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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Andrey Zvyagintsev
France - Germany - Latvia
135 min.
Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
Closing film out of competition
Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
France
119 min.
1985, Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris with his middle-class family, caught between an older brother who brushes him off and parents who never stop arguing. No longer a kid but not yet an adult, Vincent fumbles through life's big questions: identity, friendship, family, first crushes... and why adults never seem to have figured things out either.
Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi
Spain - France
155 min.
Story narrating the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritence. This is one of Federico García Lorca’s last, unfinished, works.
50 years of freedom
Jordan Firstman
USA
126 min.
Peter, a hard-partying New York City club promoter accustomed to a life of excess, electronic music and endless nights, sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended when a woman he doesn't know shows up on his doorstep with Arlo, a 10-year-old boy she claims is his son. What started out as an impossible situation soon turns into a mad, fun and tender connection, as unexpected as it is transformative.
Louis Clichy
France - Belgium
90 min.
Iron Boy tells the tale of Christophe, an 11-year-old boy who tries to follow in his father's steps, helping in their family farm. But everything changes the day he is prescribed an incapacitating iron corset, meaning that he can no longer do the everyday farm chores. However, this sudden change will give Christophe the opportunity to discover new passions like swimming and music, and to make friends who will forever mark his life.
Lukas Dhont
Belgium - France - Netherlands
127 min.
Surrounded by brutality but bound by tenderness, two World War I soldiers find a fragile sanctuary of love and art amid the shadows of the Belgian trenches. Lukas Dhont’s Coward asks a profound question for a generation sent to war: when the world demands violence, is walking away the truest act of bravery?
50 years of freedom
Paweł Pawlikowski
Poland - Germany - Italy - France
82 min.
Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.
50 years of freedom
Cristian Mungiu
Romania - France - Norway - Sweden - Denmark
146 min.
The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, settle in a village in a remote fjord where they strike up a close relationship with their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite the differences in their education. When the teenage Elia Gheorghiu turns up at school with bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education the children receive from their parents might have anything to do with it.
50 years of freedom
Na Hong-jin
South Korea
157 min.
Reinforcements have been diverted to battle wildfires and all communication has been cut off. Hope Harbor's police outpost chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of the elderly, while in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to track the beast find themselves hunted instead. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
Olivia Wilde
USA
107 min.
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic neighbours, Pina and Hawk, round for dinner, a seemingly innocent evening gives way to confessions, hidden desires and situations that are as awkward as they are funny, putting their relationship to the test.
Beth de Araújo
USA
114 min.
After accidentally witnessing a rape in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, 8-year-old Josephine starts to demonstrate violent and paranoid behaviour. The trauma destabilises her family as her parents seek justice and a way to recover her lost security.
Ira Sachs
USA - France
95 min.
In the vibrant New York of the late 80s, Jimmy George, a famous underground artist, is experiencing a decisive moment in his life in which, despite everything, beauty and love are still possible.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
France - Japan - Germany - Belgium
196 min.
As the director of a care facility for the elderly, Marie-Lou strives to introduce an innovative care philosophy based on listening and respecting residents’ dignity, despite resistance from some members of her staff. Her encounter with Mari, a Japanese theater director battling cancer, will forever change her life. By forming a deep, supportive friendship, the two women join forces in a shared struggle to “make the impossible possible.”
Nanni Moretti
Italy - France - Spain
103 min.
Matteo is playing tennis when a woman in a bride's dress runs onto the court. It's Greta. She kicks off her shoes, grabs a racket and invites him to play. For seven years, the woman will never be far from Matteo's mind. As they follow their paths and parallel lives, fate seems determined to keep them apart. But one day they run into each other again and now, perhaps, their time has come. Will it happen tonight?
Leah Nelson
Canada - USA
102 min.
When Alzheimer’s begins to erase her mother’s personality, Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90’s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family's conservative small town. Initially confident she can manage the situation, she soon realizes she must accept the harsh, disorienting reality of the disease to become the daughter her family needs.
Martin McDonagh
USA - UK - Chile
113 min.
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee set out to Easter Island from Santiago, where they are stationed alongside their boss and bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
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