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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Paula Hernández
Argentina - Uruguay
94 min.
Gripped by the blind faith of her father, Reverend Pearson, Leni accompanies him on his evangelical mission. A banal accident forces them to stop at El Gringo's garage. When the Reverend becomes obssessed with saving the soul of Tapioca, the mechanic's son, Leni realises the time has come to take her fate into her own hands.
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum 2021
Closing Film
Carolina Markowicz
Brazil - Portugal
101 min.
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
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© Copyright © 2023 Tarea Fina SRL - Solita Films SL
María Zanetti
Argentina - Spain
87 min.
Sixteen-year-old Lola is studying for her resits when the possibility of a semester in Germany comes up. Lola wants to go, but her family, bogged down by her elder sister's psychiatric problems, don't want her to make the trip. The lack of stability and exhaustion in the ties with her family prompt Lola to go ahead with her idea and set out to find new experiences that make her see both herself and the circumstances that surround her with different eyes.
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum 2021
Dolores Fonzi
Argentina - Spain - USA
88 min.
Blondi and Mirko are best friends. They love living together, listen to the same music, watch the same films, they like smoking grass, going to concerts, they share the same friends, everything is perfect between them… but even if they look almost the same age, Blondi is Mirko’s mother.
Camila Fabbri
Argentina
86 min.
Clara is on her way out of the city on a family trip to the outskirts. She receives a message from Martina, her childhood friend, the person she'd been with the night of the tragedy at the República Cromañón club, bringing the idea of motherhood into the foreground. This shot of the present day and reality in a series of WhatsApp texts, home videos and family lunches sparks an exhaustive look back at her own adolescence and that of her friends in a city ravaged by the crisis and by a tragedy.
Martín Benchimol
Argentina - France - Spain
78 min.
Having worked as a housekeeper all her life, Justine’s former employer leaves her an enormous mansion deep in the Argentinian pampa. The only condition is that she must never sell it. In this modern fairy tale, Justina and her daughter Alexia will face the challenges of keeping that promise alive.
WIP Latam 2022
Tatiana Huezo
Mexico - Germany
102 min.
El Eco is a remote village in northern Mexico where life is made up of very simple things. Being a child there is a unique experience from day one: closely linked to nature, animals and people. But also to love, intimacy and the cycles of life. And to education, at least for the youngest generation.
Guto Parente
Brazil
84 min.
David is on the way to his hometown in Brazil to present a movie at a film festival. As he arrives, the Covid-19 pandemic starts to spread rapidly over the country. A lockdown is enacted, the festival is suspended and David's flight back home is canceled. Alone, David needs a place to stay and sees no alternative other than to reach out to his father, Geraldo, an eccentric man with whom he has not spoken for over ten years. As David arrives at Geraldo's apartment, strange things start to happen.
WIP Latam 2022
David Zonana
Mexico
88 min.
Luis, an adolescent of native American origin, enrols at a military academy in the quest for a better future. Both he and his new mates are subjected to a brutal hierarchical system, designed to turn them into perfect soldiers.
Felipe Gálvez
Chile - Argentina - UK - Taiwan - France - Denmark - Sweden
100 min.
Chile, early 20th century. A rich landowner hires three horsemen to fence the boundary of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean through the vast Patagonia. The expedition, made up of a young mixed-race Chilean, an American mercenary, and led by an impulsive British henchman, soon turns into a "civilizing" incursion.
Lucía Puenzo
Argentina
90 min.
The injuries suffered by Ada when she is struck by lightning during a storm in the countryside affects her both physically and psychologically. As well as the visible consequences, she is worried about a series of strange symptoms she can't control: visual and auditory hallucinations, electric shocks and momentary confusions that end up distancing her from her former life. She finds support in a group of lightning survivors and the doctor in whom they have blind trust. For Ada, the road to electrophilia will be a voyage of no return.
Lila Avilés
Mexico
95 min.
Seven-year-old Sol is at her grandfather's house helping to prepare a surprise party for her father. As the day goes on, a strange and chaotic atmosphere gradually invades the situation, fracturing the foundations that keep her family together. Sol will understand that her world is about to undergo an enormous change, one that will open the road to the mystery of celebrating life.
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