San Sebastian Film Festival 2022

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Alcarràs Alcarràs
Alcarràs and Pacifiction
Alcarràs (Country: Spain, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch, Ainet Jounou, Josep Abad, Montse Oró, Carles Cabós, Berta Pipó, Isaac Rovira, Joel Rovira)
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
Alone In The Mountains (Entre Montanas) (Director: Unai Canela)
Unai is a teenager during lockdown for the pandemic in a small village in the Pyrenees. For more than a year, he intensely enjoys the passing of the seasons and the emotion of feeling connected to the nature closest to him and, often, the most ignored.
Colour Of Heaven (El Color Del Cielo) (Country: Spain, Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Joan Marc Zapata; Writer: Lluís Van Eeckhout, Joan Marc Zapata)
Filmstar Olivia Brontë travels to Switzerland for a photo shoot with an important fashion magazine. There she will run into Tristán del Val, a Spanish philosopher she had known years back. This reunion will prompt them to revisit the past.
The Critic (El Critico) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Javier Morales Perez, Juan Zavala; Stars: Pepa Blanes, Icíar Bollaín, Carlos Boyero, Elio Castro, Domingo Corral, Álex de la Iglesia, Antonio de la Torre, Carles Francino, Enrique González Macho, María Guerra, Borja Hermoso, Antonio Hernández, Antonio Lucas, Enrique López Lavigne, Jesus Ruiz Mantilla)
Portrait of Spanish critic Carlos Boyero.
Full Of Grace (Llenos De Gracia) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Roberto Bueso; Writer: Roberto Bueso, Óscar Díaz Cruz; Stars: Carmen Machi, Paula Usero, Anis Doroftei, Nuria González, Pablo Chiapella, Manolo Solo, Dairon Tallon, Adrián López, Pau Márquez, Adrián Marín, Diego Neira, Diego Muñoz, Divine Ogbebor, Víctor Pons, Álex Boquizo)
A nun has a plan to save a school threatened with closure - set up a football team.
Girlfriends And Girlfriends (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Zaida Carmona; Writer: Zaida Carmona, Marc Ferrer; Stars: Zaida Carmona, Alba Cros, Thaïs Cuadreny, Aroa Elvira, Marc Ferrer, Rocío Saiz)
Screwball comedy.
The House Among The Cactuses (La Casa Entre Los Cactus) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Carlota González-Adrio; Writer: Paul Pen; Stars: Ariadna Gil, Daniel Grao, Ricardo Gómez, Aina Picarolo, Zoe Arnao, Anna Ruiz, Carla Ruiz, Judith Fernández, Marga Arnau, Nayra Ortega, Virtudes García, Griselda Ponce)
A couple who have created a perfect life for their family are harbouring a secret.
Love Gets A Room (Country: Spain, UK; Year: 2021; Director: Rodrigo Cortés; Writer: Rodrigo Cortés, Jerzy Jurandot, David Safier; Stars: Clara Rugaard, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Mark Ryder, Valentina Bellè, Jack Roth, Freya Parks, Anastasia Hille, Magnus Krepper, Henry Goodman, Dalit Streett Tejeda, Jaume Viñas, Ilona Schulz, Phillip Sponbiel, Anna Mendos, Albert Bover)
Musical drama set in the Warsaw Ghetto.
My Emptiness And I (Mi Vacio Y Yo) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Adrián Silvestre)
When an office worker is diagnosed with gender dysphoria, her life is transformed as she goes on a journey of self-discovery and discovers the things she really wants in life for the first time.
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles) (Country: Spain, France, Germany, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Albert Serra; Stars: Benoît Magimel, Sergi López, Montse Triola, Lluís Serrat, Marc Susini, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Matahi Pambrun, Alexandre Mello, Mareva Wong, Baptiste Pinteaux, Michael Vautor, Cyrus Arai, Laurent Brissonnaud, Mike Landscape, Cécile Guilbert)
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Tequila. Sex, Drugs And Rock And Roll (Tequila. Sexo, drogas y rock and roll) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Álvaro Longoria; Writer: Álvaro Longoria, Juan Puchades; Stars: Cecilia Roth, Alejo Stivel, Ariel A Roth)
Documentary about the rock band Tequila.
Unfinished Affairs (Country: Spain, Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Miguel del Castillo; Writer: Benito Olmo, José Rodríguez, Juan Miguel del Castillo; Stars: Fred Tatien, Natalia de Molina, Mona Martínez, Ignacio Mateos, Gerardo de Pablos, Luisa Vides, Miguel Diosdado, Pablo Béjar, Alex Castillo, Dariam Coco, María Duarte, Eliana Duque, Carlos Manuel Díaz, Nicolás Montoya, Joaquín Perles)
An inspector embarks on a solo hunt for a killer.
You Have To Come And See It (Tenéis que venir a verla) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Jonás Trueba; Writer: Jonás Trueba; Stars: Itsaso Arana, Francesco Carril, Irene Escolar, Vito Sanz)
Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside.
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