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
Jaime Lorente
Spain
106 min.
When 11-year-old Ruben’s father mysteriously disappears, the boy has to move in with his grandmother, a woman he barely knows. In a rural setting where time seems to have stood still, the child will learn that family wounds are passed down from one generation to another, and will try to find a way to heal them as he grows.
Florid Limited, British Broadcasting Corporation & Film I Väst 2026
© Florid Limited, British Broadcasting Corporation & Film I Väst 2026
Closing Film
Billy Lumby
United Kingdom - Sweden
84 min.
Jamal, who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, lives in a supported housing block, alongside other people with mental health issues. Frustrated by the side effects of his medication, he stops taking it, making the voices he hears become more frequent and extreme. Increasingly changeable in mood, Jamal builds a friendship with Kyla, another resident. But as the voices become more intense, Jamal must confront the blurred line between reality, and past family events, to come to terms with his voices.
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Thomas Woodroffe
Chile - France - Argentina
92 min.
Freeing himself after spending a hundred years trapped in a glacier, the ghost of the filmmaker Lucien Castelnau wanders through a futuristic Patagonia, where technological progress clashes with forgotten stories. Unable to rest while his cinematic legacy remains unseen, he crosses a world that has deleted him from its memory, in search of a place in history and of spectators, who can finally bring his lost work back to life.
Naëmi Ada
Germany - France
90 min.
After a violent incident with her controlling partner Felix, dancer Tian flees their shared life in Marseille. Isolated and desperate for connection, she infiltrates the grieving circle of a young man she never knew. But as she becomes entangled in their mourning and affection, she hides a dangerous secret at home. When lies, grief and reality collapse into each other, Tian must choose whether to break the cycle.
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad
Denmark - Sweden - Norway
106 min.
Troubled by forbidden feelings for his seven-year-old stepdaughter, Richard decides to leave his girlfriend. He retreats to his childhood home to renovate ahead of its sale, but his self-imposed exile is disrupted by the childlike presence of his mother's caregiver, Stella. He soon discovers her double life as a Lolita camgirl, and the two develop a transgressive surrogate father-daughter relationship. Their constructed reality begins to unravel when the stepdaughter he left behind reaches out.
Javier Giner
Spain
110 min.
Leo and Lorea have loved one another. Maybe they still do. But something in them has broken. After five years, their relationship is done. He looks after his sick father, trapped between responsibility and an emotional void that weighs him down. She, caught up in poorly-paid jobs and personal crises, tries to get her life back on track without really knowing where to begin. They are two bodies, tired and alone, pierced by their precarious situation, by unresolved issues, by the emotional legacy of a generation who always seem to come late to everything: to love, to stability, to maturity, to serenity, to personal satisfaction.
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Massih Parsaei
Germany
87 min.
Iman has built his life in Berlin around absence. From his family, from Iran, from being known. He fills the silence with work, invented stories, and nights with a man he meets for sex in the park. When his cousin, whom he barely knows, arrives from Tehran for a brief visit, what he left behind quietly finds its way back to him.
WIP Europa 2025
Rodrigo García Saiz
Mexico
95 min.
Mateo is a small-town vet. Since his son died, he has lived a life of silent routines and nameless guilt. The violence of the place isn’t immediately visible: it sits there, lurking, like a never-ending echo. This fragile balance is broken when Mateo has to heal Morro, the local capo’s injured dog. The animal’s everyday care leads to an unexpected bond: a relationship with neither judgement nor words, that enables Mateo to recover the meaning of life.
Ayana Nurdinova
Kazakhstan
95 min.
Zhandos, a music teacher, lives in the small town of Balkhash and dreams of moving to a big city. He is loved by his students, and the school turns a blind eye to his side jobs. When a patron nostalgic for his hometown arrives, Zhandos is given a chance to leave. He must decide what matters more: the art within him, or himself within art.
Hristo Simeonov
Bulgaria - France
86 min.
Mima has grown up in the shadow of her father's absence, raised by her uncompromising mother, Boyka. When news of his death arrives and his body returns to their village, recognition becomes both duty and dilemma. As Boyka refuses to face the man she once loved, mother and daughter confront a silent past, forcing Mima to decide what it means to inherit a life she never chose.
Lu Po-Shun
Taiwan - Singapore
100 min.
Amid an escalating feud in a rural Taiwanese village, a boy struggles to protect his secret friendship with his Singapore-raised best friend as adult conflicts threaten to tear them apart, while he quietly begins to question the true nature of his feelings for his friend.
Tatjana Moutchnik
Germany - Austria - Spain
98 min.
Two different notions of family identity clash when a man from Odesa and his son visit his brother in Germany for the funeral of their mother, the day before the Ukraine war breaks out.
WIP Europa 2025
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Kazuya Murayama
Japan
91 min.
In a provincial Japanese town, Japanese-Russian siblings Nikita and Nina live an isolated life with their Russian grandparents, knowing their absent parents only through stories. When their father Nikolai suddenly returns, he takes them on a journey to see their mother Yuki, a Japanese ballet dancer. Along the way, the children discover unfamiliar landscapes, brief encounters, and the fragile bonds of family.
Yoon Dan-bi
South Korea - Japan - France
111 min.
Seventeen-year-old Jin has never left the island where she was born—a place with no road to the mainland, where the sea quietly sets the rhythm of everyday life. When Dujae returns for his grandmother's funeral, he stays alone in the house she left behind. Jin begins finding small excuses to visit him, and little by little, seeing him becomes part of her everyday life. As summer wears on, the island she has always known begins to feel unfamiliar—the roads, the sea, the faces around her, all subtly transformed. Jin finds herself looking at it, and at herself, for the first time. But summer, like everything else on the island, will not stay.
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