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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Opening Film
Sergio Oksman
Spain - Portugal
72 min.
During the summer holidays, a documentary-maker and his 12-year-old son stay at an abandoned hotel in Lisbon: an empty hotel like the one in the movie The Shining.
Closing Film
Igor Bezinović
Croatia - Italy - Slovenia
112 min.
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka (Croatia), wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time, his official photography team captured over 10,000 images.
Juanjo Pereira
Paraguay - Argentina - USA - France - Germany
90 min.
Through rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay-one of history's longest-running regimes. From propaganda to international broadcasts, the film exposes how media shaped power, controlled memory, and built a legacy that still lingers today.
Lur Olaizola
Spain
17 min.
Short film
Alicia teaches book binding to students Maite, Unai and Merche. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue the pages to give the books a longer life. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its different variations.
Not in competition
Sophy Romvari
Canada - Hungary
90 min.
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family's eldest child.
Jocelyn Charles
France
15 min.
Short film
During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.
Paula Tomás Marques
Portugal
70 min.
João stars in a biopic about Liberada, a gender-nonconforming figure persecuted by the Inquisition. After the director is mysteriously paralyzed, João faces haunting dreams and struggles to honor Liberada's story.
Jaume Claret Muxart
Spain - Germany
100 min.
Sixteen-year-old Dídac travels by bicycle along the course of the Danube with his family. In these hot days, an unexpected meeting changes the direction of the trip: a mysterious boy appears in the water. His enigmatic presence not only awakens something new in Dídac, it also threatens to change the relationship with his family.
Ikusmira Berriak 2022
Paz Encina
Paraguay
18 min.
Short film
"La felicidad is a short film about nostalgia and the memory of my late brother. Since then, I only think of him and try to recreate some kind of image that can still unite us, that can still make me feel, some notion of happiness, some kind of resemblance, that gives me back his image and my own, together, beautful, eternal". (Paz Encina)
Gabrielle Stemmer
France
55 min.
Medium-length film
Through the editing of archive footage and a reading of Ovidie's La Chair est triste hélas, Gabrielle Stemmer's collage film shatters the heterosexual model, a story that is both intimate and political.
Hlynur Pálmason
Iceland - Denmark - France
62 min.
Three siblings craft a knight-like figure, only to unleash a barrage of arrows upon it. Through the seasons, we observe their lives as they both construct and demolish their lifelike creation.
György Pálfi
Germany - Greece - Hungary
96 min.
"With great power comes great responsibility" - but what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2020
Proyecta 2020
Alex Russell
USA
100 min.
When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
Yuiga Danzuka
Japan
115 min.
In the ever-changing landscape of Tokyo, two siblings navigate the city, haunted by the absence of their mother. The return of their estranged father, a renowned architect, may be their last chance to reconcile.
Bo Hanxiong
China
17 min.
Short film
In the shadow of China's growing erasure of marginalized lives and the tightening state surveillance, the sudden disappearance of an elderly woman in the frigid winter propels her caregiver, Lin, into a relentless search. As Lin's quest deepens, the boundaries between herself and the mystery blur, entwining her fate with the vanishing enigma she seeks to resolve.
Sarah Miro Fischer
Germany - Spain
95 min.
Rose dotes on her beloved elder brother, Sam. When a woman accuses Sam of rape, Rose is asked to testify in a case brought against him. This will put both their relationship and her moral integrity to the test.
WIP Europa 2024
Luis Ortega
Argentina
39 min.
Medium-length film
A young armed girl and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house with no outside connection. One day a knife-grinder rings the bell and is smitten with the young girl at first sight. The poet thinks death has come for him. When she falls pregnant and has her child, she goes home to live with her mother, a woman with serious mental problems.
André Silva Santos
Portugal
27 min.
Short film
Early Spring. A sonata, a letter, a bouquet of flowers. A train runs slowly through the landscape of São João da Madeira, a small town in the north of Portugal. Samuel, 38, devotes his days to his work as a flute teacher and the rituals of mourning the early death of his wife Luísa, with whom he shared a life dedicated to music. After a visit from his brother, Samuel faces a dilemma.
Bálint Kenyeres
Hungary - France
17 min.
Short film
A young Roma boy is chosen for a television feature after word spreads of his unusual gift. As expectations rise, his quiet talent faces the harsh glare of media scrutiny. What follows is a quiet unraveling-for him, and for those around him.
Sho Miyake
Japan
89 min.
In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo, meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter in a creative slump, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a peculiar, desolate guesthouse run by the enigmatic Benzo. Their conversations rarely connect, yet they set off on an unexpected adventure.
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France - Germany
118 min.
The 1970s. Dawn by the city lights, Jeanne runs away from a children’s home high in the mountains. She takes refuge in a film studio which she secretly explores at night. By day, the film The Snow Queen is being shot there, starring the enigmatic Cristina in the title role. Jeanne falls instantly under the spell of the beautiful, tormented star. A mutual fascination develops between the actor and the girl.
Marta Medina, Enrique López Lavigne
Spain
108 min.
Arrebato (1980) is the greatest cult movie of today’s Spanish cinema and Iván Zulueta, its director, an accursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that forecast the end of the movida, a dark and harrowing reel whose history and intra-history are intimately linked. Arrebato acts as a premonition of the director’s own life. Just like his actors, Zulueta will end up being brought down by drugs and the cinema and, like them, will also disappear.
Harris Dickinson
UK
99 min.
In the streets of London, Mike, a young homeless man, struggles to survive as he deals with his past and attempts to turn his life around. His life revolves around marginalisation and brief glimmers of hope. As he progresses along a road to self-discovery, unexpected chances come up that could mean a new start. Urchin is an intimate and moving portrait of human fragility and the possibility of redemption.
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