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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Opening Film
Valentina Maurel
Belgium - France - Mexico
108 min.
After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home, growing increasingly distant and reclusive, as if slipping into a world of her own. Their parents, meanwhile, are absorbed in their own lives. Her father drifts through a series of affairs, while her mother is immersed in republishing the erotic poems of her youth, neither fully grasping the urgency of the situation.
Closing Film
Marcelo Martinessi
Paraguay - Brazil - Portugal - Germany - Spain - France - Uruguay
101 min.
Paraguay, 1959. Under a suffocating military regime, Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock & roll in his veins. Charismatic, mysterious and the object of desire for both men and women, he soon becomes a radio sensation and a symbol of freedom. But after his final show he is found dead. In a country where silence reigns and fear smothers the truth… who killed Narciso?
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2020
Diego Luna
Mexico - Spain
98 min.
Searching for a better life, Lucila leaves Mexico for Madrid with her brother Diego to join their mother who has been working there illegally for 8 years to support them. When they finally arrive, the reality that awaits them proves far harsher than they had imagined.
Colectivo colmena
© Colectivo colmena
Fernanda Tovar
Mexico - Spain - France
90 min.
La Maestra and Paula are the best swimmers in their team and best friends, until an incident at a party changes everything. La Maestra, intense and unstoppable, realises that something in her best friend has changed, making her sad. When the truth comes to light, the two are faced with an impossible decision: Paula wants to keep quiet about it, while La Maestra wants revenge. Their friendship, previously unbreakable, will be put to the test as never before.
WIP Latam 2025
Proyecta 2022
Juan Miguel Gelacio, Esteban Hoyos García
Colombia - USA
84 min.
Martha, a mother who lost trace of her son in the Colombian armed conflict, receives the news that no bone match was found in the last exhumation in which she had taken part. Having exhausted the institutional options, she turns to a group of women, where she meets Sandra, who tells her a rumour: "in a remote village in the plains, you can ask a dead person for a favour". The two set out on a journey in search of answers.
WIP Latam 2025
Manuela Martelli
Chile - USA - Spain - Mexico
110 min.
Chile, 1992. While staying at her grandparents’ mountain hotel, Inés befriends Hanna, a German skier. When Hanna vanishes without trace, the search for her exposes hidden truths.
Proyecta 2022
50 years of freedom
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Argentina - USA
93 min.
The documentary opens in 1999, when Sanguinetti invites her 9-year-old neighbours to share their fantasies, sparking a collaboration that lasts for decades. As Guillermina and Belinda leave childhood behind, their games take on the weight of reality. With the passage of time as its most palpable tension, the film becomes a record of their friendship as they move into work, motherhood and diverging paths. In the Argentinian Pampas, the film offers a female counterpoint to the region's male-dominated mythology.
Fernando Eimbcke
Mexico - Spain
99 min.
Ever since Olga’s terrible loss, she has preferred to keep to herself, but having no money to pay for an operation on her big toe obliges her to rent a room in her flat to Tulio, the husband of a patient hospitalised in the medical centre in front of the enormous apartment block in which Olga lives. When the man has to leave for a few days, he leaves his son Christian in his place.
WIP Latam 2025
© Simone D'Arcangelo
© © Simone D'Arcangelo
Dominga Sotomayor
Brazil - Chile
112 min.
On a remote, wind-lashed island off the Chilean coast, Silvia earns her living harvesting seaweed and shares a quiet life with her partner. When she adopts a stray puppy, Yuri, her days fill with joy, love, and a tenderness that stirs a long-suppressed longing for motherhood. But Yuri’s sudden disappearance reawakens a haunting childhood trauma, forcing Silvia to confront a past she has never truly left behind.
Ricardo Alves Jr.
Brazil - France - Portugal
96 min.
Graça lives in Belo Horizonte, where she gives private French lessons and lives with her French girlfriend. After a health emergency involving her father, she returns to her childhood home in the suburbs. There, a neighbouring family that leads a local religious congregation offers support. As they try to bring her back to "her place," Graça becomes trapped in a world of intolerance and fanaticism, setting her on a disturbing path toward the loss of sanity.
Proyecta 2018
Bruno Santamaría Razo
Mexico - Brazil - Denmark
105 min.
Mexico City, early 90s. On the day of his 11th birthday, Bruno falls in love with his best friend Vladimir. That night his father receives an HIV-positive diagnosis that will change family life. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance to keep the pain at bay. Thirty years later, Bruno films and revisits the memories he couldn’t quite fathom as a child.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2022
Lorenzo Ferro, Lucas A. Vignale
Argentina
76 min.
9-year-old Milo lives in a remote village in Argentina, where he trains as a malambo dancer. But his true dreams lie elsewhere: he longs to ride trains and explore Buenos Aires, the city he has only seen in movies. To break free from his small world, he must dare to embark on a new journey.
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