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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Félix Viscarret
Spain
108 min.
When Benito Lacunza, a 30-something-year-old drunken waster who gets by as he can in Madrid, is obliged to return to his native Estella for a few days, he discovers that his kind-hearted, almost mystical brother Lalo, intends to marry Nines, a single mother with a rough background. Although Benito resolves to scupper the wedding, his plans bite the dust on meeting Nines? daughter, Ainara, a borderline autistic child with whom he strikes up an unusual friendship.
Pablo García
Spain
87 min.
Victor and Laura (a film director and his assistant) travel to a small seaside town on the coast of Galicia to carry out an ambitious movie project endeavouring to capture the love and beauty of everyday things, but they don?t succeed in finishing it. From their open, childlike point of view, girls and boys try to use that filmed material to achieve what the ambition of the adult director was unable to do: catch life.
Miguelanxo Prado
Spain - Portugal
75 min.
Once upon a time there was a house in the middle of the sea where a woman melancholically played the cello as she waited. She was waiting for her lover, an artist who always wanted to be a sailor so that he could take to the seas with the jellyfish, the starfish and the multi-coloured species he dreamt of in his paintings. His fascination led him to set out on a journey to discover the thrilling beauty and mysteries of the depths, following which neither of the two were sure if they would meet again.
Sergio Candel
Spain
70 min.
Dos miradas takes place in a day, in the San Pedro de Atacama desert (Chile). Sofia and Laura decide to spend their holidays there enjoying the peace and quiet. But the harmony of the place is disturbed when a sexual encounter emerges between the two.
Pedro Aguilera
Spain - Mexico
83 min.
A disoriented, vulnerable woman is overburdened with everyday problems. Her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop is closed, and her two children have an uncertain future. The siblings? vitality draws a sharp contrast to the apathy of their mother as she slowly sinks into deep depression. Aware that she lacks the necessary strength and maturity to effectively face these problems, they are forced to adopt adult attitudes. Life goes on, and things change. Sometimes the changes are slow and unnoticeable, at others they are sharp and tangible, but at the end of the day nothing is ever the same again.
Mariano Barroso, Isabel Coixet, Javier Corcuera, Fernando León de Aranoa, Wim Wenders
Spain
108 min.
This a story about different stories. A look at those we refuse to see. An endeavour to give a voice to many of those left mute by indifference. And a humble tribute to those others who have always kept a close eye on them. But it is above all an attempt by five directors to bring visibility to their only real heroes, to those we believe and prefer to continue considering to be invisible. Isabel Coixet looks at the chagas disease in Bolivia; Mariano Barroso, at sleeping sickness in the Central African Republic; Fernando León de Aranoa, at the children targeted by war in Uganda; Javier Corcuera, at the trauma left by violence in Colombia; and Wim Wenders, at rape in Congo.
Jaime Marques Olarreaga
Spain
100 min.
Just out of orphanage, Alex steals his first wallet: it seems that his fate is to be the same as the cause of his separation from his mother, who taught him to steal 10 years previously. Running into Sara, a novice kleptomaniac robbing in a supermarket, completely changes his life. Alex suggests that they steal together and split their takings. But the apparent ?professional? agreement hides a secret: they are attracted to one another right from the very first moment and it?s only a question of time before their relationship develops into something more. However, when they eventually do take the step, their worlds clash: Alex has no other future before him than that of living from day to day. Sara, on the other hand, has plenty to lose: a family, the chance to study... In other words, a normal life. Like his mother did for him, Alex now has to choose for her...
José María de Orbe
Spain
95 min.
Noelia is not yet thirty. She lives in a Barcelona suburb. By night, she works in a petrol station. By day, she distributes advertising fliers to houses. She has no free time. Noelia quits her night job. She leaves the house she shares with Rosa. She never says goodbye to anyone. She leaves neither trail nor trace. She doesn?t look for or have any friends. Noelia is an anonymous character. Just another of the thousands of youngsters in the big city. Around her, Rosa, Lucas, the boss... All with their little conflicts, their little dreams, struggling to survive by the day. La línea recta is an urban story of which the heroine, Noelia, behaves like the city in which she lives, growing and progressing in an imaginary straight line taking her from one job to another, from one house to another, with no fixed direction, unstopping, tirelessly, and with no set course.
Gerardo Herrero
Spain
106 min.
Mobile phone company executive, Luisa, feels invisible at her 44 years of age: she lives alone, has been left by her husband and her daughter studies away from home. At the works party, she?s ignored by Jorge, a colleague the same age as herself whose partner for the evening is the young company phone salesgirl, Marina. Indignant, Luisa turns to an actress and to her table tennis coach to make herself noticed and seduce Jorge.
David Ulloa, Tristán Ulloa
Spain
113 min.
Pudor is a look at the intimacy of a family consisting of a man about to die, a woman who receives anonymous sex calls, a teenager struggling with the doubts of her age, a boy who sees ghosts and a grandfather offered a last chance by love. They all live together, unable to tell each other about the desires, fears, obsessions and secrets marking their respective lives; a modesty leading to lack of communication and loneliness.
Jaime Rosales
Spain
130 min.
Separated, Adela leaves her small native village in the north of Leon and moves to Madrid with her year-old son. To pay her way, she finds a job as a hostess and moves into a flat with Carlos and Ines. The three hit it off immediately, sharing meals, doubts and their free time. Adela doesn?t find it particularly difficult to adapt to city life, despite not receiving much financial help from Miguelito?s father. A terrorist attack as she rides in a bus shatters her whole being. From then on, she has to find the strength to return to a normal life.
Ray Loriga
Spain - UK - France
101 min.
In 16th-century Spain, the daughter of a nobleman from Avila, Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, refuses to accept her role as a woman in a man?s world: she doesn?t want to be a mere wife and mother. She feels that there must be more. She wants to write, read and learn. She enters a convent, searching for the ?something? she needs so badly. But her disappointment couldn?t be greater: the convent walls conceal exactly the same materialism and frivolity she is trying to escape. She decides to set out on a crusade of prayer and sacrifice initially earning her the label of rebel and lunatic, before going on to become a leader, and finally, a saint.
Pablo Llorca
Spain
82 min.
A film about films, or about the need we all have to tell stories. All of the characters spend their time telling, or listening to stories, told in every thinkable way. Although the plot has a number of threads, the main one, seemingly started a few years previously in Beirut, is about the Devil and Almudena, a television journalist. They fell in love with each other, but he panicked and stood her up on their second date. Years later, the Devil reappears in Madrid to persuade Almudena to start anew with him. But she has a very stable life now and won?t be easy to convince...
Antonio Mercero
Spain
90 min.
The Rivero family sets out on its summer holidays. Luis heads with his wife and two sons for San Sebastian, leaving his only daughter, Ana, in Madrid with his father. Ana is studying for a public entrance competition and decides to stay in the capital to get as far ahead as she can with her studies and be near her grandfather, Ricardo, who has been put into a home for the summer. In the home, Ricardo makes a new friend with his roommate, Andres. Together, they recall their youth, giving rise to tender, amusing scenes. But Ricardo is increasingly affected by Alzheimer?s Disease.
Rafa Cortés
Spain
100 min.
A Majorcan village. A new German worker. An unspoken suspicion. A job to keep. Yo is the tale of a man who, feeling accused of something he hasn?t done, tries to demonstrate an innocence questioned by nobody. His endeavours to solve the situation lead him to confront the real problem: himself.
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