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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Joris Ivens
Chile - France
29 min.
Short film
A kaleidoskope image of Valparaíso's past and present, its thirte hills, the Pacific, the fog, the port, just before daybreak, at mid-day, at night...
Bruce Krebs
France
5 min.
Short film
Uses animation to evoke the spirit of Víctor Jara, a Chilean singer who died under torture.
Documentary Film
Claudio Di Girolamo
Chile
47 min.
Medium-length film
The priest of a small village is found shot to death. Various tertimonies by persons who saw him before his death indicate that he was murdered. The funeral becomes a political demonstration by the villagers.
Church - Documentary Film
Antonio Skármeta
Chile
88 min.
The postman is always punctual in his delivieries to the houses of a small village. In one of them lives Pablo neruda. The postman and don Pablo talk of metaphors, poetry, and difficult kinds of love. This fictional work condenses five years of Chilean history into ninety minutes; in it appear many important personalities of that time.
Fiction
Augusto Góngora
Chile
10 min.
Short film
Shows the atmosphere in Chile on the day before the visit of the Pope John Paul II: expectations, the official posture, repression in the streets...
Church - Documentary Film
Orlando Lübbert
Federal Republic of Germany
30 min.
Short film
Reveals the subterranean culture in Santiado de Chile.
Popular Music - Documentary Film
Jose Maria Berzosa
France
68 min.
Series
After touring Chilean scientific and military bases in the Antartic, General Augusto Pinochet talks about his life, his preferences in literature, his hobbies, the importance of attaches to his family, religion, the future, the press and... peace.
The Coup - Documentary Film
Ignacio Agüero
Chile
30 min.
Short film
This educational piece explains filming techniques via interviews with several Chilean filmmakers. Between May 1984 and Decembre 1985, interviews interrupted the following directors while they were shooting, and asked them to explain what they were doing: Luis Vera, "Hechos consumados", Francisco Vargar, "Santiago Blues", Tatiana Gaviola, "Machali 1951", Cristián Lorca, "Nemesio", Andrés Racz, "Dulce Patria", Joaquín Eyzaguirre, "Dolores", Patricio y J. Carlos Bustamante, "La isla".
The dictatorship and the cinema - Documentary Film
Sergio Castilla
Sweden - Cuba
90 min.
Three days in a clandestine jail witnessing different types of conflict between torturers and their victims.
Fiction
Orlando Lübbert
Federal Republic of Germany
90 min.
Carlos, Juan and Lorenzo, three teenagers from different social classes, try to escape to Argentina before they are arrested by the Chilean military police, but are pursued on their way to the border. In retrospect, this true story reveals errors and failures; by means of self-criticism a new understanding of events and decisions is acheived.
Fiction
Sergio Bravo
Chile
20 min.
Short film
This diary or an organ-grinder who walks the streets of Santiago was one of the first productions to be undertaken by the Centre for Experimental Film in Chile.
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann, Peter Hellmich
Federal Republic of Germany
70 min.
Filmed in May and June of 1975, less than two years after the coup d'etat, this documentary takes us into the new regime's highest political sheres.
The Coup - Documentary Film
Álvaro J. Covacevich
Chile
50 min.
An interview between Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro wherein they compare perspectives on the political situations faced by Chile and Cuba. The interview took place two years before the coup d'etat. The interviewer, Augusto Olivares, Director of the Chilean National TV, was killed in the assault to the Moneda Palace.
The Coup - Documentary Film
Pedro Sienna
Chile
80 min.
This film is set in the early 19th century and recounts the exploits of manuel Rodríguez, the most popular Chilean hero of the country's fight for independence from Spain. Rodríguez was a cultivated and daring man who penetrated all levels of the establishment in support of rebel troops.El húsar de la muerte premiered in Santiago de Chile on Novemver 24, 1925. The only silent, fictional, Chilean film still in existence, is considered one of the most important works in Latin American cinema.
Miguel Angel Aravena
Chile
5 min.
Short film
This short film mixes documental and experimental film-making, by superimposing drawings and paintings on a Super 8 base.
Documentary Film
Augusto Góngora
Chile
50 min.
A tele-analysis dedicated to the Pope's visit to Chile, the testimonies he heards, and the demonstrations in his presence agains the military regime.
Church - Documentary Film
Patricio Guzmán
Spain
98 min.
Documentary on the current condition of the churches in Chile, and on the fight they wage against the regime of Augusto Pinochet.
Church - Documentary Film
Sergio Bravo
France
7 min.
Short film
Presents Pablo Neruda reciting his own poems.
Documentary Film
Jorge Triviño
France
13 min.
Short film
The Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez accepts cameras in its midst for the first time. Founded then years after Pinochet's coup d'etat, it was the first organized political military opposition to the regime.
Resistances - Documentary Film
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Federal Republic of Germany
3 min.
Short film
Under the dictatorship, even legal bills of tender are used to communicate political instructions and messages.
The Coup - Documentary Film
Chile
20 min.
Short film
Tells the story of two young people, Carmen Gloria Quintana and Rodrigo Rojas, both of whom were badly burnt by the police while being arrested in the street. Rodrigo died as a result and Carmen Gloria was left completely disfigured and unable to return to Chile form the United States, where she was hospitalized, until the return of the Pope.
Resistances - Documentary Film
Peter Lilienthal
Federal Republic of Germany
80 min.
Chile, March 1973. The last democratic parlamentary election is underway. the young Marcela comes from the country looking for work as a typist in Santiago. She finds a politically active society. This situacion determines her destiny.
Fiction
Ricardo Correa, Hernan Castro, Mario Mutis
Chile
12 min.
Short film
Biographical sketch of the rock group, "Los Prisioneros", the most popular band in Chile when it was denied access to television because of its outspoken attitude.
Popular Music - Documentary Film
Augusto Góngora
Chile
20 min.
Short film
The children in Santiago's poor sections talk about life, do their thing in the streets, and explain why they confront the police. These testimonies are compared with those of children from well-off families. They show dialectically opposed worlds.
Resistances - Documentary Film
Constantin Costa-Gavras
USA
110 min.
September, 1973. The tension in Chile is palpable. Events climax one morning with news of a coup d'etat. Panic spreading, the military occupies the streets, puts down isolated groups of counter-insurgents, and establishes a curfew and strict censorship. Admist all this, Charles, a young American journalist working in Chile and living there with his wife Beth, dissapears from his home ina working class neighborhood of Santiago. His father comes from the U.S. to find him after he and Beth overcome a longstanding mutual distrust, they undertake the search for Charles together.
Fiction
Sergio Bravo
Chile - France
82 min.
Our protagonist are two women, one a worker in a fish hatchery, the other a professor in Santiago. The first searches for her husband who has not returned from the sea. The second wants to forget her son who's been in prison for four years -she can't stand imagining his suffering. The two meet by accodent on a boat, the past ad present mix through black and white, and coloured images.
Fiction
Ignacio Agüero
Chile
30 min.
Short film
This is a re-editing of work on the incident of Lonquén following the coup in 1973. It tries to retain the impression made by the violation of human rights, by the liberation, and by the triumph of live over death, expressed in the vitality, happiness and humility of a family that lost five of its members.
The dictatorship and the cinema - Documentary Film
Pablo de la Barra
Chile - Venezuela
90 min.
Made in Chile in 1967, this film documents the planning and execution of a clandestine MIR operation and the friendship between two activists. Shooting was interrupted by the coup d'etat and the producer finished it in Venezuela, adding some scenes from memory.
Fiction
Gaston Ancelovici
Canada
59 min.
Medium-length film
A starting and diverse panorama of daily life in Chile via numerous testimonials by relatives of people who've dissapeared, popular singers, and analysts of military issues. The film's actor, Roberto Parada, interviewed while playing the lead in a work by Benedetti, talks about the murder of his child. Augusto Pinochet makes his "Dictatorship of the Democrazy" apology.
The dictatorship and the cinema - Documentary Film
Pablo Salas, Pedro Chaskel
Chile
15 min.
Short film
Documentary by "Women for Life" about the International Women's Day celebrations in the streets of Santiago on October 30, 1985, including the response of the police.
Resistances - Documentary Film
Michael Cacoyannis
Greece
140 min.
Examines the contradictions and compromises faced by a well-off foreign family and by the progressive bourgeoisie in general of an un-named Latin American country, but whose national anthem begins with the words "Sweet fatherland, land of liberty...", when a military coup destroys the government of a president known y the initial A.
Fiction
Jorge Triviño
France
7 min.
Short film
Interview with an ex-torturer of the DINA. He counters statements made by General Gustavo Leigh, a former member of the Military Junta in Chile.
Documentary Film
Miguel de la Cuadra Salcedo
Spain
38 min.
Medium-length film
Footage from the coup d'etat agains elected president Salvador Allende.
The Coup - Documentary Film
Augusto Góngora
Chile
18 min.
Short film
Documentary on the neightborhood of Bellavista"s Third Festival and the 200.000 people that attended.
Popular Music - Documentary Film
Chile
30 min.
Short film
The latest alternative informative, concluded the day before the festival. This system of presenting news, designed to counteract official information, is distributed by suscription on video-cassettes.
Resistances - Documentary Film
Pedro Salas, Douglas Hübner
Chile
60 min.
Records a meeting by the Inti Illimani group on May 30, 1985, some thirteen years after the coup. The reunion takes place in the Argentinian city of Mendoza which is located close to the border with Chile. Inti Illimani is prohibited from entering Chile.
Popular Music - Documentary Film
Sebastian Alarcón
USSR
88 min.
A group of cadets, newly arrived at a militarry academy that is a microcosm of the society in general insofar as violence and arbitrary decision-making are the norm, ar subjected ot iniciation rites which physically and morally humilliate them. Pablo, nicknamed "Jaguar", becomes their leader when his strenght of personality and austute perceptions are revealed. However, he is soon accused of killing one of the cadets and of betraying others.
Fiction
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