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Taste of cinema in San Sebastián, Spain: the 67th edition of the Culinary Zinema - a section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival created in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival and jointly organised with the Basque Culinary Center - turned on the spotlight, as every year, on a selection of the best recent food inspired movies, taking the chance to focus on some other actual themes.
The section, gathering a non-competitive selection of gastronomy-related film, was meant as usual to unite cinema, gastronomy, and activities related to food in education, science and agriculture. Every movie selected was accompanied by a specifically themed dinner, from the opening night with The legend of Don Julio: meat and bones and Don Julio's chef Pablo Rivero from Buenos Aires cooking at the Basque Culinary Centre, to the closing night with A taste of sky and the chefs Kenzo Hirose Velasco and Marsia Taha Mohamed Salas from Gustu Restaurant/School in Bolivia serving their menu at LABe (Tabakalera).
Below, you can find the trailers of the food inspired movies presented this year in San Sebastián. Enjoy!
The legend of Don Julio: meat and bones
Directed by Alfred Oliveri (Argentina) - Chef Rivero's life spans three generations associated to meat. Like a premeditated destiny, we enter his story; a man who has had to work hard, from his childhood until his extraordinary present day, turning a simple neighbourhood grill into the world's best steakhouse.
La receta de la vida - Nespresso Talents 2019
Directed by Marta Lòpez, Eduardo Peirò (Spain) - The recipe of a traditional Valencian dish, paella, is the perfect excuse for meeting Amparo, a 96-year-old woman who explains, between ingredients, the secret of her life: optimism, happiness and enthusiasm.
Smells like you - Nespresso Talents 2019
Directed by Marc Vadillo and Marwan Sabri - Most of the moments we spend with friends, with the family, a date... or, at the end of the day, with our loved-ones, are spent surrounded by food. Imagine meeting the love of your life thanks to food. What dish would make you fall in love?
Nouvelle cuisine - Nespresso Talents 2019
Diected by José Manuel Prada (UK) - A man prepares a recipe for a very special guest... Who is?
Bittor Arginzoniz. Living in silence
Directed by IÑaki Arteta (Spain) - The personality of Bittor Arginzoniz and the place where he lives make his cuisine unique. Self-taught, Bittor has made his restaurant Etxebarri the third best in the world, and minimalism his trademark. And the silence. Silence in its walks, in nature, in the coals, in the choice of adequate product and the exact point of its preparation.
The taste of Pho
Directed by Mariko Bobrik (Poland - Germany) - A Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten year old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.
Restaurant from the sky
Directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Japan) - Wataru makes cheese and lives happily in Setana, Hokkaido, with his wife Kotoe and daughter Shiori. One day, his products and those of his friends attract the attention of a famous chef and they begin to plan a 1-day-only restaurant to spread their joy to others.
You are what you eat
Directed by Igor Arabaolaza (Spain) - The documentary analyses the relationship between producers and chefs based on their own testimonies. It touches on subjects such as the importance of the produce in the kitchen, sustainability, the generational takeover and promotion of the rural world.
Cocinar belleza
Directed by Sergio Piera (Spain) - One of the vocations of the art is to create beauty. Paradoxically, beauty as a concept has almost never been used in conjunction with taste. Can a flavour be beautiful? A debate is opened, moderated by the figures of the publicist Toni Segarra and the 3-star Michelin chef Quique Dacosta.
The wandering chef
Directed by Park Hye-Ryoung (South Korea) - Celebrity Jiho Im, better known as "the Wandering Chef", travels from one end of the Korean peninsula to the other in search of the most unique ingredients known for their medicinal properties. All of his sources come from Mother Nature, who has been looking after him since he ran away from home at the age of thirteen. But the pain of having had no one to call Mother is something he has carried with him for years. Until one day, he meets Kim Soon-gyu, who lives in the last village at the top of Mount Jiri, and who serves him a homemade soup that conjures up memories of his childhood.
A taste of sky
Directed by Michael Lei (USA) - In the Bolivian capital of La Paz, 13,000 feet above sea level, an ambitious and unlikely culinary project has connected three people from vastly different backgrounds and will forever change their lives: Kenzo, a hunter raised in the wild of the Bolivian Amazon, and Maria Claudia, a native of the Andean altiplano, are far from home. They have come to La Paz thanks to Gustu, a fine-dining restaurant and cooking school for the country’s underprivileged youth.
