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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Jesus Mari Lazkano
Spain
22 min.
Short film
Animated short film based on the drawings of the artist Jesus Mari Lazkano and showing us the transformation of the Mer de Glace glaciar in Chamonix. The film opens with an introduction narrating the history of the loss of a painting on the subject by Caspar Friedrich dating from 1824, which disappeared during the desperate flight of the Nazis from Berlin in May 1945. It continues with a physical zoom out, a journey to the outside of the galaxy, serving to go back in time to the last glacial period (2 million years ago).
Inge Mendioroz Ibañez
Spain
72 min.
A singer frozen in old black and white photos. Forever young. Encapsulated. Trapped in the frame, just like her voice on her vinyl records. Forgetting that the point of view is chosen. Forgetting that, in addition to being a singer, Lurdes Iriondo is also an essential reference in the transmission of Basque culture. She understood that children were the key, and she worked for them.
Anuska Ariztimuño
Spain
79 min.
The musical career spanning 40 years and the relationship of 25 years with his partner provide the excuse to look at the life and history of 60-year-old Mikel Erentxun, one of the most influential artists in the national music scene. Delving into the artist's professional background and his personal life is part of the essence of this film. Embracing his fear of death and, above all, of the passing of time, means that Mikel has to make important decisions in his life.
Borja Cobeaga
Spain - Belgium
89 min.
In the working class suburbs of Bilbao in the late 80s, a rhythmic gymnastics team gets ready to compete in a championship to take place in Berlin. When the mothers are unable to accompany their daughters, the task falls to the men, who show scarce interest in the trip, or in the sport, or even in their own daughters. This will be a long journey, as the Berlin Wall falls, during which they will discover a new way to be fathers.
Mikelatxo Urbi taldea
Spain
75 min.
The documentary Arg(h)itzen features the testimonials of 30 people who were subjected to torture in the Sakana region between the years of 1966 and 2011, through a rigorous and dynamic story. Not only does it show what torture is and how it can be recovered from, but it also reveals, through experts, the State structures of impunity. This is the result of an enormous work of collaboration between neighbours to highlight the truth about torture and create the path towards its complete eradication.
Nacho Vigalondo
Spain - Belgium
118 min.
Life loses all meaning for Nicolas (Henry Golding) with the loss of his girlfriend Daniela (Beatrice Grannò). One day he is invited to participate in a clinical trial that will enable him able to control his dreams. He agrees with the hope of recovering. Now Nicolás can dream of Daniela every night and resume their relationship, more blissful than ever. Even if it is in his dreams. And running the risk of forever losing himself in them.
Gaizka Urresti
Spain
95 min.
A dauntless film director, an enfant terrible in his early days, confrontational with censorship, always pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicler of the darkest corners of the transition, De la Iglesia will fall into the clutches of drug addiction, being forgotten and sometimes repudiated for more than a decade before eventually shaking off the ostracism to make films once again, that habit he could never kick.
Asier Urbieta
Spain - France
100 min.
Pheasant Island is the world's smallest area of jointly owned land. For half of the year it belongs to the Spanish state, and for the other half to the French. It stands in the middle of the Bidasoa river, a natural border separating the two states. Laida and Sambou, a local couple, are taking a stroll in front of the island. Suddenly they see two people trying to swim across the river to the other side. Days later a body appears during the event to exchange sovereignty of the island. Who is going to take charge?
Arantxa Aldaz, Javier Roldán, David Taberna
Spain
40 min.
Medium-length film
The documentary Gregorio Ordóñez, el asesinato que despertó la rebelión contra ETA is an exercise of memory recalling the figure of the People's Party councillor and Deputy Mayor of San Sebastián on the 30th year of his assassination. The production looks back at the circumstances of his attack, the context of the Basque Country and San Sebastián in particular in 1995 and the events that followed his murder.
Larraitz Zuazo, Zuri Goikoetxea, Ainhoa Andraka
Spain
102 min.
The finding of a series of unpublished tapes prompts Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic band Itoiz, to think back over their break-up at the height of their fame, following an obvious change of style towards the pop music that he continues to spurn today. Juan Carlos therefore sets out on a cathartic journey into the essence of the group, reliving its early days as a prog-rock group in the Mutriku of the early 70s as he comes to terms with the past.
Sara Fantova
Spain
80 min.
Bilbao, mid-August. Jone (20) lives with her father and her younger sister Marta. Her father has had to leave his job, unable to continue due to the complications of Parkinson's. Meanwhile the Big Week festivities kick off in Bilbao, during which Jone will fall in love for the first time. During this summer, Jone will alternate between the sensation of immortality she enjoys with Olga, the girl she falls for, and the fear of being left alone because of her father's disease.
Patxi Bisquert
Spain
115 min.
The poet and bertsolari (improviser of Basque verse), Pello Mari Otaño fled to Argentina for the first time to avoid being drafted. Falling ill at the age of 33, he returns to Gipuzkoa. He meets Madalen Alberdi, marries her and sets up home in San Sebastián. He participates in several literary events, where he stands out for his poetical compositions. Unable to maintain his family and his political condition, a liberal republican and supporter of the fuero system of regional privileges, he returns to Argentina for the last time with his wife and three children.
Oier Plaza
Spain - France - Czech Republic
90 min.
After reading the novel El impostor, Professor Unai Eguía begins an investigation to uncover what happened to Enric Moner, a Catalan republican deported to Nazi camps. At the same time, Antón Gandarias investigates his uncle Anjel Lekuona, who was captured by the Gestapo in exile. Their paths cross and their investigations take them to Prague, where they discover the incredible story of František Suchý and his son, who risked their lives to save the ashes of 2,000 victims of Nazism.
Aitor Abio
Spain
14 min.
Short film
When her father is involved in a scandal he doesn't want to talk about, Izaro tries to protect her little sister by keeping her out of it.
Zinemira Kimuak
Ekaitz Bertiz
Spain
16 min.
Short film
Joxepi, eldest daughter at the Iparragirre farmstead, will have to do her father's work while he recovers from an illness: smuggling a heavy package across the border with France. In the dead of night, border guards are not the most wicked thing lurking in the forest.
Zinemira Kimuak
Ainhoa Ordóñez Yraolagoitia
Spain
21 min.
Short film
In nighttime Havana, the dim lights that light up its streets rely on an unstable electricity supply- the same one that supplies the sound systems at raves. A group of young people, witnesses to the complete lack of energy, drift through the city, lost in delirious conversations, conspiracies and apathy as the city grows darker.
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Ricardo del Conde
Spain
5 min.
Short film
Memory is fragile, and mine perhaps even more so. I make notes or create clues that allow me not to forget, but at the same time help me cross the threshold of death. My seven-year-old daughter Iune has battled rhabdomyosarcoma. To find healing from the experience, I created a four-part ritual in four directions. A journey back home to Mexico. A journey that has been abstract and confusing, yet filled with symbols and meaning. This expanded cinema experience is built from the director’s random, yet sometimes methodical and systematic notes.
Zinemira Kimuak
Lara Izaguirre Garizurieta
Spain
14 min.
Short film
Aurora, Dessi, and Samara, three Roma women, head to the centre of Bilbao to buy a birthday present for their niece Sarai.
Zinemira Kimuak
Harrotu Ileak , Zine-Lab
Spain
14 min.
Short film
Bodies that move, walk, swim, progress. Bodies that rely on other bodies: that communicate and organise among themselves. Their complex movements mean that obstacles, borders, farewells, walls, family, hopes and arrivals all become imprinted on the body. Changes of place and travel appear as power, possibility, and future. Friday Dreams is a collaborative film made by sharing experiences, compiling fragments, transforming images and imaginaries, and expressing them.
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