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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Fernando Pomares
Spain
16 min.
Short film
A crime happened in the village of Alto Sauce twenty years ago. Today the case has been reopened and the members of the comunity of Alto Sauce will have to face their own statements. Alto Sauce plays a game of mirrors between the past and the present and the lie that has never disappeared.
Saül O. Torheim
France - Germany
9 min.
Short film
A young woman wakes up. She seems to be lost and can't remember anything. While she is exploring the large and bright villa, she discovers two pills and a camera directly pointed on her.
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Thomas Brekle
France-Germany
8 min.
Short film
Manfred has worked and lived on a construction site for a motorway bridge for almost two years. During his stay in the middle of nowhere he has started a relationship with the prostitute Paulina. As the bridge has been finished they are spending one last night together. Refusing to move back to his former life Manfred starts to imagine a life together with Paulina. But do they really have a future?
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Ania Winiarska
UK
27 min.
Short film
Meet Dylan, a 14 year old one-man army, with a "rollie" from Belfast. In an apparently desolate landscape, will childhood shine through? Lost in a community without aspiration it is hard to imagine what Dylan will do next. And will he ever know what is in the magic cave?
Dor Fadlon
Israel
14 min.
Short film
Eva, an aspiring actress, plays in a violent scene. It is only on the cab ride home that she realizes she is still tangled up in the story and that maybe it was just too much. Once she reaches her apartment she tries to get on with her life but to no avail.
Shariff Korver
The Netherlands
25 min.
Short film
No Way Back is a suspenseful psychological drama that takes place in a Dutch refugee centre. The story revolves around a Dutch employee, Mark, who befriends one of the centre's inhabitants, Said. When Said is forced to leave Holland by the authorities, Mark learns how differences between fact and intuition often give a conflicting sense of reality.
János Richter
Italy
23 min.
Short film
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of the birds' excrement.
Adama Salle
Morocco
20 min.
Short film
In other periods we forged our way across the Atlantic on our way to America: there we?d sing and dance in the cotton fields to ease the pain of the lashes or amuse the white boss... Today we ourselves decide to leave our cotton fields and cross the Sahara for slave countries, singing and dancing just like the African White Gold chain gangs.
Gastón Margolin, Martín Morgenfeld
Argentina
19 min.
Short film
A young couple. A luxurious hotel room. A wedding party.
Nicolás Sandino Moreno
Colombia
18 min.
Short film
New York City, 2010. Emotionally battered by the paternal relationship with her husband, Eva is a young immigrant photographer, a misfit who strives to find the perfect light: that fragment of a second offering a unique, inspirational burst of illumination. Her passion for life itself is drying like leaves in winter. A letter written by Eva's mother brings her rebirth, fixing like a photograph in her memory the unique moment she had been waiting for.
Grzegorz Muskala
Germany
20 min.
Short film
Henry picks up the phone at night. His wife is on the other side of the world on a beach, drunk and apparently with another man. In the frantic calls that follow, is it his marriage, his wife or his sanity that is most under threat? All Henry can do is hang on the phone.
Yoav Arbel
Israel
15 min.
Short film
Zohar goes to the family dinner on Friday eve with her boyfriend Efi. The offensive familial conversations at the dinner table lead her to understand that if she continues to stand aside, a similar future awaits her in her new life.
Carolina Sourdis
Colombia
13 min.
Short film
Carlino, a 12-year-old boy who lives in the country with his mother and grandmother, has to work on the hard duties of the land. His life has become an anguished reality because every day his mother weaves part of the shroud that will cover his grandmother when she dies. Carlino has made a few calculations and knows that his mother will finish soon.
Zevik Zelikovitch
Israel
20 min.
Short film
The film accompanies the daily routine of octogenarians Esau and Rachel during the last phase of their life, until that one small moment in time where reality changes and a love story is unveiled through Esau and Rachel's new world, their fears, desires and actions.
Kuba Czekaj
Poland
30 min.
Short film
A young boy is ridiculed by his peers for being overweight. His parents want to slim him down at any cost, but he has found a way to relieve the pressures of his family and friends.
Vappu Tuomisto
France - Turkey
8 min.
Short film
How would the city feel like if the walls stopped talking to us? Graffiti writers in different parts of Europe share their views on the city space.
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