Session linked to the report on the gender identity the Festival is elaborating since 2019
Focos (FC) - First steps, new narratives - | Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián
Session linked to NEST section (the International Film Students Meeting) in its 2020 edition.
Focos (FC) - Nest + PLUS - | Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián
Screening related to the exhibition ‘First steps. Other approaches to the visual history of the San Sebastian Festival (1953-1970)’organized by the research project Z70.
Selection of short films directed by the 2021 residents of Ikusmira Berriak.
Focos (FC) - Ikusmira Berriak 2021 - | Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián
First part of the series Cartes blanches: Vincent Maraval, director of Wild Bunch.
Focos (FC) - CARTE BLANCHE VINCENT MARAVAL - | Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián
Screening of the winner of the San Sebastian Film Festival Golden Shell (2020) regarding its director’s comeback to the city to carry out an artistic residency at the International Centre for Contemporary Culture Tabakalera.
Focos (FC) - Dasatskisi / Beginning - Dea Kulumbegahsvili | Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián
Second part of the series Cartes blanches: Vanja Kaludjercic, artistic director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Focos (FC) - CARTA BLANCA A VANJA KALUDJERCIC - | Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián
Ventura Pons, Spain, 1978, 78' In dialogue with the exhibition at Kutxa Kultur Plaza "Festival en transición. el Festival de San Sebastián en los años del cambio (1976-1985)” Intimate vision of the Andalusian painter José Pérez Ocaña and a revealing portrait of Barcelona at the beginning of the Transition. Ocaña, with joy and from his creative marginality challenges: transvestism as provocation, religion and fetishism, repression of machismo, lawlesness, homosexuality... The marginal life that was hidden under Franco's dictatorship is openly shown against the backdrop of a unique artist.
The showing will include the 'making of' by Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola student Paula González García, entitled Notas sobre Nest (Notes on Nest), plus the two winning short films of the 69th edition: the winner of the Nest award, U Šumi / In the Woods, by Sara Grgurić, and Podul de piatrâ / Pont de pedra, by Artur-Pol Camprubí, recipient of the special jury mention. The filmmakers will introduce the screenings.
Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest’s sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism.
A historic drama with musical Bollywood scenes based in the early 90s of Kabul where soviet values rule the country. After selling a cinema ticket to a secret police officer by mistake, 14 years old Qodrat ends up at the Soviet orphanage. Everyday life for Qodrat is about friendships, falling in love, doing naughty things, and going on adventures. However, behind the safe walls of the orphanage the world they once knew is drastically changing as the Mujahideens start the civil war.
The filmmaker herself will present the session.
Pueblo (Spain, Switzerland, 2015) 27'
After some time passed on the exile, Rafa returns to his village confronting everything he left on the past. Immersed on the fantastic atmospheres of the processions, he will set out on a escape through the end of a night.
Las vísceras (Spain, France, 2016) 15'
A village in southern Spain. On a hot summer afternoon, a woman grabs a rabbit, strokes it, then kills it with her bare hands before skinning it. Her grandchildren, elder ones, even dogs, witness this rite of death.
Los que desean (Spain, Switzerland, 2018) 24'
In the South of Spain, a multicolored pigeon race will be won not by the fastest bird, but the one who will be able to seduce a female pigeon and fly alongside her the longest.
Mauvais sang (Leos Carax, France, 1986) 114’
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner’s son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It’s spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
Crash (David Cronenberg, Canada, 1996) 100’
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Ke arteko egunak (Antxon Eceiza, Spain, 1989) 105’
After twenty years, Pedro Sansinenea returns to the Basque Country. Some circumstances that he found unbearable persist, but there are new ones.
Re Granchio (Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis, Italy, 2021) 100’
Small town in Italy, end of the 19th century. Luciano, a drunk, accidentally kills his lover during a revolt against the local Prince. To pay for his crime, he is forced into exile on the most remote island in the world, Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. The hunt for the shipwreck treasure hidden on the island becomes his opportunity for redemption.
* Moon Sung's (Jeonju's programming team member) video presentation.
* Presented by Benjamín Naishtat at the Cinema
Special Session. Tribute to the Donostia Award 2023, Javier Bardem.
* With a presentation by José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastián.
Special Session. Tribute to the Donostia Award 2023, Hayao Miyazaki.
Special Session. Tribute to the Donostia Award 2023, Víctor Erice.
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1996) 90’
Cheryl (played by the director herself) is a black woman who is making a documentary about Fae Richards, a 1930s black actress popularly known as The Watermelon Woman. She also works in a video store. The film depicts Cheryl's lucubrations about the actress and stages her exciting love affair with Diana, a white woman, a regular customer at the store. The filmmaker's skill in bringing these two stories together makes the film a stimulating reflection on the representation of sexuality and race in cinema and an invitation to speculate on the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Komm mit mir in das Cinema - Die Gregors (Alice Agneskirchner, Alemania, 2022) 155’
Documentary about the unique career of Erika and Ulrich Gregor, whose love for each other and for cinema has remained unbroken for 65 years and has played a decisive role in shaping the German film and cinema landscape.
La croisade (Louis Garrel, Francia, 2021) 67’
Abel and Marianne discover that their 13-year-old son Joseph has secretly sold their most precious possessions. They soon find out that Joseph is not the only one - all over the world, hundreds of children have joined forces to finance a mysterious project. Their mission is to save the planet.
Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein (1925)
The feature film is based on actual events in 1905 and focuses on the sailors' uprising in the port of Odesa. The poor food supply on board a warship led to a protest by the sailors, which the captain tried to suppress by force. The sailors receive support from the population in the form of food. When the Tsar's army moves against the rebels, the situation comes to a head. The warship sails out to sea, where a squadron of admirals awaits. Fraternization between the crews of the ships ensues.
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