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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Nikica Zdunic
Croatia
21 min.
Short film
Janka is on the verge of puberty. One day she goes to dance practice with her friend Zorana. While Zorana is preoccupied with topics such as kissing, new clothes, and parties, Janka is trying to retain her childish innocence for as long as possible. But she can't escape the inevitable changes every girl has to undergo.
Boaz Frankel
Israel
20 min.
Short film
Another nearly-ordinary winter day in the life of 64-year-old Doron, director of a municipal home for the aged: the rain is pouring, someone nabbed his reserved parking spot, and Bela Schorr, occupant of Room 212, passed away that morning.
Inês de Lima Torres
Portugal
30 min.
Short film
In the hot month of August, Alice and her siblings go to their grandmother's summer house. As the days go by, the house becomes a hive of slow straying bodies, as Alice becomes more and more ingrained in her grandmother's colonial past.
Tommaso Usberti
France
27 min.
Short film
In a wild landscape Vera and Matteo live their first date of love. The girl's father surprises them and assaults the boy. At the end of a fierce fight Matteo knocks down man. Vera asks the boy to take her to dance. Matteo, shaken, runs away.
Sylvain Cruiziat, Mila Zhluktenko
Germany
20 min.
Short film
"In Afghanistan, I saw a couple making love on a roof": we know very little of the day-to-day work of the pilots carrying out "targeted assassinations" with military drones. Three Americans agreed to testify in voiceover about their experience, which is paradoxically one of intimacy and cruelty, over aerial images that they could have filmed themselves, to "Find, Fix, Finish"
Martina Juncadella, Martín Vilela
Argentina
17 min.
Short film
Fiora and Martina are preparing lunch. The situation is a staging of the real ties that bind them. As they eat, Fiora comes back over a past occurrence. Martina wants to know more and decides to question her.
Sam Peeters
Belgium
14 min.
Short film
Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles. In this unscripted documentary, Sam Peeters portrays an ironic caricature of life in the Flemish suburbs, which reflects the current European zeitgeist.
Lluís Sellarès
Spain
22 min.
Short film
Nico is half of the couple who stays at home while Mar is working, looking out the window the vastness of the forest and seeking for new ways to procrastinate.
Alejandra Villalba García
Mexico
22 min.
Short film
A typical family is being watched in their own home. The father, an accomplice to the situation, obliges the other members of the family group to participate in the dynamic. The mother tries to escape with her daughters, but to no avail.
Juanita Onzaga
Belgium - Colombia
20 min.
Short film
Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes in search of their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from Bogota to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams. Here they will find some answers and attract unexpected company.
Damián Vondrásek
Czech Republic
27 min.
Short film
An offer of a job as a prison educator could help unemployed teacher Jakub resolve a difficult family situation. His father-in-law exacerbates his already low self-confidence, and the man most certainly imagined a different kind of son-in-law. The claustrophobic feelings Jakub experiences at the prison, however, lead him to a single question: Does he want to control others the rest of his life or be controlled by them?
Mina Fitzpatrick
USA
20 min.
Short film
Dan Daily lives in the middle of the Texas desert where, in 2009, he opened a retreat for children who had killed their parents. Wandervogel starts when two documentary-makers arrive at Dailey’s house to shoot a film and find him dead.
Grigory Kolomytsev
Russia
20 min.
Short film
Filatov comes back home after a lengthy absence to bury his brother. He should pick up his brother's body from the neighboring village and bring it home.
Elsa Rosengren
Germany
11 min.
Short film
It's the 23rd of June 2016. In the UK, a critical referendum is well underway, and across the Atlantic, an ominous American presidential campaign is gathering force. In Sweden, news broadcasting is carrying on as usual. In Germany, however, an identical, yet distorted, news broadcast is simultaneously being constructed by the citizens themselves.
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