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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Richard Linklater
France
106 min.
The story behind the creation of the French film movement known as the Nouvelle Vague, focusing on the production of Jean-Luc Godard's ground-breaking movie À bout de souffle / Breathless in 1959.
Rebecca Zlotowski
France
101 min.
The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.
Joachim Trier
Norway - France - Denmark - Germany
135 min.
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil - France - Germany - Netherlands
158 min.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s with a mysterious past, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
France
78 min.
Until the age of two-and-a-half years old, Amélie describes herself as a digestive tube, inert and vegetative. Then comes the crucial event that throws her headlong into the world of childhood. For the next six months, she discovers language, her parents, her brothers and sisters, the paradise of her garden, her passions (Japan and water), her aversions (the carp), the seasons and time. Everything that, from the age of three, shapes the human person for the rest of their lives.
Hlynur Pálmason
Iceland - Denmark - Sweden - France
110 min.
A year in the life of a family while the parents deal with their separation. The complexities of the family, love and the impact of shared memories through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences.
Yorgos Lanthimos
UK
118 min.
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Guillermo Galoe
Spain - France
97 min.
Toni is 15 and lives in Cañada Real, Europe’s biggest irregular shanty town, on the outskirts of Madrid. Proud of belonging to his family of scrap dealers, he spends his days with his grandfather, whom he admires and follows wherever he goes. But the demolition machines are approaching their plot, threatening to destroy everything they know. The grandfather refuses to leave, no matter what the cost. In dark nights with no electricity, the legends of his childhood feel more real than ever before. While everything around him changes, Toni must make a choice: to face an uncertain future or to cling on to a disappearing world.
François Ozon
France
120 min.
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings ' until one blisteringly hot day, a tragic event occurs on a beach...
Paolo Sorrentino
Italy
133 min.
Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic. No connection to any real-life presidents; he is entirely a product of the author's imagination. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself. As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, two final duties arise: deciding on two delicate petitions for a presidential pardon. True moral dilemmas, which become tangled, in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of responsibility, that is exactly what this remarkable Italian President will do.
Jafar Panahi
Iran - France - Luxembourg
102 min.
What starts as a minor accident sets off a series of escalating consequences.
Noah Baumbach
USA - UK - Italy
132 min.
Jay Kelly, the new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they've made, the relationships with their loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
Olivier Assayas
France
150 min.
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin. At the heart of power, Baranov shapes the new Russia, blurring the boundaries between truth and lies, belief and manipulation. Only the magnetic Ksenia is beyond his control, tempting him away from this dangerous game. Years later, after retreating into silence and shrouded in mystery, Baranov finally opens up, revealing the dark secrets of the regime he helped build.
Hasan Hadi
Iraq - USA - Qatar
105 min.
Set in the Iraq of the 90s, Mamlaket al-Qasab / The President's Cake follows the odyssey of the nine-year-old Lamia as she sets out with her cockerel Hindi to gather the ingredients for the mandatory cake to celebrate Saddam Hussein's birthday.
Raoul Peck
France - USA
119 min.
1949. George Orwell finishes what will be his last but most important novel, 1984. Orwell: 2+2=5 delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
Kaouther Ben Hania
Tunisia - France
89 min.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
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