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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Mati Diop
France - Senegal - Belgium
107 min.
Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleimane, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleimane and his co-workers disappear at sea. Soon after, they come back to haunt their old neighbourhood by taking possession of the girlfriends they left behind. Some of the workers have come claiming revenge and threaten to burn the tower down if the developer does not pay their wages. But Souleiman has come back for Ada, so they can be together one last time.
Manuel Abramovich
Germany - Argentina
19 min.
Short film
Seven Romanian sex workers in Berlin are portrayed while they listen and react to recordings of their own experiences. The camera becomes the client and the exploitation process becomes the spectacle, highlighting the inevitable performativity of power relations.
Callisto McNulty
France - Switzerland
70 min.
The meeting between the actress Delphine Seyrig and the video artist Carole Roussopoulos drives us to the heart of the feminism of the 1970s. With a video camera in hand, they will engage in radical fights with insolence, intransigence and humor.
Justin Webster
Spain - Germany
360 min.
Series
A prosecutor investigating a terrorist bombing accuses the Argentinian president of colluding with Iran. Four days later he is found dead in his bathroom with a single shot to the head. Alberto Nisman died in Buenos Aires, but the shockwaves of this mysterious murder, or suicide, spread across the globe to Israel, Iran and the United States. 6-episode series.
Andrés Di Tella
Argentina
78 min.
Over several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
Anna Sofie Hartmann
Germany - Denmark
87 min.
A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again.
Takashi Miike
Japan - UK
108 min.
Leo is a young boxer down on his luck who meets his 'first love', Monica, a call girl and a drug addict, but still an innocent. Unbeknownst to Leo, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. All of their fates intertwine.
Angela Schanelec
Germany - Serbia
105 min.
Phillip, a thirteen-year-old schoolboy, disappears without a trace for a week. When he reappears, his mother is faced with questions that lead her to see her own life in a new light. She and his teachers can only guess what the boy was looking for, wondering whether he had been in the woods or was toying with death, triggered by his father’s passing. His mother is unable to allow her son to live a life of his own on which she can only have a limited influence.
Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa
Switzerland
60 min.
After a long period of isolation, Antonin, a young man suffering from persisting exhaustion, rediscovers the world at a rehabilitation center for birds. In this strange place wounded birds and lost souls cohabit, lulled by the ubiquitous sound of airplanes.
Damien Manivel
France - South Korea
84 min.
Following the death of her two children in April 1913, the legendary dancer, Isadora Duncan, created a farewell solo entitled Mother in which, in a moment of extreme tenderness, a mother cradles her child for the last time before letting him go. A century later, four women encounter the heartrending dance.
Ion de Sosa, Chema García Ibarra
Spain
11 min.
Short film
A summer day in the municipal swimming pool: heat, teenagers, families, couples, dips, beers and sandwiches in the bar. An adolescent medium tries to locate someone by moving a pendulum over a map of Spain. In the midst of the ordinary goings on something extraordinary happens: a boy on the verge of drowning is saved by a person who walks on the water of the pool to get to him. The miracle is accepted naturally by the other bathers and the summer afternoon continues as if nothing had happened.
Zinemira Kimuak
Izibene Oñederra
Spain
11 min.
Short film
As Hélène Cixous would say, we precisely live in this time when the conceptual basis of an age-old culture is being undermined by millions of moles of a species never seen before.
Zinemira Kimuak
Diao Yinan
China - France
113 min.
Zhou Zenong is a gangster recently freed from jail who becomes a fugitive that same night when a gang meeting goes wrong, leaving a policeman dead. Attempting to hide while recovering from his wounds, Zhou meets Liu Aiai, a prostitute who may have been sent to help him, or perhaps to hand him over to the police detective in exchange for a large sum. Pursued by the gangs and by a herd of officers apparently encompassing the entire city of Wuhan, Zhou must decide just how much he’s willing to sacrifice both for this stranger and for the family he left behind.
Yorgos Lanthimos
Germany - UK - USA
12 min.
Short film
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
Jean-Gabriel Périot
France
89 min.
How much strength do we have left to deal with today’s chaos? Nos défaites draws a picture of our relationship with politics through a game involving the restaging, by secondary school students, of extracts of films made post-May ’68, interspersed with interviews with these young actors. How do they perceive the world they’re growing up in? And, above all, would they change it, destroy it or build a new one?
Anthony Marciano
France
108 min.
In 1993, thirteen-year-old Max receives his first video camera. From the 90s to the present day, Max has recorded everything: his friends, his successes, his heartbreaks, his first times... The essential and the futile. On the eve of the biggest decision of his existence, he edits the movie of his life. The movie of everyone's life.
Denis Côté
Canada
97 min.
In Irenee-les-Neiges, a small, isolated town with a population of 215, Simon Dube dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for the Dube family as well as for Mayor Smallwood and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. Something descends slowly upon the area. In this period of mourning and in this fog, strangers start to appear. Who are they? What is happening?
Martín Rejtman
Argentina - Chile
20 min.
Short film
Federico decides to break up with his girlfriend Magda, but she beats him to it. Federico falls into a deep depression. However, his life starts to change when he finds the frozen potato knishes that his grandmother had given him a few months before her death in his freezer.
Maddi Barber
Spain
50 min.
Medium-length film
Almost two decades ago, the Itoiz dam flooded seven villages and three natural reserves on the Pyrenean hillside in Navarra. The ecologist group Solidari@s con Itoiz registered the fight against its construction. Today, those who were there dream of the land lying beneath the water on video. Their voices and gestures come together to tell the tale of an individual and collective mourning still suffered today.
Bertrand Bonello
France
103 min.
Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d'Honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
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