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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Esteban Sapir
Argentina
90 min.
An entire city has fallen speechless during a long, harsh winter. An evil, unscrupulous man, Mr. TV, sole owner of the images that enliven the city and of a wide range of products produced under his own personal label, implements a sinister secret plan to eternally dominate each of the souls inhabiting the place. To achieve this monopoly, he has funded the creation of a dangerous machine transmitting hypnotic TV images inducing compulsive purchase of the goods bearing his brand name. The strange contraption is operated by a singing voice, and he therefore orders the kidnap of a beautiful, captivating woman, the only person who has mysteriously not lost the ability to speak.
Jonás Cuarón
Mexico
82 min.
Año Uña is the impossible romance between Molly, a 21-year-old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty. Molly travels to Mexico, where she rents a room in Diego's house, hitting it off immediately with the boy. Diego, who had previously been consumed by desire for his cousin, Emilia, redirects his obsession towards Molly, who enjoys Diego's flirtations, finding the attention and respect missing from her relations with other boyfriends. The relationship continues to grow until Molly returns to New York. Diego decides to run away and win Molly's heart, while the girl?s tender feelings towards him have now turned into full-blown attraction.
Pablo Fendrik
Argentina
70 min.
The entire action of El asaltante takes place in a single morning. A man is about to implement a meticulously prepared plan. The camera follows him throughout. The audience becomes a privileged witness to the most intimate moments of anxiety and despair preceding a life or death decision.
Sergio Tovar Velarde
Mexico
80 min.
In the Mexico of 1994, Mariano, a tormented teenager, has decided to take his own life, but not before first of all recording himself on video explaining his reasons for doing so. The result is a nostalgic, moving portrayal of the soul of a young boy seeking redemption for a family tragedy sparked by himself years earlier.
Cláudio Assis
Brazil
82 min.
Baixio das Bestas is a small community entrenched within its secular culture and paralysed within its own authority and morality: a decadent land-owning culture. The little urban centres surrounding this small village radiate a certain idea of the future, of possibilities. The Old Grandfather, Heitor, is an ambiguous moralist. He earns a little money by invading the privacy of his grand-daughter, Auxiliadora. Cicero is a young boy who lives in a town including the district of Baixio das Bestas. He is the son of a well-known local family. Once he has set eyes on Auxiliadora he has an uncontrollable desire to have her. No matter what the cost. The confrontation will decide Auxiliadora?s fate.
César Charlone
Uruguay - Brazil - France
97 min.
1988. Melo (Uruguay), a small city on the border with Brazil, is getting ready for the visit of Pope John Paul II. Certain well-informed sources talk of 50,000 visitors. The locals, mostly poor, know what that means: 50,000 pilgrims will want to eat, drink and purchase souvenirs... Driven by enthusiasm rather than divine blessing, they hope to achieve at least a little material happiness. Beto, a small-time smuggler, reckons he?s found the best idea of all: ?The Pope?s Toilet?, where thousands of pilgrims can spend a penny. This involves taking more of a risk and making more trips over the border. He puts his big dream of buying a motorcycle on hold. He even loses his most cherished possession, his bicycle, to achieve the key element of his temple of waste and wealth: the toilet bowl. But he?s determined to make it in time for the divine event.
Jorge Hernández Aldana
Mexico
98 min.
Gregorio is a 22-year-old schizophrenic with two great loves: his adored girlfriend Tania, and his best and trusted friend, Manuel. While Gregorio goes in and out of psychiatric hospitals, Manuel and Tania start meeting in secret, striking up an intense romance behind his back and eventually falling in love. Gregorio commits suicide, but not before designing a plan to drive the lovers into the depths of madness.
Chico Teixeira
Brazil
90 min.
São Paulo, a working-class district. Alice, a 40-year-old woman and manicurist has been married to a taxi driver for 20 years. They live with Alice's mother, who cooks, cleans, and does the household laundry and listens all day to her favourite radio programme. Alice and Lindomar?s three children live with them. Alice's marriage is in crisis and Lindomar doesn't try to hide his adventures with teenage girls. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice's life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. Although she?s a good girl, the chance to betray reveals other betrayals she never thought existed.
Luis R. Vera
Chile - Peru
102 min.
Fiestapatria is a metaphor on the social and moral state of Chile and a provocative testimony of the period from the start of the Pinochet dictatorship until today. Featuring a gallery of characters representative of Chilean society, the movie tells the tale of two families who meet at a country house to celebrate the national holidays and the engagement of their children, Macarena and Alvaro. Shortly before the expected happy ending to the event, the young Macarena discovers the family's best kept secret.
Rodrigo Marín
Chile
72 min.
An intimate, realistic tale about the relationship between two women. A disease, an apartment and music. A little window looking out onto the enormous, complex landscape of the contemporary female soul. A production with only 20 pages of screenplay, 24-hours of filming, three digital cameras and two actresses who had never met before they started shooting. A daring proposal from new Chilean cinema.
Ana Katz
Argentina
90 min.
Ines and her boyfriend have a bitter argument while travelling on a bus. They are heading off-season to Mar de las Pampas, a spa at which they plan to spend a short holiday. The bus brakes. Ines gets off carrying a heavy bag on her shoulder, realising that her boyfriend hasn't followed her. The bus drives off. She's alone on the open road. Ines wanders through the woods, learns archery and meets kind strangers who become passing friends. And she cries. Meanwhile, she tries to win back the man she loves (whom she accuses of being fickle and a coward) in a series of desperate telephone conversations. With swollen eyes and a dodgy stomach, Ines decides to stay and enjoy the romantic holiday by herself.
Marcelo Masagão
Brazil
83 min.
Otavio silences all the words and has one special way of capturing the feminine beauty. The film is a disturbing diagnosis of a city and its population sick from their writing, letters and graphics. We are being drowned and we are drowning ourselves in our writing, in our graphics, in our representations. We suffer profoundly from this evil. And the film says: "This is how we are living today"; it doesn't explain, it doesn't analyse - it leaves us alone with our disease. It's a disease that comes from afar, that keeps on eating at us, bit by bit.
Ernesto Contreras
Mexico
98 min.
Winning a dream holiday for two in the paradisical Playa Salamandra, Marina realises that she has no-one to share it with and decides to invite Victor, a complete stranger, to go with her. Together they discover that to fall in love they don't need idyllic settings or ideal situations; there's no way you can gaze lovingly into someone else's eyes without that special something.
Liliana Paolinelli
Argentina
82 min.
A film student is writing her thesis on prisoners' wives. She meets a woman who asks her to visit her son in jail in exchange for an interview. Despite trying to get out of the situation, she finally enters the prison to find that their two worlds clash.
Iván Ávila Dueñas
Mexico
104 min.
Six characters tell us about their strange shared life. Every so often, a rare mathematical phenomenon situates them before specific coordinates. At the centre of this crossing, one life changes to be continued in the body of another. At the crossing of two roads, a strange mutation takes place. It?s time for a new corporal change for one of these six characters, who narrate their complex existence through their switching from one body to another, forming a network of collective memories and experiences.
Andrés Baiz
Colombia
95 min.
Satanás is a trio of stories illustrating the interconnection between events in our world and the domino effect of the actions of one person on another?s life. A beautiful young woman hustles rich men in search for a better life. A priest, passionately in love with his housekeeper, struggles under the weight of a secret love. A teacher and war veteran, resentful of his life and circumstances, dreams of escaping the tedium with one of his students. Will they be able to resist the mounting pressure of being tempted by their deepest desires? Their actions will have devastating consequences.
Lina Chamie
Brazil
88 min.
Heitor and Julia are a couple. It's late afternoon in São Paulo and they are having a violent argument over the phone. Heitor decides to go and see her to sort things out face to face. Beside himself with worry, he jumps into the car and sets off for her house. On the way there, in the streets of São Paulo at the start of the evening rush hour, Heitor observes the city and the city starts interfering in his thoughts.
Sebastián Silva
Mexico
93 min.
La Nonna, grandmother to the Todaro family, forgets everything. Everything, that is, except wanting to go to Italy, birthplace of her beloved deceased husband, with the whole family, before her mind obliterates their memory too. Cornered by La Nonna's insistence and wanting to grant her a last wish, they decide to take her on the journey she longs for so badly. They all set out on an adventure in search of images for the grandmother's memory; a voyage of twists and surprises, but, above all, of love. What matters most, that she goes or that she remembers she went?
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