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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Zabaltegi Pearls
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Cristian Mungiu
113 min.
Otilia and Gabita share a room at a students' hall of residence. Both go to university in a small Romanian town during the last days of Communism. Otilia books a room in a cheap hotel. They have a date with a so-called Mr. Bebe that afternoon. Gabita is pregnant, abortion is illegal and neither of the two has experienced anything of the sort before. 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days is part of a larger project entitled Tales From the Golden Years, a subjective story about Communism in Romania told via its urban legend. The aim of the project is to talk about the period without making direct references to Communism, telling different stories focusing on personal options in an era of misfortune during which people had to live as though things were normal. 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days is the first in the series.
Paul Haggis
124 min.
What all soldier's parents dread is a phonecall informing them that their son is missing. What Hank Deerfield had never thought to fear, however, was that this call would come when his son, Mike, was home in the US on leave from service in Baghdad. Hank is a proud army veteran who believes in serving his country, and he's never had any regrets about his son following in his footsteps. All he's ever asked is that Mike gives his all and comes home safe. Rather than wait by the phone for news, Hank decides to take matters into his own hands, and travels to Fort Rudd to figure out what happened to his son.
Han Jae-rim
110 min.
Ingu is a kingpin in a dark world. However, he?s the sweetest husband and dad, full of love for his family. His only goal in life is to build a picturesque house out in the country and live a graceful life with those close to him. But there?s a problem: his daughter, going through puberty, is embarrassed about her dad?s job and stays away from him.
Barbet Schroeder
France
135 min.
Communist, anti-colonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès? Barbet Schroeder takes us down history?s darkest paths in his attempt to illuminate the mystery behind this enigmatic figure. As a young lawyer during the Algerian war, Vergès espoused the anti-colonialist cause and defended Djamila Bouhired, obtaining her release, marrying her and having two children with her. Suddenly, at the height of an illustrious career, Vergès disappeared without trace for eight years. When he re-emerged from his mysterious absence, he took on the defense of terrorists of all kinds, from Magdalena Kopp and Anis Naccache to Carlos the Jackal, representing historical monsters such as Nazi lieutenant Klaus Barbie.
Nadine Labaki
Lebanon - France
96 min.
In Beirut, five women regularly meet up at a beauty salon, a highly colourful and sensual microcosm where several generations intermingle, talking and exchanging all sorts of secrets. Layale loves Rabih, but he?s a married man. Nisrine is a Muslim who has a problem with her coming wedding: she's no longer a virgin. Rima is tormented by her attraction to women and lives during her stints at the hairdresser?s for the visits of a beautiful, long-haired client. Jamale refuses to grow old. Rose has sacrificed herself to look after her older sister. At the salon, men, sex and motherhood are the subjects at the heart of their intimate and liberated conversations among the haircuts and caramel depilations.
Anton Corbijn
UK
121 min.
A feature about the late Ian Curtis, the enigmatic lead singer of iconic English post-punk band Joy Division, spanning Curtis' last years leading up to his tragic suicide in 1980, and the struggle between his enduring love for his wife and his burgeoning relationship with his girlfriend, his decimating bouts with epilepsy, his incredible talent and all consuming stage performances.
Frank Oz
UK
92 min.
A British family prepares to bury its patriarch. Tension rises as old arguments between siblings raise their ugly heads. The appearance of a stranger claiming that the dead man had a terrible secret only makes matters worse, forcing the family to take drastic steps to stop the funeral from degenerating into a complete fiasco.
Lasse Hallström
115 min.
The Hoax is based on the story of Clifford Irving, a desperate man who convinces one of the biggest publishing houses in the world that he is the only person authorised to write Howard Hughes? official biography. What started out as the only escape route for a writer with barely 10 cents left in his pocket, becomes a scandal with repercussions even affecting the White House. Greed and the thirst for triumph converted Clifford?s adventure into the tale of a man who briefly felt how the world fell at his feet, although he finally paid a very high price for the experience.
Pascale Ferran
France
168 min.
Constance Reid is 23 when she marries handsome British Army lieutenant Clifford Chatterley. It's 1917 and Clifford is posted to the Flanders battlefront, from which he returns a broken man. Following two years of medical treatment, Clifford has recovered, although he?s paralysed from the hips down. The young couple moves into a house on his family?s land. Letting herself go, sad and indifferent, Constance Chatterley takes refuge in Parkin, the estate gamekeeper, who lives in isolation since he separated from his wife, a situation he has no intention of changing.
Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen
Israel - France
78 min.
At her wedding reception, Keren breaks a leg, unwillingly forcing her to cancel her honeymoon in the Caribbean. A strange little girl comes out of the sea and follows Batya like a shadow; the woman's life is transformed when she takes the little girl under her wing. Joy is a maid from the Philippines working for a tough old woman; unwittingly, she helps the woman reconcile with her estranged daughter. A composite film made from scraps of humanity, like so many messages in a bottle verging on the absurd. A portrait of a messy world in which everyone scrapes by as best they can, looking for love and something to remember or to forget. Such is life in Tel-Aviv...
Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Thailand
107 min.
Ploy is a highly erotic psychological drama in which three strangers are locked inside a hotel room. It starts with subtle suspicions and builds up to jealousy as the appearance of a young woman triggers devastating consequences for a married couple.
Julian Schnabel
France
112 min.
In December 1995, a serious clot on the brain left Jean-Dominique Bauby, a journalist and father of two children, in a deep coma. On awakening, he had completely lost control of his motor functions. He couldn't move, or talk, or even breathe without help. Only one eyelid in his inert body could move. This eyelid became his link to the world, to others, to life. He blinks once to say yes, twice to say no. He uses it to choose the letters of the alphabet dictated to him by his visitor, thus creating words, sentences, complete pages?
Kasi Lemmons
118 min.
Talk to Me is the real-life story of Ralph Waldo ?Petey? Green, an ex-con who talked his way into becoming an iconic radio personality in the Washington DC of the 60s. Sparked by both the era?s vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness, Petey actively stirs up controversy at a white-owned radio station. Relying on his producer and friend Dewey Hughes to mediate and guide his career, Petey?s unprecedented on-air style gave voice and spirit to the community during an exciting and turbulent period in American history.
Carlos Saura
Spain - Portugal
90 min.
After Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998) -nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-, in 2005 Carlos Saura completes his trilogy on modern urban song with Fados. After over two years of research into the subject, Carlos Saura takes an enormous step forward in his approximation to music. If, in his earlier musicals, Iberia, Flamenco, Tango..., he based his work on dancing, in Fados he makes a special effort with the plot and image to reflect the birth of a suburban, dockland music which is in itself a synthesis of all of the music born towards the end of the 19th century.
Richard Lester
UK
92 min.
The Beatles are caught up in an intrigue around the ring Ringo can?t get off of his finger. He and the others completing the Fab Four, John, Paul and George, are hounded by the members of a religious sect, a mad scientist and Scotland Yard as they hot-foot it from London to the Bahamas, making their way over the Austrian Alps on the way.
Julian Schnabel
USA
80 min.
Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, Lou Reed performed his masterwork about love's dark sisters; jealousy, rage and loss. He was accompanied by around 30 musicians and voices including the original guitarist on the LP, Steve Hunter, and guests like the singer, Antony. Having staged the concerts, Julian Schnabel filmed the event, which has continued throughout the summer in the shape of a European tour.
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