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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Euskadi and Flandes
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Films
José Luis Revuelta Echevarría
Spain
30 min.
Short film
A German soldier receives his baptism of fire in the first skirmishes in El Sarre (French-German border) at the beginning of the Second World War. Unconsciously, he gradually becomes a killing machine.
Agustín Goenaga, Anton Txintxurrieta
Spain
28 min.
Short film
Struggles and misadventures of Lope de Aguirre, with his enormous ambition at the forefront, in search of El Dorado.For more than twenty years, Lope de Aguirre had been fighting and conquering for a king (Philip II) whom he did not even know when he joined the expedition organised by Ursúa. The aim of this adventure was to discover the country of El Dorado, which was supposed to be located at an unknown point on the Marañón River, now known as the Amazon. Ursúa's carelessness in governing the expedition, as well as other weaknesses, led Aguirre to seize power after Ursúa's death. The expedition was abandoned and Aguirre, appointed the new general, set out to return to Peru after disembarking at sea.
Pedro Olea
Spain
102 min.
Navarre, end of the 17th century. In a small village dominated by feudal powers. The film reveals power strategies, fanatical circles and superstitions exploited by the powerful. Story of some people who meet in caves to celebrate ceremonies, and are accused of witchcraft. The powerful call the Inquisitor...
Juan A. Gómez Borrego
Spain
3 min.
Short film
Game, illusion, fantasy, love, seen through the dream of a child.
José Felipe Santos
Spain
38 min.
Medium-length film
Tour of Artxanda, one of the most beautiful spots in Bilbao, discussing its funicular railway, its green areas, its buildings, its farmhouses, its people, but above all its famous San Roque chapel, which, after the damage caused by the civil war, has been lovingly restored by the residents of Artxanda. After commissioning a new sculpture of San Roque from the sculptor Francisco Javier Santos (we attended the process of its creation at his studio in Madrid), it was inaugurated with all honours. The reopening was attended by the authorities of Bilbao and Sondica, and the celebration ended with a fellowship meal.
José Zamarreño
Spain
12 min.
Short film
The first songs of Ilia and Nagore, aged three and four, in search of a better world (panoramic views of San Sebastián).
Miguel Ángel Quintana, Ángel Bernal
Spain
16 min.
Short film
Appreciated for millennia as a delicacy, the snail remains a biologically little-known animal, to the extent that it is still debated whether it has sight, whether it reproduces once or several times a year, or whether a single mating is sufficient to make it fertile for life.The documentary chronicles the curious life of this skeletonless, hermaphroditic mollusc that is so abundant in our lands.
Iñaki Aizpuru
Spain
10 min.
Short film
In 1970, at Martutene prison, a new prisoner is welcomed by his fellow inmates in a rather unusual way.
Hugo Claus
Belgium - Netherlands
90 min.
Violent struggles in 14th century Flanders against French domination.
Guy Lee Thys
Belgium
80 min.
Two freelance journalists carried out their reports in Euskadi during the 80s and 81s.
Jan Gruyaert
Belgium - Netherlands
85 min.
Conflict of ideas between a father and his son at the end of the last century.
Robbe De Hert
Belgium
106 min.
A 13-year-old teenager reacts in his own way to his family and his environment.
María Jesús Fombellida Cortázar
Espainia
12 min.
Short film
Documentary. Charcoal production narrated by the artisans themselves. Filmed in the mountains of Oyarzun.
Iñaki Aizpuru
Spain
90 min.
Two friends, 'freelance' television reporters, live together. Imanol is the cameraman and Javi the sound technician, and they cover the information on Euskadi during the years 1980-81.They also carry out diverse and varied reports, helped by a television presenter and documentary filmmaker, creating bonds of friendship between them. They come to consider making a fictional film, outside of the TV channels for which they work.However, the fact of working for information, closely following the events in Euskadi, the ETA attacks, and the climate they create in their environment, cloud the friendship of Imanol and Javi. The different ideological conceptions of the two characters become stronger and stronger, leading to discussions and confrontations. The contradictions are becoming more and more acute.The dramatic events of February 1981 (Ryan's death, Joseba Arregi's death, 23-F), not only caused a change in the political situation, they also removed some foundations.
Juan Bernardo Heinink
Spain
11 min.
Short film
An experimental film of a conceptual nature, revolving around ideas related to the words "Love" and "War", deduced from the process of transforming the composition of a single shot, describing a trajectory of approach from its design to the complete staging of that dream.
Francisco Bernabé, Rafael Treku
Spain
Short film
Tuna fishing in the tropical Atlantic by Basque fishermen.
Juan Miguel Gutiérrez
Spain
11 min.
Short film
Situation of new Basque speakers and the use of Basque in society.
Alfonso Ungría
Spain
122 min.
Second half of the 16th century, the King of Navarre Carlo II "El Malo", sends an expedition of warriors to help his brother Luis in the conquest of Albania, since that territory belongs to him having married Juana de Anjou. The warriors due to the harshness of the war, the remoteness of the territory, together with loneliness will lead them to live extreme situations.
Imanol Uribe
Spain
108 min.
After Franco's death, an ETA militant, who escaped from Segovia prison, reminds a journalist how this mass escape was carried out, before ending his exile in the summer of 1977.
Imanol Uribe
Spain
90 min.
Mikel, a married man, a pharmacist in a small town on the Basque coast, and a leftist militant, will see his life practically conditioned by his homosexuality. He will take time to accept this, and somehow, it will lead him inexorably to a tragic end.
Agustín Arenas Eizagirre
Spain
20 min.
Short film
This film presents us with a series from a supposed television channel. It ridicules all kinds of awards that are commonly given in the world of cinema. The presenter tells us about the latest award-winning productions: the sketches "Bonbolioaren miraria", "Eulalia" and "Alguazilaren txapela".
Javier González Purroy
Spain
23 min.
Short film
The phenomenon of transhumance is also evident in various areas of the Basque Country. Since time immemorial, shepherds from the Salazar and Roncal valleys have brought their flocks down to Bardena every autumn, where they spend the winter. Transhumance is an attempt to preserve this way of life for posterity, highlighting its close communion with nature, its most ancient elements as opposed to those of modern incorporation, and the human drama of the shepherds.
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