72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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José María Martín Sarmiento
Spain
105 min.
As if moved by the wind and chance, the bell of the hermitage of San Pelayo begins to ring insistently. This hermitage stands in the center of a wide valley. Attracted by the rhythmic and continuous ringing of the bell, the santero arrives and finds that it rings by itself. From the river that is born in that same place the water flows stained with blood.According to an ancient tradition, these are signs through which the saint in whose evocation the hermitage is raised asks to come and tell stories, through them to ward off a danger that threatens the region.The santero summons several local people, who, gathered for a whole night around the fire in the hermitage, tell stories about San Pelayo.
Celestino Coronado
Spain
68 min.
In the Kingdom of the Amazons, Duke Theseus kidnaps Queen Hippolyta. Already in his court, Theseus prepares the wedding with Hippolyta while the two loving couples fight and flee to the forest on Midsummer's Eve. there the fairies and goblins meet in a clearing, having fun under the baton of the pixie Puck, chasing the page of Titania, queen of the fairies. Oberon and Titania fight over the possession of the page. Oberon, rejected, promises to take revenge on Titania with a love potion. Meanwhile, the louts rehearse the comedy they are to represent to celebrate the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta.After the misunderstandings caused by the love filter, the pairs of lovers find their harmony. Oberon and Titania reconcile under Puck's wry gaze.After the painful representation of Romeo and Juliet by the louts, the fairies invade the place, blessing the nuptial bed of the three couples.
Karel Kachyna
Czechoslovakia
87 min.
Pleasant story about a boy who, having finished his high school studies, gets his first job. The confrontation with what he expected and reality causes him to suffer a strong disappointment. At first, he subjects his older colleagues to harsh judgment, but later he adapts to work without enthusiasm and with the tranquility that he only waits for him to spend his working day. The superiors at first are tolerant of his breaches of discipline, later they offer him another more interesting position, but he will not show his abilities there either.The sentimental problem that he lives absorbs him too much to be able to put his head to work. He and a friend love the same woman who is pregnant by her friend. The girl is considering the possibility of an abortion, since the boy's mother does not accept her as a daughter-in-law. Fandy escapes from work to visit Jara and get her love. He does not get this and he will also lose his job. The end of the story remains open, Fandy will have to start over, but he will have to show that he has a true interest in what has to be his profession for the rest of his life.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba
68 min.
A writer is commissioned to write a script about sexism. The director tells Oscar that the film should serve to make those who see it aware of his sexism. Oscar goes to the port of Havana to elaborate among the workers the basis of the argument. Lina is a surprisingly empowered and politically sensitive worker. The writer, who is married, falls in love with her, creating a strong personal conflict for her. While the work is being developed, Oscar discovers some realities that are interesting to him and wants to include them in the script. However, the director disagrees. He starts from a preconceived scheme and wants cinema to get closer to reality. He will not carry out his project. And it will be seen that Oscar, despite the fact that he is aware of what sexismis, will be "up to a certain point." The theme of the film is therefore a conglomerate of the different points of view between men and women, intellectuals and workers, bureaucrats and trade unionists.
Imanol Uribe
Spain
90 min.
Mikel, a married man, a pharmacist in a small town on the Basque coast, and a leftist militant, will see his life practically conditioned by his homosexuality. He will take time to accept this, and somehow, it will lead him inexorably to a tragic end.
Rodolfo Kuhn
Spain - Argentina
114 min.
The cruelest and most refined method that the human mind has invented to repress its political enemy is that of "disappearance." Everything is absence is described through the story of five women with "disappeared" relatives, the deep drama and pain that means not knowing if loved ones are alive or dead, or what happened to them through the hours, days, the years of uncertainty.
Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Spain
115 min.
The story narrates the adventures of a couple of TV reporters who manage to record his last words during an interview with a famous actor: "Everything is going wrong."When going to broadcast the scoop, they discover that someone has changed the videotape, which causes the mockery of their colleagues. From there, they try to locate the original recording or the person who stole it, running into countless complications.
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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