73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025
73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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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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Provisional list of this section’s films announced as per today.
Edward Berger
UK
104 min.
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
Dolores Fonzi
Argentina
105 min.
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.
Milagros Mumenthaler
Switzerland - Argentina
104 min.
At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremony in Switzerland. Back in Buenos Aires, she says nothing, but something in her has shifted - quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
Alice Winocour
France - USA
106 min.
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.
Claire Denis
Francia
105 min.
A vast public works project in West Africa. Horn, the construction site manager, and Cal, a young engineer, share lodging behind the double gates of their compound. Leone, Horn's recent bride, comes to join them the same night that a man appears at the fence. His name is Alboury. Like a specter in the darkness, he demands the body of his brother who died earlier that day on the site. He will hound the two men all night long until they return it, as Leone watches the disaster play out before her.
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Arnaud Desplechin
France
115 min.
Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved.
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Spain - France
115 min.
Los domingos / Sundays tells the story of Ainara, an idealistic and brilliant 17-year-old who has to decide what university degree to pursue — or at least that's what her family hopes she will do. However, the young woman says she feels increasingly closer to God and is considering embracing the life of a cloistered nun. The news takes the entire family by surprise, creating a chasm and putting everyone to the test.
Agnieszka Holland
Czech Republic - Germany - Poland
127 min.
Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. Franz will give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
José Luis Guerin
Spain - France
122 min.
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.
Qin Xiaoyu
China
86 min.
Hong has been in prison for ten years for killing her husband. Due to her contribution to the inmates' art troupe, Hong unexpectedly gets a chance to reduce her sentence. Her son, Lele, has been raised by his grandmother and has never been ready to live with his mother. After their reunion, Lele always treats her coldly. With a lonely grandmother who wants Lele to come back to her, and a society that is not kind to ex-prisoners, will Hong be able to escape the intangible prison and regain the freedom of her heart?
Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi
Spain
115 min.
After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought was long resolved. In this new environment, Vicente must ask himself if he has enough time left to make his peace with others… and with himself.
James Vanderbilt
USA
150 min.
Nuremberg plunges us into the centre of the trials held in the 80s by the Allies following the defeat of the Nazi regime. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelly is tasked with assessing the mental health of the Nazi prisoners and determining if they are fit to stand trial for their war crimes. From one day to the next, Kelly will find himself thrown into a complex battle of wits with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man and one of the world's most feared men.
Yutaro Seki, Kentaro Hirase
Japan
128 min.
Four people lead ordinary lives in different places, their paths never crossing. A mysterious man appears in each story, always as someone else. One moment, a cram school instructor; the next, a truck driver, a barber; his identity constantly shifting. Then, death strikes. A detective pursues the truth, closing in on a revelation...
Joachim Lafosse
Belgium - France - Luxembourg
94 min.
Despite adversity, Sana wants her twins to have a spring vacation, but all her plans fall through. They secretly decide to stay in her former in-laws' villa on the Riviera, without telling anyone. Six days of sunshine that mark the end of innocence.
Alberto Rodríguez
Spain - France
109 min.
Antonio and Estrella are siblings. Their father was a diver. They have spent their whole lives at sea. Antonio is known as The Tiger, an indomitable diver and the perfect buddy to have with you when you risk your life in only a few seconds, every day. Estrella helps her brother on the barge where they work. She keeps him grounded; out of the water, Antonio is a real mess. He has always lived in the moment, never thinking about the future, leaving him with barely a penny to his name. When Antonio has an accident, he is told that his diving days will soon be over. The future looks dark and complicated. However, this situation may just change when they find a stash of cocaine hidden in the hull of an oil tanker. Antonio sees no other option, but his sister Estrella has her doubts. As always.
Olmo Omerzu
Czech Republic - Slovenia - Poland - Slovakia - Croatia - France
110 min.
David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klara, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. The only thing uniting her parents is their need to save her. And desperate times call for desperate measures.
Alberto Rodríguez
Spain
180 min.
Series
When Tejero stormed the Spanish Congress building gun in hand, only three men stayed in their seats whilst the others crouched down to protect themselves: Adolfo Suárez, Santiago Carrillo and Gutiérrez Mellado. Through these three men who led the transition to democracy and the three ringleaders of the coup d’état —Tejero, Milans and Armada—, the series follows the chain of events and tensions that brought the country to the brink of returning to the former military regime.
Not in competition
Agustín Díaz Yanes
Spain
105 min.
She Walks in Darkness draws inspiration from the biggest covert operation against ETA, which marked a turning point in the fight against terrorism in Spain. Based on the historical, political and social context of the 90s and the 2000s, the film tells the story of Amaia, a young Civil Guard who spends more than ten years with the terrorist group as an undercover agent, tasked with finding the hiding places used by the organisation in southern France.
Not in competition
Elena Molina, Isaki Lacuesta
Spain
98 min.
A daughter sets out to find out the truth about the man who was her father, a legendary musician, who died when she was 8 years old. He is Antonio Flores, and she the also famous actress Alba Flores. Alba stopped singing when she lost Antonio and is now determined to recover her voice and her background, asking family members and friends for the first time.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
Juliette Binoche
France
156 min.
In 2007, Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan paused their careers to co-create In-I, a daring performance toured worldwide. Today, Juliette Binoche revisits that inspiring journey. Through unseen footage, she reflects, as a filmmaker, on creation, the risks it entails, and the personal transformation it brings.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
Asier Altuna
Spain
114 min.
The Basque Country, 1937. Driven from their home when war breaks out, Karmele and her family flee to France, where she is contacted by the Basque cultural embassy in exile, who use music and dance to combat the war. There she meets and falls in love with Txomin, a professional trumpet player. After living in Venezuela for a time, the couple come home with the hope of recovering everything that was taken from them.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2019, Proyecta 2019
Paco Plaza, Pablo Guerrero
Spain
191 min.
Series
In Fate, a shy young taxi driver and aspiring public office candidate, David (Ricardo Gómez) unexpectedly becomes the chauffeur of El Maestro (Óscar Jaenada), a former bullfighter who comes out of retirement to recover his lost reputation. El Maestro is on a losing streak and David and his taxi bring him luck, or at least that’s what he thinks…
Special Screenings - Not in competition
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Junji Sakamoto
Japan
130 min.
In 1975, a woman made her way to the summit of Mount Everest. Her name is Junko. She became the first woman in history to conquer the world's highest summit. Her glorious achievement captivated the world, casting a radiant light but also a deep shadow on her friends and family. In her later years, even though she was diagnosed with a terminal illness, Junko continued to challenge the mountains throughout her life. What did Junko last see beyond the top?
Special Screenings - Not in competition
Koldo Almandoz
Spain
164 min.
Series
Nerea Garcia is having a rough time of it; it’s four years since she was thrown out of the Basque Ertzaintza police force and she now leads a solitary life in her Bilbao home. The appearance of a woman’s corpse, murdered in some kind of ritual, prompts her former boss to ask her for help with the investigation. What Nerea hadn’t realised is that ghosts from the past and present would lead her down into the bowels of the city, where nothing and nobody is what it seems.
Special Screenings - Not in competition
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