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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Mila Zhluktenko
Germany
24 min.
Short film
While the first guests are waiting outside in the cold, the Kiev Opera House is slowly awakening. The Orchestra is rehearsing and the preparations in the dressing rooms are ongoing. All of a sudden, the people from the outside flood the corridors and halls of the Opera. The foyer turns into a stage while the spectators and workers become actors.
Ashmita Guha
India
21 min.
Short film
A pair of young siblings inhabit a fanciful world of their making, hidden from the eyes of their mother. When she finally catches a glimpse of their world, it faces the threat of crumbling. The two of them can either surrender or resist.
Jaume Claret Muxart
Spain
20 min.
Short film
Queralt, a painter from Barcelona, tries to talk to her daughter Gemma on the phone. Gemma is starting a new life in Athens, in a studio where she paints and lives.
Francisca Jiménez Ortegate
Argentina
15 min.
Short film
What would happen if Colombia had invaded China? This is a love story between a false Colombian hero and a Chinese woman. Together they recreate a false invasion as a metaphor of the overcoming of the armed conflict in Colombian territory.
Rafael Manuel
UK - Philippines
24 min.
Short film
The self-contained cosmos of the golf course reflect societal structures. Although new tee girl Isabel still has to learn the rules, she's already looking for loopholes to subvert the system.
Elsa Rosengren
Germany
30 min.
Short film
A late-summer morning in Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Elpi, a young Greek woman, receives a phone call from a long-lost friend. As the day progresses, Elpi's apprehensive wait for their reunion interweaves with the lives of other neighbourhood locals. In the neighbourhood there is a lingering feeling of wanting to get back to something. But to where, to what, and to whom?
Carlos Saiz Espin
Spain
19 min.
Short film
Lionel goes to visit his father, who suffers from foot disease, after receiving news that he has had a relapse. This meeting will renew the family memory; the need to find themselves will unite them once again.
Alisha Mehta Tejpal
India - USA
21 min.
Short film
Honing a quiet strength, Lata, a 23 year old domestic worker, navigates her way through an upper class home in South Mumbai. Doors consistently open and close, giving Lata selective access to the various contending realities that occupy this space.
Otávio Almeida
Cuba
18 min.
Short film
In Cuba, 60 years after the Revolution, two adolescent brothers inhabit their own dystopian universe. These boys live with their father, a veteran of the Angolan war. While becoming involved in war games where innocence loses ground, their father’s ghosts distance them from reality and lead them into a future full of uncertainties.
Santiago Barzi
Argentina
17 min.
Short film
Fernando receives some baffling news which upsets him profoundly, but when he shares it with his loved ones, their reactions are not as he expected. An odd debate ensues, affecting everyone involved.
Kevin Vu
USA
18 min.
Short film
Inseparable sisters Henriette and Anais find their lives and relationship being torn apart under mysterious circumstances.
Toby Auberg
United Kingdom
3 min.
Short film
Water then food. Agriculture then industry. Old then new. Critical then extra. Simple to complex. Concrete to abstract. Dirt to clouds. Real to unreal.
Haohao Yan
USA
25 min.
Short film
May 2003, Beijing, China: Under pressure from the WHO, the Chinese government announces that the SARS outbreak is real. The city is closed. Most students have been sent home. During a lockdown inside a private boarding school, three eight-year-old girls have to find a way to make sense of the world.
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