72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Pierre Maillard
Switzerland
90 min.
Two people meet. They chase each other trying to love each other. Impulsive and idle, Anne flees Switzerland and settles in a deserted holiday camp. Silvio, a writer, lives nearby in a small room near the train tracks. The relationship between them is complicated by their respective obsessions, he with her writing work, she when she receives the news that her brother who lived in Geneva has died. Silvio, increasingly introverted, gradually becomes confused with his literary world and Anne tries to overcome her sorrows through a series of impulsive acts, crystallizing her obsession in the character of Palmer, her brother's friend, and whom she considers responsible for the death of his brother.She will try to locate him, without success. She just answers the answering machine. A group of characters are spectators of the comings and goings of their destinies, and little by little they become disrespectful views of the situation.Anne, after having incited Silvio to action and to commit a series of gratuitous acts, she abruptly decides to return to Geneva in search of Palmer. Parlmer in turn, received the messages, leaves in the direction of the vacation camp. Each one reaches the place of the other and in this way they return to themselves.
Juan Carlos Desanzo
Argentina
87 min.
En retirada is a fictional story that narrates how an individual immersed in the parapolice apparatus, defends himself for continuing to carry out his activity as a torturer in a pre-democratic situation, rejected by the police establishment itself and by society.
Carlos Benpar
Spain
99 min.
At the same time that a group of young people blow up a truck with material for the construction of a nuclear power plant, Laura, an American model living in Spain, accidentally kills her lover, a well-known magistrate. Both situations intertwine, relating to each other.
Jacques Bral
France
110 min.
Having broken with his past, Leo, a jazz musician, goes to live with an old writer friend, Bony. The two meet a lonely and marginal young woman named Cora, who struggles in a closed and violent universe. They are immediately attracted to her. Between Cora and Leo, intense love relationships are going to be established, at the same time tender and violent. This film presents, in the manner of the chronicles, a description of this "mad love" and composes the portraits of these three characters.
Bernard Safarik
Switzerland
90 min.
The film deals satirically with the different assimilation attempts of a Czech, a refugee in Switzerland. The affective problems of this person during the transition phase between emigration and integration.Ladislav Lapak is a Czech who, despite linguistic problems, has adapted magnificently to his new living conditions: which has led him to become a perfect Swiss, an enterprising citizen, when previously in his native country he was a genius and " live life". In his new homeland, his position allows him to use his old friend Alexander. A visit to his old friends in Prague reveals some interesting aspects to him. although they all disapprove of "real existing socialism", they only say this behind closed doors, they do not fight against it, but try to make the best personal use of the situation. His visit to Basel turns into a "shopping trip". Aledander, however, has neither the money nor the interest in acting as a "rich western consumerist." He is busy with two interesting projects. Paint a gigantic lantern for the Basel carnival and design a poster with a portrait of a dog race. In addition, he has enough to resolve his affective life with Elizabeth, who accuses him of taking his immigrant nightmares to the limit, with which fights are frequent. Lapak "the integrated" tries to help Alexander find his way, but it will cause everything contrary to what he proposes. Lapak will complicate your life, and will lead you to the most embarrassing situations.
Chávarri
Spain
103 min.
Madrid, 1936, it is summer. Luisito has failed physics and will be left without the bicycle that his parents had promised him if he passed the course. He almost convinced his father, a clerk in a winery, to buy it for him... but on July 18 the Civil War broke out. It all seems like it's going to end in a week, when in reality it lasts three years. Luis's family shares the daily life of the war with their children.
José Luis Guerín
Spain
115 min.
The film tells the passage of a girl from adolescence to adulthood. A painful step that is only possible by abandoning something of oneself.
Juan Antonio de la Riva
Mexico
90 min.
Two men, in the manner of wandering knights, travel through the most remote corners, the most remote places in the Sierra de Durango, carrying a projector and rolls of film in their truck to carry through the cinema, a show to fulfill their beautiful job as "dream dealers". More than entertainment, these films become role models, as a lifestyle that works as an element of national cohesion: The valiant but romantic 'Charro', the frivolous and also self-sacrificing party, the love frustrations, everything projected in the semi-darkness of an improvised room, school, factory or outdoors.Walking these trails, these two men know love, they face danger and tragedy, but they also know a supreme value in life: friendship and solidarity in the face of misfortune.
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