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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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Seven Ibero-American films will compete for the Cooperación Española Award which is granted by AECID at the San Sebastián Festival
The Zurriola Promenade will provide the setting until 28 September for the photography exhibition The Daughters of Jazz, organised by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
The press conference held in San Sebastián was attended by Santiago Herrero, Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations at AECID; José Andrés Torres Mora, President of AC/E; Eneko Goia, Mayor of San Sebastián; the photographer Omar Ayyashi and José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastián Festival.
A journey of sight and sound between eras
Inspired by the glamour, aesthetic rupture, and emancipatory impulse of the 1920s and 30s Hollywood, the exhibition celebrates the spirit of historical figures like María Zambrano, Virginia Woolf and Gabriela Mistral, connecting it with the talent of contemporary Spanish actresses. The project, conceived by Omar Ayyashi, brings together portraits of actresses Hiba Abouk, Leticia Dolera, Marta Etura, Clara Galle, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, María Hervás, Miren Ibarguren, Clara Lago, Victoria Luengo, Olivia Molina, Lola Rodríguez, Ana Rujas, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Cecilia Suárez, Manuela Velasco and Natalia Verbeke, who embody the essence of those pioneers.
The project is inspired by the exhibition of stills from the Jose Romero Sampedro collection, entitled Women of Cinema, produced by AECID in 2019. The exhibition includes 36 large-format photographs (120x90 cm), accompanied by four texts on the essence and process of creating the exhibition. For an immersive experience, each portrait is accompanied by a literary audio piece interpreted by the actresses themselves, accessible via QR codes.
In the words of its creator, Omar Ayyashi, "this exhibition is a tribute to all women who, with their attitude and with their time, with their willpower and with their strength, with their renunciations, with their courage, with their perseverance and their tenacity, succeeded in conveying their convictions and making them take hold in the hearts of others”.
Cooperación Española Award
For the 11th year running, thanks to the collaboration between the AECID and the San Sebastián Festival, every year the Cooperación Española Award goes to the producer of the Ibero-American film – included both Spain and Portugal – making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights. This year the jury is presided over by Inés López del Pino, Head of Communication at AECID, who will be joined by Patxi Presa, Head of the Library and Cultural Promotion and Dissemination Service at Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, and the journalist Teresa Flaño.
The objective of the award, coming with 10,000 euros, is to consolidate the commitment to work with the Ibero-American audiovisual industry in promoting new talent, stimulating the production of film projects, spreading the values of the development cooperation and strengthening the commercialisation and internationalisation of the films.
Seven films in the Official Selection, New Directors and Horizontes Latinos compete for the Cooperación Española Award, whose winner will be announced on 27 September during the closing gala in the Kursaal:
Official Selection
Tucumán, Argentina, 2014; a young woman is admitted to a hospital with severe abdominal pain, unaware she is pregnant. She wakes up handcuffed to a gurney and surrounded by police. She is accused of having self-induced an abortion and, after two years in detention, is sentenced to eight years in prison for aggravated homicide. A female lawyer from Tucumán will fight for her freedom with the support of thousands of women and organizations, who unite to change the course of history.
In a peripheral neighbourhood, where the rural and urban worlds meet, the houses of the first migrants who arrived after the post-war period coexist with the new blocks of the dormitory city, where the latest wave of migration is concentrated. This humble corner is now an authentic global village. Good Valley Stories is a sum of constructs, of social, generational and identity, urban and ecological conflicts, but it is also a calm and humanistic look at today’s world.
New Directors
At the age of thirteen, Laura feels trapped in her new family. Just as she starts accepting her new life surrounded by sprawling forests and palm plantations, she learns that the village hides a dark secret that preys on the women she loves most.
Horizontes Latinos
In the early 80s, in the Chilean desert, 11-year-old Lidia is raised by a queer family banished to the outskirts of an unpleasant and dusty mining town. They are accused of causing a mysterious disease that’s starting to spread, said to be passed on through a simple gaze, when one man falls for another. In this modern western, Lidia leads the quest for revenge, taking on the violence, the fear and the hatred, where the family is her only haven and love could be the real danger.
Chile, summer 1990. As the dictatorship is in its final throes, fifteen-year-old Celeste is spending the holidays with her family on a beach by the Atacama Desert when an event shatters her adolescence and sends her mother into a downward spiral. Months later, drawn by the promise of a solar eclipse, Celeste returns to the spot, but nothing is the same. In a changing country, she must find her own path.
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta, in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community's leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free.
1979, New Mexico, USA. Olmo is stuck. Today is his turn to take care of his sick father even though he is only 14 years old and would much rather be hanging out with his best friend, Miguel. But when he gets invited to a party by his beautiful neighbour, Nina, he will do whatever he can to get out of his duties, embarking on a journey of mischief and chaos. As the night unfolds, he may come to love the very place he's spent so long trying to escape: his home.
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