San Sebastian Film Festival 2022

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Godland Godland
Godland and Trenque Lauquen
Friends On A Country Road (Amigas en un camino de campo) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Santiago Loza; Writer: Lionel Braverman, Santiago Loza; Stars: Anabella Bacigalupo, Eva Bianco, Jazmín Carballo, Carolina Sade)
A stone falls from the sky in a mountain village. Two friends set out to find it in the countryside. On the way, they have a day-long conversation.
Godland (Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Hlynur Pálmason; Writer: Hlynur Pálmason; Stars: Hilmar Guðjónsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Elliott Crosset Hove, Jacob Lohmann, Waage Sandø, Vic Carmen Sonne)
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.
Meet Me In The Bathroom (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern)
An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world. Inspired by the book by Lizzy Goodman
The Mountain (La Montagne) (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Thomas Salvador; Writer: Naïla Guiguet, Thomas Salvador; Stars: Thomas Salvador, Louise Bourgoin, Thomas Agathocleous, Martine Chevallier, Hassan Jouhari, Catherine Lefroid, Andranic Manet, Laurent Poitrenaux)
A man on a business trip decides to give everything up for a life on the mountains.
Mutzenbacher (Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Ruth Beckermann; Writer: Ruth Beckermann, Claus Philipp)
With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, Mutzenbacher, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.
Piaffe Piaffe
Piaffe and Meet Me In The Bathroom
Piaffe (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Ann Oren; Writer: Thais Guisasola, Ann Oren; Stars: Simone Bucio, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, Sebastian Rudolph)
An introverted foley artist, Eva struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse. Empowered by a horsetail growing out of her body, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission.
Piggy (Cerdita) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Carlota Pereda; Writer: Carlota Pereda; Stars: Pilar Castro, Claudia Salas, Camille Aguilar, Carmen Machi, Julián Valcárcel, Mabel del Pozo, Chema del Barco, Stéphanie Magnin Vella, Irene Ferreiro, Laura Galán, Fred Tatien, José Pastor, Richard Holmes, Fernando Delgado-Hierro, Amets Otxoa)
Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. Sara knows more than she's saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her.
Robe Of Gems (Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Natalia López; Writer: Natalia López; Stars: Nailea Norvind, Antonia Olivares, Mónica Poggio, Aida Roa, Juan Daniel García Treviño)
Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Mari, whose sister has disappeared.
Trenque Lauquen (Trenque Lauquen Part I, Trenque Lauquen Part II) (Year: 2022; Director: Laura Citarella; Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Verónica Llinás, Juliana Muras, Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Cecilia Rainero, Rafael Spregelburd)
Story set in the Argentinian city of the title, centring on an academic who has disappeared. The story is told across two feature films.
Unrest (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Cyril Schäublin; Writer: Cyril Schäublin; Stars: Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Nikolai Bosshardt, Mayo Irion, Li Tavor, Daniel Stähli, Hélio Thiémard, Monika Stalder, Laurent Ferrero, Laurence Bretignier)
A watch factory worker gets involved with a movement of anarchist watchmakers where she meets philosopher Pyotr Kropotkin.
Piggy Piggy
Piggy and The Water
The Water (El Agua) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Elena López Riera; Writer: Elena López Riera, Philippe Azoury; Stars: Luna Pamies, Bárbara Lennie, Nieve De Medina, Alberto Olmo, Irene Pellicer, Nayara García, Lidia María Cánovas, Pascual Valero)
First love plays out against a backdrop of a hot summer and local myth.
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