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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Ana Díez
Cuba - Spain
85 min.
On the night of 12 March 1956, a man called Jesús de Galíndez disappears in the centre of Manhattan. Inexplicably, the disappearance of this Republican exile and Basque Government delegate in New York causes commotion at top political levels. Opposing forces clash on the intelligence operations board: Hoover and his FBI initiate the most expensive investigations in its history to discover who has dared to do away with their best political informer in Latin America. Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, alarmed by the shockwaves reverberating off the case, murders anyone having even the slightest involvement in the complicated mechanism of the kidnap.
Samuel Martínez
Spain
30 min.
Short film
In 1972, American film director Howard Hawks came to San Sebastian to chair the Jury of the Film Festival, which included a retrospective on his work. Two film buffs, as enthusiastic as they were unknown at the time (Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda) travelled from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. Thirty years of life and film further on, we have recovered that unpublished interview, once again retracing their steps to San Sebastian.
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
UK - USA
89 min.
Lost In La Mancha may be the first ?un-making of? documentary, the story of a film that doesn't exist, i.e., Terry Gilliam's film adaptation of Don Quixote. Gilliam had already invested ten years of his life in the production of this dream when the cameras finally began rolling in September 2000. But problems were quick to emerge: such as the language barriers between the members of the pan-European crew which made it difficult to put the finishing touches to the film's concept; the major problems involved in organising the actors, not to mention the double hernia suffered by the star portraying Don Quixote. And as if that wasn't bad enough, a dreadful storm wreaked havoc, destroying both the sets and equipment, forcing shooting to be definitively called off.
Asoka Handagama
Sri Lanka
81 min.
A young woman disguised as a man and married to another woman works as a garage mechanic in a small southern Sri Lankan town. Discovering her true gender after an accident at work, the doctor who examines her decides not to reveal her secret, preferring to use the knowledge as a guarantee of securing sexual favours. Meanwhile, a colleague with gay inclinations shadows her in the hope of striking up a relationship. Resisting the pressure exerted upon her by the doctor and her work colleague, the young woman tries to reject them both, until the doctor's sudden decision to reveal her secret sends her fleeing from her workplace. She is from then on obliged to brave the jests and insults of the whole community as things eventually come to a head in a tragic outcome. This unprecedented bittersweet comedy is a world premiere.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jiri Menzel, István Szabó, Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Godard, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Radford
UK - Germany - France
106 min.
Second part of the Ten Minutes Older project, giving complete freedom to a number of outstanding directors in order that they may represent their 10-minute view of Time, considered as the governing element of history. Each filmmaker's individual work takes on a new meaning when combined with those produced by the others, giving rise to a fascinating experience for all film lovers. An ensemble of fifteen cinematic gems.
Aki Kaurismäki, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Spike Lee, Chen Kaige
Spain - UK - Germany - Finland - China - USA
92 min.
Each director has total creative liberty and ten minutes to represent his or her interpretation of Time on the screen. Using state-of-the-art techniques and cinematic innovations, Ten Minutes Older looks at all aspects of human experience: birth, death, love, sex, contemporary dramas, history and ancient myths, with an enormous variety of settings, from the South-American jungles to the streets of New York.
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