72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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ALFONSO UNGRIA
100 min.
16-year-old Martin's mother falls out of a window and dies shortly after a bitter argument with the boy's father, Arturo. Police investigations take it for granted that she committed suicide. Martin meets Africa, a neighbour the same age as himself, who tells him a secret: Arturo has been seeing her mother for some time. Knowing this, Martin, who feels increasingly hostile towards his father, starts suspecting that he was probably responsible for his mother's death, and decides to kill him. Africa encourages the idea and, while discovering their first love, passion and sex, they plan the perfect crime.
MARIO SABATO
92 min.
Based on the tango as the most important musical expression of the Argentinian people, this film is built around a series of fragments of films where music plays the leading part. It is a tribute to tango, put together with scenes and songs from different films and grouped according to subject; for example, seduction, tango women dress like prostitutes, the confrontation between "daddy's kids" and "street urchins" ... Enrique Cadícamo and Ernesto Sábato offer their testimonies on the tango and release two of their own compositions.
JUAN SEBASTIAN BOLLAIN
105 min.
Juan is sickly, shy boy who is struggling to make his way in the Seville of 1913. He wants to be a bullfighter. An old matador called Calderón notices his strange ways and passionate attitude and gets him a chance to fight in the Seville bullring; but the experience is a failure and Juan has to start working as a labourer to help his family. A year later, Calderón offers him a new chance, this time a great success. In only a few weeks, Juan Belmonte becomes a bullfighting legend. Nevertheless, he knows that he still has to confront the greatest matador in the profession, Joselito, in the best ring in the world, Madrid. The challenge is historical and the two masters become friends, depite their continuing rivalry.
MANUEL GOMEZ PEREIRA
104 min.
Although Victor wants to be a film star, he has to make a living while waiting for his big break and starts working as an erotic phone contact. His first client is Ricardo, a plastic surgeon. The appearance of a mysterious woman called Amanda, as attractive as she is fickle, makes Victor's life that bit more complicated. Finally, his representative, Angela, lands him the leading part in an American film to be shot in Spain, while Amanda contrives a meeting between Victor and Ricardo, and sets a trap for both of them.
LUIS ALBERTO LAMATA
102 min.
In mid-19th century Venezuela, a man and a woman try to break away from the bonds of their fate. He is an Indian who is enlisted in the liberal army: she, a white woman who knows what it's like to feel hunger. One day, the faint memory or dream of paintings and oranges brings them together in an impossible love. Tired of so much fighting, they wander around the Caribbean, searching for life and running from death. The capitan comes across a strange magical object: the bilongo, a terrible companion that grants him luck in game, but torments him day and night with the fear of a restless death, because the devil always goes after his debtors.
Patricia Cardoso
Colombia
50 min.
Medium-length film
In 1926, in a small Columbian mountain village, a young doctor operates a blind man for cataracts. It is the first operation of this kind to have been carried out in the country, and gives Bernabé, the old man who supplies water to the village, his sight back after fifty years of blindness. The film, which is based on a true story, tells Bernabé's incredible tale, his experiences and difficulties on recovering his sight.
Icíar Bollaín
Spain
90 min.
Trini and La Niña are the same age, 20, and have the same uncomplicated way of going about things: they simply go ahead and do them. The two girls also share the fact that neither of them have a mother. During their voyage, they share everything, even Olaf, a Russian who doesn't know a word of Spanish, and with whom La Niña has an affair. They have a mutual let down: Mariló. La Niña finds love and loses it, finds her mother and loses her again, but also finds a friend, Trini, whom she is certainly not about to lose.
CIRO DURAN
96 min.
The American dream of six Columbian stowaways is suddenly thrown into dilemma by a confrontation when one of them suffers an accident. They have two options: to try and save their friend's life by asking the capitain of the ship for help, thereby giving themselves away, or to ignore the fact and try to succeed in achieving their American dream. What is more important: solidarity or individual dreams?
JUAN ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ
35 min.
The author of this documentary arrived in West Africa with the intention of taking photographs for two weeks, but ended up staying for two months and shooting this "visual diary" of his adventures. The fact that he was travelling alone and that he was of a race and culture unknown to the natives, led him to experience situations and reflections that other travellers would seem to miss out on. The conclusion reached is that all of the inhabitants of the so-called Third World share the same collective experience and that the things which bring them together are more than those which would seem to separate them.
LUCRECIA MARTEL
Argentina
13 min.
Short film
It's siesta time in Rey Muerto. Everything seems fairly quiet, but a woman, Juana, and her three children are walking down the street carrying bags. Concerned, the neighbours watch this flight from behind their doors and windows. Many, with good reason, fear the reaction of Cabeza, Juana's husband. One of them, el Turco, goes to warn Cabeza. What nobody in the village knows, is that when she gets to the road, it won't be to get on the bus going to the city, but to send her husband off at gunpoint. What Juana doesn't know and Cabeza discovers, is that the gun hasn't got bullets. What we will all learn is that, when someone gets mad, it doesn't really matter.
MARIO LEVIN
88 min.
A man called Salerno dies in a film theatre and his orphaned daughter, Telma, decides to find out what lay behind the relationship between her father and a shady weightlifter called Smith. The investigation of the mystery is put into the professional hands of Walensky, Smith's old friend. The appearance of Carmen, with whom Smith and Walensky had both been involved, causes an about-turn in the action. Carmen's revelation of a secret triggers the passion in the other two characters.
XAVIER RIBERA PERPIÑA
90 min.
Victor comes home and finds his wife, Virginia, dead on the bed. Next to her is a young boy called Martin, who tells Victor that Virginia died in his arms. In order not to tarnish Virginia's good name and avoid a scandal, they decide to put out a false version of the facts. But things don't go exactly as planned, as they get mixed up with a plot hatched by Pam.
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