Donald Sutherland will be honored with the Donostia Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, recognizing his more than fifty years of acting career. Sutherland will will receive the accolade prior to the screening of The Burnt Orange Heresy, a thriller directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. The film, with a cast featuring Mick Jagger, Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki will close the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival.
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the most open competitive section of the 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival, will include 19 competing films, among which are the latest works from filmmakers such as Bertrand Bonello, Mati Diop, Takashi Miike and Diao Yinan.
Three of the most important European directors on the contemporary panorama, the debut film by a well-known Portuguese actor, the second movie by a Brazilian filmmaker produced by Darren Aronofsky and the latest work from one of today’s most interesting Tibetan filmmakers join the list of films in competition for the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition.
Penélope Cruz will receive the Donostia Award, along with the screening of her latest film, Wasp Network, directed by Olivier Assayas, at the San Sebastian Festival 2019.
Ten new films including the latest works by Casey Affleck, Robert Eggers, Hirokazu Koreeda, Pablo Larraín, Céline Sciamma, Makoto Shinkai and Steven Soderbergh, will be featured in the Perlak section at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Furthermore, The Climb, a comedy directed by Michael Angelo Covino, will close the section out of competition.
The international premiere of the film The Song of Names, starring Tim Roth, Catherine McCormack and Clive Owen, will close the Official Selection at San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition, out of competition, on September 28. The Canadian François Girard, screenwriter of Le violon rouge (The Red Violin, 1998), Silk (Soie, 2007) and Boychoir (2014), directs this drama set against a historical and musical backdrop, with a soundtrack by Howard Shore.
Costa-Gavras, a French filmmaker of Greek origin, will receive the second Donostia Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival which, with this distinction, applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing and Capital, with which he competed for the Golden Shell in 2012.
Six debut films, have been selected for Films in Progress 36, a professional initiative called twice yearly by the San Sebastian Festival and Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse with the purpose of supporting Latin American cinema.
The European premiere of Blackbird, starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska and Sam Neill, will open the Official Competition at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Directed by Roger Michell, Blackbird is a remake of Stille Hjerte / Silent Heart (2014), the drama with which the Danish filmmaker Bille August competed at the Festival and for which Paprika Steen won the Silver Shell for Best Actress.
The XVIII edition of Nest Film Students, the international film students meeting taking place in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition, has selected fourteen short films from Argentina, Belgium, Chile, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Portugal, Russia and the UK.
Fifteen films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay will be showcased in the Horizontes Latinos section of the 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival. The films cover a wide range of issues including the Guatemalan genocide, the Chile of the 70s, the crisis of the Cuban rafters, legal abortion in Argentina, and life in Mexico, but also narratives given no space in the history books: the passage into adult life, the crises of life and family relationships.
The retrospective of the San Sebastian Film Festival’s 67th edition will see the screening of twenty feature films directed by the Mexican Roberto Gavaldón between 1945 and 1974. The cycle, organized with Filmoteca Española, will be accompanied by a monographic book dedicated to the filmmaker.