72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Miguel Picazo
Spain 
95 min.
Granada, 1539, there lives a humble-looking man named Juan Ciudad, who at the same time tries to denounce social inequalities, has been taken for a madman and confined in a hospital. When finishing his confinement, he travels all over Granada with the task of helping the humble more. However, his effort and generosity provokes envy, seeing in that man a mass agitator. But thanks to his works, Juan Ciudad ends up being San Juan de Dios.
Joe Dante, Allan Arkush
USA 
83 min.
In this satire on 70s B-movie industry, a young ditsy pretty blond arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. After some mishap, a shady agent finds her a job with a sleazy B-movie crew plagued by strange deadly accidents.
Eiichi Yamamoto
Japan 
86 min.
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
Álvaro J. Covacevich
Chile 
98 min.
Documentary with script by Mario Vargas Llosa that tells the story of the aviation accident that the Uruguayan athletes had in the Andes.
Luis Alcoriza
Mexico 
103 min.
Las Fuerzas Vivas is a comedy set in the years of the revolution and in a small village isolated from the world, communicated only by telegraph. According to the news received from the revolution, liberals and conservatives alternate in the command of the people. In the end conservatives convince their adversaries that they have converted to the revolution to continue in office.
Roman Polanski
France 
126 min.
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Argentina 
97 min.
The teenage daughter of traveling actors settles in the Las Amalias ranch, where she will live in a mysterious environment dominated by hypocrisy and sexual representation. In such circumstances, we will end up becoming victim and victim ourselves.
Andrzej Wajda
Poland 
100 min.
This adaptation of Joseph Conrad's story tells about man who tries to helm a damaged boat to Singapore at the same he tries to help some of the passengers, who are in poor health conditions.
Martin Scorsese
USA 
114 min.
Robert de Niro (lead in the second part of The Godfather) plays here the role of a former Vietnam fighter who finds himself employed as a taxi driver on a night shift in New York. Through their experiences we are described the ambienre of the big city. In it, and at a certain time, the taxi driver will become the executor of a punitive action.
Nicolas Roeg
United Kingdom 
140 min.
Thomas Jerome Newton arrives in America to fulfill a secret mission and soon becomes one of the richest and most powerful man, without anyone knowing how. He finds a man willing to discover his secret and a woman who will love him to madness. Many try to prevent him from carrying out his mission, but it is difficult, because no one knows what it is. And Newton sees the others as they had never seen themselves. As if they belonged to different worlds.
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