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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Emilio Mula
Spain
6 min.
Short film
Ascendente is an animated 3D short that takes its inspiration from works by the engraver Paco Aguilar. Taking as an element the imaginative world of the work by this artist from Málaga, this is an attempt to make spectators feel as though they are submerged in the essence of the oneiric state, where the valuue of time is altered and sensations prevail over stories.
Jessica Hausner
Austria
48 min.
Medium-length film
How to achieve some kind of happiness or how not to achieve it... A young man interviews people onthe street. He asks them what is important to them, in order to discover something important about himself, but he can't find anything. A young woman, after several failed attempts, finally suceeds in finding some kind of happiness in her life, something that might be called love. The two of them meet...
Katrina Sawyer
Australia
19 min.
Short film
Tracey Power is an extraordinary woman who has maintained her courage, honesty and humour despite having suffered abuse and trauma at the hands of her family and the state from birth. Thracey looks different, doesn't follow the social rules of behaviour, sticks her tongue out and brups when she wants to... Tracey has a mental illness which has led to her being institutionalised a number of times. She is both street wise and disarmingly trusting and generous. She looks very tough, yet she is very sensitive and vulnerable. Tracey's story tells us a lot about living with mental illness, about being different, and about surviving without losing your spirit or humanity.
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegal - France - Switzerland - Germany
45 min.
For many years, newspapers have been sold on the streets of Dakar by boys. When Sili, a little 12-year-old girl on crutches decides to go out and sell papers, the boys don't accept her, it's their territory. But Sili is successful: on the first day someone buys all her papers and gives her a big tip. No one believes she earned the money honestly. She is picked up by the police, but eventually they let her go. Sili uses the money she has earned to buy a parasol for her blind grandmother and gives the resto to lepers. The next day, Sili is again harassed by the other newspaper sellers, who are jealous of her success.
Laurence Attali
France - Senegal
18 min.
Short film
A taxi driver in an African tunic is racing through the streets of Dakar. Beside him, a young woman with bleached blond hair is reading the newspaper, oblivious to the world outside. In the rundown taxi devoid of windscreen, a Russian meter ticks off irregular units. A piggy-bank in the shape of a mosque and the image of a Muslim saint swing back and forth to the rhythm of the ride. On the back seat is a shinning golden saxophone. While the driver steps up his feats of saring-do, the young girl remains unmoved. Suddenly, he breaks the silence to announce: "I can see even the wind going by!".Même le vent is alove story that starts in front of the Dakar Medina and ends on the road overlooking the mosque at the edge of the ocean.
Garry Lane
Germany
10 min.
Short film
Minefield tells the story of a nurse who channels her energy into helping her patients, her suffering, and the discoveries she makes about herself. The action takes place as emergency medical supplies are parachuted to a refugee field hospital. It follows her story as she sees the parachute land in a minefield, through her decision to get the medicine out, to her terrifying ordeal in the minefield itself. The story is more than a tale of a young nurse figthing to save sick people in the hostile environment after a war. It examines the intense courage and individual needs in order to make life decisions about her own safety and explores the bonds that develop between medical aid workers and survivors.
Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Spain
5 min.
Short film
Kevin and Conchita kis feriosly under the spectacular poster of Littel Red Riding Hood, the Dalt Wisney film behind their fierly passion. Before them, the Metropolitan Police, the FBI and the Army train their weapons on the scene. Maybe it's got something to do with an unpaid traffic fine, or maybe... with the search for the 56 bodies the couple has scattered some place under the rainbow. Unfortunately, little Sally trots along to buy popcorn.
Serguei Loukiantchikov
Belorussia
9 min.
Short film
This film belongs to the expressionist genre, with an organic combination of cinema and painting. It is a parable on the threshold to the XXI century and takes lace at a railway station switchyard, seen by a boy from the window of a railroad car. The game of childish dreams turns into the alarming and hopeful world of a man searching for his way in life.
Michael Spitz
USA
12 min.
Short film
When 9-year-old Stanley discovers the clothes of his dead father, Hy, on the railroad tracks, his curiosity leads him to an old rowboar where Hy shares with him the mysteries of the afterlife. Taking Hy is a haunting and lyrical elegy that explores a young Jewish boy's struggle to cope with the loss of his father.
David Schisgall
USA
78 min.
Some middle-class, middle-aged couples like to get together on Saturday night and play bridge or go bowling. Others like to have group sex. Known to outsiders as swinging, the Lifestyle, as swingers call it, has quietly grown in the United States. The swingers themselves estimate that three million Americans are involved in organised group sex. The Lifestyle is the first in depth account of this undiscovered subculture, obtained during intense travelling over three years, around some dozen homes, parties and conventions of swingers who were willing to tell their experiences in public.
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