Festival de San Sebastián


San Sebastian Festival
2024-09-20 / 2024-09-28

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Generalist

Area
International

Class
Category A

Typology
Generalist

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San Sebastian Festival: BASQUE. AUDIOVISUAL. Presents

I´M NEVENKA

Nevenka Fernández was 23 years old when she started working at the City Council of Ponferrada, a small Spanish city. She was young, beautiful and full of dreams. But the mayor, accustomed to exercising his power, was immediately infatuated with her. Instead of putting up with it, Nevenka stood up and she faced her entire city, the media and the public opinion of a whole country who chose to pigeonhole her and spoke of her as a calculating exploiter.

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QUERER

After 32 years of marriage, Miren leaves the couple’s home and files a report against her husband for continuous rape. This serious accusation forces the couple's sons to choose between believing their mother or supporting a father who defends his innocence. A family journey that runs parallel to the judicial one with the same objective: to learn the truth.

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THE LAST ROMANTICS

Irune, a woman who keeps to herself, lacks self confidence and has hypochondriac tendencies, works in a paper mill on the edge of an industrial town. Her life is limited to a few acquaintances: her work colleagues, a neighbour with whom she shares something of a friendship and a railway company employee she consults on the times of trains she never takes. Her fragile balance will fall to pieces when she feels a lump in her breast, coinciding with a work conflict in which she is involved.

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MARCO

Based on true events, the film explores the story of a concentration camp deportee from Spain who turned out to be fictitious. This is the account of the life of the immensely charismatic man who for years served as the self-elected speaker of the Spanish Association of Holocaust Victims, and who maintained, before the public and even within his own association, as well as within his family, a highly complex fabrication: He claimed to have been a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp –which turn

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When it comes (it will have your eyes)

A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

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NINA

45-years-old Nina (Patricia López Arnaiz) decides to return to the coastal town where she grew up to take revenge on the man who ruined her life and to whom the town now pays homage. The reunion with her place of origin, with her memories of the past and with Blas, a childhood friend, will make her wonder if revenge is the only way.

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THE WILLIAMS

The Williams is about racism, sibling relationships, migration, memory and identity, privilege and the discomfort it generates when you don't quite know if you are a white man in a black body, a black Basque, or simply, you feel like a foreigner. The brothers, descendants of Ghanaians, are admired players of Athletic Club de Bilbao: the first division team that only has Basque players. They will come face to face with their family history, facing a decision: to compromise or to look away.

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A HUNDRED BIRDS IN THE SKY

Over the course of twelve months, while the Earth makes a turn around the sun, Jone, an Art student, will head to Chillida Leku in search of a sculptor who was born a hundred years ago. There, step by step, the artwork of Eduardo Chillida, his writings and ideas, and the conversations with those who surrounded him will gradually build in the air the image of an uncapturable man. Like that horizon that Chillida so often contemplated; the closer you get, the more it slips away.

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THAT WORLD THAT GIVES YOU NOTHING

Between Bilbao and Havana, Bernardo looks for Esperanza. Cristina and her boyfriend try to make ends meet without any problems. About physical and emotional uprooting, waiting for better moments and certain unexpected situations of the class struggle.

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THIS IS NOT HOLLYWOOD

From her maturity, Jone, daughter of Josemi the screenwriter, approaches her father and her uncles through their filmography and the people who accompanied them. A cinematic journey to know, understand, and accept the lights and shadows of the Ibarretxe brothers.

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LOLO'S POWERS

“Lolo´s powers” discovers the figure of Lolo Rico, the creator of “La bola de cristal”. The documentary reveals the story of a brave, pioneer woman who rebelled against the times she lived, and managed to raise seven children by herself while launching one of the legendary shows in the history of Spanish television.

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Let it know

40 years after ETA kidnapped her family and the Spanish State murdered her father under torture, Tamara Muruetagoiena begins the path towards truth and justice.

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FROM EIGHT TO INFINITY

Following the life trajectory of the filmmaker Benito Ansola and with the writer Miren Agur Meabe as a traveling companion, we will travel through the history of Basque cinema, from the first seeds of Basque cinema and cinema in Basque to the flourishing that it experiences today. Look, Agur Meabe won't be alone. On this trip, we will have luxury helpers. Among others, with several successful Basque filmmakers who have been witnesses and protagonists of the evolution of Basque cinema.

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Replica

In 1979 the Virgin of Zikuñaga disappeared, leaving its inhabitants without her iconic image. A gap in the niche. A collective void. This is a film about gaps. My father, the filmmaker Juanmi Gutiérrez, passed away some years ago. Now, from a distance, I return to his films in an exercise of personal memory through the image, or rather, through its absence. Can the lack of an image be as strong as its presence? And in that case, what do we do with this emptiness?

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THE GIRLS AT THE STATION

Jara, Alex and Miranda are three girls who have grown up in a juvenile center without knowing what unconditional love is. It is Jara's birthday and the three of them want to celebrate it at the concert of their favorite trap queen. They do not have money or many ways to get it, but in the neighborhood there is always an older girl, who offers them dates with adults in the bathrooms of the station. Little by little and believing to be in control, they are trapped in a network of prostitution

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TASIO

Tasio works as a charcoal burner since he was 14 years old, in a small village in Navarre. Life changes, but mountains stand always there: abrupt and beautiful. Mountains are his playground during childhood, but they are also the place in which he finds food for his family. This is a period of rural exodus, but, Tasio prefers the solitude in his mountains to safeguard his freedom.

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THE THIRD LANDSCAPE

The fungus Microsphaerella dearnessi, which affects the insignis pine variety, has expanded across the landscape of the Basque Country even infecting the painted forest of Oma, the artwork of the Basque artist Agustin Ibarrola.

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