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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Davi Pretto
Brazil - France - Argentina
112 min.
After 15 years of living abroad, Amanda returns home with her French boyfriend, Martin. They arrive at her family's large-scale farm, located in a secluded village on the endless plains of southern Brazil. There, Amanda finds her father in a coma in the midst of increasing tension among the workers. The sole doctor in the nearby village is Helô, a young woman who resigns herself to caring for the local townspeople. The imminent death of the farm owner will put Amanda, Martin, and Helô at the heart of a disturbing settlement between the village and the farm owners.
Martín Benchimol
Argentina - France
77 min.
Having worked as a maid her whole life, Justina's former employer leaves her an enormous mansion deep in the Argentinian Pampa. The only condition is that she must never sell it. As the house falls to pieces and the farm animals are sold off, Alexia, her daughter, gets ready to return to the city. The film follows the last months spent together by mother and daughter in a bittersweet fairy tale offering the promise of salvation.
Guto Parente
Brazil - Portugal
85 min.
David is on the way to his hometown in Brazil to present a movie at a film festival. It's mid March 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic is starting to spread rapidly over the country. A lockdown is declared, the festival is suspended and David's flight home is canceled. Alone, David needs a place to stay and sees no alternative other than to reach out to his father, Gerardo, an eccentric man with whom he has not spoken for over ten years. When David arrives at Gerardo's apartment, strange things start to happen.
Felipe Carmona
Chile - Brazil
104 min.
The four most ruthless torturers of Pinochet's dictatorship are serving out sentences amounting to several hundred years in a luxury prison at the foot of the Andes. The place has a pool, gardens and aviaries where they are watched over by guards who feel more like their employees. When a television crew interviews one of the inmates, Contreras, his declarations fuel an unexpected backlash. Fearing their transfer to a regular jail, the military officers will do everything they can to stay where they are, unleashing fury and violence in the mountains.
Yennifer Uribe Alzate
Colombia - Chile
92 min.
Sandra is a single mother. She lives with her teenage son and works as a security guard. One morning, on taking a different bus route than usual to a new security post, she meets Javier behind the wheel. The two often coincide on his routes and her strong attraction to him leads to an affair. In the midst of exhausting working days, they enjoy time off with their colleagues. Sandra squares up to her personal life, realises that she is much more than a mother and embarks on a road to freedom through her own experience of desire.
Laura Plancarte
Mexico - UK
92 min.
Malena had her tubes tied after an abusive relationship and fled to Mexico City seeking a better life, but her ex-spouse took custody of her children despite her fierce fight. Today she has a new partner and is finishing the house where she dreams of living with her three children and a new baby. She needs IVF treatment if she is to have a second chance now that she's older and wiser. Malena decides to quit her job as a domestic worker and return home to set up a business and have the family she always dreamt of. Feeling abandoned, her children punish her while her partner threatens to leave if the IVF fails. Can she pull everyone together and make her dreams come true?
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