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
María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat
Argentina - Mexico - Norway
61 min.
The son of Alicia Eguren, and adopted by John William Cooke, Pedro Catella lived a remarkable life, touching on every crucial Latin American historical episode in the second half of the 20th century. A member of the Peronist resistance since the age of 9, a sniper in the Escambray mountains at 17, his life was stamped by a revolutionary and tragic fate, the fate of his country.
Closing Film
Isaki Lacuesta
Spain
78 min.
Using archive material and employing a fragmented, polyphonic structure, the film presents a history of flamenco that links it to modernity, popular culture and politics. Through unexpected narratives and associations, and featuring figures from various eras and contexts, the film explores an 'impure' flamenco that is in constant dialogue with the world, where tradition, mass culture, and the contemporary imagination coexist.
María Aparicio
Argentina - Spain
96 min.
Eva is on a short stay in Madrid. There she spends her days alone: she knows no-one, but neither is she particularly interested in making friends with strangers. The city is therefore a place she doesn't know, through which she wanders aimlessly and with her curiosity set to low. But one afternoon, in one of the rooms of the Reina Sofia Museum, a man approaches her. His name is Dante and he is an Argentinian historian in Madrid to carry out research into Juan Bialet Massé and the workers' struggles in his country.
Tanmay Chowdhary, Tanvi Chowdhary
India
13 min.
Short film
In Mumbai, a young woman moves from audition to audition, performing versions of herself for casting directors. She has left school behind, doesn't know how to cook, and carries with her the half-borrowed memory of a grandmother she never met but is constantly told she resembles, a woman who, family lore insists, could have been an actress herself. As the line between performing and living thins, she feels like she's inside a film, watching her own life from just outside of it.
Dorothea Sing Zhang
China - UK
16 min.
Short film
A girl sifts through the dune to find her identity card in order to enrol in the Beijing Opera academy.
Albertina Carri
Argentina - Chile - Spain
65 min.
Cine vivo is a short film, this performance, a book. An artifact that mutates according to its own narrative and spatial needs. It shapes itself, borrowing elements from the different disciplines, but in its name too it recognises the process of decomposition of the material that makes life to continue existing and latch onto another organism. The condition of death as an inexorable part of life. All the impurity of writing combined with the impurity of film to shape this new vital cyber organism. An artifact coming from the past to be launched into the future like a capsule of possibilities. A philosophy, a moral and an eroticism drawing on stories, on praxis, on death, on omissions, on processes, on the nobility of banality, as Marguerite Duras would say, on chemicals and time. That unavoidable gem, that unfathomable condition on which both the cinema and life itself feed.
Not in competition
El Pampero Cine
© El Pampero Cine
David Lamelas, Ignacio Masllorens
Argentina
96 min.
Two young women producers are tasked with making a documentary about an elusive and mysterious figure of the Argentinian vanguard in the 60s. The project also demands the participation of David Lamelas, a successful leading light of conceptual art and the artist's former travelling companion. What begins as a clear-cut, defined work set around interviews and archives starts to raise a worrying question: How can you lend visibility to a person who chose to disappear?
Lee Chang-dong
South Korea
164 min.
The story of two married couples - a laid-off worker and his wife and a documentary filmmaker and her husband - whose paths cross to film a documentary as they face their different lives and hidden desires.
Salka Tiziana
Germany
25 min.
Short film
It’s summer harvest on a vegetable farm in northern Germany. The daily routine of seasonal worker Frida and her international colleagues is shaped by fixed rhythms and repetitive tasks. As the end of the season approaches an uncertainty about what comes next begins to grow. Yet when a bird gets trapped in the greenhouses, time seems to stand still for a moment.
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Spain
91 min.
“Night will fall fourteen times in this film. We will count them.” So begins this nocturnal, musical journey—a voyage that drifts through the artistic vision of the Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, and which is dominated, above all, by an “Interior, Night” setting: the Basilica of Arantzazu. It is there that the longest night unfolds, beside the sanctuary’s organ, where filmmaker Oskar Alegria shuts himself away to recount these fourteen nights to pianist Iñar Sastre—summoning him to conjure, through the keys, images he wont see. From this challenge emerges a collection of fourteen moons, fourteen darknesses, and fourteen mysteries that form a single frieze. Fourteen, like the number of apostles Oteiza managed to place on the façade of that temple in an artistic challenge that broke all the rules; and fourteen because, as he himself put it, “there was no room for any more.”
Angelica Ruffier
Sweden - Norway
95 min.
After the death of her estranged father, Angelica and her brother are forced to return to their childhood home: a big house in the French countryside overflowing with unspeakable clutter and the lingering presence of their despotic parent. As Angelica begins the overwhelming task of clearing it out, she comes across her teenage diaries, resurrecting a secret and fierce love she once harbored for her history teacher, Mademoiselle B.
Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Spain - Peru - Italy
121 min.
Adela, a Mexican sound artist, travels from the jungle to the Peruvian Andes with Lucho, her guide and translator. Following in the footsteps of her grandfather, a Catalan republican exiled in Mexico, she weaves a sound map of endangered languages. When the fear of death appears, the reality breaks into pieces. Adela’s journey becomes an intimate voyage to her childhood home. Lejos de los árboles / Far from the Trees is packed with tales of the fragility of existence and the need to remember, listen and love.
Ikusmira Berriak 2022
Proyecta 2021
Bruno Dumont
Portugal - France - Italy - Spain - Qatar
90 min.
On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in their favourite game: jumping off the red cliffs of the Mediterranean. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart become a source of tension.
Federico Luis
Mexico - Chile - UK - France
15 min.
Short film
In the tough neighbourhood of Tepito, a young boy chases the great Mexican dream: to become a boxing champion.
Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă
Romania
23 min.
Short film
From 1985-1987, American journalist Edward Serotta visited Communist Romania and took photos of the country's harsh realities. The Secret Police (Securitate) followed him and secretly took photos of him taking photos. Forty years later, we put together the two sets of images, a shot/reverse shot revealing the comical side of the story.
Jane Schoenbrun
USA - Canada
112 min.
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the star of the original film, now a reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Austria
86 min.
Al Cook lives surrounded by memories. His apartment is packed with books, video tapes and vinyl records: remnants of a life that he once lived to the full. Here time seems to have stopped, while outside the world carries on without him. When his home is slated for demolition by a ruthless estate agency, they strip him of his refuge. As Al is forced to part with his treasures one by one, he asks himself a painful question: how do you move forward when memories are all you have left? Faced with total loss, he chooses a radical new beginning.
Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot
Switzerland
90 min.
For thirty years, Loran Bonnardot, a doctor from Paris, has been visiting Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island in the middle of the South Atlantic. Home to some of the most unique species, only 6 to 8 boats make the journey per year. This volcanic island has become Loran's spiritual refuge; its inhabitants, his chosen family, and Martin, the fisherman, his best friend. Now 50, Loran travels back to his utopian island once more but this time with no intention of leaving.
Tsai Ming-Liang
Spain - Taiwan
78 min.
The Walker arrives in San Sebastián, a place of light-filled beauty. A red-coloured strip moves slowly through the forests and along the edges of the wind and the sea, between the noise of the night and the quietness of the day. With slow steps, he moves before the eyes of many: a calm figure in the immensity of the world, leaving a fleeting mark in the memory of strangers. Past and present merge with one another. Both creation and nature dissolve into dust.
Mo Harawe
Austria - Somalia - Germany
28 min.
Short film
On the day of a decisive court hearing and an important wedding performance, a quiet wedding musician finds his private life exposed to public scrutiny. Accused of exploiting his marriage, he moves between the courtroom, the city streets and the stage, carrying the weight of judgment, loyalty, and unspoken guilt. Forced to make a restrained but irreversible decision, the film observes a man whose inner truth remains elusive, caught between devotion, dignity and loss.
Bojina Panayotova
France
43 min.
Medium-length film
1980. Thousands of women surround the Pentagon. They protest, weep, weave, create. They awaken another form of power and invent a new form of action. With Love and Rage is a political and musical incantation that brings this uprising back to life. The film weaves together archives, stories, voices, and songs, allowing a collective political voice - and the personal stories that make it up - to emerge.
Marie-Rose Osta
France - Romania - Lebanon
27 min.
Short film
An 11-year-old boy with unusual powers lives with his uncle in a Lebanese village where the noise of warplanes is part of everyday life. As his uncle tries to make him seem "normal," the boy secretly tests an ability he barely understands. When he accidentally causes two warplanes to crash, what was hidden becomes impossible to control.
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