Tabakalera presents a film retrospective dedicated to the renowned director Ira Sachs (United States, 1965), with a programme that covers everything from his early works to his latest films. Every Saturday throughout July and August, the programme will offer audiences a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the cinematic universe of Sachs, a key figure of the New Queer Cinema movement. Emerging in the 1990s, this film and video movement was radically political and aesthetically innovative, being promoted by Queer artists, filmmakers, and activists.
\n\nIra Sachs was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1965. Over three decades, he has developed a deeply personal body of work characterised by its precise and unsentimental exploration of the relationships and complexities of sexual desire and intimate life. He recently presented his latest feature film, The Man I Love, at Cannes, where it competed for the Palme d’Or and received critical acclaim.
\n\nSachs will attend San Sebastián on 4 July to present Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), the first of the films that make up the series. An elegy that captures the final hours of the New York photographer before he died of AIDS in 1987.
\n\nThroughout the month of July, Sachs’s most recent works will be screened. Passages (2023) is one of his best-known works. Directed and co-written by Sachs, the film premièred at the Sundance Film Festival and was later screened in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival. It will be followed by Frankie (2019), an exploration of the complexity of family ties and our relationship with mortality, with Isabelle Huppert heading an outstanding cast. And finally, Little Men (2016), the story of two teenagers whose lives are complicated by a real estate dispute between their parents in New York. The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the Deauville American Film Festival. It will be shown with Basque subtitles.
\n\nDuring the month of August, the public will have the opportunity to discover Sachs’s early works: Love Is Strange (2014), a reflection on mature love, family, and the fragility of stability in the city; Keep the Lights On (2012), winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale, a stark portrait of the relationship between two men marked by addiction, desire, and emotional fragility; Married Life (2007), an adaptation of John Bingham’s novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven; and Forty Shades of Blue, a drama that reflects on loneliness, passion, and the search for identity. It received the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
\n\nThe series will close with The Delta (1996), Sachs’s first feature film, in which he showcases the protagonist’s inability to be himself due to guilt. The Delta premièred at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
\n\nTickets are available at sarrerak.tabakalera.eus.
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