72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Maurice Dugowson
Argentina
96 min.
This film reconstructs the unusual itinerary followed by the life of a man driven by a strong belief in social justice and national freedom; a living legend who became a myth after his death. Without enhancing the idealization of "El Che", but without forgetting the romantic aspects of his exceptional history, this documentary presents little known data on the lesser explored periods of Che Guevara, such as his departure from Cuba and the cooling-off of his relationship with Fidel Castro, his fighting in Africa or the circumstances of his capture and execution in Bolivia, not forgetting the most personal and intimate details of his biography.
Benoît Mariage
Belgium
18 min.
Short film
"The old man", a pensioner who lives in the old folk's home of a small village, is climbing up the wall with the monotony of his day-to-day life when two youngters appear in search of a signal man for their bike race on its way thorugh the village. "The Old Man" gets an armband, a flag and a specific mission: to stop the traffic on one of the smaller roads when the cyclists pass along the main road. Although simple, the task gives his life new meaning.
Jean Darrigol
France
12 min.
Short film
This is the story of a Basque bed; but not just any old bed, it could be inhabited by a sort of spirit, or "mairu" in the language of the aforementioned sack's native country. The point is that the phantom allows the bed's young new owner to relieve its past and feel the difference. While a person can lie diagonally when spleeping alone, the same position is impossible in company, hence the title The Diagonal Thief, a poetic reference to the strange invisible spirit in the young man's bed.
Edgardo Cozarinsky
France
89 min.
Two stories that intersect each other without actually meeting, like two people wandering through the same city, but who live in separate worlds. Tanger is the port from which illegal immigrations can be made towards the promised land of the consumer society. European writers see it as a decadent setting where everything is soaked in literature. Each on starts a new life, which could just live up to his of her dreams.
Jorge Amat
France
80 min.
This is a documentary that tries to show Luis Buñuel in true light, a genius not always understood by the public with ideas that weren't always correctly interpreted by the critics. There are testimonies of people who worked and lived with him, like José Luis Barros, Juan Bardem, Juan Luis Buñuel, Freddy Buache, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Carrière, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Hélène Plemianikov, Francismo Rabal, Fernando Rey, Carlos Saura and Serge Silberman.
David Kaplan
USA
12 min.
Short film
Kaplan's Little Red Riding Hood is not your typical fairy tale, but gripping, unruly story of playful sexuality, fantasy and scatological humour. A provocative account of an adolescent girl's self-assertion, told through hauntingly beautiful black and white imagery and dance.
Luciano Berriatua
Spain
162 min.
These are three of the four episodes of the series produced by Spanish Television, on the life and work of the German director F. W. Murnau, uncovering unknown aspects of his personality and the way he worked. The first studies Nosferatu (1922), returning to film at its original locations. the second analyses the filming of Der letzte Mann (The Las Laugh, 1924) and Tartüff (Tartuffe, 1925), comparing the variations of rhythm and frame between the double takes on the negatives put together by Ufa for export. The third episode is dedicated to Faust (1926), his most ambitious and complex film, of which material from seven different negatives still exist.
Koldo Almandoz
Spain
10 min.
Short film
After banishing man from the Garden of Eden, God saw the fellow so lonely and defenceless that He sent the angel Raziel to look after him. Thousand of years have gone by and Raziel comes back to earth, to the world's capital: New York. As he wanders around the city, he comes to the realisation that, in spite of the evolution of humankind, its essence hasn't changed since biblical times. Raziel's Return is a fairy tale about an angel; it's a documentary about a city. Raziel's Return is a "fairy tale documentary".
François Ozon
France
52 min.
Sasha, a youn English woman, is on holidays with her 10-month old daugther on the Ile d'Yeu (France). Her husband is working in Paris, so the two women are alone at the beach house. The baby's needs shape each 24-hours, and the days are spent peacefully between naps, bottles and the beach. One evening Tatiana, a strange, sullen backpacker arrives and asks if she can set up camp in Sasha's yard. Sasha agrees and later invites the young woman in to dinner, thus breaking the solitude and monotony of her vacation. Little by little, Tatiana makes her strange presence felt as she gets closer to the baby and her mother.
Imanol Goñez Alcon
Spain
7 min.
Short film
María, a housewife with a husband, kids and an apparently normal life shows us the dar side of her thoughts when she keeps a date with a man who makes her dreams come true.
Kirby Dick
USA
90 min.
This is a provocative and deeply moving chronicle of the life and work of Bob Flanagan, an internationally acclaimed performance artist and writer born with the painful disease Cystic Fibrosis who explored the limits of illness, pain, sexuality, love and death through extremely graphic sadomasochistic presentations, before dying in January1996.
Thomas Bardinet
France
15 min.
Short film
A woman interrupts a young director's first time interview with a famour actress and tries to convince the two of them to become her friends
Tjebbo Penning
Netherlands
11 min.
Short film
A prisoner found unconscious in his cell after an attempted suicide. Called in to resuscitate the man, the prison doctor is faced with an ethical dilemma. The film is based on a true story that took place in an Oklahoma prison in 1995 and the title refers to the Hippocratic oath which all doctors have to take, pledging to make every attempt to save a patient's life.
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