72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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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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András Jeles
Hungary
102 min.
Lászlo is a young man who lives in Budapest. One morning he goes to an office to pay a cheque, but he changes his mind and decides to keep the money. During the whole day, he will spend it on the most different things. His meeting with an old schoolmate brings up memories of past times. In the evening, he goes to the police station.
Filip Bajon
Poland
108 min.
Wladyslaw Goralewicz, who was in his days the strongest man in the world, is now an old man who narrates the most outstanding events of his life. He recalls his appointments with fashionable ladies, the parties of "La Belle Epoque", his work, his friends and, last but not least, a tenor who, fascinated by the beauty with which he performed his art, starts singing an aria for the athlete.
Iván Zulueta
Spain
105 min.
Jose Sigrado is slightly over thirty, he is a film-director and has just finished his second film in a state of great restlessness and agitation. Maybe he is not pleased with his work, maybe it is the memory of Ana, his former lover that unsettles him, ...or might it be that his body needs another kind of heroin, which he knows well?.
Franco Rosso
United Kingdom
95 min.
During the day, Blue is working in a garage and at night, he sings in a reggae group, "Ital Lion". When the group wins a competition, they must confront Jah Shaka, the number one among the reggae singers. Spark, Lover, Blue, Beefy and Errol invest all their savings in bying sound equipment, in order to compete with Jah Shaka.
Walter Weber
Federal Republic of Germany
90 min.
Because of his lack of punctuality and his misbehaviour, Albert is fired from the printing-house where he was working. Silva, the friend with whom he is living, wants to start working in the company of her former boyfriend, Toni. Albert sees a rival in Toni and tries, by all means, to draw Silva's attention.
Usch Barthelmeß-Weller, Werner Meyer
Federal Republic of Germany
103 min.
Two friends, Paul and Erwin, belong to the band of children of the inner yard of house nº 67. Paul's father is unemployed and his family is in trouble. This is why Paul is not enthusiastic about Erwin's idea to organize a fancy dress ball in the yard. During the preparation of the feast, the situation of Paul's family is getting more and more serious. They have no money left to pay the rent. The ball is declared to be a benefit feast. And Erwin is able to announce that the receipts will pay the rent of the Richters. One year later, in 1933, the band of nº 67 inner yard no longer exists.
Antonio Hernández
Spain
114 min.
Alfredo, Domingo and Jesus are in a prison-like educative centre. Two young priests, Octavio and Francisco, are in charge of their "training", through terror, discipline and moral, with the manipulated help of one of the maids.
Tizuka Yamasaki
Brazil
112 min.
Taking advantage of the coffee boom, hundreds of Japanese go to Brazil, seeking for a better life. It is the case for Yamada and Titoe, who will have to marry in order not to get in trouble with the inmigration department. Their only wish is to make a fortune and go back to Japan. Yet, they will actually have to lead a beastly kind of life.
Wilfried Minks
Federal Republic of Germany
94 min.
Jaun feudal batek krudelkeriaz eta errepresioz agintzen du herrian. Jainkoak beraien babes eskaerei erantzuten ez diela ikusirik, herritar asko deabruarengana zuzentzen dira. Neska bat, bereziki, sorgin batean bilakatzen da.
Francesc Ribera
Spain
Short film
On the 26th of april, 1937, the city of Gernika was bombed and destroyed by nazi aircrafts. The film reconsructs the events, by alternating old images with scenes of the famous mural by Pablo Picasso.
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Piotr Szulkin
Poland
92 min.
The world has been devastated by an atomic war. The society which has outlived it, is living a scattered and miserable life. The "doctors" carry out their "Program for the reconstruction of humanity", the purpose of which is to transform degenerate individuals in members of the society. Pernat is one of them, an artificial man.
Ali Ozgentürk
Turkey
90 min.
Aga, a landowner, and Cheik, a religious chief, are dominating a small village in the eastern part of Anatolia. Hazal, the daughter of one of the poorest families, is engaged to the rich Besir. The latter leaves to serve as a soldier and doesn't come back. Tradition and the promise she made compel Hazal to marry Omer, Besir's young brother. Their married life becomes unbearable.
Karel Smyczek
Czechoslovakia
73 min.
In a boarding school, the young girls alternate their studies with their work in a textile factory. Each of them has her own problems, sometimes small and banal, sometimes serious and apparently without solution.
Gian Butturini
Italy
100 min.
Antonia and Bernardo are having a love affair which will lead them to marriage. They are both deeply involved in the peasant struggle to achieve better working conditions. The strikes of the spring in 1948 lead them to question the meaning of the "italian way to socialism" and the sense of armed struggle. From 1950, industrial development will draw many peasants to the urban centres, where they will become integrated in a strange world. The film reconstructs real facts.
Chris Vermorcken
Belgium - Italy
105 min.
Achievements, distresses, nonconformity: briefly, the life and work of Anna Magnani, revealed through excerpts of her films and interviews with the actress herself and the people who were in touch with her.
Raphaële Billetdoux
France
100 min.
A fourteen years old girl leads a double life in her small village. In the daytime, she goes to school and studies music. At night, she leaves her home to share a few hours friendship with a lonely and dumb man.
Jesús Garay
Spain
103 min.
Quique, Olmo and Juan decide to spend the summer alone in a country-house, on the Cantabric coast. Quique longs to become a woman, through a surgical treatment. Olmo is a vitalist painter, undergoing a creativity crisis; and Juan is an actor, who seizes situations through his polaroid camera. Their common denominator is homosexuality, though with different approaches.
Marja Kok , Erik Van Zuylen
The Netherlands
92 min.
De Waal is admitted to hospital for a routine check-up. Yet, after three weeks, he is told he is ill and he enters a world of loneliness and confinement which was unknown to him. The man who shares his room, Frank, is gay and friendly and between them arises a solid friendship, which is the core of the film.
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
80 min.
Luci, a resigned fortyish lady, is married to a policeman. Pepi, who lives in the opposite building, is an amoral, spontaneous, resourceful and modern young girl, full of life. Boom is a rather perverse and vicious teenager. Luci's husband rapes Pepi in exchange for his silence regarding the marihuana she is growing in her terrace. Luci and Boom become lovers, and Pepi writes the story of their love.
Jesús Sastre
Spain
105 min.
Documentary about the "San Fermines". This film tries to be different from other tourist aimed documentaries and provides us with a contrasted view of this festivity unravelling it's religious, taurine, political and bacchic dimensions. The documentary contains interviews with some popular characters of the time.
Jorge Sáenz Calero
Colombia
80 min.
Jaime, after some oniric experiences, starts an erotic relationship with Catalina. His unclear conception of women and the anxiety he experiences about edipic relations (with a mother he hasn't seen in eleven years) make him go back to a country manor where he spent his childhood, with Catalina. In Jaime's inner mind Catalina melt's into his mother's image, and when Jaime makes love to Catalina, his psicological blocking gets distroyed.
Pedro Sota
Spain
The character of the man who first originate the Basque nationalism, as well as the events of the time that shaped Sabino Arana's life are shown through four blocks: fiction and documentary sequences, an old film and photos from that time.
Tony Luraschi
Ireland
128 min.
The horrible details of the struggle between IRA and the British Army are brought to light, through the story of Michael Flaherty who, after being demobilized from the USA Army in Vietnam, goes to Ireland, the country where his grandfather fought against the Britsih Army years ago, to join Provisional IRA.
Carlo Verdone
Italy
97 min.
Three young men, typical of this time, are presented in a comic way through three different interwoven stories. Enzo is planning a trip to Poland, dreaming with sexual adventures. Ruggero has left his family to go and live in a comune. And Leo, a fragile and shy fellow, lives a fleeting love-story with a spanish tourist.
José María González Sinde
Spain
96 min.
Spain, in the early sixties, is a country of economical take-off. It is also the time when young academics, workers, and people from the mixed sector (maids, small clarks...) join the "Party". The film deals with the daily life of men and women belonging to this sector.
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