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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Asoka Handagama
Sri Lanka
136 min.
Tani tatuwen piyabanna (Flying with One Wing), an unknown film from Sri Lanka, was released two years ago in Zabaltegi, causing a strong impact on the audience, going on to win numerous awards at different festivals. Its director, Asoka Handagama, has once again chosen San Sebastian for the world premiere of his new work, more sophisticated and with more production means than his former, but equally corrosive and provocative. A powerful melodrama by an unclassifiable moviemaker.
Ariadna Pujol
Spain
95 min.
A small village in the province of Teruel is becoming depopulated. The mayor comes up with a plan to attract immigrants, particularly Rumanians and Argentineans, so that they can adapt to the local customs and mix with their inhabitants, almost all of whom are elderly. Following the success of El cielo gira, Ariadna Pujol makes another documentary originating in the Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University in the shape of a sociological study with a highly personal style.
Israel Sánchez Prieto
Spain
75 min.
In Piedrafita, a hamlet in the province of Leon, a group of archaeologists and volunteers excavate in search of the remains of people shot during the Civil War and buried in mass graves. Two women of opposing thought serve as the connecting theme of this document constituting an important link in the struggle to rescue the memory of many victims of the Civil War and the Franco period. Israel Sánchez Prieto succeeds at several different moments in making the emotion uncontrollable.
Elisabet Cabeza, Esteve Riambau
Spain
94 min.
The Magicians returns to a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, an amateur film maker in hiding made an adventure film using the children from an orphanage as actors. The protagonists relive those childhood days when they changed their school uniforms for turbans and exotic costumes, while reality imposed its own fancy dress ball inside and outside their school with military uniforms and priests dressed as civilians.
Juan Miguel Gutiérrez
Spain
86 min.
In the 50s, the inhabitants of a small group of hamlets to the north of Huesca sold their land and houses to the state forestry heritage, leaving the region depopulated. The neighbours now recall the miserable conditions in which they lived and express their scepticism regarding the latest fashion popular with city inhabitants of occupying the hamlets. Juan Miguel Gutiérrez, director of Tabula rasa, affords another rigorously made document stressing a contemporary subject.
Diego Galán
Spain
64 min.
Portrait of the life and work of the most prolific and famous film editor in recent Spanish cinema. Pablo del Amo died before the document was finished, although he had already decisively collaborated in its making. Diego Galán includes direct testimonies by the editor, opinions for and against by many of the filmmakers with whom he worked, selected extracts of some of his best films, archive material and fragments of the tributes paid to him.
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