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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Laurenz Otto
Germany
15 min.
Short film
Younus won't give up! The fascination for a strange yet familiar father figure mix with a growing longing for real intimacy. Cautiously testing and pushing boundaries, Younus plays a risky game. When the tension finally explodes, he questions the deeper foundations of this fragile relationship.
Benjamin Goubet
Switzerland
28 min.
Short film
Geneva, at night. The guards patrol the city and the soldiers train. Sony is a security guard, Ana is a bank receptionist. Around them, the city sinks into melancholy as two stars meet.
Marie Sizorn
France
14 min.
Short film
In Corsica, the inhabitants of a village witnessed a gigantic fire. A memory leads the filmmaker to this event that changed the course of their lives and left its mark.
Zhang Fengyi
China
16 min.
Short film
In a town that is being demolished, a young man named Feng Hao tries to find Jian, who owes him money, so that he can pay for his girlfriend's abortion.
Nagore Muriel Letamendia
Spain
12 min.
Short film
It's a year since Ainhoa's father died. Since then, mother and daughter live in the farmhouse they shared with him. Ainhoa would rather leave the place, a space that reminds her of her father. The mother, on the other hand, wants her daughter to stay with her. When a cow dies on the farm, her mother will use it as an excuse to stop Ainhoa from going to the city.
Kim Allamand
Switzerland
20 min.
Short film
City people set off into a warm late summer night. Glances meet in a library. At a workout, two men discuss where to buy love. A couple kisses intimately. She bites him. No sooner has he bought a match than a better offer calls. Doubts arise.
Advik Beni
South Africa
8 min.
Short film
The son of a professional mourner has now taken up the mantle of his father. He is confused -he does not want to mourn anymore, but it is all he knows how to do. Soon enough he is traversing the vast mountainous landscape of Kwa-Zulu Natal as he struggles to find a place where he belongs.
Judith Auffray
France
16 min.
Short film
At night and in the darkness of day, an explorer with binoculars and a notebook makes his way through the jungle of Borneo in search of orangutans.
Sofía Salinas, Juan David Bohórquez
Colombia
14 min.
Short film
After filming his father's exhumation, Juan comes across a series of videos he had made on his rounds while working as a teacher and syndicalist. Juan visits different parts of his hometown following these images in search of memories of his father, murdered during one of the most violent periods in Colombia.
Mikele Landa Eiguren
Spain
23 min.
Short film
A forest starts over. A town recalls the landscape it never saw. Hands, hoes, and boots that stir up the dry earth to bring to the surface the trees that once inhabited Ulla. Here the river is constantly born and murmurs an already forgotten language. Who will live in this forest when it exists? Can a forest be planted? Will someone give it a name? Where does a town begin?
Ana Galizia
Brazil
21 min.
Short film
Summoning documents, images and sounds from the archives to connect the past with the present in the struggle for land and water in the Guapiaçu valley region, Brazil.
Rodney Llaverías
Dominican Republic
21 min.
Short film
Dolores, a strong and detached woman tasked with taking care of her deranged, ailing mother, is suddenly torn from her everyday life when a wounded dog falls from the sky onto the rooftop of her home. Through this newfound friendship, Dolores finds a way out of her monotony and embraces her wild side.
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