72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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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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Zabaltegi - New Directors
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Francesco Nutti
Italy
109 min.
Due to her career as a saxophonist, a girl finds hersel obliged to leave her lover. The two of them meet again in Casablanca, where he is participating in an international sports competition.
José Luis López del Río
Spain
142 min.
The peasant uprising of Casas Viejas during the Second Spanish Republic (January 1933) ocurred in the large landed estates. The Land Reform came late and did little, political desperation, and a crisis fromed by hunger and a lack of money. Ignorant of the fact that the revolution had failed in the rest of Spain, they kicked out the Mayor, distributed the food supplies and burned the Arbitrary papers. The Headquarters of the Guardia Civil is closed until reinforcements arrive. Later the Guards de Asalto star to arrest people, mistreat women, burn alive the "Seisdedos" family in their house, innocent pleople shot by firing squads, searches in the mountains...The Spanish Government tries to hide the facts (Parliamentary debates, military threats, trials) with the consequential loss of popular belief and very serious political consequences.
Juan Caño Arecha
Spain
115 min.
Caso cerrado tells the story of Cesar's moral downfall. At the start of the film he posseses everything: love (he is married to Isabel) and a job with which he lives well (he is the Director of a Banking Society). Within a short time of the wedding, Cesar discovers discrepancies in the bank accounts and asks for an auditor. In the beginning, certain fraudulent activities are discovered which are attributed to some Bank Directors. These accusations are later put down to Cesar who is charged with Embezzlement. At that moment Cesar is living in France to escape from serving his Military Service as he is a conscientious objector. When he learns about the accusations he returns to Spain and gives himself up to the judge who tries to prove his innocence. The situation gets more complicated when Cesar is sent to prison. It is evident that the Bank Directors are trying to put all the blame on Cesar so that their own fraudulent actions are not discovered. Meanwhile, a journalist from the TV manages to get hold of some film of an interview between the judge in charge of the case and one of the Directors. The situation grows until it is like a nightmare hanging over the heads of Cesar and isabel. She eventually loses all hope of recovering her happiness, which lessens minute by minute, and she finishes by leaving his husband. He, very deceptioned, writes a letter to his wife from prison to try and save the little that he has left... But he knows that there is nothing left. The letter is his last goodbye.
Jean-Paul Scarpitta
France
Anna is introduced to Paul by a friend, Margot... Paul draws the woman into an unreal world symbolised by the appearance of a fairy (played by Ghislaine Thesmat, star of the Paris Opera and Director of the Monte Carlo Ballet). The fairy is the world of the poetic, of love transcending itself.
Peter Kahame
German Democratic Republic
93 min.
Ete and Ali finish their service at the same time. But they feel little joy at being able to return home. Ali, a big felllow full of energy, knows that his village is a dead place, while Ete has discovered that his wife has taken up with another man. They both decide to go to Prague, but first they pay a visit to Ete's hometown, because Ali has tried to convince Ete to throw his wife's lover out of the house. As Ete is incapable of hurting anyone, of taking revenge, Ali takes justice into his own hands and transforms himself into Ete's hero. Ali's attempts to re-unite the separated couple fail. Mary, desperate for a true love, gives herself to Ali. Ete leaves. One day, the two men meet again and the story begins all over again with Ali's joveial proposition: Why not go together to the city, where the loveliest girls from the surroundings areas can be found? But this time Ete cannot share and adventure with this man who was once his great friend.
Juan Bautista Berasategui
Spain
This film, of animated drawings, portrays diverse tales and legends of the Basque Country. although independent on from the other, the narratives follow a common thread that unites them in a whole. Each story is differenly drown. Among the stories there appear the well-know titles Kukubiltzo, Tartalo and Galtzagorri.
Richard Dindo
Switzerland
90 min.
Hans is a journalist in Zurich. His father, an activist in the Spanish Civil War and still in the resistance movement, dies. Friends ask hans to take on an assignment originally destined for his father. Then Anne, a young French girl, request him to fin her father, missing since the Civil War. Hans goes to Spain, where he pretends he is covering Franco's imminent death (1975). Hans meets Margarete, whose mother corresponded with his father, and falls in love with her. Yet he encourages anne to come to Madrid. Hans can't decide: Margarete or Anne - past or presente? Franco dies. Anne buries the past and departs. Hans goes with her.
Annick Lanoë
France
88 min.
When Annick Lanoë shot Les Nanas she was "trying to depict that world of women far removed from the male sphere. I just love the secrets of the kitchen. The things women talk about while they wash the dishes!". Men, on the other hand, hardly appear at all in the film. They are, however, the topic of conversation for the film's character, between laughter and crying. Charlotte asks herself: "My friend say I'm strange. I want a husband and kids. Is that normal?". Christine: "Have lived with Robert for seven years. We adore each other. Iknow he has had a lover for six months. Should I brake it off?". Evelyne: "I left my husband when I met Roberto. He was living with Christine. the worst of it is that he doesn't want to make a choice, he wantis both of us. What should I do?". Françoise: "I live with Philippe, a photographic journalist much younger than myself. Do I have to support his lovers too?". Antoinette: "First Philippe was crazy about me. Now that I'm pregnant, I need him even more and that annoys him. What do I do?". Eliane: "I slept with Robert. Making love is like hacing a drink or having lunch. Is it unromantic to care about oneself?". Mariana answers all these anxious questions with: "Ah, women! Always crying over men! The body! You've got to use the body". Not just your head!".
Olegario Barrera
Venezuela
95 min.
Pedro is twelve years old. He has a dog called Rocky and a grown-up friend, Gustavo, who repairs cars. He even has a girlfriend, Matilde... or he thinks he has, because she wants him to kiss her. Pedro loves asking questions and this has become a dangerous thing to do in his village, especially after Daniel's father and Professor Pedroza are arrested and the Army orders the children to write a composition on "What My Family Does at Night".Angered by the death of his dog, Pedro and his friends decide to take matters into their own hands.
Guillermo Orlando Rojas
Cuba
103 min.
The action starts in Havana (Cuba), in 1967. David arrives n this city to begin his pre-universitary studies. He makes friends with Miguel, who presumens to be a great success with the girls. At school the first romantic adventures emerge. Ofelia, the class delegate, feels attractedd towards David. He, nevertheless, is attracted by Olga who returns his feelings. Confronted by this love affair, David's friends feel an anger which brings the worst out of them. An so they try to convince David to make the girl fall in love with him and then abandon her. David gives away under the pressure of his friends without taking into account his own feelings.
Konstantin Khoudiakov
USSR
93 min.
A young stage manager from Mowcow arrives in a provincial town to stage Tchekhov's Seagull in the local theatre. He is a talented and ambitious person possesses by theatrical art. Therefore he cannot reconcile himself with the dullness, mediocrity and vegetating life on the stage. At first the relations of the young manager with the company and its leading actress Arsenyeva are far from being cloudless. However, his talent and sincere devotion to the theatre gradually bring the manager and actors together to achieve their common long awaited and joyous sucess.
Désiré Ecaré
Ivory Coast
105 min.
This film is made up of two parts intersected and punctuated by scenes of group dances. There are two movements in this first part: the tender links between sister-in-law and the hesitations of the husband/brother. Then the relationships develop between the yong man and the girl. The second part is a whole whithout any variations: the will of the woman to lead her own life and the family life... the big plans and the ordinary worries. The two parts open up on a revolution made of femenine demonstration, social fractures and the restructuring of responsabilities in ... an African country.
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