The film Wuhai, by the Chinese filmmaker Ziynag Zhou, will complete the list of films competing in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition, while Spagat / Grand Écart, by the Swiss moviemaker Christian Johannes Koch, will close the New Directors competition as its last addition. ,Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will also include a last title, Simon Chama / Simon Calls, by the Portuguese director Marta Sousa Ribeiro.
The 68th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will host the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are in the Official Selection, as part of its special screenings. The television series explores friendship, first love and identity through two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy.
Nine films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico will make up the Horizontes Latinos section of San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition.
A total of 19 films will compete for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award in San Sebastian Festival’s most open competitive section, which this year sees the participation of filmmakers Philippe Garrel, Hong Sang-soo and Peter Strickland, among others.
San Sebastian Festival, will present at its 68th edition the feature films Sentimental/The People Upstairs, by Cesc Gay, and Explota explota/My Heart Goes Boom!, by Nacho Álvarez, as well as the series Inés del alma mía, based on the book of the same name by Isabel Allende.
Thirteen short films – seven by male filmmakers and six by female filmmakers, from schools in Argentina, Cuba, Germany, India, Spain, the UK and the USA, will be showcased in the XIX edition of Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s international competition for short films by film students.
San Sebastian Festival added new films from filmmakers Danielle Arbid, Eduardo Crespo, Harry Macqueen and Julien Temple to its 2020 competition. The festival will also present a Special Screening of actor Matt Dillon’s second film as a director, El gran Fellove, on the Cuban musician Francisco Fellove.
Eleven films from Brazil, China, France, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Russia, the United Kingdom and Vietnam will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 68th San Sebastian Festival, taking place from September 18 to 26.
Actor Willem Dafoe is featured on the poster of the San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition, set to run from September 18-26. In 2018 the Festival launched a new line of posters with a composition combining photography and illustration and presided over by a figure from contemporary cinema. The actress Isabelle Huppert opened the series at the 66th edition and last year it continued with Penélope Cruz. The poster was created by the San Sebastian studio Patio based on an image by the photographer Martin Schoeller.
The San Sebastian Film Festival released the first six titles competing for the Golden Shell at its 68th edition. The list features returning filmmakers Naomi Kawase, François Ozon, and new directors such as Dea Kulumbegashvili and Takuma Sato, among others.
The world premiere of Woody Allen’s latest movie, Rifkin’s Festival, will open, out of competition, the 68th edition of the San Sebastian Festival on September 18.
Actor and filmmaker Viggo Mortensen will receive a Donostia Award in recognition of his career at the 68th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, where he will present the film Falling, his directorial debut.