72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Nanni Moretti
Italy
95 min.
Fabio, a young theatrical director, prepares an avant-garde show. With a group of friends he organizes a trip to prepare the work, during which several of the components die tragically. The survivors meet again, to continue their discussions and problems, until Fabio is alone on the deserted stage, before the few spectators.
José Antonio Sistiaga
Spain
75 min.
Succession of abstract images, points, bursts, spots, etc., full of color and movement, which create a series of sensations in the viewer, taking him through the abstract to the same positions that could be attempted with the real image: rest, delight, joy, discomfort, exasperation ...
Andaluziako zinema zikloa
Sara Gómez
Cuba
78 min.
The neighborhood of Miraflores, built in 1962 by its inhabitants, is the result of the effort made after the Cuban Revolution to eradicate the deprived neighborhoods, which housed part of the marginal sector of the population. In the action of the film, some real characters intervene with the actors, mixing the document and the analysis with the fiction, revealing the conflict between the cultural habits of marginalism and a new conception of life.The neighborhood of Miraflores, built in 1962 by its inhabitants, is the result of the effort made after the Cuban Revolution to eradicate the deprived neighborhoods, which housed part of the marginal sector of the population. In the action of the film, some real characters intervene with the actors, mixing the document and the analysis with the fiction, revealing the conflict between the cultural habits of marginalism and a new conception of life.
Abe Osheroff, Lawrence Klingman
USA
60 min.
The carpenter Abe Osheroff narrates his life in the United States as the son of a Jewish emigrant during the years of the depression and his experiences in Spain during the Civil War and later with the student riots of 1968. He analyzes the North American bases and the Palomares incident and he goes through the Spanish stages he met in his youth.
Iñaki Núñez
Spain
16 min.
Short film
The film tells the story of a family that loses their father in the bombing of Gernika. The son is growing marked by the repressive atmosphere of the Franco regime and finally decides to take up arms to fight against tyranny, convinced that "the only way to free his people is with weapons." For his misfortune he will be arrested, tortured and shot. During the filming of the short film, several team members, including the director, Iñaki Nuñez, were arrested and jailed, accused of trying to discredit the police.
Andaluziako zinema zikloa
Rafael Ruiz Balerdi
Spain
6 min.
Short film
The only cinematographic work of the abstract painter Ruiz Balerdi is a short film drawn on cellulose without emulsifying which is one of the most famous experimental shorts of Spanish cinema. A jacket kills a rhinoceros and the din of the shot alters the life of the jungle. The animals are frightened, a tribe of natives dance, a lion appears and chases the huntress; she terrified, runs away and screams. Will Tarzan save the huntress?
Andaluziako zinema zikloa
Jon Bernat Heinnink
Spain
10 min.
Short film
Its theme focuses on the importance that the flag that the Basque Nationalist primitives conceived for themselves has for Euskadi and the entire town has made it their own, even suffering and death for it.Its theme focuses on the importance that the flag that the Basque Nationalist primitives conceived for themselves has for Euskadi and the entire town has made it their own, even suffering and death for it.
Andaluziako zinema zikloa
Jan Gruyaert
Belgium
100 min.
A voyeuristic deaf-mute lives isolated in his forest house, dedicated to painting and observing people with his glasses. One day a young couple arrives in the forest and before the curious look of the solitary, they start building their house. He follows their romance, their anger, the arrival of an older couple, a photographer, a marriage and their children. The loner is destined to live always with his world of shadows and his outdated mechanical devices.
Alessandro Cane
Italy
126 min.
The poet Federico García Lorca lives the last month of his existence from the moment when, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, decides to return to Granada from Madrid, until his murder occurred in August 1936. When Federico's sister's husband is arrested, Federico takes shelter in the house of his friend Rosales. In spite of the attempts to save his life, the poet is shot in an olive grove of Viznar.The poet Federico García Lorca lives the last month of his existence from the moment when, at the outbreak of Civil Guerrilla, decides to return from Madrid to Granada, until his murder occurred in August 1936. Arrested the husband of the sister of Federico, this takes refuge in the house of his friend Rosales. In spite of the attempts to save his life, the poet is shot in an olive grove of Viznar.
Marina Colonna, Gaia Ceriana
Italy
Ladakh, located in eastern Kashmir, is a center of roads and borders of Tibet. The film is divided into six episodes, which show the cultural, political and religious aspects of the country, the first part being devoted to the theory and practice of Tibetan Buddhism and the second to the description of the secular life.
Paco Periñán
Spain
40 min.
Medium-length film
In 1976 an anarchist exiled in Paris returns to Spain. He feels disappointed, comparing the anarchism of the Barcelona of 1936 and the current situation of western democracy. it is the story of 'a long night' that ends, night that understands as dictatorship and repression. A night in which ideas, sensations and memories intermingle.
Spanish Independent Cinema
Iván Zulueta
Spain
10 min.
Short film
A woman wakes up in her apartment. At that moment an internal struggle begins that the cameras recognize and the plasma environment.
Spanish Independent Cinema
Kidlat Tahimik
Philippines
93 min.
A young Filipino named Kidlat only dreams of traveling and getting to know Cape Canaveral. Together with three friends he tries to be the first Filipino astronaut. The chance encounter with an American, passenger of your cart, will open the doors of that world that I long to know and where you will mix reality with the fantasy of your dreams.
Iván Zulueta
Spain
3 min.
Short film
Using the technique of direct photography off the TV screen, Zulueta composes three minutes ‘in which we see, speeded up, the complete television programming on a day of union and military parades. There was a subliminal Franco, and we didn’t even submit it to the censors…’
Spanish Independent Cinema
Pál Zolnay, Orsolya Székely
Hungary
86 min.
Today's man can not conjure up disease or hidden forces, as he did centuries ago. The hero of this film mixes his dream and reality in his consciousness, in his desire to change the world. The structure of the film is characterized by asynchronism and counterpoint.
Antoni Padrós
Spain
240 min.
Based on an anecdote, the film tells how and why Shirley Temple did not play The Wizard of Oz. Shirley arrives at the Emerald Country where the magician lives and is converted into a Shirley-Cinderella. Among parallel stories, the film presents a critique of the ghost myths created by the history of cinema.Based on an anecdote, the film tells how and why Shirley Temple did not play the Wizard of Oz. Shirley arrives at the Emerald Country where the magician lives and is converted into a Shirley-Cinderella. Among parallel stories, the film presents a critique of the ghost myths created by the history of cinema.
Joaquín Cortés
Venezuela
17 min.
Short film
Collect some rites, animal sacrifices and manifestations of spirits in the cult of María Lionza in Sorte, Yaracuy mountain.
Venezuelan Independent Cinema
Thomas Harlan
Portugal - France
105 min.
A group of country people, helped by some soldiers, struggle to create, in the face of great difficulties, a column in 1975, in Santarem (Portugal).
Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
France
21 min.
Short film
Small story in a high school in Beijing. The heroes are a class of 13-year-old students and their teacher. A scandal erupts: when the bell rings, a teacher asks a group of students to stop playing the ball. But a student throws the ball to the teacher. The entire class meets to discuss the problem. It is not about finding the culprit, but about teachers and students becoming accustomed to contribute to the solution of similar conflicts. The discussion, in relation to the game, the sport and the passion, is prolonged. There is talk of responsibility, ideology and politics. A student calls to order a teacher who does not participate in the game of free discussion. This film belongs to the series of 12 films filmed in the People's Republic of China by Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, distributed under the title Comment Yukong deplaça les montagnes.
Thanasis Rentzis
Greece
97 min.
The film narrates the unusual life of a human being, based on nineteenth-century collages that with the title Biography collected in one of his books the Spanish humorist Chumy-Chumez. It analyzes the European bourgeoisie at the end of the last century, not in the historical sense, but in the mythical and idological one. It is an experimental cinematographic work that goes beyond animation cinema. It is made in color, using as a base the black and white engravings, colored by a new procedure and referring to the device 'lamboscope', predecessor of the cinematographic.
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