72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Laurence Boulting
Spain
60 min.
An impressive portrait of the Basque people agains the backdrop of the bombing of Gernika. Three ederly women relate their personal memories of this tragedy while attending a wedding banquet in a cider-house. They recall the massacre of innocent farmers, the death of a young man on the day before his wedding, ad the bloody repression of a birhtday party. Part drama, part documentary, this film not only returns to the destruction of Gernika fifty years ago, but also reveals what the city means to the Basques today.
Edward Yang Derchang
Taiwan
109 min.
This film weaves together the stories of three couples which together form a sample of the sifferente social classes existing in Taipei, Taiwan: a socially marginal young woman from a modest family and a well-to-do photographer; a writer who longs for independence and a doctor who thinks only of racing; a possesive mother and her imprisoned daugther, Suzanne, who copes with her boredom by tepephoning everyone she can think of. A double murder, real or dreamed, complicates the situation.
Karen Shaknazarov
USRR
90 min.
Iván, a high school drop out, is scepticall and critical of the world around him. The main cause of his pessimism is the divorce of his parents. The civil servants in the office where he works as an errand boy, especially the scientist Kuznetsov and his daugther Kataya, tell him that it's time he grew up.
Leonardo Kocking
Chile
90 min.
Paula ponders the events which started her on this long bus trip. Her husband Carlos has been detained by the police; she adn their close friend Gerardo were unable to help him. Her friend, Isabel, proposed to move in with her. Paula spent her time searching for Carlos. She found out that he is alive in a camp 2.000 km away. But nows she and Gerardo have come together again and their old love has been re-kindled, when her sister refuses to accompany her to the prison camp, that it is Gerardo whom she truly loves. Arriving at the camp, she finds that Carlos has been sent somewhere else. She must decide what seh is going to do before the long, hard trip back ends.
Juris Podnieks
USRR
76 min.
Documentary on the problems of young people who are taking their first independent steps in life. A juvenile delinquent collapses in the prisoner's dock when condemned to three years in a jail. A young drug addict caught in a raid by the army presents a weak defense. A high school student explains before the camera how he manages to combine his weekly escort duties at the Monument to th Dead in Riga with his participation in the "punk" movement.
Marion Hänsel
Belgium
100 min.
Ludovic, born of a savage rape, spends his first years of life constantly ill and living in a barn with a mother, Nicole, who hates him. She marries Micho, a rich mechanic who attemps to provide them with a normal life. Unfortunately, the situation does not impruve. Obssesed by th ememory of the rape, Nicoles turns alcoholic and begins to schorn ther ederly husband. She finally interns her son in an institution for the chronically ill. Whatever the rejection, Ludovic adores her. one night he escapes, thakes refuge on a raft which sets to sea, and is happy. His need for maternal love, however, makes him decide to write to his mother.
James Ivory
United Kingdom
140 min.
Maurice Hall, a young stoc-broker, lives with his widowed mother and two bothers in a refined Edwardian atmospehere. Maurice is disturbed by the ambiguity of his sexual impulses. At Trinit College he met Clive, a young man who comprehend his sexuality in terms of classical Greek ideals. When Clive tells Maurice that he loves him, Maurice is frightened, but realizes that he also loves Clive.
José Julián Bakedano
Spain
60 min.
Manuel tells of the pacefull way he and his bother, Ramón, lived together until the arrival of Esther, and of how she changed everything and created a tension that resulted in tragedy.
Sergio Núñez
Cuba
14 min.
Short film
The circumstances under which the people of El Salvador and other Latin Americans live demands that even the children become freedom figthers.
Nana Djordjadze
USRR
77 min.
Englishman Christopher Hughes gets caught in the Russian Revolution while working in Georgia as a telegraph operator. Before long, he comes into conflict with Nestor, the local leader, and is thrown out of the community by it's inhabitants. He cannot leave, however, without his love, Ana, Nestor's sister and so takes refuge at the foot of a telegraph post to wait for her.Nestor and Christopher reconcile things over time, but one day they are both found murdered.
Maurice Phillips
USA
92 min.
This is the story of the struggle to keep Slam TV freee. This pirate station is located in an old B29 bomber which patrols the sly and the airwaves of the US. Its main listeners are rock-and-rollers. The captain knows that his message has gotten through to them when he intercepts a coded message announcing that Mr. Westinghose is the leading candidate for the White House.
David Byrne
USA
89 min.
This is a mosaic of everyday persons encountered in Virgil, a small town in Texas. The director, David Byrne, was inspired by numerous journal articles to re-create characters from another time. Mos of them have descriptive names like Cute Woman, Computer Guy, or Lazy Woman. each has a story in his own space and time; it's told by a narrator who visits them in a convertible and who wears authentic Texan clothing. He is the director, David Byrne, leader of the rock group which does the sound track, Talking Heads.
Alain Tanner
Switzerland
110 min.
This is the sroty of a love which has ended, and of the beginning of the end of a second love, and how trough that a woman becomes obssesed with love and sees it in terms of life or death. Dramatic situations ensu, but are as intense and fleeting as the ardent and vacilating flame that burns in her heart.
Shôhei Imamura
Japan
124 min.
A Japanese sailor, Iheiji, arrives in Hong Kong and encounters his wife, Shiho, who he had abandonen eight years earlier when he went looking for his fortune. She was subsequently kidnapped, as were many Japanese women, by Chinese pirates and forced into porstitution. Iheiji soons becomes the manager of a japanese brothel in Hong kong, so he buys Shiho and puts her to work for him. Convinced that the money the girls send home assists his country's beleaguered economy, Iheiji decides to exend his business to malaya. He and the girls, however, are soon trappe by the opening of the Russo-Japanese war.
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