72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2024
72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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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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Raúl de la Fuente
Spain
85 min.
Many migrants live in search of a mirror in which to recognize themselves; they are not from here, but they are not from there either. Los Williams / The Williams, a feature-length documentary, familiar and sporting, told in first-person by Iñaki and Nico Williams. Two brothers, footballers, Basques and "beltzas" or black, of Ghanaian descent, reveal their incredible tale across the two most crucial years of their lives. From their historic participation in the Qatar World Cup with two different selections, to the long-awaited victory of the Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey after 40 years, and Nico's triumph at the European Championship. Two international stars, face to face with their past and their future, through the conflicts that have marked their lives: racism, identity, frustration, ambition, and success.
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Carmen Chaplin
Spain - UK - Netherlands - France
90 min.
Featuring exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to the Chaplin estate, the film is a revealing exploration of Chaplin’s Romany heritage constructed from intimate interviews, film extracts, home movies and contributions from renowned contemporary Roma artists.
Arantxa Aguirre
Spain
93 min.
Daybreak in summer. A young girl from San Sebastian makes her way to the Peine del Viento (Wind Comb). She remembers the old sculptor Eduardo Chillida, who had been coming here since he was a boy. Today his three sculptures anchored to the rocks, in permanent conversation with the sea and the wind, have become a distinguishing feature of his city and of the whole Basque coast. At dawn, the young Jone asks herself about the sculptor and promises herself that she will go and find him.
Pello Gutiérrez Peñalba
Spain
73 min.
"En 1979 Our Lady of Zikuñaga disappeared, leaving the locals bereft of their iconic image. An empty space in a niche. A collective void. This is a film about spaces. My father, Juanmi Gutiérrez, a filmmaker, died some years ago. Now, from the distance, I return to his films in an exercise of personal memory through an image, or rather, through its absence. Can the lack of an image be as powerful as its presence? And if so, what should we do with that void?" (Pello Gutiérrez Peñalba)
Ernesto del Río, Mikel Aranburuzabala y CALLE FALSA 123
© Ernesto del Río, Mikel Aranburuzabala y CALLE FALSA 123
Ernesto del Río
Spain
73 min.
Bernardo and Esperanza met in Bilbao in 1978, when both were students at university in the midst of the turbulent political circumstances of the time. They had an on-off relationship - brimming with passionate encounters and inexplicable misunderstandings - until in 2001, during a trip to Havana to visit the aunt and cousin she had never met, the two forever went their different ways.
Jone Ibarretxe de la Cal, Nere Falagan Martin
Spain
80 min.
When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithful reflection of their own selves.
Amaia Merino, Ander Iriarte
Spain
59 min.
Forty years after ETA kidnapped her family and the State tortured and murdered her father, Tamara Muruetagoiena throws herself into the indefatigable search for the truth and justice, while personally telling us about her family tragedy: the revolutionary tax, the fact of her 17-day kidnapping by ETA, her family's falling apart, the State harassment and the political pressure they suffered, the trial, the arrest of her father and mother, the torture endured, the murder... but also her own path, that of knowing the truth and recognising it and of the use of dialogue as the principal means of resolving conflicts.
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Miguel Alba Rico, Nino Fontán Allen, Itziar Bernaola Serrano
Spain
82 min.
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the birth of the iconic TV show La bola de cristal / The Crystal Ball, the documentary focuses on its creator, a woman ahead of her time, modern and courageous. Los poderes de Lolo looks at the impressions of her children, friends and work colleagues. Javier Gurruchaga, Kiko Veneno, Loquillo and Anabel Alonso, among others, remember what it was like to work in La bola with Lolo Rico, a woman who rebelled against the traditional role assigned to her by society.
Naia Laka Arrizubieta
Spain
61 min.
By means of a journey through the life of the filmmaker Benito Ansola and with the writer Miren Agur Meabe by our side, we will travel through the history of Basque cinema, from the germ of both Basque cinema and of films made in the Basque language until their present-day efflorescence. But Miren Agur Meabe won't be alone. On this voyage, we will have magnificent assistants. Myriad eminent Basque filmmakers who have played a lead part in and witnessed its evolution will tell us its story.
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