72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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José María Gutiérrez Santos
Spain
94 min.
Parabolic film about the current situation in Spain, the action takes place in a religious college where students, fed up with the dictatorial regime, begin to perform acts of rebellion that grow until the chaos. Three of the leaders are expelled and a new Director renews the methods, giving the reason to the students and making democratic elections in the boarding school. All support the new Director, balance two students, who try to convince others that although it seems that everything has changed, in reality everything remains the same ...
Paulino Viota
Spain
96 min.
A company has labor problems and a worker leader, Marcos. The director of the factory hires three thugs who brutally torture Marcos to scare him. A comrade of Marcos, Aurora, hidden in his house and between them is born an intense relationship, but the thugs discover the hiding place, ciolan Aurora and kill Marcos, feigning a suicide.
Carlos Benpar
Spain
115 min.
It all starts when Enrique, a young sports journalist, meets Julia in Zurich, a fascinating young woman who is involved in a murky affair related to textile companies. In Barcelona, the well-known industrialist Jaume Romagosa presents his candidacy for cuts of June 15, while preparing his own bankruptcy in one of its textile companies. In Wintertur, one such peris has the key to the whole thing.
Puppi Avati
Italy
70 min.
The life, loves and dreams of a group of young people who want to become professional jazz musicians and who come to form a small 'jazz band'.
Carles Mira
Spain
82 min.
The history is set in the fourteenth century in Mediterranean lands, among Moors, Christians and Jews. The magic of the earth, sex, music and wine, against the magic of power. Father Vicente preaches in a Self of Faith the Sermon of the pains of hell and all the infidels are baptized. His voice is heard thousands of kilometers away. Form a company of penitents. It is used by the Pope and the King to subdue the people. Preach the end of the world to the multitude. In the middle of his sermon, he collapses from the pulpit and, while he is dying among his disciples, points to heaven.
Luis Martínez Cortés
Spain
85 min.
Marian is a 27 year old woman, married to her cousin Jaime. Marian remains in a strange indifference to the work of Jaime, to expand the business. The figure of the father, who died in the Navarrese Pyrenees, is anchored in his mind. A usurper, whom Marian will reject with all her strength, will occupy in the heart of her mother the place of the disappeared father. This child situation is expressed in despair and frigidity before sexual relations with men, until the encounter with another man costitutes the reincarnation of his own father ...
Miguel G. Luxemburgo (José Ganga)
Spain
The film is the projection of a film whose argument has more than similarities with the Spanish political process since a few months before the death of General Franco. The projection is interrupted, an armed fascist group enters the movie theater, the portrait of the deceased dictator presides over the massacre ...
Antonio Betancor
Spain
119 min.
A group of young boys decide to inhabit an abandoned house in order to devote themselves to their personal hobbies and communicate with the people of the neighborhood around them. Gradually problems begin to arise.
Franco Rubartelli
100 min.
Simplicio is the story of an old fisherman who won them all to the sea and to the people, and who wanted to immortalize himself in a kid, played by people who had never before been in front of a movie camera. The old Simplicio is his youth he owned a ship that was the envy of the rest of the town in which he lived, but the envy was transformed into mockery when a great storm destroyed the ship against the rocks and the unfortunate fisherman had to make a living until the end of his days fishing in a wooden boat. Elder has already rescued a two-year-old boy who was crying in a boat adrift. From then until the death of the old fisherman, both became inseparable.
Rafael Gordon
Spain
101 min.
Juana, Luisón and Álvaro practice activities as 'suspicious' as trust, humor and friendship and do not feel guilty about anything. Meanwhile, the garbage is noticed in the ditches, in the telephone booths, in the teeth and interestingly, the Constitution was being drafted ...
Iñaki Núñez
Spain
60 min.
A court martial. Marta and several of her colleagues, anti-Franco militants, are condemned to death. Everyone is executed except Marta, who saves her life because she is pregnant. She gives birth in jail and there she will live with her son until she is amnestied.
Cayetano del Real
Spain
94 min.
In the language of the bulls, 'master' is one who has reached the domain of the art of luck and land and the film deals with the lots and terrains that everything and bullfighter define with their game and, also, history , concrete and dotidiana by Paco Camino.
Agniezka Holland
Poland
99 min.
Anka sends some photographs to a film production company, in order to escape from the environment that surrounds her. She falls in love with Romek and leaves with him having her first love experience. Upon returning home, she finds a notice from the production company and goes to Warsaw. Pawel, a friend of Romek, falls in love with a doctor, wife of the director of the House of Culture where he has started working. Pawel believes that the best solution is to deal with the matter honestly and talk to the husband. The doctor refuses to leave her husband. Pawel meets Anka in Warsaw.Anka sends some photographs to a film production company, in order to escape from the environment that surrounds her. He falls in love with Romek and leaves with him having his first love experience. Upon returning home, he finds a notice from the production company and goes to Warsaw. Pawel, a friend of Romek, falls in love with a doctor wife of the director of the House of Culture where he has started working. Pawel believes that the best solution is to deal with the matter honestly and talk to the husband. The doctor refuses to leave her husband. Pawel meets Anka in Warsaw.
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