27 Nights to Open, Winter of the Crow to Close San Sebastián Film Festival

The world premiere of Uruguayan filmmaker, Daniel Hendler’s 27 Nights (27 noches) will open the competitive Official Selection of the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival. It will close with the out-of-competition screening of Winter of the Crow by Polish director Kasia Adamik.

Daniel Hendler directs and stars in 27 Nights, in which actress Marilú Marini plays an 80-year-old millionaire forced into a psychiatric clinic by her daughters. An expert witness investigates whether this is a scheme to control their mother’s fortune or if she truly suffers from a form of dementia that endangers her well-being and that of her family. Also starring in the movie are Daniel Hendler, Humberto Tortonese, Julieta Zylberberg, Paula Grinszpan, and Carla Peterson. This year Hendler has another film – A Loose End (Un cabo suelto) at the festival in Horizontes Latinos, following its premiere earlier this year in the Spotlight section of the Venice Film Festival.

Closing film Winter of the Crow, the latest film from Kasia Adamik, is a thriller set in the Cold War during the 80s. It stars the British actress Leslie Manville, nominated for the Academy Award and for the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for Phantom Thread. Adamik also co-writes this film based on a short story by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018, telling the tale of a British professor who arrives in Poland to give a lecture in December 1981, just as martial law is coming into force.

Warsaw, Poland – December 13th 1981 – Martial law is imposed and overnight shuts down the country just as British psychiatry professor Dr Joan Andrews arrives as a guest lecturer at the University. Taxis have been replaced by tanks; citizens are treated like criminals. But as chaos engulfs the city, armed with her camera, she witnesses a brutal murder by the secret police. In mortal danger and trapped as Poland is closed down, Joan becomes a hunted fugitive running for her life. Also starring in the movie are Tom Burke and Zofia Wichlacz.