San Sebastian Film Festival 2020

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Arima (Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Jaione Camborda; Writer: Jaione Camborda; Stars: Melania Cruz, Tito Asorey, Rosa Puga Davila, Nagore Arias, Iria Parada, Mabel Rivera, Melania Cruz, Tito Asorey, Rosa Puga Davila, Nagore Arias, Iria Parada, Mabel Rivera)
Arima is the story of four women and a girl whose existence is disrupted by the sudden arrival of two strangers.
Father There Is Only One (Padre No Hay Mas Que Uno) (Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Santiago Segura; Writer: Marta González de Vega, Santiago Segura, Juan Vera, Mariano Vera; Stars: Santiago Segura, Toni Acosta, Sílvia Abril, Leo Harlem, Wendy Ramos, Martina Valeria de Antioquía, Calma Segura, Luna Fulgencio, Carlos González Morollón, Sirena Segura, Anabel Alonso, Marta González de Vega, Mónica Pérez, Diana Navarro, Miguel Lago)
A man who thinks he is a perfect father but he is put to the test by his long-suffering wife.
The Island Of Lies (La isla de las mentiras) (Country: Spain, Portugal, Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Paula Cons; Writer: Paula Cons, Luis Marías, Paula Cons; Stars: Nerea Barros, Darío Grandinetti, Aitor Luna, Victoria Teijeiro, Ana Oca, Milo Taboada, Leyre Berrocal, Miguel Borines, Celso Bugallo, Mela Casal, María Costas, Roberto Leal, Sergio Quintana, Machi Salgado, Ana Santos)
In the early hours of 2 January 1921, the ship Santa Isabel, on its way to Buenos Aires and with 260 people on board, sinks... a journalist begins to suspect that all may not have been as it first appeared.
La Mami (Country: Mexico, Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Laura Herrero Garvín)
Documentary about the woman who runs the ladies room in a cabaret club.
My Mexican Bretzel (Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Nuria Giménez; Writer: Nuria Giménez)
Uses onscreen subtitles, taken from the diaries of one Vivian Barrett, to accompany and narrate silent images of her life with her husband Léon, a Second World War pilot who damaged his hearing in a plane accident.
Rosa's Wedding (Country: Spain, France; Year: 2020; Director: Icíar Bollaín; Writer: Icíar Bollaín, Alicia Luna; Stars: Candela Peña, Sergi López, Nathalie Poza, Ramón Barea, Paula Usero, Xavo Giménez, Paloma Vidal, Lucín Poveda, María José Hipólito, María Maroto, Eric Francés, Ana Ulloa, José Arnau, Lucía Oca, Esther Ramos)
Rosa, about to turn 45, realises that she has always lived for others, so she decides to press the nuclear button, shake things up, leave it all and grab hold of the reins of her life.
Schoolgirls (Las Niñas) (Country: Spain; Year: 2020; Director: Pilar Palomero; Stars: Andrea Fandos, Natalia de Molina, Zoé Arnao, Julia Sierra, Francesca Piñón)
In 1990s Spain, Celia’s cosmopolitan new classmate Brisa prompts her to start questioning the value system of her strict Catholic environment. Her newfound curiosity about pop bands and her own body is accompanied by questions about her family background.
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