72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
Official
Sponsor
Sponsor
Media
Partner
Partner
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).
Calls for entries Log-in to MY FESTIVAL
Complete this form with your details for accessing the contents reserved for registered users.
Enter your email and press send. You will receive a link through which you can reset your password
Complete this form with your details for accessing the contents reserved for registered users.
Agenda
...
Programme and tickets 
Search 
Getting to Know Otar Iosseliani
Films
Films
Otar Iosseliani
118 min.
The 19-year-old eldest son of a rich country-castle dwelling family, spends his days in the city cleaning the windows of a shop and washing dishes in a restaurant, far from the environment in which he was born. His mother, a business woman, works away from home by day and organizes socialite parties at the castle by night. Meanwhile, his father gets drunk and plays with an electric train.
Otar Iosseliani
10 min.
Short film
The mother of a large and extremely poor family works as a washerwoman, bringing the money home only to have it stolen by her an unregenerate drunk of a husband. Exasperated, the woman sets out after him, tracking him down in a museum hidden among the pictures on display, the guide and the visitors. Once alone, husband and wife realize they are standing in front of a painting of their home.
Otar Iosseliani
30 min.
Short film
A girl and a boy mutually following one other through the streets of Tbilisi constantly run into people carrying furniture. Seeking some kind of intimacy, the couple moves into a flat. The lighting, water and gas come on in the house as a man lists the rules of private life. The apartment is soon packed with furniture.
Otar Iosseliani
120 min.
Vano is the king of a small country. This country is pretty, rich, and therefore highly coveted by the neighbouring nations, so that Vano spends most of his time at war trying to defend himself against enemy assault. Meanwhile Queen Eka is bored, and her chastity belt, although strong and well made, isn't much of an obstacle.
Otar Iosseliani
16 min.
Short film
Witness to the ancient culture of Georgian music, obliged to confront the tendencies of contemporary Soviet music, this film constitutes an essential document for the survival of this spiritual patrimony.
Otar Iosseliani
100 min.
In an African village deep in the jungle, the beautiful Okonoro, furious with her husband, Soutoura, who does nothing but eat and sleep, decides to leave the family home. The village council meets to try and solve the situation, deciding that Okonoro should become Yéré's wife and her children become Yéré's children. Soutoura is left alone while life in the hamlet follows its course.
Otar Iosseliani
55 min.
A tour around the northern part of the Basque Country and a portrait of its inhabitants from a point of view far removed from its political problems. Art, traditional fiestas, the presence of religion, its mysterious local language, culture and traditions are all shown in this summer of 1982, a summer like any other.
Otar Iosseliani
100 min.
Niko and Otar start working in a wine cooperative at the same time. They are nothing like each other: Niko is shy, serious and loyal, while Otar is a chancer whose only aim is to make his way up the ladder as fast as possible. Although it doesn't take Niko long to establish a sincere relationship with the other workers, his honesty soon starts causing problems with Otar and with the company heads.
Otar Iosseliani
82 min.
Young Ghia plays the small drums with the Tbilisi Opera-House orchestra. Disorganized, chaotic and well-known for never arriving on time, he nevertheless gives a great evening performance. But at the end of the show it's all reproaches for his constant unpunctuality. Indifferent, he arranges to meet a dancer but forgets to go and leaves with one of his friends.
Otar Iosseliani
115 min.
Two ladies, very old, but not lacking in spirit, live in a very old castle which, although run-down, is packed to the hilt with furniture and precious objects. Listening to the radio all day long, they hear the echo of a strange and disturbing period, plagued with wars, catastrophes, chaos, ideological clashes, fanatism, violence and terrorism.
Otar Iosseliani
105 min.
In a late 18th-century ceramics workshop the workers make and decorate porcelain dishes. In his studio, an artist composes a painting representing a woman lying down. At an auction, Madam Laplace buys a set of dishes, while inspector Duphour-Paquet goes for the picture. Arms dealer Laplace closes a big deal. Paris takes charge of bringing all sorts of inhabitants and objects into contact with one another.
Otar Iosseliani
The action of Lundi matin, still at the post-production stage, takes place in a down-at-heel community somewhere around 60 km from the big city. Vincent, who lives with his wife, his two kids and his aging mother, works in a factory in the city suburbs. To get to work on time each morning, he has to get up at 5 o'clock, drive to the station, catch the train and then a bus. An hour-and-a-half journey morning and evening. He hates his job and hates going back to his dump of a town every night. The making of of Lund matin was filmed by Otar Iosseliani's grandson, Nico Tarielashvili.
Otar Iosseliani
98 min.
A group of musicians heads for the countryside in search of peace and quiet in which to recover the love of music and practice undisturbed with their instruments far from the hustle and bustle of the city. Their settling in a peasant community disturbs everyday local life. Rural and urban worlds meet in this story told to the sound of music.
Otar Iosseliani
20 min.
Short film
An old landscape gardener is making floral wreaths in his garden when the bulldozers appear, burying the grass and flowers beneath a layer of tarmac and making what was once a pretty plot into a thoroughfare with cars driving along it. Any signs of grass and flowers have been obliterated. But cracks soon start appearing on the road surface.
Otar Iosseliani
25 min.
Short film
Paris through Iosseliani's eyes. A personal wander through the streets of the French capital with a Georgian moviemaker in an attempt to get the feel of the place. People stroll around and sit in cafés. Cars are driven nonstop to the rhythm marked by the traffic lights. The noises of the big city, some more pleasant than others, innundate the Parisian soundtrack.
Otar Iosseliani
238 min.
Three-part documentary about Georgia. An enormous amount of material illustrates the history, the culture, the musical tradition, the pictorial art, the architecture, the political events and the social reality of this country. A trip to Georgia in the company of its most famous director.
Otar Iosseliani
20 min.
Short film
Life goes by in a steel foundry in the Georgian city of Rustavi where the workers are hard at it all day long. While resting, they cook on one of the still hot sheets of iron, ignoring the work heroes designated by the regime to serve as their role models.
Otar Iosseliani
53 min.
Five young French monks go about their spiritual lives in a monastery not far from Montalcino. The ritualism surrounding activities in the priory blends in perfectly with the total harmony of the Tuscan countryside. Hunting, popular singing and the everyday life of the local peasants and middle-classes coexist with the monks' activities.
Official Sponsor 
Media Partner 
Official Collaborators: 
Associated Institutions:
Opening hours
Monday to Thursday: 09:00h - 15:00h
Friday: 10:00h - 14:00h
Monday to Thursday: 09:00h - 15:00h
Friday: 10:00h - 14:00h
Suscribe to our newsletter
We inform you that the personal data you provide to us on completing this form will be processed by the San Sebastian Festival as the body responsible for this website. The personal data we request will be processed for the purpose of sending you our newsletter. Authorisation to do so is given through the consent of the interested party. Only the San Sebastian Festival will send you messages and we will not disclose your data to third parties. We inform you that the data you provide to us will be stored in the Mailrelay (email marketing providers) servers, located within the EU. See the Mailrelay privacy policy. If you do not enter the data appearing as mandatory on the form, we may be unable to fulfil your request. You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, limitation and deletion of data at privacidad@sansebastianfestival.com. You can consult additional and detailed information on Data Production in our privacy policy.