74th San Sebastian Festival - 18/26 September 2026
74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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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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Igor Legarreta
Spain - Belgium
101 min.
Bizkaia, 1930. A harsh storm causes an English ship carrying tons of coal in its hold to run aground. During the night, the people of Algorta flock to the coast to rescue the black gold. Sabas Jauregui sees the occasion as a stroke of luck; Josefa, his wife, as a bad omen. Ignoring her pleas, Sabas drags his children towards the violent storm. The family will do the unthinkable to protect the coal that could save them from the winter... or condemn them forever.
50 years of freedom
Arantxa Aguirre
Spain
100 min.
Everyone knows Karlos Arguiñano. He's been part of our lives for almost forty years, showing us how to cook from our TV screens while charming spectators. But, when it comes down to it: does everyone know him, or does everyone just think they do? This film shows Karlos in his most private spaces, but also in situations far removed from his routine, listening to the man himself and to those closest to him, looking for the person behind the personality.
Aitor Aranguren Ordoñez
Spain
78 min.
It took 300 oaks to build the first farmhouses. When the trees ran out, wood gave way to stone, showing that identity transforms to stay. In the Arantzazu crypt, 23 chefs from Mahaia Kolektiboa meet artists in an immersive experience to address a crucial question: how to sustain an own identity today. Far from closed answers, 300 Haritz (300 Oaks) reflects on what it means to remain and to advance without losing one's origin.
Jabi Elortegi
Spain
82 min.
After a career spanning 25 years, the rock group Gatibu bids farewell to the stage having produced the soundtrack for a whole generation. The documentary accompanies its members on this last tour, capturing key moments and intimate landscapes packed with emotion. More than the chronicle of a band on the road, the film reflects on the passing of time, personal and collective transformation, maturity and the importance of knowing how to say goodbye.
Gemma Gonzalez Martinez
Spain - South Korea
63 min.
On opposite sides of the world, communities separated by thousands of kilometres share the same way of living with the sea. From the legendary women divers of Jeju island, the haenyeo, to professions such as net-making or the rowing of boats by women on the Basque coast, the documentary builds a sociocultural bridge between territories which may seem different, but which are in fact deeply connected by common values, pace of life and their relationship with the natural environment.
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Izaskun Arandia
Spain
80 min.
"At the end of 1935, Miguel Barga, my great-grandfather, left the family in Tolosa to return to the town of his birth in Burgos. Some time later, the family received word that Miguel had died in the war. His body was never returned. His death was taboo in the family for decades, until in 2018, the DNA programme run by the Gogora Institute identified his remains. By that time we had myriad details, but two important questions remained left unanswered. Why did he go and who killed him?" (Izaskun Arandia)
Koldo Almandoz, Gorka Bilbao
Spain
60 min.
In 2025, the Basque Government, EITB and the Filmoteca Vasca set about recovering and restoring four medium-length films made completely in the Basque language in the mid-80s. The process, long and delicate, included a trip to the L'Immagine Ritrovata lab in Bologna. The documentary, an own production by EITB, follows the peregrination of the four directors and the restoration process completed in Italy. Because it's important to tell these stories too.
David Taberna , Iñigo Puerta
Spain
62 min.
Izarrak explores the route that has led Basque gastronomy and the area of San Sebastián to become a unique global benchmark. From the seafaring expeditions that would set sail from Pasaia 500 years ago in search of fortune and spice to the revolution of Basque Nouvelle Cuisine, the documentary intertwines identity and territory with the stories of those who come today to Gipuzkoa in search of a future and of those who work on the sea and land to preserve a tradition with its eyes set on tomorrow.
Alejandro Cortés Calahorra
Spain
92 min.
Ten years after Álex Angulo's death, Dodó, the daughter adopted by the actor in China, returns from Taiwan to find out who her father really was. With her secret suitcase, she travels around Bilbao and Madrid, once again meeting relatives, friends and film, theatre and television professionals. Their testimonials and the fragments of his works reconstruct the artistic and human memory of Álex, while Dodó recovers the lost connection and finds her own self.
Maite Ibáñez
Spain
90 min.
On 6 August 1945, the Enola Gay bomber plane carried the most lethal cargo ever made by a human being. At 8:15:17 am, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The image imprinted on the collective memory is that of the nuclear mushroom seen from the sky, but not that of the burning bodies or that of the hands that tried to save them. That was the perspective of a Basque Jesuit priest, a missionary born in Bilbao: Pedro Arrupe.
Nitya López Saitua
Spain
71 min.
A director returns to his childhood home to recreate, with actors, the argument that drove his parents apart when he was four years old. Through improvisation and a film shoot that reveals his own artifice, he builds memories to which he never had access. But as the scene repeats itself, the indications lose their clarity and the border between reconstruction and desire start to blur.
Elsa Oliarj-Inès
France - Spain
71 min.
Nobody remembers their first school playtime. That day when the adults had gone. That day, I was in the playground. For eight years I filmed the same group of childen, asking myself: how do we grow under the gaze of others? As the years pass, the playtime games gave way to role playing; the "You're not my friend any more" gave way to the "you're not playing". One day I arrived late. Behind the cries, I could see them hitting Élise. How didn't I see it coming?
Beñat Beitia, Elio Quiroga
Spain - Chile - Argentina
81 min.
Víctor, a widowed father, and his small daughter Julia, leave Spain when Barcelona falls into the hands of Franco army in January 1939. In France they are met with concentration camps and destitution. But there is one possibility of escape: to set sail on the Winnipeg, a cargo ship chartered by Neruda and the Parisian Quakers, taking them to the safety of a new destination: Valparaíso, Chile, where a fresh start may await them.
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