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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Angel Amigo
72 min.
In 1976, Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe, "Pertur", leader of the political and military faction of ETA critical with the armed struggle, mysteriously disappeared. The version of a violent solution to a conflict within his organisation took root in public opinion. Thirty years later, El año de todos los demonios reconstructs the political context surrounding his disappearance and argues a new hypothesis linking this occurrence to the dirty war against ETA.
Mimi Freedman, Leslie Greif
USA
164 min.
The most influential actor of all times. But also the most eccentric and complex. This documentary film portrays Brando on and off the big screen. Featuring actors like James Caan, Robert Duvall, Jane Fonda, Martin Landau, Al Pacino, John Travolta and Jon Voight, and with the testimony of directors who worked with him, like Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese and Arthur Penn, it also looks at Brando?s political and social commitment to the Native American Movement and to his relationship with the Black Panthers, including interviews with members of his families and close relations who uncover completely unknown aspects of the mythical actor.
Carmen Castillo
France - Chile - Belgium
163 min.
Calle Santa Fé in the suburbs of Santiago de Chile on 5th October 1974. Carmen Castillo survives her partner, Miguel Enríquez, leader of the Revolutionary Left-Wing Movement (MIR) and of the Resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship, killed in combat. This is the starting point of Calle Santa Fé, a journey through these neighbourhoods and the memory of the defeated: a journey showing neither complacency nor self-indulgence; a narrative guided by the questions: Was all of the resistance worth the effort? Did Miguel die for nothing?
Per Fly
Denmark
348 min.
A 6-episode TV miniseries, Forestillinger is about love; not only love for a partner but also love for a daughter, a father or a friend. It revolves around Marko, the charismatic stage director who revolutionised Danish theatre in the 1990s. Each episode has its own independent protagonist. Jakob's episode is about the abrupt awakening from the giddiness of falling in love, Tanja's is about leaving the man she loves, Katrin's is about being noticed and loved for what she is, Eva's is about wanting to resurrect her family, Jens' is about disappointing his best friend, and Marko's is about the demonic effects of becoming your very own project. The central plot not only endeavours to reveal the truth about Marko, but also the influence he has on those around him.
Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga
Spain
93 min.
There have been and still are many anarchists in the world. Those who had to steal or deal in contraband for the cause are numerous. Those who discussed strategies with Che Guevara or helped Eldridge Cleaver -the leader of the Black Panthers- are fewer in number. But those whom, together with the above, succeeded in putting the most powerful bank in the world against the ropes with the massive forging of travellers cheques, and without missing a single day of his job as a building worker, are reduced to one. Lucio Urtubia, from Cascante (Navarre). Today Lucio lives in Paris, retired.
Jason Scheunemann (blackANDwhite)
USA - Denmark
84 min.
A film giving us a rare glimpse into the fascinating mind of the man who created such visionary classics as Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart or The Elephant Man. Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of Lynch's creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire. We follow him as he discovers the beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision.
Eduardo Félix Walger
Argentina
117 min.
The white scarves of the Mothers of the Disappeared are the universal symbol of the struggle for human rights. State terrorism in Argentina was based on the forced disappearance of people. The love for their absent children led them to overcome their fear and move into the political and economic centre of the country, confronting a totalitarian and brutal power unarmed. Today they preserve the identity of their sons with their cry "30,000 detained disappeared, present, now and always".
Wayne Wang
USA
77 min.
Sasha, a young Chinese woman studying in the USA, is four months pregnant from a fling in Beijing with Yang, a nan dan, or male actor who plays female roles in the Beijing Opera. Yang also had a liaison with Boshen, a white American deported by the Chinese Government for helping a Western journalist on a story about AIDS. Interrupting her first year of college in Omaha (Nebraska), Sasha travels to San Francisco for an abortion. However, arriving in the city she is assailed by doubts, while Boshen tries to convince her to keep the baby and set up a family together in the hope of baiting Yang to America.
Omer Oke, Txarli Llorente
Spain
98 min.
Moussa is a young boy from Burkina Faso. He was born and lives in the same village as his parents, his family and his wife, Fatima, although he prefers to call her "Bamako", because it's there, in the capital of Mali, that he met her before they married and had a baby, Mamadou. Although the land produces just enough to survive on, the precarious balance has recently been upset by a long drought. Driven by the responsibility of helping his family, and having asked the elders of his hamlet for their opinion, Moussa decides to immigrate to Europe.
Jean-Pierre Limosin
99 min.
Juvenile delinquency in Japan has increased dramatically over the past ten years. Naoki, 20 years old, is caught up in this way of life. His record is dismal; he has failed at school, at work and in his personal life. Not long ago, Naoki decided to try to make a living from crime, much to his mother's despair. On the advice of a friend, she is handing over her son to the Japanese Mafia for one year. For the first time, a door is opened into the secret world of the Japanese Yakuza, challenging the preconceived ideas of this feared society and experiencing with Naoki the reality of his initiation through the four seasons. Naoki will have to choose between the darkness and the light...
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