The new film from directors Mike Leigh, François Ozon, Edward Berger, Joshua Oppenheimer and Costa-Gavras will compete for the Golden Shell Award at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday announced the lineup for the 72nd San Sebastian Games, which will be held from September 20 to 28.
Highlights include Lee’s highly anticipated new film cruel truthwhich will see the iconoclastic British director and his secrets and lies Star Marianne Jean-Baptiste; and secret meetingBerger’s follow-up to his multiple Oscar-winning Everything is silent on the Western Front. This Vatican thriller stars Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal who is tasked with overseeing a conclave to choose a successor after the pope’s sudden death.
Veteran political filmmaker Costa-Gavras (lost, Z) Return to San Sebastian last breath, a drama about a hospice doctor. Ozon will appear in the festival’s official selection for the sixth time when autumn comesis a French drama film starring Helen Vinson, Josien Balasco, Ludwin Sagnier, and Pierodin. Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa appears at Catalonia Film Festival with his film snake pathThe French adaptation of his 1998 film tells the story of a man bent on revenge for the brutal murder of his daughter. Starring Yuki Shibasaki, Damien Bernard, Mathieu Amalric.
Oscar-nominated documentary director Maite AlberdiMole Agent, eternal memory) will make her narrative debut, each other’s placeadapted from a 2019 article by Alia Trabucco Zerán Homicide case Tells the true story of writer María Carolina Geel, who shot her lover to death in 1955. act of killing and Silent lookwill also premiere his narrative debut in San Sebastian. Finish“The Golden Age” musical stars Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon and tells the story of the last families on Earth.
Gia Coppola’s last two films, Palo Alto (2013) and mainstream (2020), released in Venice, will bring the last showgirl Travel to San Sebastian. The drama, starring Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dave Bautista, tells the story of a veteran showgirl who must plan for her future after a 30-year run ends. .
Argentinian director Diego Lerman returns to competition for third time The man who loves flying saucers, A film about the famous television recording of the alleged existence of extraterrestrial beings. Lerman’s Substitute Won the 2022 San Sebastian Silver Shell Award and the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay a kind of family 2017.
The festival continues its tradition of showcasing emerging talent, with acclaimed short film director Laura Carreira making her feature debut, when fallingDepicts the precarious life of a Portuguese warehouse worker in Scotland competing on a pilgrimage to Sebastian. The lineup also includes bound in heavenScreenwriter Xin Huo’s feature film debut The movie “Kung Fu” (2004), and Monkey King (2014). The Chinese director tells the story of a terminally ill man and a young girl caught up in violence who race against time in different cities.
Audrey Devine’s EmmanuelleAdapted from Emmanuelle Arsanne’s 1967 erotic novel, starring Noémie Merante and Naomi Watts, it will be launched on September 20 for the 72nd St. Sebastian’s Day Open the curtain.
