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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Michael Haneke
Germany-Austria-France-Italy
145 min.
A village in Protestant Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?
Sherry Hormann
Germany
124 min.
When, at the age of 13, Waris finds out that her father has decided to marry her off as the fourth wife to a considerably older man, the young girl realizes that she has no choice but to flee. She finds a job as a maidservant with distant relatives in the Somali embassy in London. Years later, when civil war breaks out in Somalia and the Somali embassy is closed down, Waris, now a young woman, finds herself faced with the threat of deportation and so decides to escape again.
Quentin Tarantino
USA-Germany
153 min.
In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as "the basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.
Johnnie To
Hong Kong
108 min.
When Costello, a French assassin-turned-chef, finds out his daughter and her family have been murdered, he makes a solemn promise to avenge their death. His search for the killers takes him to Hong Kong, where he gets some local hit-men to help him out. Yet Costello's greatest challenge is the fight against his progressively worsening memory loss, inflicted by a bullet in his head. Will he be able to carry out his mission before it's too late?
Oliver Hirschbiegel
UK-Ireland
90 min.
Amid the Belfast violence, a young Protestant boy and his friends, eager to prove themselves worthy of joining the Ulster Volunteer Force, apply themselves to roughing up a Catholic family to chase it from a Protestant neighbourhood. Things go wrong and the young Catholic first-born is killed. Years later, a television programme will try to ?reconcile? the murderer with the victim?s brother to demonstrate the positive evolution of a new Ireland.
Terry Gilliam
UK-Canada
122 min.
Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Doctor Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this 'coming of age' milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect her but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls.
Bahman Ghobadi
Iran
106 min.
On release from prison, a young couple of musicians decide to put a group together. They set off round the city of Teheran in search of other underground musicians, trying to talk them into leaving Iran. With no chance of success in their own country, they dream of leaving clandestinity behind and playing in Europe. But will they manage with neither money nor passport?
Jim Jarmusch
USA-Spain-Japan
116 min.
A nameless loner travels the Spanish countryside meeting mysterious people for coffee and collecting information. He?s a stranger whose activities remain meticulously outside of the law. In the process of completing a job, he trusts no-one and his objectives are not initially divulged. What are his intentions and what does he write in his notes?
Rachid Bouchareb
Algeria-France-UK
87 min.
Ousmane is a Muslim living in France. Mrs. Sommers is a Christian war widow who lives on one of the British Channel Islands. Although unknown to one another and coming from different religious backgrounds, these strangers find themselves brought together in London around a shared tragedy: each has lost touch with her respective child since the day of the attacks on the London public transport of 7 July 2005, Mrs. Sommers with her daughter Jane and Ousmane with her son Ali. Together they comb the city in search of their loved ones, fused together in the hope of finding them alive.
Bong Joon-ho
South Korea
129 min.
Hye-ja is a single mom to 27 year-old Do-Joon. Her son is her raison d?etre. Though an adult in years, Do-joon is naive and dependent on his mother, and sometimes behaves in ways that are stupid or simply dangerous. He is a constant source of anxiety for everyone. One day a young girl is found dead in an abandoned building and Do-joon is accused of her murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force that closes Do-Joon?s case too quickly inspire his mother to act on her own. Summoning all her maternal instincts and trusting no-one, she sets out to find a killer and prove her son?s innocence.
Lee Daniels
USA
109 min.
Set in 1987, Precious is the story of Claireece ?Precious? Jones, a 16-year old girl born and raised in a world you would wish on nobody. She?s pregnant for the second time with her absent father?s child; at home she?s tyrannically ruled by a bitter mother who keeps her imprisoned both emotionally and physically. Her school is out-and-out chaos, and she?s about to complete her secondary school studies with good marks and an unbelievable secret: she can?t read or write.
Jacques Audiard
France-Italy
154 min.
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans?
Ang Lee
USA
120 min.
It?s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. When Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and the popular culture, forever.
Nobuhiro Suwa, Hippolyte Girardot
France-Japan
92 min.
Nine-year-old Yuki learns that her parents are separating. Her father is French, her mother Japanese. She will have to follow her mother to Japan, leaving everything behind in Paris, beginning with her friend, Nina. Together, they imagine ruses to bring about a reconciliation. Running away seems the only solution. Their new destination is the forest.
Woody Allen
USA-France
92 min.
After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff fancies himself as the only one who fully comprehends the meaningless of all human aspirations, and the pitch-black caos of the universe. One night, Boris is approached by a dewy-eyed innocent from Mississippi, Melody, who begs to be let into his apartment. Seeing that she is hungry and cold, he reluctantly agrees. Boris and Melody get married, despite their great age difference, and start a life that is surprisingly satisfying for both of them. But after a year, their happiness is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Melody?s strait-laced mother, Marietta, who has come to New York to find Melody and get away from her cheating husband. Marietta transforms radically, as her husband, Melody?s father, discovers on turning up in New York to find them both.
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