72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Chema Rodríguez
Spain
96 min.
José María (50), Clara (18) and Norberto (18) have only two things in common: They are deafblind and they love the water. Actually they have something else, their uniqueness. We are all unique, true, but they are even more so. Jose Maria is an artist, a sculptor who lives with his family on the Galician coast, and whose disability has given him the gift of sublime touch, a superlative ability to mould forms. Clara is an amphibious being who lives between Madrid and the Cadiz coast, a rare species of deep-sea fish who relates to the surface and beyond based on secret, incomprehensible codes. Norberto was born in the Canary Islands and has spent most of his life living and studying at the ONCE School in Madrid.
José Ramón Ayerra
Spain
143 min.
The town is about to hold a top-level summit to be attended by the major powers of the moment: France, England, Portugal and even the Pope. Although these countries have forced the meeting with the excuse of reaching a peace agreement, the real reason is to invade Spain and split it between them. The Commissioner, Red Eagle?s dire enemy, has hired a Cossack, the best killer of the time, to do away with him.
Álex de la Iglesia
Spain-France
102 min.
The circus monkeys scream wildly inside their cage while, outside, men kill and die in another circus: the ongoing Spanish Civil War. The Stupid Clown, recruited against his will by the Militia, ends up carrying out a bloodbath with a machete among the National soldiers while still wearing his costume. Several years later, during Franco?s dictatorship, Javier, son of the Militian funnyman, finds work as the sad clown in a circus, where he meets an outlandish cast of strange characters like the Human Cannonball, the Elephant Tamer or a quarrelsome couple of dog trainers.
Mateo Gil
Spain
98 min.
Having fled the United States, the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy supposedly died in Bolivia in 1908 in a shootout along with his friend Sundance Kid. At least that?s the official version. However, the true story is that he?s been lying low in Bolivia for 20 years and now he wants to go home. But he soon runs into a young Spanish engineer who?s just robbed the mine he was working in, property of the most powerful businessman in Bolivia...
Ramon Térmens
Spain
101 min.
An ex-convict, an unemployed immigrant and a successful businessman are the three main characters of this portrayal of inner Catalonia. Three stories showing a conflicting society forced to reinvent itself or collapse.
Sergio Caballero
Spain
80 min.
Finisterrae tells the story of two ghosts who, tired of living in the land of shadows, decide to follow Way of St. James to the end of the world (Fisterra), and once there, to begin a brief earthly life in the land of the living. An introspective journey through inhospitable landscapes, during which they meet strange beings, wild animals and surreal characters. They will have to deal with unexpected situations, face their own tensions and discuss the doubts arising from the fact that they are ghosts.
Trisha Ziff
Mexico-Spain
89 min.
Documentary on the 4,500 negatives taken by prestigious photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David ?Chim? Seymour during the Spanish Civil War; negatives given up for lost during the war and found in a Mexico City apartment 70 years later. The film also traces the part played by Mexico in the Civil War and looks at how Spain deals with its own past.
Manuel Martín Cuenca
Spain-Cuba
89 min.
Óscar and María are siblings. He lives in Almeria and works as a security guard. She disappeared without trace over two years ago. When their grandfather, their only remaining family member since their parents died, falls ill, she suddenly reappears. The relationship between brother and sister is loaded with tension and a secret they want to keep hidden at all costs.
Pablo Llorca
Spain
97 min.
Split into four parts plus an epilogue, the movie traces the evolution of various Spanish communist militants, from the Spanish post-war period to the present day: the resistance, prison, abandonment of Marxism-Leninism, the arrival of democracy... The common thread between the parts are two communist leaders, Álvaro Bolívar and Daniel Duarte.
Borja Cobeaga
Spain
95 min.
2010 couldn?t come to a worse end for Sergio. It?s New Year?s Eve, with the heaviest snowfall in 30 years, all flights are cancelled and he?s stuck with the other passengers in a roadside hotel for the bells. Sergio will have to work hard to achieve in a single night what he hasn?t managed in several months: to win back his girlfriend Bea before she leaves to work in Germany. All with the help of an improvised group of travellers, a motley crew if ever there was one: Juan Carlitros, a childhood friend and would-be comic; Juanan, a divorcee who arrives in a fury from Punta Cana; and Jimmy, a hotel worker who?s got no-one to bring in the New Year with.
Montxo Armendáriz
Spain
90 min.
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will learn to control her fears and become an adult, responsible for her own actions.
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Spain
98 min.
Diego?s girlfriend has dumped him five days before the wedding. What?s the most adult and sensible way to get over it? (a) Turn up at the church on the wedding day in case she?s changed her mind; (b) get drunk and go off on one; (c) try and recover a teen love; (d) all of the former.
Diego Galán
61 min.
On Sunday 19th October 1997, Pilar Miró died at the age of 57. The news hit the front pages of almost every Spanish newspaper, packed with praise and manifestations of admiration and respect. However, only a few years previously, news referring to her had been quite the opposite; she was accused of favouring friends from her public positions, of being dictatorial, corrupt... Pilar Miró was a film director, general director of the Film Institute, general director of RTVE, but she was above all a woman of her time, a fertile creator and a controversial manager, who represented both a reality and an enigma. Who was that woman who did what few of her sex and generation were able to achieve in Spain?
Jonás Trueba
Spain
105 min.
Todas las canciones hablan de mí is a romantic comedy, but without the ?boy meets girl? bit. The premise is more like ?boy tries to forget girl?; not precisely an easy task, particularly when the girl you?ve just broken with pops up in your every memory and you start thinking that every song is about you.
Santiago Segura
Spain
93 min.
In this fourth instalment of the epic Torrentian saga, we find our hero in a delicate situation. After several attempts to live a ?worthy? life (as if that was remotely possible for someone of his ilk), Torrente decides to accept the dangerous ?contract? proffered by an old acquaintance, throwing him into one of the most critical moments in his career.
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