72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Krzystof Zanussi
Poland 
106 min.
A group of students spend their vacations in a university language course. One of the instructors, Jaroslaw, is a young teacher who prefers a close relationship with his students, the opposite of his classmate Jakub. From the beginning a confrontation arises between them.
Hal Ashby
USA 
127 min.
Bob is in Vietnam. His wife Sally meets Luke, a former combatant who is paralyzed. Intimate and when Bob, wounded, returns demoralized, he suspects that relationship. He commits suicide and Luke and Sally return together to her home ...
Luigi Comencini
Italy 
118 min.
The loving relationship of a working class couple will encounter difficulties both because of their harsh living conditions and because of the ideological differences that exist between them.
Gerardo Vallejo
Argentina 
90 min.
Documentary made with an elementary technical team, is a dramatic testimony. Gerardo Ramón Reales and his miserable family not only tell their unjust and cruel life. The story brings us closer to the Argentine reality of the last fifty years.
Miguel Littin
France- Mexico - Cuba 
164 min.
The president of a Latin American republic receives the news in France of the rise of a general. He precipitates and stifles the rebellion A photographer takes pictures of the massacre. The president returns to Paris where these photos have been published. World war breaks out and it regains peace of mind ... until a new rebellion starts that brings him back to the country. He stifles the revolt and confiscate the "red" books. The end of the war causes consternation to the president. New riots occur and the US ambassador forces him to resign. He leaves the country taking jewelry and money.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federal Republic of Germany 
88 min.
Hans is a traveling fruit shop that sells his merchandise through the streets of Munich. He is a failed man and has lost self-esteem, among other things because he has a dominant mother who has always been dissatisfied with him. In addition, the woman of his life left him planted, and his cold and jealous wife and his cynical sister have shattered his life. His weakness is such that he is carried away by violence and alcohol ...
Vera Chytilová
Czechoslovakia 
100 min.
Anna is a young midwife who is accustomed to working on her own. She is not used to the Prague hospital where she has started to work, especially because of the ironic nature of a doctor, whose attention is immediately fixed on each new nurse who enters the hospital. hospital. Anna, after tricking him into believing that he has made her pregnant, will be really pregnant.
Fernando E. Solanas
Argentina 
260 min.
Synthesis of direct cinema and editing, the film is divided into three distinct parts in which a historical-political analysis is made of neocolonialism, violence and the liberation of Argentina, proposing a reconsideration of Peronism from an unknown angle outside the country.
Jaime Camino
Spain 
175 min.
Memory is only subjective memory. There may be an intentional blockage of the collective memory by a power interested in distorting the story, but is it interesting to recover the memory? Would not it be more comfortable to leave it dormant and cling only to pleasant memories? In order to recover the true memory, a confrontation with the facts is necessary. The film presents, with this objective, a series of conversations with several characters from the closest history of Spain.
Fernando E. Solanas
Argentina 
132 min.
Paraphrase of the poem Martin Fierro interpreted in terms historical-political and located in the contemporary era. Attempt to reconstruct from oral history, the epic starring the Argentine people from the loss of their sovereignty (1955) to the reconquest of it (1973). History, myth and reality fused in a critical parable that transcends any chronology, to express the vicissitudes and desires of the liberation of the Argentine people, in most of what goes of the century.
Tengiz Abuladze
USSR 
107 min.
Defined the film itself as 'episodes of the life of a Georgian people before the revolution', the film is somehow a parable of philosophical type. One day, a beautiful young woman arrives in a town. His ebbelleza, purity and goodness attract general sympathy, but he is forced to marry a man who disgusts him.
Jerzy Skolimowsky
United Kingdom 
86 min.
The atmosphere surrounding a cricket match in England, has little to do with the strange world, tense and expectant, of the sessions of this sport that are inscribed within the film. A character, Charles Crossley, has the power to kill ...
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