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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2014

San Sebastian Film Festival 2014

Made In Spain

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11 films · 4 reviews

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10,000 Km (10,000 Kilometres)

Review preview for 10,000 Km

A warm romantic drama with a real emotional punch.

Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
Technology rather than love threatens a long-distance relationship.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet; Writer: Carlos Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet, Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer; Stars: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer)

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Arctic (ärtico)

What’s the value of family when everything has lost all rhyme or reason? Gabri Velázquez presents the everyday moods and states of mind of Spanish adolescents during the economic crisis.

(Year: 2014; Director: Gabri Velázquez)

Beautiful Youth (Hermosa juventud)

Two twentysomethings struggle to get by in modern Spain. In a bid to raise cash they decide to shoot an amateur porn film.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Jaime Rosales; Writer: Jaime Rosales, Enric Rufas; Stars: Ingrid García Jonsson, Carlos Rodríguez, Inma Nieto, Fernando Barona)

Carmina y Amén

When a woman's husband dies, she persuades her daughter not to register the death immediately because he has a pay packet pending.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Paco León; Writer: Paco León; Stars: María León, Manolo Solo, Yolanda Ramos, Carmina Barrios, Mari Paz Sayago, Estefanía Santos de los, Paco Casaus, Teresa Casanova, Joserra Leza, Paqui Montoya, Assane Dath, Julio Fraga, Alejandro León, Juanfra Romero, Marina León)

The Creator Of The Jungle (Sobre la marxa: The Creator of the Jungle)

Review preview for The Creator Of The Jungle

Arguably, the film feels the absence of the broader context of Garrell's life.

Rebecca Naughten · 3.5 out of 5
The story of a man who built his own jungle by the side of a highway, and how he rebuilt and destroyed it three times.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Jordi Morató; Writer: Jordi Morató; Stars: Josep Pijiula "Garrell", Ricard Ayats, Ivó Pijiula, Aleix Oliveras, Josep M.Costa, Albert Pujolar, Jordi Pujolar, David Fernández, Miquel Masdevall, Isaac Merino, Joel Vila)

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Dead City (Ciutat Morta)

Documentary about a controversial Spanish attempted murder case.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Xavier Artigas, Xapo Ortega; Writer: Mariana Huidobro, Jesús Rodríguez)

Falling Star (Stella Cadente)

Review preview for Falling Star

There is plenty to admire here, including some clever juxtaposition of audio and image.

Rebecca Naughten · 3 out of 5
A hallucinatory look into the brief reign of the Spanish King Amadeo I of Savoy in the early 1870s.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Leo Casamitjana, Luis Miñarro; Writer: Sergi Belbel, Leo Casamitjana, Luis Miñarro, Luis Miñarro; Stars: Lorenzo Balducci, Àlex Batllori, Àlex Brendemühl, Gonzalo Cunill, Lola Dueñas, Francesc Garrido, Jimmy Gimferrer, Bárbara Lennie, Rosa Novell, Francesc Orella)

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The Food Guide To Love

A food critic falls for a Spanish woman.

(Country: Spain, Ireland; Year: 2013; Director: Dominic Harari, Teresa Pelegri; Writer: Teresa Pelegri, Dominic Harari, Eugene O'Brien; Stars: Richard Coyle, Leonor Watling, Ciara Bailey, Michelle Beamish, Lorcan Cranitch, Simon Delaney, Robert Donnelly, Zena Donnelly, Bronagh Gallagher, Ginés García Millán, Susan Loughnane, Aoibheann McCaul, Nika McGuigan, Deirdre Monaghan, Chris Newman)

Open Windows

A fan site webmaster is tricked into helping with a plan to kidnap an actress.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Nacho Vigalondo; Stars: Elijah Wood, Neil Maskell, Sasha Grey, Ivan Gonzalez, Nacho Vigalondo)

Spanish Affair (Ocho apellidos vascos)

Review preview for Spanish Affair

Although there will no doubt be some cultural references that go over the heads of non-Spanish audiences, the stereotypes and prejudices played with are broad enough for us to get most of the jokes.

Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
In order to help the only woman resistant to his charms, a man from Seville must pass as her Basque fiancé for three days in the Basque Country.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro; Writer: Borja Cobeaga, Diego San José; Stars: Clara Lago, Dani Rovira, Carmen Machi, Karra Elejalde, Alberto López, Alfonso Sánchez, Aitor Mazo, Abel Mora, Aitziber Garmendia, Miriam Cabeza, Iñaki Beraetxe, Egoitz Lasa, Lander Otaola, Mikel Roman, Santi Ugalde)

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Yo Decido. El Tren De La Libertad

Documentary about the rights of women sparked by a Spanish bill restricting the right to abortion.

(Year: 2014; Director: Collective work)