer who performs in a brothel frequented by many young officers.
David Gladwell
United Kingdom
115 min.
In a middle-class neighbourhood of a large city, which could be London in the near future, lives a lonely woman who watches in amazement as the world around her and her own personal world change. She also has the power to travel back in time and walk through the walls of her flat. From her window, she watches the hungry crowds gathering in self-defence tribes. Animals invade the streets and deserted houses, and a group of children take refuge in the Underground to try to survive through cannibalism.
Héctor Babenco
Brazil
128 min.
Five children escape from a reformatory and plunge into the underworld of São Paulo. To survive, they become involved in drugs, theft, prostitution and murder. A prostitute, Sueli, falls in love with Pixote as if he were her son, but later rejects him. Pixote is forced to flee and survive on his own.
Andrzej Zulawsky
France
124 min.
After a long absence from home, a man learns that his wife is leading a double life. For him, this could be a typical drama leading to a break-up. But unexpectedly, he discovers her lover. The two men realise that the reality is even more complex: she has another secret that neither of them knows about, "someone" has possessed the girl.
Christopher Miles
United Kingdom
125 min.
From 1912 to 1930, D.H. Lawrence travelled around the world in search of peace and inspiration. But he never had a quiet life, always pushing the boundaries, until his death from tuberculosis.
Bigas Luna
Spain
105 min.
The religious organisation Harley's Soldiers, which uses television as a means of spreading its beliefs, is going through a critical situation. To regain a larger audience, they decide to go to Italy to find Maria, a young clairvoyant with a reputation for performing miracles. Maria, a small-town girl, faces a series of tensions and situations that are unfamiliar to her. One night, Mark and Maria, who has become pregnant, try to escape. During their flight, Maria gives birth to a child.
Massimo Troisi
Italy
110 min.
Andrea, a young Neapolitan, decides to spend a few days at his aunt's house in Florence, where he meets Marta and falls in love with her. His relationship with Marta reveals his own contradictions and the limits of his character. Outgoing on the surface but shy at heart, he returns to his parents' house for his sister's wedding, but the provincial atmosphere no longer appeals to him. His new Florentine friends, customs so different from those of his hometown, and the possibility that Marta's unborn child could be his, will change his life.
Walter Hill
USA
106 min.
Nine National Guard troops prepare to trek 39 kilometres through the forests of Louisiana. The nine men must survive in five million hectares of wild and unknown terrain. But the local inhabitants are offended and confront the "intruders".
Marco Ferreri
Italy
101 min.
Charles Serking, a renegade poet, lives in a seedy neighbourhood in Hollywood. His life is divided between his still latent desire to succeed as a writer and his unbridled appetite for women and alcohol. Night after night, he meets a group of women who, like himself, are rejects of a society that rejects them.
Antonio Artero
Spain
84 min.
The alleged signs of holiness of a nun from Madrid, Sister Patrocinio, are used by the Bourbons and Carlists in their ideological struggle. Denounced by her mother, 'the nun with the sores' is investigated and it is proven that what is presented as a miracle is nothing more than trickery.
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