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SAN SEBASTIAN OFFICIAL COMPETITION / BUSAN ICONS
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FRANZ
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by AGNIESZKA HOLLAND
(EUROPA, EUROPA, MR JONES, GREEN BORDER)
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2025 - Czech Republic/Germany/Poland - Biopic/Drama - 127 min
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with Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak
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Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. FRANZ will give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
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Screenings in San Sebastian:
MON 22 SEP 8:30 Victoria Eugenia P&I
MON 22 SEP 11:30 Kursaal 1 P&I
MON 22 SEP 19:00 Kursaal 1
TUE 23 SEP 22:00 Principe 7
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Screenings in Busan:
TUE 23 SEP 11:30 Busan Cinema Center 1
THU 25 SEP 9:30 Busan Cinema Center 1
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SILENT FRIEND
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by ILDIKÓ ENYEDI
(ON BODY AND SOUL, MY 20TH CENTURY, THE STORY OF MY WIFE)
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2025 - Germany/Hungary/France - Drama - 147 min
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with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Léa Seydoux
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In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives.
2020, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, exploring the mind of babies, begins an unexpected experiment with the old tree.
1972, a young student is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium.
1908, the university's first female student discovers, through the lens of photography, sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants.
We follow their clumsy, awkward attempts to connect — each one of them deeply rooted in their own present — as they are transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature.
The ancient ginkgo tree brings us closer to what it means to be human — to our longing to belong.
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Screenings in Busan:
THU 18 SEP 9:30 KOFIC Theater
WED 24 SEP 15:30 Busan Cinema Center 2
THU 25 SEP 19:30 Busan Cinema Center 1
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SAN SEBASTIAN ZABALTEGI / BUSAN FLASH FORWARD
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STRANGE RIVER
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by JAUME CLARET MUXART
(Debut Feature)
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2025 - Spain/Germany - Drama - 105 min
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with Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz
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Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a bicycle trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with a boy changes the course of the journey, with his enigmatic presence awakening new feelings in Dídac and disrupting his relationship with his family.
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Screenings in San Sebastian:
TUE 23 SEP 22:00 Tabakalera 1
WED 24 SEP 15:30 Tabakalera 1
WED 24 SEP 21:15 Trueba 2
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Screenings in Busan:
THU 18 SEP 15:00 CGV Centum City 5
FRI 19 SEP 9:30 CGV Centum City 6
THU 25 SEP 17:30 KOFIC Theater
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SAN SEBASTIAN PERLAS / BUSAN A WINDOW ON ASIAN CINEMA
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THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
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by Hasan Hadi (Debut Feature)
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2025 - Iraq/USA/Qatar - Drama - 102 min
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with Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat
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While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake or face the consequences.
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Screenings in San Sebastian:
FRI 19 SEP 17:30 Principe 2
SAT 20 SEP 15:30 Victoria Eugenia Theater
SUN 21 SEP 9:15 Principal
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Screenings in Busan:
THU 18 SEP 19:30 LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 9
SAT 20 SEP 18.30 LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 9
WED 24 SEP 20:00 LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 9
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CALLE MALAGA
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by MARYAM TOUZANI
(THE BLUE CAFTAN, ADAM)
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2025 - Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium - Drama - 116 min
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with Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane, María Alfonsa Rosso
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MOROCCAN OSCAR ENTRY 2026
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Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.
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DIRECTOR‘S DIARY
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by ALEXANDER SOKUROV
(RUSSIAN ARK, FATHER AND SON, FRANCOFONIA, FAUST)
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2025 - Italy/Russia - Non-Fiction - 305 min
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DIRECTOR’S DIARY is a journey, a unique reading of the history of the second half of the twentieth century, where literature and cinema merge in a single flow that transcends documentary genres.
Following Russian Ark and Francofonia, visionary master of cinema Alexander Sokurov has created a grandiose work with multiple meanings set against the backdrop of thousands of faces and events from the pulsating life of the entire globe.
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TARIKA
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by Milko Lazarov (ÁGA, ALIENATION)
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2024 - Bulgaria/Germany/Luxembourg - Drama - 86 min
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with Vesela Valcheva, Zachary Baharov, Ivan Savov
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BULGARIAN OSCAR ENTRY 2026
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Tarika lives with her father and her grandmother in a small hut near the border far away from the local village. Marked by her “butterfly wings”, a rare bone condition she inherited from her mother, the girl has been the source of the community's superstition forever. When the local cattle is struck down by a mysterious disease, fear starts spreading among the villagers...
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In San Sebastian:
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CEO - Jean-Christophe Simon - 22 SEP - 24 SEP
Sales - Valeska Neu - 22 SEP - 25 SEP
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