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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Yasuzo Masumura
Japan
95 min.
A love story between a doctor and a nurse amidst the explosions of a battlefield. Sakura is a nurse at a field hospital who is assaulted by a sick soldier and is willing to "comfort" wounded soldiers if she feels it is necessary. A shocking anti-war film about male sexuality, female devotion, and the misery of the battlefield.
Liliane de Kermadec
France
118 min.
Switzerland. End of the last century. The asylum where Aloïse finished her life is now the showpiece for this sensitive and misunderstood woman's works. This beautifully shot and finely directed film raises the question: how could such a seemingly sane and talented spirit have been hoarded away for forty long years in a madman's trap? Based on a true story.
Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento
Chile
78 min.
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths. On the one hand that of the workers and the lumpen, headed by the figure of Lucho and, on the other, that of a group of intellectual supporters of the Unidad Popular coalition who come together in a poetical front more representative of the petite bourgeoisie. At one point in time, the characters converge in an apparent friendship that ends in scenes of great violence, giving rise to a satirical reading of the period.
José Val del Omar
Spain
25 min.
Short film
In 1963, the Ministry of Information and Tourism commissioned filmmaker José Val del Omar to make a series of ten shorts on the campaign Festivales de España for the New York World's Fair in 1964. With the excuse of documenting the shows of this cultural initiative in different Spanish cities, Val del Omar unfolds a dreamlike universe somewhere between the lyrical and the anthropological. This film corresponds to the two final episodes Luna de Sangre and Festival en las entrañas.
Francesc Betriu
Spain
86 min.
Barcelona Football Club, captained by Johann Cruyff, is on excellent form, prompting Sebastián to join a Barça supporters' club. There he meets the chairman's daughter, Juliana, who will make him hers, come what may. Finally the two are to marry, but as fate would have it, the wedding will coincide with the most important game of the league: El Clásico Barça-Madrid.
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan
71 min.
In post-war Japan, a man finds a lost boy in the street and brings him home, but nobody wants to take him in, not even for the night. Finally, he is taken in by a tetchy widow. The next day the woman takes the boy to his district, only to learn that his father has gone to Tokyo and left the child behind.
Fabián Bielinsky
Argentina
115 min.
The story follows Juan and Marcos, two grifters from Buenos Aires. The action takes place in only 24 hours. In this space of time, the two meet one another and team up on an operation that could make them a huge sum of money. The mission consists of stealing false stamps known as the nine queens and offering them to a millionaire and businessman for addition to his collection. With only a day to complete the heist, the two will have to use their wit to get their hands on the anticipated booty.
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