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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Alfredo Knuchel, Norbert Wiedmer
Switzerland
In spite of the fact that things have always been otherwise, 61-year-old Armin still firmly believes in the promises of the 50s (happiness, prosperity, progress). When he stops receiving his unemployment benefit, he decides to set up a printing press in his basement, but this small business is more of a headache than a source of income. Marlies, his wife, tries to find a feeling of security in a religious community. Markus, their son, about to turn thirty, and also out of work, is struggling to give up drugs, which were responsible for his brother Thomas' death. A documentary about a Swiss family heading towards an uncertain future.
Vitaly Mansky
Russia
52 min.
The remote hamlet of Ivannikovo, in deepest Russia, lives completely cut off from modern life. It hardly even noticed the October Revolution, and the scarcely twenty inhabitants still live in the poverty of an early-century lifestyle. One of these people is eighty-year-old Maria Churilova, who is cared for by her sister Praskovia. Maria is a dwarf, due, according to local legend, to a curse put on her by a stranger when she was a young girl. The documentary-maker, Vitaly Mansky, heard about this place by chance and decided to portray a community in the process of inexorable death.
Pilar Miro
Spain
119 min.
Diana, Countess of Belflor, is young, attractive and intelligent. Her secretary, Teodoro, is engaged to Marcela, her lady-in-waiting. Jealous of Teodore's love for Marcela, Diana punishes the lovers with separation and manipulates Teodoro, exciting and frustrating his desires at will. The heroine pulls the threads of the action, based on amorous and social conflict, with continuous ploys and tricks, false identities and a sexual anxiety restrained by hierarchical position and social respect.
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France
52 min.
Medium-length film
One night, little Mimi is the impotent witness to her mother's suicide attempt. The next day, while the woman is recovering in hospital, Mimi's Aunt Solange takes the girl to her state-subsidized housing apartment in the Paris suburbs. To avoid upsetting the implicit order of her home, she installs the girl in a nook in the corridor near the door. That same night, Mimi's sleep is disturbed by the arrival of Jean-Pierre, her aunt's lover.
Ramon Barea
Spain
14 min.
A middle-aged widower who lives surrounded by the memories of his marriage, receives a letter from the Town Council informing him that his wife's remains are going to be put in to a common grave. The man steals the bones from the cemetery and buries them in a special place.
Daniel Calparsoro
Spain
86 min.
Gabi, a young, marginalized, petty thief, is trying to find the woman of her dreams in Carmina, an alcoholic, out-of-work cleaning lady. Gabi tries to convince Carmina to become a wonderful person who will look after and love her, on top of giving her everything she needs: love, a house, human warmth, and the feeling of being someone in life. All of the characters are miserable dreamers who try to survive in a world they themselves have invented, amid a landscape of industrial decadence. They cheat each other under the influence of Gabi, a manipulator who seeks personal comfort in everyone else.
Jenni Robertson
Australia
13 min.
Short film
Stella photographs eight naked men revealing details of their lives and emotions within the privileged confines of the artist's studio. Contrasting the ordinary with the extaordinary, this short uses chiaroscuro lighting, rich colours and minimalist sets. The film celebrates the cinematically unspoken (ordinary stories) and the often unseen (naked men).
Ulrich Seidl
Austria
114 min.
People from big cities. People from Vienna. Lonely people. Two young men living in a rundown basement who beg with their animals. A prisoner who has just come out of prison and who wants to start a new life paid for by his girlfriend. A single actress who is sick of men. An asma-sufferer who spends his life in front of the television. Two early-retired pensioners in financial difficulty. In the era of high-tech society, where communication is more important than ever, contact between human beings has become something of a rarity. Dogs, cats, rats and other pets become games, secret and even bed partners.
Stewart Main
New Zealand
15 min.
An injured white soldier lost in the New Zealand jungle runs into a Maori warrior. The two cultures clash, but hatred gives way to love and a tense camaraderie grows between the two. They discover a new world of communication, until a nonsensical act of violence suddenly ends this passionate meeting between two widely differing cultures.
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