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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Suzana Amaral
Brazil
96 min.
Macabea, an innocent girl, orphan and without an education, leaves her home-town to try and make it in the big city, Sao Paulo. The pathetic encounter with the social masks and the traps of city life, make her extremelly unhappy. A visit to a soothsayer tells of an encounter with a very rich man driving a luxurious car.
André Klotzel
Brazil
80 min.
Quim, a Brazilian half-breed, all alone without any family, decides one day to leave the rural area where he has always lived, determined to get himsel a wife and make an old dream come true: to eat beef.With his dog, a goat, a hoe and a little bundle, and after facing the dangers on the way, Quim arrives at a wide spot on the road called Velha Torta and meets Carula, an unmarried girl who inmediatelly besieges him. Since she knows of his dream, Carula makes Quim believe that her father, Nhó Totó, has a prize bull which is being saved from a dowry.Later on, after an intense confrontation with the devil, the hald breed gets the money to arrive at the big city where he satisfies his old desires and sees new desires aroused.
Sergio Amon
Brazil
75 min.
This is the story of a friendship betwen two men: Raúl, talkative and exhuberant, and Saúl, withdrawn, cynical and bitter, once suicidal. Both have just left frustrating marriages. They meet on the first day of work for the same department in Public Administration. Although they are simple men, they are able to sense the coldness of their colleagues and of their work environment. An intimate friendship developes between them. As a result, they become victims of prejudice and their workmates lay a cruel trap.
Arnaldo Jabor
Brazil
110 min.
A psychoanalitic approach to the mistery of people as such through a young couple that decide to separate after having spent two years living together. An empty space, in between two lights, two people and one same text... It is not only a love story of liricism and sentimentality, but also one of problems, encounters and separations, of fears and passions.
Rogério Sganzerla
Brazil
95 min.
Fictitious Documentary about the journey that Orson Welles made to Rio de Janeiro in 1942 hired by President Roosevelt's goverment and due to the "good neighbour relations" policies. Welles moved to Brazil to start shooting and falls in love with the country. Due to the excessive realism and the social worries that are presented in the movie it is considered non-profitable. The film is cancelled, forcing Welles to return to Hollywood and flight of it. The name of the movie was It's all True.
Murillo Sales
Brazil
96 min.
In the brazil od the 70's an adolescent, orphan and who has lived in a religious boarding school for eight years, finds out that his father, an exconvict, is coming to take him to Rio de Janeiro. From the sons small world, the search for a paternal figure will be tense and frustrating, for he must first discover his own identity.
Hermano Penna
Brazil
92 min.
Sargent Getúlio, a hit man, has been hired by a politician to kidnap one of his enemies and ordered to travel from one city to another. During the long journey, the policical scenery changes and the prisiones becomes a nuisance. The sargent, without fully understanding the produced changes, refuses to carry out the counterorders he has received.
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