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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Jeremy Hatcher
Chile
15 min.
Short film
Daniel (12) spends his vacation with his family at the hot springs. While swimming he learns that his parents are getting divorced. The pressure of this news will make him hide his true feelings amongst his family and other vacationers. However, an incident with his younger brother will eventually trigger all of his frustrations.
Jeffrey Frígula
Spain
13 min.
Short film
The “envoy”, through his camouflage process, introduces the subject selected to an intense experiment that intends the destruction of his psychological and emotional integrity. Usually, the “envoys” are neither green nor have green antennas. In this occasion the target is a 8-year-old boy.
Jeroen Bogaert
United Kingdom - Belgium
22 min.
Short film
Mila, a 12-year-old rebel girl has a secret crush on her 40 year old neighbour and coach, Sam. When Mila finds out that he's moving away to Italy for at least a year, she conceives the plan to go with him.
Gabriel Azorín
Spain
18 min.
Short film
Rafa, Lucas and Jorge, intimate and inseparable friends since childhood, spend a weekend in the country. After a night of partying and boozing they decide to take some greyhounds out for a walk in the woods. Then, due to Jorge’s carelessness, they end up losing them. Without placing too much importance on this, lying down on the ground, they seem to be getting on just fine. There is laughter, an easy mood, relaxation, until Lucas and Rafa realize that Jorge has vanished.
Yuval Hameiri
Israel
9 min.
Short film
A man recreates, with poor means, a lost memory. A memory of the last day with his Mom. Objects comes to life, in a desperate struggle, to produce one moment that was gone.
Dania Reymond
France
17 min.
Short film
Joan is committed to a psychiatric hospital, she claims to be Joan of Arc.Adapted from the record of Joan of Arc's trial of condemnation.
Orit Fouks Rotem
Israel
20 min.
Short film
Alma, a young director, seeks an actor and actress for a violent key scene which she has written. Not one of those auditioning can breathe emotion into the scene. In a moment of crisis, Alma decides to play the female lead herself. The scene comes alive, yet Alma loses control on reality.
Ernesto Martínez Bucio
Mexico
16 min.
Short film
Javier and Elisa have committed murder. Maria, mother of Javier, must decide whether to help or not her son.
Gabriel Gauchet
United Kingdom
16 min.
Short film
Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system in which she works, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness. To avoid plunging further into destitution, Richard takes desperate measures.Inspired by the events surrounding the London Riots in 2011 and the subsequent infamous speech made by Prime Minister David Cameron, The Mass of Men gives harsh insight into the dangers of repression, disillusionment and apathy.
Daniel Kvitko
Cuba
12 min.
Short film
Abelardo, an ageing member of the rebel army in Cuba's revolutionary war is forced to relocate his modest house which is about to collapse. Once installed in the new house, together with Bella, his wife, he is visited by two evangelist preachers. Neither this religious discourse nor their material difficulties are able to modify their ideological convictions.
Eduardo Williams
Argentina
17 min.
Short film
The accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through its destruction, to the deepest of the earth.
Aleksandra Terpinska
poland
18 min.
Short film
All Souls' Day tells the story of the eighteenth birthday of Lena, a young woman who is trying to bond with her family. All Souls' Day, a special time for contacting the dead and getting together to return to one's roots, puts our protagonist in a special mood and changes her outlook on her own problems and her complicated familial situation. Everything that happens throughout the day will revolutionise Lena's view of her family, and herself.
Sylvain Coisne
France - Germany
9 min.
Short film
Amélie and Flora, 18-year-old inseparable friends, go camping at a lake after graduating high school. A group of young people creates a wholly new situation, revealing rivalry between them. At the dawn of a new life, their exclusive friendship is put to the test by a holiday encounter.
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Friederike Fiek
Germany - France
9 min.
Short film
Katharine Johnson is tied to a healthy but emotional cold marriage with his husband Robert, one of the financial backers of the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla. The passion that Tesla devotes to his work fascinates Katharine. When an accident leaves him wounded, she becomes afraid that his addiction to work will make him sacrifice himself. Then, visiting Tesla’s laboratory with his husband, she begins – against Robert’s will – to remind him of a promise he once made to her: the promise to take a break after his last project, that is the project on which he’s now working. Believing that Tesla is sending her compliant signs, Katharine loses unfortunately control, is dragged by her desire and decides not to retreat before it.
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Boaz Debby , Michael Lennox, Simon Dolensky , Tomás Kratochvíl, Igor Sereg
Croatia - United Kingdom - Israel - Germany, - Czech Republic
71 min.
Morning in Israel. Nira goes to work. Same as Ahmad in London, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague. Matija, Croat, goes to work too. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts like he does. Ahmad's routined drive in a red bus interrupts breathless young man. Nira is being interrupted by her pupils' rap song made just for her. Prague wasn't in the mood for singing that day, more for (over)sleeping. Someone falls asleep, someone else falls in love, like Ralf. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the bees dissapearance. And trying their best, each one of them in its own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague.
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