72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Montxo Armendariz
Spain
81 min.
The day is cloudy, the sea calm. A bell marks 7:00 a.m. and Jon awekens. He goes to the waterfront where he meets his friend Patxi. Neither has reached the age of eighteen. Patxi helps Jon to steal a box of fish. Later, Jon sales it at cut rate.Facing the ocean is Maite's picture window. Jon relizes that somebody is in her bedroom. It's Rafa. Maite, seventeen years old, suggest that the situation is inevitable. Later, Jon and Maite prepare for the day's first fix.
Ferenc András
Hungary
109 min.
Réb, Makay and Nikita are friends. In the summer of 1968 they decide to leave Hundary for good. However, only Makay has a passport and Réb's girl Maria. Réb solves the problem in his way: he obtains Makay's passport by trickery, glues his own picture into it, and together with Maria leaves the country. Nikita brings Makay the bad news but there is nothing he can do about it. Eighteen years have passed. After working as disc-jockey for some years, Makay is now editor of one radio programme, a very popular chap. Nikita runs a boutique and is rolling in money. Menatime Maria has repatriated, as she had enough of the "American Way of Life".
James Cameron
USA
137 min.
The authorities do not want to take any notice of officer Ripley's story that a terrible race of Aliens exist in a colonized planet. However once all contact with the colony is lost Ripley is asked to join a company of marines ready to depart on a research mission. On arrival they only find one survivor: a girl. everybody else has dissapeared.
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Arturo Ripstein
Mexico
Dionisio Pinzón, an obscuretown crier, disdained and insulted by everyone, strikes lucky one day. He is given a fighting cock which having fairly beaten its adversary, has been itself hurt in the fight. Pinzón tends the cock with desperate care and devotion. Miraculously, the cock recovers at the same time as Pinzón's mother dies -almost as the price to be paid to fortune and destiny. From this day, Pinzón leavels his home town and spends his time going round the fairs with the cock, which never loses a fight, it is almost like a pact which has been made with the fortune. In his comings and goings he meets "La Caponera" a sensual singer who cultivates her obstinate tendency towards a nostalgic fantasy and a lover for herself which allows her to move from man to man without any pains or sorrows.
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Spain
134 min.
"El viaje a ninguna parte", tells the story of a group of men and women, that we can call strolling players, whose adventures take place in the Spain of two or three decades ago. During the trip, work is mixed with love, economic problems with family problems and hunger with dreams of triumph.
Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Ermolaiev
USSR
100 min.
It tells the story of the famous ballet dancer elena Kniázena, as she made her way through the ballet world, through her doubts and disappointments and her search for new horizons, new inspirations. Elena Kniázeva works on her new role, Margarita, in the modernist ballet "The Teacher and Margarita" based on the well-known novel of Mijail Bulgarov. Her husband,a famous law expert and her old friend, stage director Nóvikov, believe that at her age (she will soon be 50), she should find the courage to say no to this new role.
Roberto Russo
Italy
92 min.
Francesca is a woman who lives alone, separated from her husband. Her life seems devoid of promise until, while walking on the road, she finds and injured young man, Stefano, who has just been hit by a car. Stefano, whom Francesca took to the hospital, recovers from a coma obsessed with the memory of Francesca. He finds her and falls in love with her. However, the differences in their ages causes her to question the wisdom of starting a relationship.
Erich von Stroheim
USA
140 min.
California 1908. THe young John McTeague leaves his job in the gold mine to become the apprentice to a travelling dentist. After a few years, he establishes himself in San Francisco and makes friends with Marcus Schouler, a veterinarian. One day marcus takes his young and beautiful cousin, Trina, to John so he can repair her teeth and he is enamoured with her. Jealousy and conflict are created when Trina wins a fortune in the lottery. The three protagonists are soon confronted witha a cycle of lies and crimes.
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Dan Bessie
USA
It is a sensitive and moving love story set against the tensions of the 1930's depression and just before que curtain rises on World War II.A body is found lying in a stream along a country road. an itinerant farmhand, Ed Sloan, recently married to Norah Gilbert, a widow with two small sons, is arrested and, under clore questioning, signs a confession. Is Ed actually the murderer? Why has this crime been commited?
Eliseo Subiela
Argentina
105 min.
The story revolves around a relationship between a psychiatrist and Rantes, a young man who suddenly appears and affirms that he is an extra-terrestial on an Earthly mission.
Claude Chabrol
France
100 min.
The body of the writer Raoul Mons is discovered on a small beach of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, France. Inspector Jean Lavardin begins his investigation by going inmediately to Mon's widow, Hélène, who he recognizes as an old friend of his who he hasn't set eyes on in 20 years. Hélène is putting up her brother, Claude, another old aquitance of lavardin. Hélène find herself a widow for the second time. In fact, five years before, her first husband, Pierre Manguin, disappeared at sea with Claude's wife. The disappearance was just as mysterious as it was unexplicable, since their boat was recovered in perfect confition.
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Spain
127 min.
Rosa is pretty and hardworking. Her sisters are ugly and dumb. rosa is her father's favourite. That is why her father is very upset when she decides to marry a sweet-talking knifegrinder. The knife-grinder is very much in love with Rosa, but he also happens to be a crook. Rosa's granmother, a huge and vigorous woman who seems to have strange powers, had warned her.When the seductor dies, Rosa goes to Madrid with her baby girl, called Olvido like the grandmother. There, thanks to her cunningness , she manages to obtain a small stall in one of the capital's market. It is so small and hidden under a staircase thta nobody had noticed it. Life at the market is not easy and Rosa does not lack enemies... But Rosa's skin is tough in spite of her appearance of softness.
Trevor Nunn
United kingdom
136 min.
Jane was a victim of the English reformation, was used, abused, degraded, defaimed and killed. She walked alone through her triumphs and errors, estranged even from her own opinions and the condemnation she threw at those who exploited and destroyed her. She judged with a sober eye, had an almost inhuman sense of resolution.Guildford Dudley was Lady Jane Grey's husband. He governed England for 9 days in 1553. Their marriage had been "arranged" in order to hinder aspirin Catholic Mary's efforts to gain the throne. The libertine, lover of London, Guildford looked like a bad companion for the austere and studious Jane. However, from mutual hostility, they developed a deep love. Jane was sixteen and a half and Guildford eighteen.
Stavros Tsiolis
Greece
84 min.
A young woman decides not to have her sister, a psycopath, committed to a mental hospital. In doing so she defies the siches of ther family and social circle. The unavoidable coflict which ensues, the lack of understanding, the inability to communicate and the opposition she faces gradually lead her, like her sister, to isloation and silence.
Yoshishige Yoshida
Japan
123 min.
In the suburb of Tokyo, there is a house where three generations of a family live together. One early morning, very old grandmother was found dead. The police was very suspicious about her death. Her husband insisted that he killed his old wife. Grand mother had been ill from very long. It is not easy for the son's wife to take care of her mother-in-law. It is also veru tough for the son to see his old mother paining. That night when the son passed by his old mother's room, he found his mother was trying to kill herself by putting her face into the water of a bowl. Then the son...
John Badham
USA
98 min.
Number Five, the most advanced robot on the planer, designed as a strategic armament system with artificial intelligence, has escaped form the laboratory. Its designer hopes to find it in order to discover what went wrong. The President of Nova Robotics hopes to avoid the deaths of milions of civilians at the hands of the robot. the Chief of Security wants to get it into the open and destroy it so that he can go home for supper. Stephanie, however, finds Number Five, believesit is a human being and intends to convince it of its humanity.
Alex Cox
United Kingdom
112 min.
In 1977 Sid Vicious was new bass player in the Sex Pistols, the infamous British punk rock band. Nancy Spungen was a groupie from Philadelphia recently arrived in London. When Sid and Nancy met, improbably but irrevocably, they fell in love. On October 12th 1978, Nancy's body was found in the Chelsea Hotel, New York. Sid Vicious was arrested and charged with her murder.
Stole Popov
Yugoslavia
125 min.
This ia a family drama into which is a powerful love story with a historical political background. The film raises the question of the right to an alternative view of life during an exceptional difficult ideologised era.
Axel Corti
Austria
127 min.
A few years back they left austria and Germany as refugees from the Third Reich. Now, in 1945, they are back as American soldiers, they enter Austia as liberators. A country deeply infested by nazism, largely convinced to this day that it was merely Hitler's innocent victim.It's a film about the bitterness of homecoming, also one of the first films to confront Austrians with their own recent muddled history.
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