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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Jordi Évole, Màrius Sánchez
Spain
101 min.
No me llame Ternera brings an exclusive interview with one of the key figures of ETA: Josu Urrutikoetxea, better known as Josu Ternera. Led by Jordi Évole, the documentary offers a hitherto unseen look at the inside of the terrorist outfit and addresses some of the decisive moments until it was disbanded in 2018. A tense and exhaustive conversation which has enabled one victim of the conflict to solve some of the mysteries of the attack of which he was a victim almost 50 years ago.
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Álvaro Longoria
Spain
72 min.
Only able to move two fingers of his hands due to having been born with degenerative muscular atrophy, Brian has become a global phenomenon thanks to social media, where he is the gamer and streamer of the moment. He has millions of followers who watch his every step and has recently made his big screen debut in the film Campeonex, with Javier Fesser. La vida de Brianeitor tells the fascinating story of overcoming the odds and how Brian became Brianeitor2002 despite his physical disability.
Juan Francisco Viruega
Spain
90 min.
Alba returns to her hometown after a break-up. There she reunites with her sister Candela. The two will close their childhood wounds and breathe together once again as they accompany their sick mother in her last days, with the desert, the sea and salt as witnesses.
Miguel Ángel Vivas
Spain
100 min.
For Dani, being Spanish means serving his country as a member of the riot police squad, honouring his flag, enforcing the law. But during an eviction in a troubled area of Madrid, Dani uncovers a corruption ring that will make him fear for his life. His only help will lie in Nasha, a young Nigerian girl he just evicted, and her son Little. He soon realises that the system he works for is not the solution, but may always have been part of the problem.
Gerardo Herrero
Spain
92 min.
Three couples participate in an unusual group therapy session. The psychologist has left them a series of issues that the couples will have to jointly address and analyse. The proposed mechanics prompt them all to give their opinion, argue and finally show themselves as they really are. Humorously, the complication of the participants' emotional journey will stretch to ususpected limits.
Elena Martín Gimeno
Spain
112 min.
On moving into a new home with her partner, Mila realises that her loss of desire comes from within herself. She sets out on a journey to revisit the experiences of her childhood and adolescence in the hope of coming to terms with her own body.
Juan González, Fernando Martínez
Spain
96 min.
After a night of partying, David has had too much to drink and falls from a terrace as his friend Juan looks on, impotent. David's body crashes onto a car bonnet and breaks into a thousand pieces. As nobody appears to be shocked, Juan sets out to see what happened, only to find himself caught up in a maze of contradictions and pianos that fall from the sky...
Elena Trapé
Spain
106 min.
Recently separated, Irene is faced for the first time with the absence of her 4-year-old daughter, who is spending a few days with her father. Unable to adapt to this new reality, she makes her way to her house in a small village in the Catalan Pyrenees in the attempt to regain the control and peace she feels she lost some time ago. But the place, once so familiar to her, slowly becomes as overwhelming as her new life and eventually forces her to stop running and face up to her fears.
Juan Ponce de León, Facundo Ponce de León
Uruguay - Spain
79 min.
Portrait of the birth of a friendship between two men, while one helps the other to die. The acceptance of pain, the sense of humour and the commitment to family and friends, will accompany the virtual chats between Fernando and Eric, who were unable to meet due to the pandemic.
Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez
Spain
94 min.
As the second industrial revolution winds down, men and women who make ships and airplanes with their hands face the collapse of industry in a small region in southern Europe and at the same time portray the trail of the transformation of production relations in the 21st century.
Moisés Salama
Spain
92 min.
Fernando Méndez-Leite is one of the fundamental people in the History of Spanish Cinema, spanning more than fifty years of culture. His life and memory contain not only the narration of our cinematography, but also of the culture, politics and social changes that have accompanied it. The writing of his memoires and a novel with obvious autobiographical overtones is the moment chosen in this documentary to join him in looking at his biography from his impressive memory.
Paloma Zapata
Spain - Germany
95 min.
Deaf since shortly after her birth, Antonia Singla learned to dance without hearing the music. At the young age of 17 she revolutionised the flamenco world, only to disappear from the stage before turning 30. Fifty years on, a woman will try to unravel the mystery surrounding her disappearance and find La Singla to hear the first-hand version of her heartbreaking story. The film interweaves past and present, combining archive footage with impassioned music and sound.
Itsaso Arana
Spain
85 min.
A group of girls meet at a country house for a week in summer to rehearse a play. During their time together, they exchange their knowledge of friendship, acting, love, orphanhood and death; with the secret hope that sharing will make them better people. Las chicas están bien (The Girls Are Alright) is a summer tale with princesses, horses, toads, a fire, a fiesta, a river, myriad letters, and even a scatterbrained prince.
Álvaro Gago
Spain
99 min.
Ramona lives in a Galician village bogged down by a tense and unpredictable working and personal situation. Always giving her all for the future of her daughter Estrella, she will be pushed to look inwards and consider that there just may be something else to live for.
Claudia Pinto Emperador
Spain
72 min.
After 50 years in theatre, film and television, Carme Elias is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Together with Claudia Pinto, a director and friend, they decide to record her last conscious voyage. The characters played by Carme accompany this difficult period, while the borders between fiction and reality disappear. Mientras seas tú / While You're Still You is a constant game of mirrors, a pact of love and friendship. A "living" film which will continue to shoot while it screens at the festival, as a powerful invitation to grab the present.
Diego Llorente Díaz
Spain
83 min.
Marta returns to Gijón for the summer holidays from Madrid, where she is setting up home with her boyfriend Leo. In the company of her friend Elena, the pair enjoy the typical summer fun: sunbathing, open-air fiestas. On the beach she runs back into Pablo. The pair arrange to meet for coffee. Their encounters continue until they end up having sex and start seeing each other regularly, to the point of discussing the possibility of getting back together again. Leo comes to Asturias to visit her and Marta decides not to break off with him.
JuanMa Betancort
Spain
99 min.
Santiago Auserón has been soaking up the rhythmic wisdom of the Cuban son ever since his first visit to the country in 1984, an influence he transfers to his musical career as a hybrid innovation in the world of rock music. His current project, Juan Perro, is the sound lab in which he synthesizes Cuba, Spain and New Orleans. A voyage starting from Spanish tradition and flying to the Mississippi delta in the shape of the blues, stopping at the son Cubano along the way to finally merge it with the jazz of New Orleans. A mellifluous road movie taking us into the universe of one of the most charismatic figures of post-modern Spanish culture.
Carla Subirana
Spain
91 min.
Fourteen-year-old Sica is obsessed with the idea of the sea returning her father's body after a shipwreck on the Costa da Morte, Galicia. While making her way along the cliffs she meets Suso, El Cazatormentas, a strange boy who, like her, is waiting for the arrival of Ofelia, the mother of all storms. Sica investigates the circumstances of the accident, delving into a painful voyage of discovery. In her eyes, the fishing town where she grew up, marked by the brutality of its ocean and the increasing imbalance of nature, will never be the same again.
Jesús Muñoz, Xavi Torres, Santi Padró
Spain
92 min.
The story of Juan Carlos Unzué's daily life during two and a half years, since the former goalkeeper and trainer of Barça went public with his ALS diagnosis in June 2020. Right from day one he decided, on the one hand, to lend visibility to the disease in order to denounce the lack of help for those who suffer from it and, on the other, to organise a big event to raise as much money as possible for research. The documentary exhaustively follows all of the meetings and conversations held with managers of FC Barcelona and Manchester City to arrange a football game that succeeded in raising 4.5 million euros. Meanwhile, Unzué opens the doors to his home and reveals the evolution of his physical degeneration.
Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez
Spain
77 min.
Diego, a Venezuelan town planner, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, travel to the United States, with their visas approved, to start a new life. But on coming to the immigration zone of Newark airport, they are taken to the secondary inspection room, where two border protection officers subject them to an inspection and psychologically draining interrogation in the attempt to find out if the couple has anything to hide.
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