The 68th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (which will take place physically, if the pandemic allows it, from 18 to 26 September) will host the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are [+lire aussi :
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Written by Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri together with Guadagnino, the 8-episode series explores friendship, first love and identity through two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy. In the words of the San Sebastian director, José Luis Rebordinos, having the world premiere of We Are Who We Are is a “luxury” for the festival programme.

The festival will also host the premiere of the new film by Cesc Gay after his multi-awarded Truman [+lire aussi :
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The festival has also completed the list of films in Competition with the second feature by China’s Zhou Ziyang, Wuhai, as well as the New Directors section with the first feature by Switzerland’s Christian Johannes Koch, Spagat [+lire aussi :
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Finally, a total of 19 titles will compete for the award in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section. Several of the ten feature films and nine shorts programmed landed awards or screened at the last Berlinale; however, there are also works which were to have participated in the cancelled Cannes Film Festival and films which will shortly screen at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival.

The films:

Competition

Akelarre [+lire aussi :
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Any Crybabies Around? – Takuma Sato (Japan)
Another Round [+lire aussi :
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Beginning [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dea Kulumbegashvili
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Courtroom 3H [+lire aussi :
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interview : Antonio Méndez Esparza
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Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan [+lire aussi :
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interview : Julien Temple
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Summer of 85 [+lire aussi :
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In the Dusk [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sharunas Bartas
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We Will Never Die - Eduardo Crespo (Argentina)
Passion simple [+lire aussi :
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interview : Danielle Arbid
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Supernova [+lire aussi :
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interview : Harry Macqueen
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True Mothers – Naomi Kawase (Japan)
Wuhai – Zhou Ziyang (China)

Out of Competition

Rifkin’s Festival [+lire aussi :
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Riot Police [+lire aussi :
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Special Screenings

Patria [+lire aussi :
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The Great Fellove – Matt Dillon (Mexico/Cuba/USA)
We Are Who We Are [+lire aussi :
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Donostia Award Screening

Falling [+lire aussi :
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RTVE Screenings

My Heart Goes Boom! [+lire aussi :
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Inés del alma mía – Alejandro Bazzano, Nicolás Acuña (Spain/Chile) (series)
The People Upstairs [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cesc Gay
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New Directors

16 printemps [+lire aussi :
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interview : Suzanne Lindon
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Ane [+lire aussi :
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interview : David Pérez Sañudo
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Casa de antiguidades [+lire aussi :
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Chupacabra – Grigory Kolomytsev (Russia)
Gull – Kim Mi-Jo (South Korea)
Slow Singing – Xingyi Dong (China)
Campanadas a muerto [+lire aussi :
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interview : Imanol Rayo
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I Never Cry [+lire aussi :
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interview : Piotr Domalewski
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La última primavera [+lire aussi :
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interview : Isabel Lamberti
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Limbo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ben Sharrock
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Spagat [+lire aussi :
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interview : Christian Johannes Koch
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Along the Sea (Umibe no kanojotachi) – Akio Fujimoto (Japan/Vietnam)

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

The Metamorphosis of Birds [+lire aussi :
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interview : Catarina Vasconcelos
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Autofiction – Laida Lertxundi (Spain/USA/New Zealand) (short film)
Cold Meridian – Peter Strickland (Hungary/UK) (short film)
Correspondence – Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (Chile/Spain) (short film)
The Woman Who Ran – Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
Dustin – Naïla Guiguet (Francia) (short film)
Fauna – Nicolás Pereda (Canada/México)
Having a Good Time – Bell Zhong (China) (short film)
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face – Sameh Alaa (Egypt/France/Belgium/Qatar) (short film)
The Salt of Tears [+lire aussi :
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interview : Souheila Yacoub
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Los conductos [+lire aussi :
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Perpetual Night – Pedro Peralta (Portugal/France) (short film)
The Calming – Song Fang (China)
Days – Tsai Ming-Liang (Taiwan)
Simon Calls [+lire aussi :
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Stephanie – Leonardo Van Dijl (Belgium) (short film)
The Trouble with Being Born [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sandra Wollner
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An Optical Illusion [+lire aussi :
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interview : Juan Cavestany
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Ya no duermo – Marina Palacio Burgueño (Spain) (short film)
Yellow Cat [+lire aussi :
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