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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Jean-Jaques Beineix
France
119 min.
Zorg lives in a strange hut on the beach. He has experienced everything. people and life have disappointed him.Betty is ten years younger that he is. She still has her illusions, she wants to life, to experience everything. Thanks to her, Zorg awakens form his apathy. Here a love story begins. A love story full of emotion, pain, laugther and tragedy.
Luc Gubbels, Armand Hesselle
Belgium
82 min.
"Congo Express" is a run down coffee bar abandoned district that years ago has been the life's dream of the ex-mercenary, Jean. This is the place where, for two days, we shall follow the adventures of some characters, typical fauna of any big city.Three generations of young people meet, each with their dreams and illusions, with their loves and agressions, until one day the time bomb of rage always repressed, explodes.
Milan Zivkovic
Yugoslavia
95 min.
The famous rock group "Zenith" fail with their new songs. Zenith is the group leader and despite the failure he insists on the traditional concept of "rock and roll".They don't give up and thanks to a loan, they buy new material and instruments for their studio "Black Mary". Seva, Anja, Sivi, Ej., Tucak, Gandi, Falstaf and Zozon (members of "Zenith") trust theur leader, his carisma and talent to recuperate the last success. But Zenith dies. Seva is now the new leader. Which line will they now follow?
Olivier Assayas
France
95 min.
Ivan, Anne and Henry, are three young people heeld together by the music they themselves write and perform. Accidentally, onde nigthmarish night they commit a crime. The police will never suspect them, however their fate and the fate of those about them will be marked forever.
Frieda Liappa
Greece
88 min.
A crazy night in the life of a writer who refuses to write. She controls his past, his present and his future in order to invert or to go back to a world of unity under the concept of woman-man, God-devil, madness-death-catarsis.
Amanzio Todini
Italy
99 min.
"The Panthers" are a group of thieves that attempt a robbery which they have prepared in length but wich is frustrated. After twenty years they meet again. One of them is preparing to export ill-gotten funds to Yugoslavia. To put the plan into action, they form a family of which Tiberio is a member. However, he realizes that in addition to exporting money, something else is afoot.
Jirí Barta
Czechoslovakia
53 min.
Medium-length film
The Pied Piper is a legend from North Germany about the flutist of Hamelin. The characters in the film are wooden gothic puppets.
Colin Gregg
United Kingdom
110 min.
Michael Lamb, a Christian Friar, teaches teenagers ina reformatory on the Irish coast. He is in charge of one young man in particular, Owen Kane. The repressive regimen instituted by the superior, Friar Benedict, provokes reclusive tendencies in owen, who is an epileptic, but is forced to participate with the other boys in all the activities of the reformatoryy. Michael dispproves of the goals and means of the institution and decides to escape with Owen.
Alberto Durant
Peru
84 min.
Sonia is travelling to Mlabrgio, a fishing port where Victor her husband works in a fish processing factory. On her arrival, he is not there.He dissapeared two days previously. After an explosion in the factory and the appearance of a mysterious roll of film. Sonia finds herself sorrounded by a series of intrigues, passionate affairs and crimes.
Sergio Rezende
Brazil
120 min.
This film was inspired by the life of Tenório Cavalcanti, a very important figure in Brasilian politics. He was exposed to violence at an early age, having been a witness to his father's death. He moved to Rio carrying a machine gun under his black cape, thus creating alegend about himself. Cavalcanti earned a fortune as well as popularity. In the 40's and 50's, he was a well known politician, winning the vote of the poor by defendint them and acting always in fairness. His newspaper had the largest circulation in Brasil. His popularity confused the middle and upper clases. Having been declared an anti-communists, he united popular forces behin the goverment of Joào Goulart, overthrown in 1964.
Bill Sherwood
USA
90 min.
This film is like a day in the life og three men locked in a triangle of love. Nick, a caustic, nrew wave-ist rock star, has recently discovered that he is dying of AIDS. His best friend and ex-lover, Michael, is a freelanced editor who divides his time between Nick and Robert, Michhael's lover of six years. Robert is leaving for a job assignment in Africa, which, as it turns out, he chose in order to escape this unpleasant situation. Michael's discovery of the reasons for Robert's departure and Nick's attempts to come to terms with death form the core of the story. But there's also a lot going on peripherally.
Teo Kofman
Argentina
85 min.
Mecha and Mingo are brothers who have lost their mother at an early age. They live in a suburb house, but in abject misery. While Mecha struggles to ensure their survival, Mingo wanders about commiting petty thefts.
José Nascimiento
Portugal
102 min.
A headless body appears in Cais street. Mario is making a photographic report while Reporter X returns by plane, short of morphine and sick. He has come fomr the trial of Alves Dos reis. From now on there will be plenty of adventure.
Rachel Reichman
USA
95 min.
A young man who is travelling around the world looking for work arrives one day at a house in the country. The house is owned by a woman witha retarded and mute daugther who lives in a fantasy based on water. The girl's mother subtly proposes that the young man take her daugther away in exchange for money. He marries the girl and takes her to another community. There, however, they live more like father and daugther than husband and wife. Eventually, their relationship is strained by his chronic unemplorment and the dwingling of their financial resources.
Pál Erdöss
Hungary
103 min.
Sandor gets up to the ringing of the alarm clock. as always and every morning he bicycles to the bus stop. The day has an special importance for him: he has made up his mind to change his job. He wants to be somebody, and have his won home. He rents a lorry and in a few days time he starts his new job and his new life.
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