72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Edward Bennet
United Kingdom 
85 min.
Ireland, 1920: the rebellion in the South and West against British oppression is gaining force quile life in Belfast seems to pass with ominous tranquility. Safe within the walls of her father's mansion, a rich shipping magnate, Connie is unaware of what transpores inthe outside world. Partially paralized in one of ther arms, Connie lives in a state of semi-conciousness which includes hallucinations.The situation deteriorates further, and pushed to the limit by these painful circumstances, she re-enters the world and sees that all her nightmares about war are not as bad as everyday reality. 
Marin Karmitz
France 
85 min.
Alfonso Ungría
Spain 
16 min. Short film
Fernando Colomo
Spain 
G. García
Spain 
Short film
Jaime Chávarri
Spain 
Vicente Pérez Herrero
Spain 
Short film
José Luis Lozano
Spain 
Inma de Santis
 
17 min. Short film
Gérard Krawczyk
France 
35 min.
Hollywood, 1942. An agent that hates actors, a starlett that  married twenty-four rimes in five years, a police sargent absolutely overwhelmed by circumstances, an actor fifty years old and ready to do anything in order to act as a thirty years old galán (leading man), a paranoic director who wants only to escape to Mexico, a despotic producer who cries every time he sees his own movies, and who professes limitless love for his mother, two scriptwriters looking for an assasin, a fakir, and three actors killed during the shooting...Je hais les acteurs debuted on September 11th, 1986, with great success.
Ugo Giorgetti
Brazil 
87 min.
The setting for this film is Pacaembú, one of the most luxurious neighborhoods of Sao Paulo. Here various persons who have lost everything occupy an empty house. Yet they are "the lost ones", politically and economically disenfranchised from their society. The plot revolves around the conflict between two men in love with a woman and her daugther. the situacion is not extraodinary, but on film, it may shake and surprise most sensible people. While being part of the current Brazilian film movement known as "paulista", Jogo Duro has received numerous awards and nominations, indeed, one or the other in every film festival it has entered.
Tim Burstall
Australia 
103 min.
Kangaroo, D.H. Lawrence's story of love, violence and political intrigue is based on his personal experiences in Australia in 1922.Famous writer Richard Somers and his wife Harriet, flee the wreck of post-war Europe in searach of a freer, more tolerant world in which to build their marriage. In a cottage looking over the boundless Pacific Ocean, they believe they have found their dream, but fate plays them a dark card.
Manuel Lombardero
Spain 
15 min. Short film
Juan Pinzás
Spain 
85 min.
Carlos Sorin
Argentina 
100 min.
Here we have the misadventures of a cinema director, bent on making a film on the grand story of Orellie Antonie I -an obscure French country solicitor- who, bewildered by travellers stories, arrived in southern Argentina in the last century to have himself proclaimed king of paragonia and araucania.This film competed in the most recent Festival of Venice, and just won the "Leone d'Argento" for best proma opera of a director.
Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi
Moroko 
85 min.
A truck driver makes a trip to the norht of Morocco witha a cargo of dates. On the way, he meets a wide variety of people, some of whom wants to take advantage of his good nature. With the route and the trip as a pretext and the encounters as a point of reference, Le grand voyage developes as an allegory about disposession.
Bigas Luna
Spain 
Charlotte Silvera
France 
95 min.
Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Spain 
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Spain 
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain 
Romain Goupil
France 
95 min.
On March 23, 1978, Michael Recanti, an outstanding figure in the student movement of May, 1968, commited suicide by throwing himself under the train. Why did he choose such an atrocious death? Why do it at thirty years of age? Roman Goupil, friend and comrade of Recanti, dealt with this matter by putting together two documentaries, shot for the most part from 1965 to 1975. These films comprise an intimate diary about two involved young men and a historical documentary of May, 1968, whose 2oth anniversary is just around the corner.Mourir à trente ans received the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Festival in 1980 but even before its release, it was awaited with a hoale of revelation.
Aleksey German
USSR 
100 min.
Jesús Garay
Spain 
98 min.
Michel Deville
France 
101 min.
Santiago Aguilar, Raúl Barbé, Luis Guridi
Spain 
16 min. Short film
José Miguel Ganga
Spain 
Julián Pavón
Spain 
20 min. Short film
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Ireland 
28 min. Short film
George is a Londoner who has made his home in 1930's Dublin, through marriage to a Catholic, Mary. His wife ia placid enough until one day he decides to grow a moustache.By coincidende the couple sees the Hollywood epic, San Francisco. Mary becomes obsessed with the slight similarity between her protestant husband and the faithless "Blackie", Clark Gable's character. George is at first excited by mary's new interest in him, then becomes confused when she gets carried away with the fantasy, and is finally disgusted by the charade which the ar eboth playing.The Woman Who Married Clark Gable takes an imaginative humorous view of the power of cinema to affect ordinary peoples lives. A night at the movies can lead one to ask for a little bit more out of life.
Nikos Kanakis
Greece 
90 min.
Santiago Aguilar, Raúl Barbé, Luis Guridi
Spain 
13 min. Short film
Axel Corti
Austria 
35 min.
This is the first part of a trilogy by Alex Corti (followed by Santa Fé and Welcome in Vienna, presented in the official section). This picture recounts the adventures of the young Ferry Tobler, sixteen, who lives in a modest Jewish neighborhood in Vienna with his father, the owner of a small clothing shop. Ferry sees his adolescent dreams suddenly interrupted by the rise of Nazism in Germany, the occupation of his country and the arrest of many neighbors.His father dies en route to a concentration camp and Ferry flees through Europe with two friends, finally arriving in marseille from where he escapes to America.
Axel Corti
Austria 
35 min.
This is the second part of a trilogy by Alex Corti (preceeded by God does not believe in us anymore and followed by Welcome in Vienna, listed in the Official Section). Herein, Freddy reaches America at last, arriving in New York on one of the rickety refugee boats so common at the time. Emigres such as Freddy naturally bonded together, wich is lucky for him as his first attempt to find shelter and work are unsuccesful. He is ofered a job by a former Viennese poet called Treuman, who is running a delikatessen in New York. His ederly daugther Lissa falss in love with Freddy, who matures through the hopelessness of their relationship. at this point, he makes the first independent decision of his life: he volunteers for the U.S. Army and will thus go back to europe as a member of a propaganda unit.
Eduardo Mencos
Spain 
Short film
Xabier Elorriaga
Spain 
55 min. Medium-length film
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