The San Sebastian Film Festival has carefully selected the best competition lineup of the Cannes Film Festival for this year’s Perlak section.
Almost every film that wins an award in Cannes is from Payal Kapadia Everything we imagine is light (Grand Prize), Mohammad Rasulov Sacred Fig Seeds (Special Jury Prize) and Coralie Fargeat’s substance (Best Screenplay) awarded to Sean Baker, Palme d’Or winner Anorawill screen at the Spanish Film Festival’s sidebar and compete for San Sebastian’s Audience Award.
Jacques Audiard’s transgender crime musical Emilia Perez, The film won the Jury Prize and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and will open in the Perlak section on September 20.
Other Cannes Film Festival films, including those by Andrea Arnold birdPaul Schrader oh canada, Partenope The controversial film by Italian directors Paolo Sorrentino and Francis Coppola Megacitywill also be screened in the Perlak section. The same goes for Hong Sang-soo Traveler needsBerlin Jury Silver Bear winner Walter Salles I’m still herewhich will premiere in Venice, as well as Adam Elliott’s Memoirs of a SnailThe film won the Crystal Award for Best Feature Film at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival.
Chris Sanders animated feature film wild robot, Documentary with the voices of Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal and Tom Volf and Yannis Dimolitsas ‘s documentary will be screened out of competition in San Sebastian Maria Callas: Letters and Memoriesabout the legendary diva.
Ends September 28th This section, non-competitive, is Marcois a biopic directed by Spanish directors Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, about the Catalan imposter Enric Marco, who falsely claimed to be a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.
Titles in competition are vying for the City of San Sebastian Audience Award, voted for by the festival audience, which includes the Best Film Award worth $55,000 (€50,00) and the Best Film Award worth $22,000 (€50,000). European Film Awards.
