San Sebastian Film Festival 2016

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Alba (Country: Ecuador, Mexico, Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Ana Cristina Barragán; Writer: Ana Cristina Barragán; Stars: Macarena Arias, Pablo Aguirre Andrade, Amaia Merino, Mara Appel, Isabel Borje, Maisa Herrera, María Pareja)
Alba, aged 11, has to go and live with her dad, Igor, because of her mum’s illness. Both struggle to forge a relationship.
The Blind Christ (El Cristo Ciego) (Country: France, Chile; Year: 2016; Director: Christopher Murray; Writer: Christopher Murray; Stars: Michael Silva)
A man claims to have had a divine revelation and, in the belief that he is Christ, sets out to perform a miracle.
Dark Skull (Viejo Calavera) (Country: Bolivia, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Kiro Russo; Writer: Gilmar Gonzales, Kiro Russo; Stars: Narciso Choquecallata, Anastasia Daza López, Felix Espejo Espejo, Israel Hurtado, Rolando Patzi, Elisabeth Ramírez Galván, Julio Cezar Ticona)
A young man finds himself no other option but to replace his dead father down the mine.
El Amparo (Country: Venezuela, Columbia; Year: 2016; Director: Rober Calzadilla)
Two men survive and assault and find themselves accused of being guerillas.
Era O Hotel Cambridge (Country: France, Brazil; Year: 2016; Director: Eliane Caffé; Writer: Luis Alberto de Abreu, Eliane Caffé, Inês Figueiró; Stars: José Dumont, Suely Franco, Ibtessam Umran, Thais Carvalho, Carmen Silva, Guylain Muskendi Lobobo, Paulo Américo, Juliane Arguello, Isam Ahmad Issa, Lucia Pulido, Mariana Raposo, Gabriel Tonin)
The story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo.
The Idea Of A Lake (La Idea De Un Lago) (Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Milagros Mumenthaler; Writer: Milagros Mumenthaler; Stars: Carla Crespo , Rosario Bléfari , Malena Moiron )
A pregnant photographer, trying to complete her book before she gives birth, is drawn back to he disappearance of her father under the military dictatorship.
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (La Larga Noche De Francisco Sanctis) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Francisco Márquez, Andrea Testa; Stars: Rafael Federman, Valeria Lois, Laura Paredes, Romina Pinto, Marcelo Subiotto, Diego Velázquez)
A man faces a dilemma over whether to help to men wanted by the dictatorship.
Much Ado About Nothing (Aquí no ha pasado nada) (Country: Chile; Year: 2016; Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras; Writer: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Jerónimo Rodríguez; Stars: Agustín Silva, Daniel Alcaíno, Isabella Costa, Li Fridman, Paulina García, Luis Gnecco, Alejandro Goic, Daniel Muñoz, Geraldine Neary, Augusto Schuster, Samuel Vicuña)
A reckless loner finds himself accused of a hit and run... but he remembers the night very differently.
Rara (Country: Chile, Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Pepa San Martín; Writer: Pepa San Martín, Alicia Scherson; Stars: Julia Lübbert, Emilia Ossandon, Mariana Loyola, Agustina Muñoz, Coca Guazzini, Daniel Muñoz, Sigrid Alegría, Micaela Cristi, Nicolás Vigneaux)
Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to that of other families. But not everyone sees it that way.
Santa And Andres (Santa y Andres) (Country: Cuba, Colombia, France; Year: 2016; Director: Carlos Lechuga; Writer: Eliseo Altunaga, Carlos Lechuga, Carlos Lechuga; Stars: Lola Amores, Cesar Domínguez, Luna Tinoco, Ederlys Rodriguez Perez, Maikel Alexi Sánchez, Jorge Abreu, Eduardo Martinez)
Cuba, 1983. Santa, a lonely country girl, is sent to keep an eye on Andrés, a gay writer in whom the Revolution has little “confidence”. The two strike up a friendship.
The Tenth Man (El rey del Once) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Daniel Burman; Writer: Daniel Burman; Stars: Dan Breitman, Elisa Carricajo, Elvira Onetto, Usher Raymond, Alan Sabbagh, Adrián Stoppelman, Julieta Zylberberg)
Ariel is summoned to Buenos Aires by his distant father, who runs a Jewish aid foundation in El Once, the bustling Jewish neighborhood where he spent his youth.
The Untamed (La región salvaje) (Country: Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Amat Escalante; Writer: Amat Escalante, Gibrán Portela; Stars: Kenny Johnston)
A mysterious young woman is convinced that something otherworldly could be the answer to all of her family's problems.
X Quinientos (Country: Canada, Colombia, Mexico; Year: 2016; Director: Juan Andrés Arango Garcia; Writer: Juan Andrés Arango Garcia)
Coming to Montreal from Manila to live with her grandmother, Maria struggles to adapt to the new environment.
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