San Sebastian Film Festival

During Saddam Hussein’s regime, a nine-year-old Iraqi girl is ordered to bake a birthday cake for the dictator amid wartime poverty and hunger.

Mexico, today. Overqualified and exploited, lawyer Rita is wasting her talents working for a large firm far better at whitewashing criminal garbage than ...

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev ...

Diego and Elena want to move to the United States to start a new life. But first, they have to get in...

After discovering a shipment of cocaine hidden beneath a cargo ship, the lives of two commercial divers, Antonio and Estrella, are turned upside down.

A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture ...

Three horsemen set out to take over a vast estate, but their true mission is to “eliminate” the indigenous population.

A family endures a year apart. Intimate moments and strange events reveal enduring bonds of love, memory and resilience.

Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming ...

Before the Nuremberg trials, a psychiatrist is charged to evaluate the mental states of Nazi leaders.

Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila ...

An Italian president faces moral crises over euthanasia legislation and pardoning killers during his final months in office.

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father.

After a serious accident, a legendary jockey from Buenos Aires flees his mafia past and starts a new life.

A bank employee plans to steal money, confess, and then serve his sentence while his colleague hides the loot.

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped, pleading for rescue.

Marcelo flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace.

In 1930s Algeria, the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and a fateful encounter on a beach.

Summoned by his father to strike out on his own, a young PhD student in quantum physics finds himself teaching math at a suburban secondary school...

Pierre travels to the Alps for work. He camps alone high in the mountains and leaves his everyday life behind.

The silence after the disaster: an emergency call center operator witnesses a crime. In the subsequent trial, she has to endure a lot.

What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.

Despite adversity, Sana wants her twins to have a spring vacation, but all her plans fall through. They secretly decide to stay in her former in-laws' ...

To protect their gay son, a family moves to the countryside, but there they are confronted with conservatism, religion and folkloric superstition.

The adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle ...

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

Aurora, a Portuguese worker in Edinburgh, is seeking meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.

Hirayama works maintaining public toilets in Tokyo. His life is structured around routines and passions that lead him to simply appreciate life.

An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

17-year-old Lucas is in his final year of boarding school when his father's sudden death shatters everything he took for granted.

Sano returns to the sleepy coastal village where he fell in love with his wife, Nagi, five years earlier.

Sandra, Samuel, and their son have been living far away from everything in the mountains for a year. One day, Samuel is found dead.

As he is about to return to his country, a Romanian construction worker meets a doctoral student studying bryology.

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.

Madagascar, 1970, in one of the last French military bases abroad; ten-year-old Thomas observes his surroundings with curiosity.

While looking for a job as a violinist, Josef enters the orbit of a wealthy young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic lifestyle.

Tori and Lokita, two young refugees in Belgium, find strength and friendship while facing the harsh reality of their new life.

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for a figure skating duo.

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses. Warning: This documentary ...

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions ...

The story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.

A young Korean girl's life takes an unexpected turn when a French artist visits her country, disrupting her routine.

Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian ...

Ken Loach, the chronicler of social injustice, takes on the gig economy, liberalized labor markets and fake self-employment in his latest film.

Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, ...

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Doctor Augustin Masset engages renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint in a philosophical dialogue exploring life and death.

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave.

A single mother and the manager of a roadside motel do their utmost to maintain the innocence of a six-year-old girl's life.

1770. Marianne is a painter, secretly commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent.

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

Thibaut, an orchestra conductor, is reunited with his brother Jimmy. They have nothing in common except their love of music.

At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote region of Iceland to build a church and photograph its inhabitants.

Michelle, a retiree in Burgundy, expects her grandson Lucas but a mistake ruins her plans.

The mesmerizing world of Albert Serra's PACIFICTION departs from the exotic portrayal of Tahiti, presenting an authentic glimpse into its beauty.

The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin.

Sylvia’s quiet life unravels when Saul returns, stirring painful memories she fought to bury.

When Peter sets out on a magical journey to rescue his little sister Anne, he needs to travel to mysterious territory: the Moon!

Academy Award Winner Javier Bardem stars as Blanco, proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish ...

A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes ...

In a remote South American colony in the 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location.

A Palestinian father asks Israel for permission to lift the curfew to give his son a beautiful wedding.

This documentary explores the protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy ...

In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family.

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore ...

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site ...

Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she ...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family ...

Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest ...

Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.

Everyone knows Karl Marx. But do you know his daughter?

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When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms ...

Three women and one love. But when the trio becomes a temporary couple, the question arises: Is three too many?

Four ageing men live together in a secluded house on a windswept Chilean coastline. Each has been sent there to purge sins of the past. Adhering to a ...

Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history ...

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A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

The story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their ...

A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix's family's holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already ...

In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.

After his mother's untimely death, Amir, who sees his father as the only one responsible for their ruined life, is desperate to leave the family home and ...

Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, ...

Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war.

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, ...

In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise ...

After thirty years, the Mayor of Lyon is running out of ideas, and thanks to a young and brilliant philosopher, he is now getting new hope.

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, ...

When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end ...

Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding ...

Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, ...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, ...

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a ...

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters ...

Set in a community of project houses, Iris, a young woman with a tough past, meets Renata and feels immediately attracted to her. A tender coming of age ...

After the death of his lover, Thomas travels to Jerusalem and becomes entangled in a life of grief, lies, and forbidden intimacy.

Chile, 1970. Jaime, a 20-year-old, enters prison and discovers love as well as the complexities of the prison system.