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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Provisional list of this section’s films announced as per today.
Alberto Rodríguez
Spain
180 min.
Series
When Tejero stormed the Spanish Congress building gun in hand, only three men stayed in their seats whilst the others ducked down to protect themselves: Adolfo Suárez, Santiago Carrillo and Gutiérrez Mellado. Through these three men who led the transition to democracy and the three ringleaders of the coup d’état —Tejero, Milans and Armada—, the series follows the chain of events and tensions that brought the country to the brink of returning to the former military regime.
Not in competition
Elena Molina, Isaki Lacuesta
Spain
98 min.
A daughter sets out to find out the truth about the man who was her father, a legendary musician, who died when she was 8 years old. He is Antonio Flores, and she the also famous actress Alba Flores. Alba stopped singing when she lost Antonio and is now determined to recover her voice and her background, consulting family members and friends for the first time.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
José Luis Guerin
Spain - France
122 min.
In a peripheral neighborhood, where the rural and urban worlds meet, the houses of the first migrants, who arrived after the post-war period, coexist with the new blocks of the dormitory city, where the latest wave of migration is concentrated. This humble corner has thus become an authentic global village. Good Valley Stories is a sum of imaginaries, social conflicts, both generational and identitarian, as well as urban and ecological, but it is also a calm and humanistic look at today’s world.
Asier Altuna
Spain
114 min.
1937. Driven from their home when war breaks out, Karmele and her family flee to France, where she is contacted by the Basque cultural embassy in exile, who use music and dance to combat the war. There she meets and falls in love with Txomin, a professional trumpet player. After living in Venezuela for a time, the couple come home with the hope of recovering everything that was taken from them.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2019
Paco Plaza , Pablo Guerrero
Spain
183 min.
Series
In Fate, a shy young taxi driver and public office applicant, David (Ricardo Gómez) unexpectedly becomes the chauffeur of El Maestro (Óscar Jaenada) a former bullfighter who comes out of retirement to recover his lost reputation. El Maestro is on a losing streak and David and his taxi bring him luck, or at least that’s what he thinks…
Special Screenings - Not in competition
Alberto Rodríguez
Spain - France
109 min.
Antonio and Estrella are siblings. Their father was a diver. They have spent their whole lives at sea. Antonio is known as The Tiger, an unbeatable diver and the perfect buddy to have with you when in a few seconds you risk your life. Estrella helps her brother on the barge where they work. She keeps him grounded; out of the water, Antonio is a real mess. He has always lived in the moment, never thinking about the future, and his financial situation is precarious. When Antonio has an accident, he is told that his diving days will soon be over. The future looks dim and complicated. However, this situation might change when they find a stash of cocaine hidden in the hull of an oil tanker. Antonio sees no other option, but his sister Estrella is not sure. As always.
Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi
Spain
115 min.
After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter, whom he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought he had resolved. In this new environment, Vicente must ask himself if he has enough time left to make his peace with others… and with himself.
Agustín Díaz Yanes
Spain
She Walks in Darkness draws inspiration from the biggest covert operation against ETA, which marked a turning point in the fight against terrorism in Spain. Based on the historical, political and social context of the 90s and the 2000s, the film tells the story of Amaia, a young Civil Guard who spends more than ten years with the terrorist group as an undercover agent, tasked with finding the hiding places used by the organisation in southern France.
Not in competition
Koldo Almandoz
Spain
160 min.
Series
Nerea Garcia is having a rough time of it; it’s four years since she was thrown out of the Basque Ertzaintza police force and she now leads a solitary life in her Bilbao home. The appearance of a woman’s corpse, murdered in some kind of ritual, prompts her former boss to ask her for help with the investigation. What Nerea hadn’t realised is that ghosts from the past and present would lead her down into the bowels of the city, where nothing and nobody is what it seems.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
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