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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Lara Izagirre
95 min.
World premiere – Basque Film GalaJune returns to the town of her birth by surprise after spending time abroad. The return home will be painful: her family and her first love, Diego, have changed. She too has changed, and repairing the broken ties won’t be easy. But just like the autumn wind, June will take the place by storm.
Jorge Fernández Mayoral, Pablo Tosco, Pablo Iraburu Allegue
65 min.
What’s in a refugee’s mobile phone? Their recollections, their memory, their identity, contact with the world they’ve left behind. This film narrates everyday life in a mobile phone repair shop in the Zataari refugee camp.
Josu Martínez
71 min.
World premiereHasparren, 1956. Amid great expectation, a documentary in the Basque language about the Basque Country was released in the local cinema. In the following months it was screened in other Basque and French towns on both sides of the border, and even in Paris, San Francisco and Dakar. But suddenly it disappeared from sight and everyone forgot about it. Sixty years later, filmmaker Josu Martinez sets out to find it.
Gorka Bilbao Ramos
110 min.
World premiereA documentary narrating the incredible story of the Jai Alai through its most iconic characters. A great many similarities can be drawn between the biography of our characters and the actual history of the Jai Alai. Beginnings in humble surroundings, huge successes all over the world in pelota courts packed to the hilt with distinguish publics, losses of identity due to adapting a traditional game to societies with completely different values...
Carlos Rodríguez
56 min.
The San Sebastian Jazz Festival looks back over its 50 years of history in this documentary with comments from some of its leading figures and images of extraordinary concerts forever engraved on the memory.
Sam Orti Marti
82 min.
Feature film directorial debut from the animation movie director, Sam. La Trini, a world-famous Flamenco dancer, leaves the tablaos in deep depression after her husband’s death. Damian, her 8 year-old son, is possessed by an evil demon who prompts him to commit horrendously cruel and bloody acts.
Olivier Masset-Depasse
90 min.
A film about two adversaries who will learn to know and respect one another, despite their differences: Domingo Iturbe, "Txomin", head of the ETA military apparatus, and Grégoire Fortin, adviser to Mitterrand’s Minister of Justice.
Pablo Iraburu Allegue, Migueltxo Molina Ayestarán
80 min.
World premiereThe world is increasingly more divided by walls. There are human beings on either side of them. The question is not whether their existence is absurd or logical, whether they can be avoided or not, but to demonstrate that the people on both sides are basically exactly the same.
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum 2014
David González Rudiez
4 min.
Short film
Carlos has prepared a surprise for his wife. They argued a few days ago and he wants to apologise.
Zinemira Kimuak
Mikel Gurrea
22 min.
Short film
In London, a young estate agent must combine landing a crucial sale with caring for his 10 year-old son. Malcolm and Aron struggle to understand one another, while an urban fox follows them over a rainy night.
Zinemira Kimuak
Aitor Oñederra
10 min.
Short film
Don Mariano travels by plane and makes his way to a prestigious restaurant specialising in natural, quality red meats, low in fat and cholesterol.
Zinemira Kimuak
George Todria
16 min.
Short film
In an abandoned village, only inhabited by a middle-aged man and woman, lights start to come on in some of the empty houses. Each reacts differently to the phenomenon. Their lives will never be the same again.
Zinemira Kimuak
Iñigo Salaberria
18 min.
Short film
In Iceland people live in the dark for a large part of the year. The good thing about the night is that it’s like a backdrop which erases the details and leaves you faced with only the essential, as if you were before a sheet of paper you are about to draw on.
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