72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Culinary Zinema: Film and Gastronomy
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Culinary Zinema: Film and gastronomy
Culinary Zinema: Film and gastronomy
Christian Vincent
FRANCE
95 min.
Hortense Laborie, a well known chef from Périgord, can´t quite believe that the president of the Republic has appointed her his personal chef, and that from now on she will have to prepare all his private meals at the Élysée Palace. Despite the jealousy and envy of many members of the kitchen staff, it does´t take Hortense long to earn their respect thanks to her genius. The authentic style of her dishes wins over the president, but the corridors of power are littered with obstacles. Based on the extraordinary true story of François Mitterrand´s private chef.
Opening Film
Daniel Cohen
FRANCE
84 min.
OPENING FILM
The star chef Alexandre Vauclair doesn´t get on with the new management of the company that owns his restaurant, who prefer to go for new molecular cuisine. Vauclair is frantic and at a loss for ideas for the new menu that the food critics will be judging for the Guide. Alexandre needs inspiration and a new assistant. It is then that he gets to know Jacky, a lover of haute cuisine, self-taught, obstinate and hugely talented.
Opening Film
Pep Gatell (La Fura dels Baus)
SPAIN
4 min.
Short film
(Short Film)
A recipe touched by blood, a very special ingredient dealt with in a very special way, which involves a very ancient manner of eating and doing. This dish or preparation that has survived its time required a slightly peculiar presentation.
Closing Film
Felipe Ugarte
SPAIN
10 min.
Short film
Naia is an eight-year old girl who likes to play with her toy kitchen: "I like cooking because I have a really good time". When she grows up she wants to be a chef, and when she goes to bed at night and closes her eyes, she thinks about how much she likes cooking. Then her dreams take her off to a magical world, where her wishes come true.
Closing Film
Jesús M. Santos
PERU-SPAIN
67 min.
CLOSING FILM
Culture, biodiversity and a mixture of influences have made Peruvian cuisine the main hallmark of the country and an international benchmark. Tens of thousands of youngsters live this passionately. In this documentary, Ferran Adrià and Gastón Acurio travel around Peru (Cuzco, Iquitos, Lima, Arequipa, the Sierra Central , Piura, Pisco...), talk to chefs, and get together with thousands of young people to try and understand the phenomenon. The Pachacútec school in the poorest neighbourhood in Lima is the symbol of cuisine as a social weapon.
Gabriel Axel
DENMARK
102 min.
An undisputed classic of gastronomic cinema is back, in a restored and digitalized print. The film is based on a novel by Isaak Dinesen and starring Stéphane Audran. In an isolated village in Denmark, dominated by Puritanism, two spinsters nostalgically recall their distant youth and the rigid upbringing that forced them to pass up their chance at happiness. When Babette appears from Paris, fleeing the Terror, this will change their lives. The newcomer will have the chance to repay the kindness and warmth with which she is received by organising an opulent meal with the very best dishes and wines that French cuisine can offer.
Paul Lacoste
FRANCE
86 min.
In 2009, Michel Bras, at the head of a 3-star restaurant (Michelin guide), in the heart of the Aubrac region,decides to hand over to his son Sébastien. A father and his son. Both at a crucial time in their careers. Is it possible to pass on one´s life´s work? Is it so easy for a son to make a name for himself? A documentary about a family over three generations and passing down of culinary heritage.
James Nutt
UK
60 min.
Internationally-renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi returns to his home town of Jerusalem to discover the hidden treasures of its extraordinarily rich and diverse food culture. He meets and cooks with both Arabs and Jews in restaurants and at home who draw on hundreds of years of tradition to create the dishes that define the city, and explores the flavours and recipes that have influenced his palate.
Blanca Aguerre
MEXICO
80 min.
"Lupe el de la vaca" is the name of an unusual character who we never get to see but who provides this documentary with its title, and serves as an entertaining pretext to get to know the people in a community in the Sierra del Tigre, Jalisco, and to talk about subsistence in the Mexican countryside. A simple, kind-hearted tribute to these agricultural workers who love what they do.
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