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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Helena Taberna
Spain
103 min.
Miguel is named parish priest of a socialist village coinciding with the outbreak of Civil War in 1936. Right from the genesis of the uprising, the nationals take over the village and the shootings begin. In his struggle to defend the victims, Miguel clashes with the ecclesiastical and military hierarchy, putting his own life on the line. Meanwhile, the young priest finds solace in his friendship with the village schoolteacher, whose husband is killed early on in the fighting.
Enrique Gabriel, Javier Angulo
Spain-Argentina
98 min.
La pérdida is a reflection on the exile of an entire scientific and academic intellectual class forced to leave Argentina by the political violence of the 60s-70s. The movie is fashioned around interviews with some dozen Argentinean exiles who lead successful careers in their host countries. What would today?s Argentina be like if it hadn?t lost that brilliant up-and-coming generation?
Mario Iglesias
Spain
117 min.
Rosario Francesc, an authoress leading a completely conventional housewife?s life, visits a psychotherapist for a problem of nighttime panic attacks. Exploring the world around her, beyond her little problems, the narrations run parallel to Rosario?s own story.
Patxi Amezcua
Spain
86 min.
Abel is a lonely man in his forties hired to collect bad debts. Although he makes good money, his job is anything but gratifying. His dream is to leave it all behind and move with his son to a house near the sea. Nevertheless, since he lost his wife in a traffic accident, he doesn't exactly lead an exemplary life; quite the opposite in fact. Kay has spent her whole life on the streets. When she was four, her father, Sebas, was already using her as an accomplice in his swindles. Now, barely twenty, she makes a living ripping people off. She's fed up with it all, but theft is her way of life, the only way she knows. Chance unites Abel and Kay. The attraction is immediate. They join forces on a heist. The thing is dangerous, but the potential rewards are great.
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
126 min.
Fourteen years after being blinded in an accident, an author and moviemaker recalls the circumstances surrounding the incident and the woman he loved.
Abel García Roure
Spain
135 min.
Over a period of two years, the documentary chronicles six people who frequent the same mental health centre in the outlying areas of Barcelona: Sabadell?s Parc Taulí Hospital. They all share the same problem: grave psychosis, a mental disorder encompassing schizophrenia and paranoia. Doctors and patients who live with the disease from day to day narrate their tribulations to the camera. We therefore hear different personal experiences from, among others, Javier, who has been having auditory hallucinations and delirium about cosmic matters for 20 years, or Bernat, who takes a closer look at the social reaction occurring when a person admits to suffering from the illness.
Ventura Durall
Spain
84 min.
In 1994, Andrés Rabadán gave himself up to the police after derailing three trains and killing his father with a crossbow. He was declared not guilty on being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and committed to a penitentiary psychiatric ward for 20 years. Eleven years later, contrary to his doctors? opinion, Andrés thinks he?s cured and tries to escape on realising his slim chances of getting out. But a new psychiatrist and his intimate relationship with a jail nurse make him change his mind, forcing him to face his past and attempt to understand why he committed those horrible crimes.
Lluís Miñarro
Spain
70 min.
An improvised film, initially intended as a family gift, unexpectedly becomes the chronicle of a disappearing generation. It orally transmits the echoes of a Spain marked by Catholicism and the Civil War. A discreet, simple work packed with the sparkle of life.
Fernando González Molina
Spain
104 min.
Emilio, a student at a rundown neighbourhood high school, is a shy boy who generally scrapes by with marks of 5 and has spent his entire life nurturing a secret love for Natalia, the beautiful bright girl in his class. Just when he?s decided to tell her his feelings, Natalia learns she?s received a scholarship to study Medicine at Oxford. While all seems lost for Emilio, his ostracized schoolmates refuse to give up. Having forged records and scholarships, this bunch of numbskulls disembark at Oxford, wreaking chaos on the peaceful campus life: a blind boy determined to enjoy the same opportunities as sighted people, a lover of heavy music with too much testosterone in a wheelchair, an intellectual leader with no intellect to his name and a gypsy whose strong point, apart from shady deals and swindling, is his kind heart.
Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Spain
75 min.
Film director Juanma Bajo Ulloa receives the assignment of shooting the farewell of rock band Distrito14, a cult group yet unknown to most that, after 25 years on the road, announces its last concert. But unexpectedly for him, it will become one of the most exciting events in his career and he decides to transform the original proposal into a full tribute to a lifestyle that seems to be endangered.
Santiago Fillol, Lucas Vermal
Spain
90 min.
The ex-chairman of the leading Spanish association for deportees, Enric Marco, sets out on a journey to set his past straight, driving to Germany by car. Two years previously, a historian had demonstrated that Enric Marco wasn?t the resistance member he claimed to be and that his concentration camp experiences told on TV for years were his own invention. Now, Marco follows the same route as he covered by train in 1941 as part of a workers? convoy sent by Franco to Hitler mid-World War. This journey, leading to Kiel prison, where he spent a year accused of spreading communist propaganda, before being acquitted and returning to Spain, often runs into the imaginary journey he repeatedly narrated: his voyage from the French resistance to the concentration camps in cattle trains, the same fate suffered by thousands of Spanish Republicans exiled after the Civil War.
Borja Cobeaga
Spain
86 min.
She?s a hairdresser in need of practice. He?s got hair and the yen to please. The result is one absurd hairdo after the other that the boy puts up with because he?s mad about her. But she has different feelings. She believes that there are two kinds of guys: the ones you fancy and the ones that buy you fantas. Pagafantas is a comedy about a boy who has repeatedly heard the words ?I love you?, but always subsequently qualified with ?as a friend?. He?s sure that, with a bit of patience, she?ll realise that they?re meant for one another. And that?s what he?s doing, biding his time armed with bags of patience. But as eveyone knows, patience has its limits.
Mar Coll
Spain
85 min.
Léa suddenly has to return to Girona when her grandfather on her father's side passes away. There, she's awaited by the family she's seen virtually nothing of since she left. The death of the Vich i Carbó patriarch is the ideal excuse for forced co-existence between his descendents. The three days occupied by the wake, mass and burial are a perfect opportunity to observe the show of appearances put on by a conservative middle class where problems are always implicit but never explicit.
David Planell
Spain
107 min.
The Shame occurs in a single morning. The morning when Pepe and Lucía, a modern, well-to-do couple in their 30s, have decided to tell Jimena, the social worker, that life with Manu is too hard; that they can?t get used to their adopted 8-year-old Peruvian son; that the six months they?ve been living with him have been hell; and that they want to give him back. But a decision of this importance can?t be taken just like that. This is the kind of decision that takes its toll.
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