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Macario screened in the retrospective
The 67th edition of the festival ran from September 20 to 28. There was a retrospective dedicated to Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón - including his classic Macario - and Penelope Cruz and Donald Sutherland received a Donostia Awards for lifetime achievement. Read about the winners here.
View Films by Strand:
- Horizontes Latinos
- Nest Film Students
- New Directors
- Official Selection
- Pearls
- Retrospective - Roberto Gavaldón
- Velodrome
- Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
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A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.
A magistrate in a colonial town suffers a crisis of conscience about the regime he works for.
A dancer and her choreographer husband find themselves trying to stop their lives falling apart after an adoption goes awry.
After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
A convicted arsonist returns to his rural home.
A reunion between a French cinema star and her daughter descends into confrontation.
A young girl begins to question her place in the religious community she was born into.
A mother and her daughter are pushed to their emotional limit during a family celebration.
A female astronaut finds the demands of work take their toll on her single-mum relationship with her young daughter.
A money launderer sees the Uruguayan dictatorship as an opportunity to make a killing.
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