72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Claudio Caligari
Italy
96 min.
The daily drama of four young people is looking for money to bite. The days of Cesare, Enzo, Ciopper and Loredana. A trip that is repeated like a macabre turn from Ostia to the center of Rome, desperate, underground, in search of drugs. he youngsters live immersed in spaces interspersed with nightmares that are continually stirred.
Marc Didden
Belgium
87 min.
Max, who is forty years old, lives in a house in the suburbs. He arrives in Brussels, a city that he does not love, since he does not know. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of the city and has successive encounters with various characters. he first meets Luis, an old work friend; then he hooks up with Alice, a servant girl with dreams of becoming an actress; and Abel, a Moroccan who drives tracks. Relationships are established between these four beings, which in one way or another, end up ending badly. Our "hero" does not come out of the adventure intact.
José Antonio Zorrilla
Spain
103 min.
An inspector of the Superior Police Corps, known as "El Sultán", returns to his active work after two years of convalescence in a clinic due to an injury received. Deputy Commissioner Gonzálvez recommends an apparently simple case. But when the investigation begins, he finds himself disoriented, he does not have his usual confidants, and he is considered by all to be a finished man. The case is getting more complicated; corpses appear that are not the ones being sought. The Ministry of the Interior is accused by the press of trying not to clarify the case. Two women enter the scene. And when the case has several corpses, Crisanto Perales takes action. An unexpected but logical pirouette ends the adventure.
Gideon Kolirin
Israel
85 min.
From the moment Arieh, a private investigator looking for his new opportunity, accepted a seemingly mundane job, he found himself caught up in events. It was about investigating Mr. Avnial Kenan. Colleagues who preceded him on the job, died under strange circumstances. There was no doubt that everything was intimately connected. the question was: Who are you Avnial Kenan? But constantly everything gets complicated, things are not what they seem. The questions become metaphysical and the new question is: But who the hell am I, Arieh Ben Deror?
Wojciech Wójcik
Poland
88 min.
Two young painters arrive in a small town to paint a mural in their church. During work they stay in a house belonging to the parish priest. Some hooligans dominate the place, in front of which is Román. the arrival of the wife of one of the artists causes a whole series of conflicts to arise. Both Román and Michel, the other painter, are fascinated by the woman. Once the mural is finished, the painters begin their march, but fall into an ambush prepared by the band.
Godfrey Reggio
USA
87 min.
It is a film that breaks the mold. With no dialogue, no narrative structure, he brings the elements traditionally considered background - rural and urban landscapes - to the fore, in order to produce a unique and intense vision of the superstructure of contemporary life. the Indian word of the Hopi tribe. The film has been produced by Francis Coppola.
Marian Handwerker
Belgium
101 min.
Berlin. December 1980. Solomon passes to the West. He carries data that will allow him to unmask an agent from the East, a mole infiltrated after the war in the Western secret services. But Salomón is not only a defector, he returns to Brussels to settle his accounts with the past, a love that he never managed to forget. He will be persecuted by the secret services on both sides and will be questioned by the son of the woman he has loved. Who in this runaway race of questions will have the last word?
Eduardo Calcagno
Argentina
90 min.
Carlos María, owner of a funeral home and an actor in his spare time, lives totally submissive to his mother. The presence of his dead father is felt throughout the house. The arrival of a newly married couple causes the mother to spend days and nights spying on them. Young people, carefree, passionately love each other. The mother tries to implicate Carlos María to expel them. Desperate for a failure as an actor, he returns home. Instigated by his mother, he prepares to kill the youngsters. The shot of a rifle is heard in the night.
Luis Mandoki
Mexico
90 min.
The emotion of falling in love happens to almost everyone at some point. It begins with fanfare and drums and ends in boredom and disillusionment. time, fatigue, corrode that first illusion. A young couple decides to avoid this and they move away to the desert where they buy a motel. The first client arrives, an old talkative millionaire widow. There are almost no guests, there is an outstanding mortgage. Crime is perfect. The fascination that she put as a condition of love and of seeing how this dream falls apart, is the end of a story that ends up ending the same as the others despite trying to be different.
Maria Gavala, Theodoros Soumas
Greece
83 min.
Of love and erotic relationships between both sexes. From two points of view, two visions for the treatment of the same topic. From a woman. She seeks to create her own games, and is a craftsman of her own loneliness. Her body fully active in her, in a continuous movement in search of her privileges that have been continuously denied to her. The other side of the vision is the masculine. The vision of love through man. He shares his love with two women. Cinematographic diptych on both sides of the camera, since it is directed by a woman and a man.
Zdenek Flídr, Tomás Tintera, Dabroslav Zborník
Czechoslovakia
86 min.
Based on the work of Karel Capek, from which three stories have been extracted that are used for the debut of three filmmakers. The titled Homicidal Attack: a stranger shoots from a window against a counselor, which leads him to reflect on his potential enemies. The Blue Chrysanthemum: a strange girl brings to the beginning some rare chrysanthemums whose color astonishes the local people. The Record Story: a farmer manages to break the world throwing record, because his target was a man he hated.
Gabriele Salvatores
Italy
104 min.
We are immersed in the magical Shakespearean night. Spirits, creatures of the night..., in an abandoned castle, on the shores of a lake, in a splendid 17th century villa, to evoke the mystery of the prodigy of love. The eternal ballet of passion, mystery, jealousy, hate, envy, suffocating love. The dawn will bring the shadow of sleep, but not everything will be as before. All this in rock version.
José Sacristán
Spain
94 min.
Andrés returns to his hometown after a long absence. The son of a high-society military man who abandoned his wife to join the protagonist's mother, a second-rate cuppletista. He returns to take charge of an inheritance that his father left him, a dilapidated mansion that is going to be declared an artistic monument. The meddling of his stepbrother prevents the prompt settlement of the issue. Andrés's relations with his family, with the old lawyer Dimas and with his daughter Blanquita are complicated.
Jean-Louis Leconte
France
105 min.
The night on an Atlantic beach. A wounded man, at the edge of his strength, is pursued by a car. Haunted by two assassins, from whom he tries to escape, he finds refuge in an isolated house. Among the owner, an old blind and fugitive actor, a certain complicity will be born. The arrival of guests and the presence of a young woman, free and uninhibited, will disturb the course of events. Each will return to their own reality. The fugitive to action, the old man to his memories. After all, when you talk too much, you die with a stone in your mouth.
Patrick Brunie
France
105 min.
Mosaic of feelings, of rhythms; reencounter with situations, decorations, sounds and beings. Xueiv is a sensitive tool, the gaze of our lives, of our questions around this important event such as old age.Fiction or report? It is something else. the film is not built on the traditional storytelling principle, it is not a story that has a good beginning or a happy ending.
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