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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Taylor Hackford
USA
124 min.
Zack has signed up for a gruelling naval aviation training course where he has to face Sergeant Foley, whose job is to find each candidate's Achilles heel. Four weeks into training, Zack meets Paula, who works in a paper mill and dreams of an officer in uniform who will rescue her from her miserable life.
Lino Brocka
Philippines
109 min.
Ellis and Lorens' mother, sensing her death approaching, decides to favour her younger son, Ellis, in her will. This causes a bitter dispute within the family, particularly for Lorens, who decides to take revenge on the entire family.
Serguei Bondarchuk
Mexico
135 min.
John Reed is commissioned by a New York newspaper to cover Pancho Villa's uprising in northern Mexico. As the revolution continues, Reed carries out his journalistic work in the midst of the battlefield. It is there that he remembers the life and environment he has left behind.
Román Chalbaud
Venezuela
102 min.
A group of young people from wealthy families, in their search for drugs, end up committing murder. Their families use their economic power to influence the police's decisions and cover up the murder.
Bertrand Tavernier
France
128 min.
On the eve of World War II, police inspector Lucien Cordier, a regular customer at a local brothel, is embroiled in a personal war in a colonial African city between his wife, his mistress, an infantile child, and the brothel's protectors.
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Spain
97 min.
Juan, with whom Angela is having an affair, confronts his brother Oscar on the day of his wedding to Ana and leaves home. Angela gives birth to Juanito, who becomes the subject of a dispute between the two women as they search for traces of his father, who seems to be succeeding in life. When he finds him, he will have to choose between Angela, his mother, and Ana, who has become Juan's lover.
Steven Spielberg
USA
115 min.
An alien, whose spaceship is three million light years away, arrives on Earth and finds himself surrounded by a hostile world. He is alone and afraid. But fortunately, there are children...
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Werner Herzog
Federal Republic of Germany
158 min.
At the beginning of the century, a man dreams of bringing Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt together in the Amazon rainforest to perform an opera. To finance the project, he plans to obtain the rubber produced by the trees in this territory. To do so, he must navigate a wild river, cross a region populated by hostile Indians, and traverse mountains. But nature resists the force of dreams.
Carl Francis
United Kingdom
102 min.
Sophie, a television journalist, discovers corruption at a multinational construction company during an interview with a Welsh councillor. The company tries everything it can to prevent the programme from being broadcast. The programme is not broadcast, but a new case of corruption emerges...
Phillip Noyce
Australia
91 min.
An architect, Steven West, has landed his first big contract: to design a residential complex worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But there are many people who oppose the project. Among them is Kate, a young woman who is leading the fight of the current residents who refuse to leave their homes.
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
100 min.
Reza Niro, son of the Emperor of Tirán, arrives in Madrid attracted by the city's avant-garde spirit. There, in addition to the most satisfying adventures, he meets a nymphomaniac girl with whom he falls in love. But in the labyrinth of passions, he encounters his father's first wife.
Fernando Trueba
Spain
89 min.
Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio lives in retirement in Sóller (Mallorca). Through his life, opinions, games and songs, the film seeks to establish a relationship with the viewer that goes beyond the traditional fiction-documentary divide.
Sergey Solovyov
USSR
95 min.
Eugenia, a 13-year-old girl with a highly poetic nature, considers herself the direct heir to the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The protagonist's high spirituality conflicts with the pragmatic approach to life represented by Volodia, the young man who was the girl's first love.
Liliana Cavani
Italy
110 min.
Enrico, a former diplomat, is detained in North Africa, accused of murdering his wife. Both in prison and outside, he maintains a secret relationship with his wife's daughter, Nina. But a young American engineer, Matthew, appears and tries to get Nina's attention and get her out of that depraved environment.
José Luis Cuerda
Spain
95 min.
Relations between Paco and Carmen have not been going well for some time, so they decide to separate. Paco, newly independent, meets Marta and Patricia, aunt and niece, and convinces Victor to go out with them. Meanwhile, Carmen is courted by Faustino and an old classmate. In this way, the personal relationships of the protagonists are altered.
Fernando Ayala
Argentina
97 min.
Two brothers-in-law, Carlos and Rubén, own a family business. One of them happens to bump into a friend from his military service and they set up a business together. They quickly gain considerable economic power, but this rise brings with it a series of changes in the family. Driven by greed and speculation in the midst of Argentina's inflationary years, they experience a series of tragicomic events.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federal Republic of Germany
108 min.
The young sailor Querelle arrives at the port of Brest for his final rendezvous with destiny. There he meets the owner of a brothel, her brutal employee Nono, a bricklayer suspected of murder, and a corrupt policeman who will be the executors of his liberation or his death.
Richard Brooks
USA
117 min.
A Middle Eastern emir pressures the American president to resign or else he will hand over an atomic arsenal to a revolutionary Arab leader who will detonate it in Israel and the United States. In the midst of this plot, a popular journalist, Patrick Hale, tries to bring the news to his television viewers.
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