72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Nanni Moretti
Italy - France - Germany
106 min.
Nanni Moretti competed at the Cannes Festival with this film about Margherita, a director shooting a film with a famous American actor, who is quite a character on set. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together while feeling powerless when facing her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.
Jia Zhang-ke
China - France - Japan
131 min.
Spanish premiere of Jia Zhang-ke’s latest movie following its screening in the official competition at the Cannes Festival. China, 1999, two childhood friends court a young girl from Fenyang. One has his future mapped out for him, but not the other. The young girl’s heart is divided between the two, but she must take a decision that will mark her life, and that of her son.
Hirokazu Koreeda
Japan
128 min.
A film by Japanese moviemaker Hirokazu Kore-eda which competed in the Cannes Official Selection. Three sisters share a house in the city. They haven’t seen their father for 15 years. When he dies, the three travel to the countryside for his funeral. There they meet their shy teenage half-sister. It won't be long before they grow fond of the girl.
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan
104 min.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien won Best Director at the Cannes Festival with his latest work. China, 9th century. Nie Yinniang comes home after years in exile, now a trained vigilante. When her mistress orders her to kill her cousin, she will have to choose between the man she loves and her loyalty to the “order of the Assassins”.
Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
USA
90 min.
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson tell the tale of a man who struggles with his inability to connect with other people. Spanish premiere following its screening at the Venice Festival.
Scott Cooper
USA
122 min.
Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson and Kevin Bacon star in this film presented out of competition at the Venice Festival. FBI Agent John Connolly persuades Irish mobster Jimmy Bulger to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. This unholy alliance spirals out of control.
Pablo Trapero
Argentina - Spain
108 min.
Pablo Trapero's new movie is a competitor at the Venice Festival. Argentina, in the early 80s. Behind the facade of a typical family from the upmarket San Isidro neighbourhood lurks a sinister clan that kidnaps and murders for a living.
Kent Jones
France - USA
80 min.
Fifty years after the publication of François Truffaut’s book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" filmmaker Kent Jones invites some of the best directors of our time (Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas...) to share their thoughts on the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfonso Gómez-Rejón
USA
105 min.
The amusing and moving tale of Greg, a student in his last year of high school who navigates the minefield of adolescent social life by steering away from all close relations. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
László Nemes
Hungary
107 min.
Winner of the Jury Grand Prix at the Cannes Festival, this debut by Hungarian moviemaker László Nemes is set in Auschwitz, 1944. Saul Auslander is a Hungarian prisoner assigned to one of the Auschwitz crematorium ovens. He tries to save the body of a young boy he believes to be his son from the flames.
Denis Villeneuve
USA
122 min.
In the border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an FBI agent is enlisted by an elite North American government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. The new film by Denis Villeneuve competed in the Cannes Official Selection 2015.
Jafar Panahi
Iran
82 min.
Golden Bear-winner at the last Berlin Festival. A yellow taxi drives through the hustling, bustling streets of Tehran. The taxi picks up all sorts of passengers, each one more colourful than the last. All talk frankly to the driver. What they don’t realise is that the person interviewing them is none other than the director Jafar Pahani, one of the biggest names in today’s Iranian cinema.
Arnaud Desplechin
France
120 min.
Arnaud Desplechin revisits the rich emotional landscape of Comment je me suis disputé... (My Sex Life...) and Un conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale) with this film presented at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Paul remembers his youth and his first, and only, true love...
Autor: Sabrina Lantos. ©2015 Gravier Productions, Inc
© Autor: Sabrina Lantos. ©2015 Gravier Productions, Inc
Woody Allen
USA
95 min.
Woody Allen’s new film, presented at the last Cannes Festival, is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.
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