73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025
73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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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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José Luis Borau
Spain
86 min.
An intense drama that explores the dark depths of human relationships in a rural, oppresive setting. The plot centers on Ángel, a poacher who lives in near-total isolation with his possessive and authoritarian mother, Martina. The arrival of Milena, a young fugitive, drastically alters his precarious balance. Ángel falls in love with her, arousing his mother's unhealthy jealousy and setting in motion a spiral of violence, manipulation and tragedy.
Jorge Fons
Mexico
144 min.
The film is a modern adaptation in the centre of Mexico City of the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, set in the Cairo of the forties. It focuses on Miracle Alley and is divided into four parts: the first three (Rutilo, Alma and Susanita) are self-standing tales of three people whose stories entwine with one another, and the fourth (El Regreso) completes the narratives a couple of years later.
Manoel de Oliveira
Portugal
72 min.
Carlito, the shy dreamer, and Eduardinho, the fearless leader, both court Teresinha, the only girl in the group. To show his affection, Carlito steals a doll and one night, runs over rooftops to deliver it. Tension builds between the boys, and the group begins to turn against Carlito.
José Miguel (Jomí) García Ascot
Mexico
56 min.
One morning in 1936, the war made its appearance from the balcony before the eyes of the little Gabriela: a man on the run is hiding in the interior courtyard of the building and neither say a word; but the screams of a woman neighbour give him away and the man is arrested by the supporters of the coup. The evocation of that collective wound appears as a singular and non-transferable pain. Only the empty balcony is left, the image of that first farewell.
Christian-Jaque
France
108 min.
The bests revenges are served cold. Jean-Jacques returns to his hometown of Lyon, where 20 years earlier he had survived a murder attempt by one of his friends, a bourgeois who disapproved of his marriage to his sister. Jean-Jacques finds him, seduces Geneviève again, but cruelly abandons her and throws his friend's son into the arms of an unstable prima ballerina, nearly pushing him to suicide.
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Stanley Kubrick
UK
195 min.
Adaptation of the novel by the English author William Thackeray. Barry Lyndon, a young and ambitious Irish rogue, has to emigrate because of a duel. He proceeds to lead merry and adventurous life. But his dream is to climb the social ladder. To succeed, he marries a wealthy widow, earning himself a place amongst the 18th-century English nobility.
Yoshimitsu Morita
Japan
106 min.
The unraveling begins in what appears to be an ordinary lower-middle-class Japanese family when the parents hire a tutor to help their junior high school son with his failing grades. The enigmatic tutor is like a loose cannon, ricocheting through the family and twisting conventional facades into the realm of the absurd.
Antonio Giménez-Rico
Spain
98 min.
This is the Madrid of 1983 and six stunning ladies of the night go about their profession in mink coats, tights and little more... until several police cars with flashing lights cordon off the street and carry off six trans women... "We're luxury whores!". Over a relaxed lunch, they talk to the camera about their experiences as artists and prostitutes, about their alienation and repressive laws, about their youth and the discovery of being trapped in the wrong body.
Alfonso Ungría
Spain
58 min.
Medium-length film
It’s 8 in the morning one summer in the early 70s. Ion, an ETA activist, runs for his life through San Sebastian’s Old Town with the police hot on his heels. The city is coming to life, and people are going about their usual routine. As he runs, Ion looks back at the story of his life. His memories of school, where he was forced to renounce his identity, alternate with the look in his father’s eyes and the figure of Madeleine.
Anjel Lertxundi
Spain
60 min.
Medium-length film
Domingo lives for gambling. He takes bets at rowing boat races, pelota courts and the squares where all sorts of competitions ar. But it’s also an obsession that pushes him to take risks, always in cahoots with his cowardly and cynical sidekick, Kornelio. The loneliness of his wife Marcelina reveals the other side of a tale where tragedy could strike at any time.
Xabier Elorriaga
Spain
58 min.
Medium-length film
Based on the novel of the same name by Arantxa Urretabizkaia, the film follows the life of a 30 year-old married woman and her son. The protagonist asks herself what drove her husband, Txema, to leave her alone with their child. Internal monologues serve to explore subjects such as motherhood, loneliness and everyday routine in the Basque society of the late 70s.
José Julián Bakedano
Spain
47 min.
Medium-length film
Manuel narrates his peaceful life with his brother Ramón until the arrival of a prostitute turns everything on its head. Esther’s presence sparks tension and conflict between the siblings until things come to a tragic end. The film explores family relations and repressed emotions in a rural environment.
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