74th San Sebastian Festival - 18/26 September 2026
74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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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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Youth, cinema, memory and democracy
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Basilio Martín Patino
Spain
104 min.
The history of Spanish cinema during the Franco era is shot through by a current, generally underground, largely silenced or censored, of films to have shown their discrepancy or even their rejection of the dictatorship under Francisco Franco. All of them, to avoid prohibition under pro-Franco authorities, rolled out a series of strategies to disguise their anti-Franco stance. For example, whilst Luis García Berlanga preferred satire, Carlos Saura embraced the metaphor.
Patricio Guzmán
France
59 min.
A film about the Chile hidden behind the curtain of its heart-rending memory. Twenty-two years after Pinochet's coup d'état, Patricio Guzmán returned to his country to understand how and to what extent the oblivion imposed by Pinochet had been capable of destroying the memory and energy of a people.
Jean-Gabriel Périot
France
89 min.
Nos défaites / Our Defeats draws a picture of our relationship with politics through a game involving the restaging by secondary school students who reflect on concepts such as unions, capitalism and social uprisings whilst acting in and directing extracts of films made post-May ’68. How much importance does the revolution or engagement hold in their everyday lives? How do they perceive the world they’re growing up in? And, above all, would they change it, destroy it or build a new one?
David Varela
Spain
81 min.
Madrid's western zone. Setting of one of the bloodiest and deadliest battles of the Spanish Civil War. A group of adolescents investigates, recites and discusses the testimonials of the soldiers who fought during those terrible days; they make the experiences of the veterans and the dead their own. Meanwhile, the film mutates, adapts and takes shape as it is constructed through their eyes: that of a new generation open to dialogue and who take a critical stance towards the school and the historical memory.
Pablo Gil Rituerto
Spain - France - Italy
95 min.
During the summer, a film crew travels the roads and towns of northern Spain. They follow the steps of the clandestine journey undertaken by the group Cantacronache, who in the summer of 1961, at the peak of Franco's dictatorship, collected popular protest songs. Seen through the lens of oral memory and of the sound files recorded in 1961, the two journeys talk to one another, lending shape to an emotional and political geography of a territory in which the wounds of the past remain open.
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