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SAN SEBASTIÁN 2022

Ulrich Seidl and Christophe Honoré will compete for the Golden Shell at San Sebastián Film Festival, among others

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- The Basque festival announces the rest of the official section of its 70th edition, which includes the new films by these two European masters, Sparta and Winter Boy

Ulrich Seidl and Christophe Honoré will compete for the Golden Shell at San Sebastián Film Festival, among others
Winter Boy by Christophe Honoré

UPDATE (2 September 2022): A new title has rounded off the Competition section, A Woman by Chinese filmmaker Wang Chao, and Marlowe, the new film by Irish director Neil Jordan, has been announced as the closing film, out of competition. Actress Glenn Close has been announced as the president of the jury for the Competition of the Official Section, which also includes casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat, director-screenwriter Tea Lindeburg, producer Matías Mosteirín, writer-journalist Rosa Montero, filmmaker and visual artist Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, and director-screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason. The rest of the juries have also been announced (read here).

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The Official Section of the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, which will take place from 16th to 24th September, is starting to take shape with the announcement of the films that will be competing for the event's top award: the Golden Shell. Among the most recognisable names in the competition is that of the French director Christophe Honoré, who will return to the Basque city with Winter Boy [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Honoré
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, a film about a teenager in crisis after the death of his father, starring Paul Kircher, Vincent Lacoste and Juliette Binoche. Austrian director Ulrich Seidl also makes his debut in the official competition in San Sebastian with Sparta [+see also:
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, a film that completes the diptych that began with Rimini [+see also:
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interview: Ulrich Seidl
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, premiered at the last Berlinale; now the central character is the brother of the failed singer who played the lead in the previous film.

Czech director Petr Václav (Parallel Worlds, We Are Never Alone [+see also:
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interview: Petr Vaclav
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]
) will also return to San Sebastian for his debut in the Official Section: Il Boemo [+see also:
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interview: Petr Vaclav
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]
is a biographical drama centred around one of the most prolific composers of Italian opera in the 1770s. Filmed and set in Great Britain, Great Yarmouth-Provisional Figures [+see also:
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interview: Marco Martins
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]
is the new work by Portuguese director Marco Martins (São Jorge [+see also:
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Q&A: Marco Martins
film profile
]
), that tackles the drama of immigration through a Portuguese-born woman who acts as a link between the workers who have arrived from her country and the factories in the Norfolk region. And after winning the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival with Uncle [+see also:
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, the Danish director Frelle Petersen will compete with Forever [+see also:
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interview: Frelle Petersen and Jette S…
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, a complex and lively portrait of a family mourning the loss of their eldest son and brother.

Two directors come from Argentina: Manuel Abramovich will compete with his fourth feature film, Pornomelancholia [+see also:
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interview: Manuel Abramovich
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]
, a portrait of a sex-influencer; and Diego Lerman (Refugiado [+see also:
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, A Sort of Family [+see also:
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) returns with The Substitute [+see also:
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, which follows the adventures of a teacher in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, with Juan Minujín, Bárbara Lennie and Alfredo Castro heading the cast. Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria [+see also:
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, A Fantastic Woman [+see also:
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) debuts in the Official Section with the European co-production The Wonder [+see also:
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interview: Sebastián Lelio
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]
, based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue, featuring Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Burke and Toby Jones.

The Colombian director Laura Mora will return after the Youth Prize winner Matar a Jesús, with her second feature film The Kings of the World [+see also:
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, a subversive tale starring five street kids from Medellín. American debut Marian Mathias will present her first feature film, Runner [+see also:
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, about the meeting of two young people in the American Midwest. Japanese producer Genki Kawamura makes his directorial debut with A Hundred Flowers, which follows the story of a woman with Alzheimer’s. And finally, the acclaimed Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo will compete with Walk Up, a story of a middle-aged filmmaker’s encounters with different people.

These titles join the Spanish films that will also compete in the Official Section, which were announced a few days ago (read more).

Alongside the competition, there will be a special screening of Tax Me If You Can [+see also:
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, a French production in which Yannick Kergoat traces the tax evasion routes and deciphers the mechanisms of large-scale fraud, in addition to the Spanish titles.

The films selected so far:

Competition

Pornomelancholia [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Manuel Abramovich
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]
Manuel Abramovich (Argentina/France/Brazil/Mexico)
The Rite of Spring [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fernando Franco and Koldo Z…
film profile
]
Fernando Franco (Spain)
Suro [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mikel Gurrea
film profile
]
Mikel Gurrea (Spain)
Walk Up - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
Winter Boy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Christophe Honoré
film profile
]
Christophe Honoré (France)
A Hundred Flowers - Genki Kawamura (Japan)
The Wonder [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sebastián Lelio
film profile
]
- Sebastián Lelio (United Kingdom/Ireland)
The Substitute [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
Diego Lerman (Argentina/Spain/Italy/Mexico/France)
Great Yarmouth-Provisional Figures [+see also:
trailer
interview: Marco Martins
film profile
]
Marco Martins (Portugal/France/United Kingdom)
Runner [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
Marian Mathias (United States/Germany/France)
The Kings of the World [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
Laura Mora (Colombia/Luxembourg/France/Mexico/Norway)
La maternal [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pilar Palomero
film profile
]
Pilar Palomero (Spain)
Forever [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Frelle Petersen and Jette S…
film profile
]
- Frelle Petersen (Denmark)
Wild Flowers [+see also:
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interview: Jaime Rosales
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]
Jaime Rosales (Spain/France)
Sparta [+see also:
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trailer
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]
- Ulrich Seidl (Austria/France/Germany)
Il Boemo [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Petr Vaclav
film profile
]
- Petr Václav (Czech Republic/Italy/Slovakia)
A Woman - Wang Chao (China)

Out of Competition

Modelo 77 [+see also:
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Alberto Rodríguez (Spain) (opening film)
Offworld [+see also:
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interview: Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabe…
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]
- Raúl Arévalo, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alberto Rodríguez, Isa Campo, Iñaki Lacuesta (Spain) (series)
Tax Me If You Can [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
Yannick Kergoat (France)

Special screenings

The Yellow Ceiling [+see also:
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film profile
]
- Isabel Coixet (Spain)

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(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)

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