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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Jorge Durán
Brazil
104 min.
Paulo, 18 years old, was born in Chile, but lives with his parents in Rio de Janeiro. Apart from going through the normal upheads of adolscence, he lives a normal life, including dating girls, drawing and painting.Santiago, 1973. a military coup overthrows allende's goverment and a dictatorship is established. Paulo, 6 at the time, is witness to his brother Victor's arrest. Victor's body is returned to the family some days later. Rio de Janeiro, 1985. The arrival of his Chilean cousin stimulates Paulo into reliving scenes and having dreams of his childhood in that country. His desire to return comes obsessive.
Fernándo Pérez
Cuba
98 min.
Ernesto, leader of a cell of urban guerrillas in the time of Cuban dictator, Batista, has under his authority devoted militants, a dangerous informant, and a teenage girl that he falls in love with. The contradictions between his authority and the possibility of a pleasurable life, converge in a tragic ending.
Anja Franke, Dani Lévy, Helmut Berger
Federal Republic of Germany - Switzerland
90 min.
Two young Berliners whose relationship has lost its enchantment separate after a violent argument. Nothing changes until they accidentaly find a dead body and come into contact with a dark world full of sinister gansters and persecution. Obliged to stick together, they try to regain their lost love.
Alejandro Agresti
Argentina - Netherlands
80 min.
José, a young journalist working for a conservative newspaper, has the task of reporting on the activities of a North American director engaged in a big budget production on poverty. In his articles José is opposed to the casting of local have-nots as actors in the film, and because of this, loses his job. While walking the streets he meets up with his friend, Caferate, a typical tango fanatic. José soons becomes socially marginalized.
Dimitris Panayiotatos
Greece
80 min.
Christos is in love with the movies and with the girl next door, but has never approached her. During one of her parties, Christo watches her make love to another. This scene is permanently etched in his mind. One nicht a few years later, Christos meets the mysterious Silena who works in a bar and is very much like the girl of his youth. He asks her to repeat with him the acts he witnessed as a furtive spectator.
Rafael Fuster-Pardo
Federal Republic of Germany
74 min.
A humorous but also pathetic story about 24 hours in the lives of a young Chilean and his Turkish friend, both of whom have no work in, what is for them, the strange city of West Berlin. Marginalized for various reasons, they try to survive and enjoy themselves, but times are hard for rogues.
Zivorad Tomic
Yugoslavia
97 min.
Branko Krajl is an ordinary man suprised by an extraordinary situation. In his native tonge, Kralj's name means The King. His sentimental relacions with his wife, Vishnya, and his mistress, Irene, form a complicated mystery of life wich cannot be resolved by intelligence alone.
Francesco Calogero
Italy
80 min.
Giorgio is a meticulous proofreader for a newspaper in which Fererico Coni is the music critic. Carlos is somewhat weird vendor. Irene is a young and gracious pianist. On day, Irene goes to Carlo's kiosk worried that Coni will give a bad review of her concert. Giorgio and Carlo calm her down by telling her that Coni never writes on debut performers. The next day, Giorgio discovers while proofreading that the critic covering her concert was Coni. Intrigued, he tries to determine the nature of the relationship between the critic and the pianist.
Felipe Vega
Spain
116 min.
Jorge, a young archeologist, retorns to Spain after spending various years trying to find himself via his friendship with Jaime, one of his old teachers. Unfortunately, Jaime is being persecuted by forces which cause the death of an adolescent, and he disappears shortly thereafter. Jorge searches for him until one night he is cornered by Jaimie's persecutors and forced to answer a series of quesitions about the life of his ex-teacher.
Iván Argüello
Nicaragua
80 min.
These are mountain women displaced by a war shich came as a nightmare, as a storm. Their men participe in the combat while they hide in lonely refuge for months on end. They must eventually fight against their own, personal frontiers in order to survive.This is a true story. It ocurred in Jalapa on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras during a 1982-1983 counter-revolutionary offensive. The protagonists are those who lived it.
Ann Zacharias
Sweden
102 min.
Inga, who believes she is pregnant, asks Rcihard, her boyfriend, to accept the child. Narrated in real time, this is the story of a man and a woman who, while awaiting the results of a pregnancy test, discuss their relationship, the responsibilities they face, and their future together.
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