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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Liv Ullmann
Sweden
195 min.
When she was young, Anna married Henrik, a theology student. Now asphyxiated by her emotional needs, she only realises her mistake when she meets Tomas, a man younger than herself. Their illicit relationship makes her feel passionately alive for the first in a long time, but her happiness is also her torture. Trapped between two different worlds, she finally turns to Jacob, the priest responsible for her confirmation and an old friend in whom she can trust; but Jacob?s advice has dramatic consequences. For her part in this film, Pernilla August, who will this year sit on the Official Jury at San Sebastian Festival, won the Silver Hugo at Chicago Festival and was named Best Actress at Valladolid Festival, where Liv Ullmann won the FIPRESCI Award.
Liv Ullmann
Norway - Germany - Sweden
180 min.
In the early 14th century, in the Norwegian valley of Gudbrandsdal, Kristin leads a safe, quiet life at Jørundgård farm with her father Lavrans, an important landowner, her mother Ragnfrid, her sister Ulvhild, her best friend, Arne, and a team of servants who watch over her innocence and princely airs. Kristin has been brought up to safeguard the good family name and honour, and unquestioningly accepts her father?s right to arrange her marriage to Simon, the son of another landowner. Until the young knight Erlend appears in her life.
Edvard Hambro
77 min.
A portrait of Liv Ullmann as an actress, film director, defender of human rights and a self-thinking person. Hambro places the viewer behind the scenes as Ullmann directs Private Confessions, a film about Ingmar Bergman?s parents which he himself wrote. This position gives us a unique and fascinating look at the collaboration between Ullmann and the recently deceased Bergman. For better insight to the portrayal, Hambro accompanied Liv Ullmann on her trips to Bosnia, where she worked to help refugees on commission by UNICEF. It also includes interviews with people who worked with her on Broadway and clips from her Hollywood movies.
Liv Ullmann
Denmark - Norway - Sweden
150 min.
The tale of a Danish-Jewish family in the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries focussing on Sofie, only child of painstakingly traditional parents. Beautiful, intelligent and extremely talented, she has all sorts of dreams for the future. She falls passionately in love with an artist, Højby, but he?s not a Jew and her parents arrange her marriage to Jonas, who takes her to a country village far from the world she?s been used to until then. They have a son, but things don?t go well between them and Jonas? mental health declines. When the child grows up, Sofie is forced to take important decisions. This film, Liv Ullmann?s first as a director, won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Montreal Festival, and was chosen Best Film at the Mar del Plata Festival.
Liv Ullmann
Sweden - Italy - Germany - Finland - Norway
155 min.
A writer named Bergman lives on an island struggling with a story based on his memory of a love affair. Hearing a ?voice?, he allows it to take the shape of an actress he calls Marianne, through whom the story unfolds: Marianne is happily married to Markus, a successful orchestra conductor, with whom she shares a nine-year old daughter, Isabelle, and a friend, David, who spends quite a lot of time at their apartment and is young Isabelle?s favourite storyteller. One night, while Markus is away, David visits the flat as usual, but something changes: what was once a safe, platonic friendship between Marianne and David is suddenly altered.
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