72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
Official
Sponsor
Sponsor
Media
Partner
Partner
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).
Calls for entries Log-in to MY FESTIVAL
Complete this form with your details for accessing the contents reserved for registered users.
Enter your email and press send. You will receive a link through which you can reset your password
Complete this form with your details for accessing the contents reserved for registered users.
Agenda
...
Programme and tickets 
Search 
Velodrome
Films
Films
Penny Marshall
USA
102 min.
A normal kid with a brush on the prettiest blonde at school who just happens to prefer older guys, Josh always feels left out of everything by everyone except his best friend Billy. One afternoon he’s not even allowed into the House of Horrors at the amusement park because he’s too young. Frustrated, Josh stops at a strange wish machine and asks to be older, only to waken up the next morning inside the body of a 35-year-old-man.
John Woo
USA
139 min.
Ruthless FBI agent, Sean Archer, has to discover the whereabouts of a lethal biological weapon hidden by his bitter enemy, the sadist terrorist Castor Troy. In view of the fact that Tory is now in a coma, Archer decides to take a loan of his face to carry out his mission and undergoes a complicated operation to do so. But things go badly wrong when Troy comes round, turns into Archer, and proceeds to set all Hell loose in the agent's life. The clock is ticking, the tension is mounting, and the game becomes a fight to the death between the two mortal enemies. Ironically trapped in each other's bodies, they try to save face; or rather, their own faces.
Daniel Greaves
United Kingdom
30 min.
Short film
Matt Phlatt works as a road mender in wet and windy Flatworld, a city constructed of drab paper and cardboard. One day at work, Matt cuts through the main cable that carries the information superhighway and accidentally releases a dangerous bank robber from a gangster film. The broken cable gives Matt a massive jolt of electro-magnetic energy. From now on, each of the numerous and avoidable puddles in Flatworld becomes a gateway to Flipside, a brightly coloured world, inhabited by television characters. When Flatworld collides with Flipside, Matt finds himself in big trouble.
Curtis Hanson
USA
135 min.
Los Angeles, 1950. Crime and corruption are oozing down the corridors of power, threatening to take over the city. Three officers from the Police Department, Jack, Ed and Bud, find themselves wound up in a conspiracy of intrigue and deception that could end up destroying them all. Bud interrogates a beautiful mysterious woman, Lynn Bracken, as a possible key to a murder, but finds himself falling in love with her. The woman also brings out Ed's deepest desire, leading to a showdown between the two policemen.
José Martínez Montero, Javier Gonzalez de la Fuente
Spain
81 min.
The minds of the people who live in the Galaxy is controlled by president Sinteticom, dictator of the universe, and his invincible army of robots designed by Doc, his right-hand man. One day, a biosynthetic food carrier sets off at a tangent and the crew can do nothing to stop it. The situation comes under control when they make out the moon of Xilem, forbidden by Sinteticom, with its only inhabitants: and old man called Takna and his little flying dog, Chimpy. Landing on the moon, Takna tells them how, many years ago, the president had erased the musical memory of the galaxy so as to make sure he would have complete control over it. The crew members realise that the can destabilise Sinteticom if they succeed in spreading music throughout the galaxy.
Alex de la Iglesia
Spain - Mexico - USA
128 min.
This is the rempestuour tale of love an death between the unscrupulous Perdita Durango and attractive hit man Romeo Dolorosa, who kidnap a couple of well-off teenagers and make a run for it on a journey of no return through the wild side of the American dream with the intention of taking a load of foetuses from the Mexican border to Las Vegas for a madia capo. A voyage plagued with intense experiences involving bizarre and colourful characters: policemen, religious healers, murderers, drug dealers...
David Fincher
USA
131 min.
High-powered businessman, Nicholas Van Orton, receives the birthday gift of a lifetime from the brother he has too long ignored. What he gives him in entry to a mysterious new kind of game. It proves to be an all-consuming contest with only one rule: there are no rules. By the time Van Orton realises he is in too deep, it is already too late to get out.
Luis Buñuel
Spain - Mexico - USA
17 min.
Short film
(...) Luis Buñuel appeared, like a comet. He came from Paris, with his head shaven, his face even stronger, and his eyes rounder ans more bulging than ever. He was coming to show his first work, made in collaboration with Salvador Dalí. The film made a strong impression, upsetting many and shocking everyone with that shor on the moon, split in half by a cloud, which went right on to the other, dreadful image, the one of the eye being cut with a straight razor. When the astounded audience asked Buñuel for a few words of explanation, I remember that he sat up a bit straighter and said, more or less, from his box: "It's only a desperate, passionate calling to crime". Rafael Alberti, quoted in Luis Buñuel. Obra cinematográfica, by Agustín Sánchez Vidal.
Official Sponsor 
Media Partner 
Official Collaborators: 
Associated Institutions:
Opening hours
Monday to Thursday: 09:00h - 15:00h
Friday: 10:00h - 14:00h
Monday to Thursday: 09:00h - 15:00h
Friday: 10:00h - 14:00h
Suscribe to our newsletter
We inform you that the personal data you provide to us on completing this form will be processed by the San Sebastian Festival as the body responsible for this website. The personal data we request will be processed for the purpose of sending you our newsletter. Authorisation to do so is given through the consent of the interested party. Only the San Sebastian Festival will send you messages and we will not disclose your data to third parties. We inform you that the data you provide to us will be stored in the Mailrelay (email marketing providers) servers, located within the EU. See the Mailrelay privacy policy. If you do not enter the data appearing as mandatory on the form, we may be unable to fulfil your request. You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, limitation and deletion of data at privacidad@sansebastianfestival.com. You can consult additional and detailed information on Data Production in our privacy policy.