73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025
73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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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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Ana Carolina Teixeira
Brazil
100 min.
An iconoclastic girls' school is under investigation by the state. The person in charge, while waiting for the meeting time, falls asleep. She dreams that all the girls who study and work at the school satisfy her passions in the most incredible ways. When she wakes up, she immediately signs the book that determines the end of the institution.
Amol Palekar
India
127 min.
Ruhi, a servant of the merchant Mugutrao, wishes to have a child and thus become closer to Mugutrao. She goes to a sorcerer who predicts that she will get her wish if she sacrifices a young girl.
Iñigo Botas
Spain
88 min.
Guillermo López O'Hayne, a journalist specialising in rock 'n' roll, decides to make some quick money. That's why he decides to reveal the whole truth about John Lennon's death in a best-selling book. But at the same time, in a dark corner of the Bengal jungle, a masked man...
Richard Loncraine
United Kingdom
87 min.
Martín is a con man who takes advantage of simple people, pretending to know them when he meets them. On this occasion, his victim is Susana's father, who is disabled and has little more than a vegetative existence after being hit by a car. Martín manages to take charge of Susana. His disturbing presence disrupts the family's life together.
Ingrid Thulin
Sweden
96 min.
Erika, a 13-year-old girl, lives with her parents and grandmothers, and they appear to be a close-knit family. But her life is marked by her parents' marital discord and the anxieties of adolescence.
Arielle Dombasle
France
80 min.
Julien, a talentless musician, works as an assistant to a sculptor. He meets Hermine, a saleswoman of religious books, who introduces him to Dr. Moreau, organiser of mythologically inspired sessions. In these sessions, they will be manipulated by a fatal mechanism, where the first victim will be Hermine.
Dorothea Neukirchen
Federal Republic of Germany
89 min.
Anke and Philip, a young couple in love who cherish simplicity and vitality, have a strong relationship. They are both in their twenties and everything is going well, until Anke decides she wants to have a child. But Philip cannot imagine himself as a father. That is when problems arise for the young couple.
Markus Fischer
Switzerland
90 min.
The Müllers are a family in decline, where the parents barely speak to each other and their son Franz isolates himself in his hobby of model aeroplane building. The father tries to save the family and reorganise the small carpentry workshop he owns. The arrival of the grandmother, a merchant interested in old machinery, and Franz's encounter with a girl change the situation.
Luis Antonio Rosario Quiles
Puerto Rico
30 min.
Short film
After a group of Puerto Rican patriots attacked the United States Congress in March 1954, two journalists decided to interview the political leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
Juan José López Gutiérrez
Spain
94 min.
Luisa is an executive at a multinational marriage agency who is being considered for promotion to president. But first she must sort out her personal problems and her marriage.
Francesco Laudadio
Italy
95 min.
Nicola and Pascale, two prisoners, escape from jail almost by chance. Pursued by the police, they break into a mansion and take the guests at a dinner party hostage. When television executives hear about the incident, they begin to offer their viewers an unexpected tragicomic live show.
Carlos Pérez Ferré
Spain
89 min.
Héctor, a solitary and unsociable character, lives in the Els Plans mountains. One day, he receives an offer to buy his house and land. From then on, a series of strange circumstances unfold, eventually consuming him.
Eric Sherman
USA
58 min.
The film presents the prison system of the Texas Department of Corrections. This system has been praised and criticised for over 30 years, and the film shows why.
Charlotte Dubreuil
France
92 min.
Against a backdrop of gentle beaches and wild cliffs, we witness Elle and Louis's relationship, which reflects the same contrasts—pleasant and harsh—as the landscape.
Jorge Reyes
Peru
140 min.
A chronicle of Peru and its social revolutions narrated through the life of Vicente Orozco and his family. The period in which these events unfold spans from slavery, through the first labour struggles, to the birth of Peruvian capitalism.
Suzanne Osten
Sweden
90 min.
Due to the declaration of war in 1939, Gerd and her husband David prepare to leave France. During the journey, Gerd has a brief romance with Pierre, a French soldier who has been called up. This episode leads to her break-up with her husband. Gerd begins a new life. She combines work and caring for her daughter with her desire to make a film.
Raafat El-Mihi
Egypt
120 min.
Four siblings dispute ownership of a family plot of land. The eldest son intends to marry in order to have an heir and acquire the property. A poor woman joins the conflict to escape poverty and secure a peaceful family life. But the conflict of interests will lead to a matter of life and death.
Enrique Belloch
Spain
85 min.
Two women united in the same loneliness find themselves in a crazy and impossible love affair. Both cling dramatically and viscerally to a twilight love, regardless of age.
Jesús Díaz Rodríguez
Cuba
112 min.
In a small mining town, some Americans set up a nickel and cobalt production plant. Against this backdrop, class struggle emerges, shaping the destinies of workers and engineers.
Luciano Odorisio
Italy
109 min.
After studying together at the Rome Conservatory and maintaining a long friendship, Francesco and Andrea have not seen each other for 40 years. Francesco conducts a village choir, while Andrea has a routine job in Milan related to music. The two friends will meet again to face each other professionally.
Curt McDowell
United Kingdom
52 min.
Medium-length film
The plot revolves around family, blue magic, and the author of graffiti in a public toilet. Themes of young love also emerge. The film is a slap in the face to love. It deals with rules, games, and patriarchal manipulation.
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