San Sebastian Film Festival 2022

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1976 1976
1976 and A Male
1976 (Chile, '76) (Country: Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Manuela Martelli; Writer: Manuela Martelli, Alejandra Moffat; Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Alejandro Goic)
A woman finds herself dicing with danger after she is asked for help.
Charcoal (Carvão) (Country: Argentina, Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Carolina Markowicz; Writer: Carolina Markowicz; Stars: César Bordón, Jean de Almeida Costa, Maeve Jinkings, Aline Marta Maia, Camila Márdila, Pedro Wagner)
A rural family who make their living from a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner, who turns out to be using their home as a hideout.
Dos Estaciones (Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Pablo González; Writer: Ilana Coleman, Ana Isabel Fernández, Juan Pablo González; Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Teresa Sánchez, Tatín Vera, Rafaela Fuentes)
In the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.
La Jauría (Country: Colombia, France; Year: 2022; Director: Andrés Ramírez Pulido; Writer: Andrés Ramírez Pulido; Stars: Jhojan Estiven Jimenez, Maicol Andrés Jimenez, Miguel Viera, Diego Rincon)
Eliú is incarcerated in a minors' centre in the heart of Colombian forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. The teenagers perform manual labour and intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same centre.
A Male (Un Varon) (Country: Colombia; Year: 2022; Director: Fabian Hernández; Writer: Fabian Hernández)
Carlos lives in a youth shelter in Bogota. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alpha 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them.
Sublime Sublime
Sublime and Dos Estaciones
My Imaginary Country (Mi País Imaginario) (Country: Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Patricio Guzmán; Writer: Patricio Guzmán)
Protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile's capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.
Noise (Ruido) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Natalia Beristáin; Writer: Natalia Beristáin, Diego Enrique Osorno, Alo Valenzuela; Stars: Julieta Egurrola, Teresa Ruiz, Erick Israel Consuelo)
Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her search, she will weave through the stories and struggles of the different women she will meet.
Octopus Skin (Country: Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Germany, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ana Cristina Barragán; Writer: Ana Cristina Barragán; Stars: Cristina Marchan)
A pair of twins find themselves forced to go to the city for the first time.
The Padilla Affair (El Caso Padillo) (Country: Spain, Cuba; Year: 2022; Director: Pavel Giroud; Writer: Pavel Giroud)
Documentary about the case of poet Herberto Padilla.
Sublime (Country: Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Mariano Biasin; Writer: Mariano Biasin; Stars: Martín Miller, Teo Inama Chiabrando, Azul Mazzeo)
A teenager in a rock band falls for his best friend, who is also one of his bandmates, while acting as his confidante and listening to his plans to impress girls.
Charcoal Charcoal
Charcoal and My Imaginary Country
Tengo Sueños Eléctricos (I Have Electric Dreams) (Country: Belgium, France, Costa Rica; Year: 2022; Director: Valentina Maurel; Writer: Valentina Maurel; Stars: Reinaldo Amien, José Pablo Segreda Johanning, Daniela Marín Navarro, Vivian Rodriguez)
A teenager gets more than she bargained for when she goes to live with her dad.
Vicenta B (Country: Colombia, Norway, Cuba, US, France; Year: 2022; Director: Carlos Lechuga; Writer: Carlos Lechuga, Fabián Suárez; Stars: Mireya Chapman, Aimeé Despaigne, Linnett Hernandez Valdes, Eduardo Martínez, Pedro Martínez)
A Cuban woman who can see into the future and communicate with spirits faces an existential crisis and confronts her own anxiety.
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