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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Nehal Vyas
India
21 min.
Short film
India, my nation, is being rebuilt. Her foundation is being laid on the imagined land that claims to be the birthplace of my grandmother's God. In the mythology that she passed down to me during many summer nights, her God was magical, kind, imaginative and democratic, just like my India was supposed to be. But today, through its many retellings and reimaginings, the tale is being used as a political tool to manifest the violent desire of a Hindutva state. This film attempts to remember, as well as dream, a forgotten nation.
Aulona Selmani
Switzerland
25 min.
Short film
Daut, a survivor of a massacre where his son was killed, has been rehearsing a letter for 20 years on what he will say if Hague ever calls him to testify for the horrors he has seen that day. The burden of memories gets heavier when he gets the news that his brother died of an illness, making Daut the only last survivor to remember the event. His mind starts to fail him on important details of the testimony. He might never bring justice for his son. For his brother. For his friends. Will the dead forgive him for giving up and being handed over to oblivion?
Marie Falys
Belgium
23 min.
Short film
Adèle, aged 12, doesn't want to go back to school. She prefers to skateboard and watch the others from a distance. But this isolation leads her to question the kind of woman she wants to be when she grows up.
Izabela Zubrycka
Poland
13 min.
Short film
Is there a way to envision oneʼs funeral? Halina is one of the last funeral singers in Podlasie. Her son Andrzej is a gravedigger. Thousands of people have crossed to the other side accompanied by them. He dug, she sung. Throughout their existence, life collided with death. Normalcy with spirits. Reality with dreaming. Funeral lament breaks the silence.
Severina Vaičiūnaitė
Lithuania
18 min.
Short film
Sofija, 24, seeks comfort in a heartfelt teenage memory as Mykolas prepares to leave. In the Vilnius night, amidst unexpected twists, she discovers the courage to say goodbye and move forward, fueled by cherished memories and enduring friendship.
Natalia García Clark
Mexico
20 min.
Short film
Discussions in social media bring life to the statues on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma. The climate alternates between cycles of chaos and order, expression and censorship, memory and oblivion. A new decolonial and feminist era is here. Realities emerge from the changes that are altering the city's public space and its symbols.
Alfonso de Angoitia
Mexico
19 min.
Short film
Carlos is hopelessly in love with his office colleague, Olivia. At work, Carlos has never spoken to Olivia, but he sometimes spies on her without her realising. Night after night, they sleepwalk aimlessly until meeting one another. They gradually come to know one another in this mystical landscape. By day, they are once again total strangers, who don't know or speak to one another, each one in their cubicle. Will they wake up, or will they continue to dream like the trees around them?
Simon van der Zande
Belgium
17 min.
Short film
From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel - a Congolese immigrant - gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.
Angélica María Torres Tamayo
Colombia
20 min.
Short film
Sixteen years ago my brother was one of the 11 scouts in the Pirsas group who died in an avalanche on the Nevada del Ruiz volcano. My family fell to pieces, nobody knew how to go about mourning and I was left completely alone. Sixteen years later, the reconstruction of the climb up to the Nevada and investigation into the pain suffered by my family is the path to building a personal and intimate story about death, mourning and emotional adaptation. This return only seeks answers that give me some kind of hope.
Laura Valenzuela Montero, Ainhoa Díaz Porto
Spain
7 min.
Short film
This is a mother who lives inadapted to a world of rigid structures: those of the system, those of the family, those of women. With neither direction nor ownership of the spaces she inhabits, on impulse she decides to abandon her children and enter the forest. In this place giant trees, waving hands and the unknown quantity of some sheets emerge that will guide her at all times. Appearing out of the atmosphere, women dressed in white will accompany her as she mourns her motherhood.
Carlos Pereira
Germany
19 min.
Short film
In a near future Germany, queer people become, even more, marginalized and under threat. On the last day of winter, Omar is released from prison. As a first stop he visits Ava, his best friend, who didn't expect to see him. The world keeps falling apart and fear seems to defeat hope.
Kathy Mitrani
USA
18 min.
Short film
On the anniversary of Marisol's husband's death, her neighbor's construction uncovers human remains. The coincidence of this discovery terrorizes Marisol, a superstitious visionary, into facing her mortality.
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