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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Asghar Farhadi
Iran
123 min.
When he?s left by his wife, Nader hires a young girl to care for his sick father. Not only doesn?t he know she?s pregnant, he also discovers that she?s working without the consent of her disturbed husband. It?s not long before Nader finds himself caught up in a web of lies, scheming and confrontations.
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland-France-Germany
93 min.
Marcel Marx, an author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the city of Le Havre, where he feels closer to people by serving them in the honourable, but not too profitable occupation of shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of literary success and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty. But fate suddenly crosses his footsteps with those of an underage immigrant refugee from Africa. When Arletty falls ill, Marcel has no choice but to draw himself up to his full height anew against the cold wall of human indifference, armed with nothing but his optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the locals from his district.
Terrence Malick
USA
140 min.
The impressionistic story of a Texas family following the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his tyrannical father. Spanning Jack?s life from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years, he finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of his own faith.
Nicolas Winding Refn
USA
100 min.
Driver moonlights as a stunt double by day and speed demon by night, and Shannon is his mentor and boss. A loner, Driver holds little enthusiasm for the jobs Shannon lands him. But his world changes the day he meets his neighbour Irene in the lift. This interlude in Driver?s life ends abruptly when Standard, Irene?s husband, is released early from jail for good behaviour. Driver backs off, respecting Irene?s wish to keep her family together. But when he comes across Standard slumped and bloodied in the garage with his son Benicio terrified beside him, Driver finds himself becoming far more involved in Irene?s life. And that?s when the problems begin...
Michel Hazanavicius
France
100 min.
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie star who seems blessed. The arrival of the talkies causes George to fall into oblivion, alcohol and poverty. As for the young extra Peppy Miller, her star shoots to the heavens. The Artist brings us the tale of these entwined fates.
Johnnie To
107 min.
Life Without Principle tells the tale of Teresa, a bank teller forced to sell high risk securities to her customers in order to meet her sales target. Buzzard is a small-time thug with Triad connections who tries to rob one of Teresa?s major clients, Chung Yuen. Police inspector Cheung Jin Fong has always enjoyed a middle income lifestyle, until his wife puts a down payment on a luxury flat he can't afford. A bag of stolen money worth $5m will put their respective moral principles to the test.
Nicolas Provost
Belgium
95 min.
Amadou, a strong and charismatic African man, is washed up on a beach in southern Europe. Fate leads him to Brussels where, full of optimism, he tries to make a better life for himself. Exploited by traffickers, his daily life is slowly drained of hope, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful and brilliant businesswoman. She is seduced by his charm and force of character, while he projects all his hope and dreams onto her. The illusion quickly shatters, and Agnès breaks all contact with Amadou, who gradually sinks into destructive violence, struggling with his inner demons.
Nadine Labaki
France-Lebanon-Italy-Egypt
110 min.
A procession of women solemnly makes its way towards the village cemetery, stoically braving the oppressive midday heat and clutching photographs of their beloved menfolk. Some of the women are veiled, others bear wooden crosses, but all are united by a sense of shared grief over a futile, protracted war. The film looks at a group of women from different religions and their unwavering determination to protect their family and community from the threatening outside forces. United by a common cause, the women hatch some extraordinarily inventive, and often comical, plans in order to distract the village menfolk and defuse any sign of inter-religious tension.
Sean Durkin
USA
101 min.
Martha is a young woman rapidly unraveling amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader. Seeking help from her estranged older sister Lucy and brother-in-law, Martha is unable and unwilling to reveal the truth about her disappearance. When her memories trigger a chilling paranoia that her former cult could still be pursuing her, the line between Martha's reality and delusion begins to blur.
Wim Wenders
Germany-France-UK
103 min.
Pina is a 3D feature on the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, the dance company founded by the great German choreographer. Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into her best known choreographies. Written, directed and produced by Wim Wenders, this experimental film will revolutionise the relationship between film and dance, not only for its 3D format, but for its original approach. Competely filmed in and around Wuppertal, the German city in which Pina Bausch lived for 35 years and home to the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Steve McQueen
UK
99 min.
Brandon is a young successful thirty-something living comfortably in his apartment in New York. As a distraction from day-to-day cubicle life, he seduces women, juggling a string of doomed romances and one-night stands. The tightly controlled rhythm of Brandon's life begins to collapse, however, when his wayward, unruly sister Sissy arrives for an unannounced visit. Her disruptive presence in his life propels Brandon further into New York's dark underbelly as he tries to escape her need for connection and the memories she stands for.
Paddy Considine
UK
91 min.
Joseph, a tormented, self-destructive man plagued by violence, finds hope of redemption in Hannah, a Christian charity-shop worker. Initially derisive of her faith and presumed idyllic existence, Joseph soon realizes that Hannah?s life is anything but placid. As a relationship develops, they come to understand that love and friendship are to be found in even the darkest places.
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