The World Premiere of Marlowe starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger, directed by Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan, will close the Official Selection of the 70th San Sebastian Festival. The world premiere of the film is expected to be attended by the director along with Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
Five world premieres will make up the Culinary Zinema section at the 70th San Sebastian Festival, which opens with Mibu. The Moon on a Dish (Mibu. La luna en un plato), taking an in-depth look at the famous Japanese restaurant. Virgilio, a portrait of the chef at the restaurant in Lima, Central, will close the section also including a third documentary, La Huella, historia de un parador de playa, and two fictions, Xiao shan he (Nostalgia) and The Zen Diary (Tsuchi wo kurau junikagetsu).
Thirteen feature films will be showcased in Made in Spain, the non-competitive section for a selection of the year’s Spanish films at the 70th edition of San Sebastian Festival.
Seventeen films – thirteen features and four shorts – make up the Basque participation at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition. Zinemira, the section specifically dedicated to Basque cinema at San Sebastian Festival will showcase seven fictions and non-fictions. A total of ten films, four of these, being a world premiere at the Festival, will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award alongside another six works screening in other Festival sections.
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will showcase 22 films: 13 features, eight shorts and one mid-length movie at the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, including films by Santiago Loza alongside Ruth Beckermann, Lee Chang-dong, Bi Gan, Natalia López Gallardo and Hlynur Pálmason. Pending the addition of another title, for the time being
Don’t Worry Darling, directed by filmmaker and actress Olivia Wilde will join the Perlak section of the 70th edition of the San Sebastian Festival.
Drive My Car, directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix after having been chosen best film of 2022 by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The FIPRESCI Grand Prix will be presented at the opening gala of San Sebastian’s 70th Festival and Drive My Car will have a special screening during the event.
Thirteen films from Brazil, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United States, have been selected to compete in the 21st edition of Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s international competition for shorts by film students.
Sublime, directed by Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Biasin, will receive the tenth Sebastiane Latino Award at the 70th edition of San Sebastian Festival. The award, decided by a jury of members of GEHITU, the Basque Association of Gays, Lesbians, Trans, Bisexuals and Intersexuals, recognizes the Latin American film of 2022 that best represents sexual and gender diversity, will take place during the
On the Fringe (En los márgenes), Juan Diego Botto’s debut behind the camera, joins the titles in the Perlak section at the 2022 San Sebastian Festival. Juan Diego Botto directs and plays the lead part in a film featuring Penélope Cruz, who is also its producer, and Luis Tosar. Prior to screening at the San Sebastian Festival the movie will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival.
Twelve films set in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico complete the Horizontes Latinos section at the 2022 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
The retrospective at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition will show thirteen features films directed by French filmmaker Claude Sautet between the years 1956 and 1995.