72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Josef Rödl
Federal Republic of Germany 
115 min.
When Albert returns from the asylum finds out that his father has let the administration of the farm to his cousin Hans. Albert abandons the home, settles in a derelict house and looks for love and friendship outside of his family circle. But his stuttering and his previous stay in the asylum turn him into the target of all jokes of the locals, who treat him as the village fool. Albert looks for confort in booze and in animals company. Soon his excentricities will spread the fear...
Ramón Saldias
Spain 
105 min.
The story of two alcoholics, Juan and Antonio, and their fight to keep away from booze. Both have identical families and suffer the same problems. Juan is in love with a schoolmistress in whom he seeks support and that seems to reciprocate his feelings. He loses his job due to drunkenness and Antonio, who's out from the psychiatric hospital in which he was interned after a 'delirium tremens' attack, tries to help him, and both attend AA to try to recover. 
Judit Ember
Hungary 
92 min.
Christine Pascal
France 
95 min.
Titus Leber
Austria 
64 min.
Psycological approach to Franz Schubert's personality. The celebrated Austrian composer relives the main stages of his life and finds moments of espiritual solitude and incomprehension, in which the figure of his father and instructor gains special relevance, and whose harsh and realistic understanment of life clashes with Shubert junior's point of view. 
Ciro Duran
Colombia 
90 min.
The 'gaminos' are the kids that have broken their family ties and survive in the streets of Bogotá. The difficult lifestyle and the urban agresivity to which family is subjected to at the big city's suburbs, make this kids gather in bands and embrace begging, crime and prostitution as survival methods. Ciro Durán portraits this phenomenon in the film -in his opinion, one of the major problems the colombian society faces- from some particular cases. 
Alexa Visarion
Rumania  
97 min.
The film shows the social and political issues of a trascendental period in romanian people's history: 1877 Independence War. In this context, the class conflict between peasants, firm and solidary, and a wealthy-class representant, Stavrache, just focused in his own enrichment. 
Elizabet Letman
United Kingdom 
Short film
Miguel Ángel Rivas
Spain 
101 min.
Based on Rosa Chacel's romantic novel, the film tells the story of the dramatic moments of a fourteen-year-old girl that fights her parents and tutors attempt to isolate her from life. Leticia suffers the shift from girl to woman and fights to disengage from those who try to take over her life. 
Pierre Clementi
France 
67 min.
Last part of the trilogy started on 1967, New Old in a film abour the event of our days, from a journalistic point of view.
Joan Tewkesbury
USA 
103 min.
Dianne Cruisse, a young psychologist from L.A. whose marriage has ended, tries to solve her problems and starts to look back to her past. Memories end becoming an obsession, and decides to start a sentimental journey following the traces of her past life. 
Theodoros Bafaloukos
Jamaica 
100 min.
From an inedit point of view of nowadays Jamaica, the film offers a wide panoramic of the differente musical rythms that coexist in the island, from situations starred by the main rock-roots-reggae musicians. The centrar character, Leryo Horsemouth, reggae percussionist, decides to change his economical situation, therefor buys a motorcycle with lended money, and trows himself to the record distribution. The clash between Horsemouth, his friends and the Mafia will lead to every kind of situations. 
George Panoussopoulos
Greece 
112 min.
Leon and his wife, an old marriage, go on holidays without their daughter for the first time, who's in her hooneymoon. In every word, in every face, everywhere, even in this own friends, Leon finds loneliness. And everyday routine adquires a different meaning in a loner's mind. His mind plunges in confusion and, almost by accident, he kills his wife, fact that makes the solitary community become aware of the reality of death. Dreams, passions, hopes and dreads, hidden until now, come to light. 
Raúl Busteros
Mexico 
32 min. Short film
Not in competition
Francesco Longo
Italy 
81 min.
Giuseppe and Daniela, both coming from the peasant world, support each other against an hostile reality that marginates them, in which everything is consumism and anhorrent masification, and in which even the architecture of the big industrial city ghetto evidences the destruction of human relationships. Giuseppe and Daniela run away in search of their dignity as human beings. 
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