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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Esteve Soler, Gerard Quinto, David Torras
Spain
78 min.
Seven stories combining horror and comedy. Seven moments of black humour as strange as they are familiar. Seven surreal takes on a society that never advances: the family, the poor kid, the neighbours, the tenant, the entrepreneur, the guy hit by a tram and the wedding. Seven tales of black humour about a dysfunctional society.
Salvador Simó
Spain
80 min.
Paris, 1930. Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel are now the leading figures of the surrealist movement. Unexpectedly, Buñuel is left penniless following the scandal around his film L’âge d’or (The Golden Age). In this difficult situation, he can’t even start tackling his next project, a documentary about one of Spain’s poorest regions, Las Hurdes. However, his good friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket, promising that, if he wins, he’ll pay for the film. Incredibly, luck is on his side.
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
113 min.
Dolor y Gloria follows a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in the twilight of his life. Some of them are in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to Paterna, a Valencian town, in search of prosperity, his first desire, his first adult love later in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of that love falling apart when he was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema and the void, the tremendous void of the impossibility to continue filming. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one's own life, and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
Adán Aliaga, Àlex Lora
Spain
83 min.
El Cuarto Reino is a documentary about the daily life of a marginal community in a New York neighbourhood. A very particular kingdom in which both illegal immigrants and US citizens in difficulties share the same disappointment: a reality very different from the one promised in the land of opportunity. In spite of everything, they still have hope.
Neus Ballús
Spain - France
85 min.
Marta, 17 years old, is on holiday in an African resort with her father and young brother. Marta is bored and prefers to spend more time with the young people working at the hotel than with her family. These new friendships will cause tension in the relationship with her father and will oblige the family to talk and to try and understand one another. The trip will become a much more enriching experience for all of them than they could ever have imagined.
Antonio Resines, Ana Pérez-Lorente
Spain
120 min.
On 11 May 1896, in the Price circus, owned by Englishman William Parish, the Hungarian Edwin Rousby, using an animatograph, screened the first moving images ever shown in Spain. Based on that event, our narrator, Antonio Resines, sets about compiling a series of anecdotes until lending shape to an astonishing history, that of our cinema. The narration is combined with testimonies by directors, actors and producers, all illustrated with images from the films to which they refer.
Roberto Bueso
Spain
87 min.
Edu is a young musician who lives a solitary and monotonous life in cold, wet London. For two years he has remained distant from his family and friends, but his brother’s imminent wedding means that he has to return to his native Valencia. His homecoming will bring him a sense of strangeness and nostalgia. There, he’ll reunite with his parents and the brother with whom he’s never had much in common, but who now seems determined to create a closer bond with him and to retrieve their brotherly relationship. He will also meet his friends, Juanma, Farinós and Cabolo, while rediscovering the desire to return to their old ways. But things have changed. Now life’s not so simple... particularly for Juanma, whose mother is seriously ill. However, nothing represents his return to the past quite like Alicia. Juanma’s girlfriend seems to be at a complicated moment in the relationship, and the reunion with Edu reawakens very special feelings and memories.
Víctor Moreno
Spain - Germany - France
80 min.
The technical dream, deployed towards the exploration of outer space, has also spawned an inverse movement: the opening of a subterranean world. Beneath the modern city lies an immense spider’s on which the visible city sits, and on which it depends; a functional and essential space, but also a symbolic, hidden sphere, the unconscious of the city.
Marcel Alcántara, Julia De Paz, Sara Fantova, Guillem Gallego, Celia Giraldo, Alejandro Marín, Valentín Moulias, Gerard Vidal, Pol Vidal, Enric Vilageliu, Carlos Villafaina
Spain
70 min.
Eli, 30 years old, a lawyer, pregnant, upper class. On the same day as she is about to proceed with the oral proceedings of a trial by the press she has been preparing for some time with her father, a well-known Barcelona lawyer, he disappears. His search will lead her to discover a reality that will completely turn her family and emotional stability upside down.
Jonás Trueba
Spain
129 min.
Eva’s about to turn 33 and has made an act of faith out of her decision to stay in Madrid during the month of August. The days and nights present themselves as a time of opportunities, and while others celebrate the summer festivities, Eva meets people she tries to help, not realising that in fact what she’s doing is helping herself. La virgen de agosto is a film-diary: the intimate voyage of a woman in search of revelations; a summer tale that’s somewhat philosophical and rather mystical, joyful and festive from start to finish.
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Carlos Marqués-Marcet
Spain
95 min.
Vir and Lluís have only been dating for a year when they discover they’re pregnant. For 9 months, we’ll follow the adventure of this young couple from Barcelona, the radical change in their lives, their fears, joys, their expectations and the realities that grow before them as the pregnancy advances.
David Fernández de Castro, Marc Parramon
Spain
76 min.
Two very different families with something in common: a transgender child. Violeta, who just turned 11, decided five years ago that she wanted to be called and dress as a girl. It took a while for her baffled parents to accept her demand, but now Violeta leads a happy life. Alan’s story is quite the opposite: he suffered at school and his family’s support wasn’t enough to prevent an outcome that mobilized his entire hometown.
Marta Lallana, Ivet Castelo
Spain
67 min.
Fourteen-year-old Paula has to spend the summer in the village of Ojos Negros with the aunt and grandmother she barely knows. There she will discover the family tensions uncovered by her grandmother’s illness. Attempting to escape from the asphyxiating atmosphere, she meets Alicia, a girl her same age with whom she strikes up an intense friendship. By the end of summer, Paula will have an idea of what it means to grow up.
David Trueba
Spain
89 min.
In 1963, under Franco’s dictatorship, two Swedish students travelled to Spain to spread news of the movements in favour of democracy. They contacted a young university troubadour, Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, and on return to Stockholm set about making an album with the recording of his songs. They called it Canciones de la Resistencia española and kept the singer-songwriter's identity anonymous. The album was an instant hit all over Scandinavia.
Javier Ruiz Caldera
Spain
107 min.
It’s hard not to be noticed when you have superpowers. Being able to fly, having super-vision or bringing an underground train to a halt to prevent it from derailing... and then going back to the office, pretending to be a normal guy, hasn’t been easy for Juan López... or maybe it has, because all Juan needs to be happy is his morning croissant... and also because Juan doesn’t know he's the carrier of a vital secret that will save his planet, Chitón, from the evil Skorba and his sibylline daughter, Ágata. A secret that’s in danger of being revealed when López’s orderly life is interrupted by the appearance of Luisa, a love from his youth. He can't go unnoticed any longer. Juan must attract her attention, not knowing that by doing so Skorba and Ágata will finally be able to find him, hunt him down and destroy Chitón. It’s time to become... SUPERLÓPEZ!
Jon Sistiaga, Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas
Spain
98 min.
The story of one of ETA’s victims, Juan Mari Jauregi, told by the two most important people in his life, his widow and the person who took that life from him, his killer. In 2000, ETA broke its ceasefire and started to attack all those who, like Juan Mari, remained firm in their commitment to building bridges towards peace. His widow, Maixabel Lasa, and his murderer, Ibon Etxezarreta, meet, talk and level with one another about those years, looking into each other’s eyes. Zubiak is a tale of memory and dignity, of dialogue and forgiveness, of repentance and reconciliation in a Basque Country that is starting to reconstruct its bridges and which has lost the fear of speaking.
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