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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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Péter Gárdos
The film's central characters are an old man, an ex-illusionist and a young acrobat who sffers from a marked limp caused by an accident. Sajek, the latter, decides to finish the mediocrity of his life and becomes obsessed with the idea that the only way out is a world-beater of an act. The past master of this act is the old man, Lipot Binder who, in days gone by, used to travel around different countries with his illusionist act "The Man Imprisoned in Ice". The old man, himself, is, in fact, imprisoned, a prisoner of solitude in his hotel room, a prisoner of the past, a prisoner of himself.
It is then when Sajek knocks on the old man's door and enters his life. Sajek doesn't draw back from using whatever means necessary to get what he wants. But Lipot won't give up his trick so easily; it is a family heirloom. And so there develops between the two men a professional conflict which gradually submerges them in a whirpool of love and hate, lonliness and confrontation, vanity, arrogance, power struggle and weakness, defeat and victory. The old man tells Sajek the trick and at the same time doesn't. The young man is triumphant and at the same time isn't. In the end, Sajek manages to get the act and, with it, success. However, something essential is left behind: a total and deep human relation. Sajek has half the kingdom, the victory. The other half, the human, the love-hate relationship, is part of the past. Sajek continues to lack half of himself.
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