72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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4+1: Contemporary Mexican Cinema
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4+1: Contemporary Mexican Cinema
4+1: Contemporary Mexican Cinema
Carlos Reygadas
Mexico-France-Holland
132 min.
Johan and his family are Mennonites, followers of a Protestant Anabaptist group who settled in northern Mexico after the First World War. Some of them are extremely conservative and choose to live in 16th Century conditions, while others are more moderate and accept scientific medicine, nevertheless drawing the limit at using means of communication like the telephone or the Internet. Completely contradicting the law of God and men, Johan, a married man with children, falls in love with another woman.
Diego Luna
Mexico
83 min.
Abel is a 9 year-old boy whose behaviour and refusal to speak have landed him in a mental health centre. His single mother persuades the doctor to let the boy out for a week. With no father on the scene, Abel becomes a rather unconventional paternal figure. This film won the Horizontes and Youth Awards at the San Sebastian Festival in 2010.
Pedro González-Rubio
Mexico
70 min.
Half-documentary, half-fiction on the emotional reunion between a man of Mayan origin living on the Mexican coast and the son he had with an Italian woman. The boy will soon go to live with his mother, giving father and son a short-lived period together in contact with nature.
Yulene Olaizola
Mexico
80 min.
The lodging house owned by Rosa Carbajal at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City conceals an intimate, passionate tale. Twenty years ago, Rosa met Jorge Riosse, a young tenant with whom she developed an endearing friendship.
This film received a special mention from the Horizontes Award at San Sebastian Festival in 2008.
Fernando Eimbcke
Mexico
81 min.
In an attempt to escape a household immersed in sorrow, 16 year old Juan has a crash. As he scours the city trying to fix the car, he meets three people who live in an absurd, bewildering world; through them he comes to understand a fact as natural and inexplicable as death.
Lake Tahoe was screened in the Zabaltegi-Pearls section of San Sebastian Festival in 2008.
Tatiana Huezo
Mexico
104 min.
Documentary portraying the life of a group of families in a small village in El Salvador who survived a bloody civil war. This is a story of human beings and their ability to rise again, to rebuild and reinvent themselves after having experienced something terrible. A tale of people who have learned to live with their pain, in a village razed to the ground and rebuilt thanks to the strength and deep love of its inhabitants for their land and those who live in it. A tiny place nestling in the mountains of El Salvador, draped in jungle greenery and humidity.
Rigoberto Pérezcano
Mexico-Spain
94 min.
Andrés arrives at the Mexican border with the intention of trying to cross into the United States. He discovers that his adopted city (Tijuana) is a troubled one. Andrés has to confront his feelings, including what he left behind and what he now finds in Tijuana: Cata, Ela and Asensio.
Norteado was selected for Films in Progress 14 and participated in Zabaltegi-New Directors at the San Sebastian Festival in 2009.
Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo García, Rodrigo Plá, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Carlos Reygadas, Patricia Riggen
Mexico
110 min.
A film comprising 10 shorts made by the same number of prestigious Mexican moviemakers and offering a critical view of the Revolution (1910-1917). Each of these short films ruminates on the term ?revolution?, taking an original slant on an idea that subsists in the collective mind, depicted through each director?s formal and aesthetic world.
Nicolás Pereda
Mexico-Canada-Netherlands
76 min.
Shocked by her husband?s sudden departure, Teresa embarks on a mission to find out what happened. Instead of finding answers, her mission becomes a journey through the streets and homes of the people who know him. Blending fiction and documentary, her wanderings portray the town and its inhabitants. Verano de Goliat reflects on suffering the effects of lost loved ones, broken promises, disconnection and eternal longing.
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