72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2024
72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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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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V International Film School Meeting
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Films
Mathieu Choux
France
9 min.
Short film
#2 was done from a minimal amount of audiovisual materials. 1' of video, 7 photos and 30'' of sounds. A digital treatment latter applied to these elements allowed a succession of variations conducive to montage.
Júlia Cot, Rosa Samper
Spain
8 min.
Short film
Two waiters at the door of a bar. They've just opened. As they set up the terrace, they comment that those in the bar across the street, between a gaming machine and hygienic promises, are stealing their customers. A customer comes in, sits down at a table and asks for a coffee...
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
France
19 min.
Short film
It should have been a night out but it was the night Lale disappeared. A man tells the story of the young woman he loved. Lale, a young Turkish woman who grew up and died in France, surprisingly combined her two cultures with all that is contradictory. He thought he knew everything about her. He hadn't seen before that night that Lale had become a foreigner everywhere and to everyone.
Cristóbal Braun Mesples
Argentina
26 min.
Short film
In 1978, Victorino Zapura, an Argentine corporal during the military conflict between Argentina and Chile over the islands of the Beagle Channel, lost a soccer ball signed by Kempes at the border.
Jorge Nebra
Spain
10 min.
Short film
Abuse is a very serious and topical matter, but sometimes, not everything is what it seems.
Nieves García Benito
Spain
25 min.
Short film
The video that we present is part of a Didactic Project for the learning of History, Geography and the use of audiovisual media in in the classroom during the 2nd year of high school, for the subject of History of Andalusia. Its location is centered in the space of the Strait of Gibraltar, to acquire a global vision of its geography and its history from the construction of seven videos made in the classroom.
Not in competition
Toke Constantin Hebbeln
France - Germany
13 min.
Short film
Hilda, a young factory worker, is in love with her boss Karl, but her shyness and insecurity prevent her from telling him. The relationship between the two seems to be strengthened when Hilda finds Karl's wallet. Will she really make Karl fall in love with her?
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Miquel Jové, Soren González, Laura Company
Spain
6 min.
Short film
An anorexic girl says goodbye through a video camera.
Raphäel Lambert, Romain Winkler
France
11 min.
Short film
Posthumous autobiography of a shop window mannequin.
Juan Simons
Spain
12 min.
Short film
K and Nelson live asphyxiated in a routine city that oppresses their identity.
Alberto Pecharroman Ferrer
Spain
15 min.
Short film
On return from an interstellar mission the astronauts notice the powerful influence of an orange that transforms the natural order of live in planet Lurra.
Alfredo Vera García
Spain
13 min.
Short film
Cándido, a simple peasant, works unconvinced in a dry plain collectivized by the militiamen who took over the town as soon as the war broke out. Skeptical, his concerns include hunger and his family, especially the imminent arrival in the world of his third child. However, what arrives one morning are the national troops. And with them the victory.
Maëva Poli
France
12 min.
Short film
Sabrina works in the autonomous port of Le Havre. He meets Äicha, an elderly Algerian woman who is the custodian of a culture unknown to the young woman despite her own Maghreb roots.
Gabriel Stagnaro
Argentina
15 min.
Short film
Rodolfo has gone missing durign a neighbourhood brawl. Banana, his best friend, will do everything possible to get him back, even at the risk of his own life. Banana's friends, will never understand why he cares so much about a hamster.
Horacio Alcalá
Italy
11 min.
Short film
The loneliness of an old man finds hope in a puppet found in the garbage can, the thin thread that connects reality and fantasy breaks, while in the city a man seeks the opportunity to give his son a better life,. The meeting of the two stories ends with an exchange between the puppet and the child, at the right time and place.
Martin Rit
France - Germany
9 min.
Short film
Two kids, a place secluded from the city, a prostitute...
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Antonio Cláudio Barreto Brandao, Silvio Diogo Costa de Andrade
Brasil
17 min.
Short film
Jorge, a man close to 60 years old, is a lonely and spiteful man. He lives imprisoned in an eternal routine, until the day he reencounters Joana, his great love from the past. This reunion places Jorge in situations similar to those experienced years ago. The film is a dialogue about the position in front of the options of life and the consequences of that. Slightly inspired by the songs "Último romance" and "O velho e o moço" by Los Hermanos.
Colectivo Curso Video I , Asier Elizasu, Eneko Etxeberria, Mikel Gasca, María Jauregi, Anna Ormrod, Luis Ruiz, Aran Santos, Elena Ubarretxena, Urko Villasante
Spain
7 min.
Short film
Two people with similar disorders find their common link.
Nicolas Lasnibat
France - Germany
9 min.
Short film
A great city, in an indeterminate past. A totalitarian regime exercises power. The borders are closed. The economic recession prevails. Vincent, a frustrated young man, very introverted, lives alone with his mother, a bitter and suffocating old woman. He is crazy about his upstairs neighbor, Alma, to whom he has never spoken. Alma wants to leave the country, to no avail. One day at the check-point where Vincent works and where Alma goes waiting for her unlikely papers, an elegant man, probably from the regime, drops his wallet. Vincent picks it up and Alma watches him. That wallet contains a letter that would allow Alma to pass to the other side ...
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José Luis Valle
Mexico
20 min.
Short film
A man about to be executed asks for a miracle: time to stop. The miracle happens and he writes a story in which he tries to cheat death. Death reaches him in reality and fiction.
Alex Eslam
France - Germany
9 min.
Short film
When David's wife, Lotte, finds a woman's wallet in her husband's belongings, everything falls apart. Is he having an affair? All his attempts to avoid the confrontation and soothe her are vain as she is flinging plates and cups around demanding an explanation. While things get crazy in the apartment, David's mind is trying to escape in the realm of a TV quizz show. For the first time in his life, David has to face his inner conflicts and show his love who he really is.
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Cristina Garmón
Spain
6 min.
Short film
Marta, a 28 years old girl, is at home, turns on the answering machine. She hesitates before pressing the play button. As soon as she hears a boy's voice, Marta lights a cigarette and immerses herself in the universe of recorded words that invade the house.
Heriberto Buendía Saldívar
Mexico
6 min.
Short film
Braham, an introverted young man, rejects the unprecedented violence of human beings and stays away from them until he falls in love.
Nicolas Lasnibat
France
20 min.
Short film
Thirty years have passed since Pinochet's coup in Chile. Jorge returns to his hometown, the port of Valparaíso, after a long exile in France, where he rebuilt his life. He travels in search of an important part of his past and to find the traces of a country that prefers to forget its pain.
Fernando Salem
Argentina
15 min.
Short film
The Yupanqui triplets are unbeatable champions in synchronized swimming and have shared the same liquid environment from the maternal womb. One day, one of them falls in love, and they don't sync any more.
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