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SAN SEBASTIAN 2020 New Directors

Sette opere prime nella categoria New Directors di San Sebastián

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- Con undici film in gara, la categoria dedicata alla scoperta di nuovi registi presenterà talenti emergenti provenienti da Spagna, Francia, Polonia, Russia, Regno Unito e non solo

Sette opere prime nella categoria New Directors di San Sebastián
16 printemps di Suzanne Lindon

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The San Sebastián International Film Festival is already gearing up for its 68th edition, which will take place 18 – 26 September in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Having already announced their opening film, one of their Donostia awards (read more) and the festival’s Spanish representation (read more), on 4 August, the contents of one of their most exciting sections has been revealed: New Directors, which spotlights filmmakers who have just directed their first or second feature-length film. Eleven films make up this section, with productions from Brazil, China, South Korea, Spain, France, Ireland, Japan, Holland, Poland, the UK and Russia all competing for the Kutxabank New Directors Prize.

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Among the European entries, Scottish director Ben Sharrock’s second film is a stand-out. Having made such an impression in this same competition five years ago with Pikadero [+leggi anche:
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, his latest project, Limbo, about a Syrian immigrant musician, is full of absurd humour and mysticism. From neighbouring France comes a debut by Suzanne Lindon, Spring Blossom [+leggi anche:
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, a film that discusses the contradictions one girl faces when she falls in love with a man much older than her.

French-Brazilian co-production, Memory House [+leggi anche:
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, debut from João Paulo Miranda, examines social tensions in Brazil, and was the winner of the European Distributors and Exhibitors Award at Films in Progress 37 Toulouse. Polish-Irish coproduction I Never Cry [+leggi anche:
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, is Piotr Domalewski’s second film, after the acclaimed Silent Night [+leggi anche:
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in 2017. Russia comes to San Sebastián with Grigory Kolomytsev’s first feature, Chupacabra, developed in Ikusmira Berriak’s residency programme, about the power of imagination in childhood.

As we already announced last week (read article), three Spanish films make up this section: Ane [+leggi anche:
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, Basque director David Pérez Sañudo’s debut, which examines the delicate topic of estrangement and lack of communication between parent and child; Death Knell [+leggi anche:
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, by Imanol Rayo, from the Navarre region, who has adapted Miren Gorrotxategi’s novel 33 ezkil for his second feature film; and Last days of spring (La última primavera), debut by Isabel Lamberti, a Spanish-Dutch coproduction that exposes social tensions in one of Madrid’s most conflict-affected neighbourhood, La Cañada Real. 

Three titles from Asia have made the list for the New Directors section at San Sebastián 2020: heralding from the ever-surprising and exciting South Korean cinema is Gull, the first feature film from Kim Mi-Jo, a director who narrates the consequences of an older woman’s rape; Slow Singing, from China, also the director’s first foray into feature films, this time by Xingyi Dong, whose film depicts a man who, upon returning to his hometown after leaving prison, feels something has broken between him and the rest of the population during this period of estrangement; and finally Along the Sea, Akio Fujimoto’s second film, a Japanese-Vietnamese coproduction about illegal immigration.

The list of selected films:

New Directors

Spring Blossom [+leggi anche:
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 – Suzanne Lindon (France)
Ane [+leggi anche:
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intervista: David Pérez Sañudo
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David Pérez Sañudo (Spain)
Memory House [+leggi anche:
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 – Joâo Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil/France)
ChupacabraGrigory Kolomytsev (Russia)
Gull (Gal-Mae-Gi)Kim Mi-Jo (South Korea)
Slow singingXingyi Dong (China)
Death Knell [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Imanol Rayo
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Imanol Rayo (Spain)
I Never Cry [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Piotr Domalewski
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 – Piotr Domalewski (Poland/Ireland)
Last Days of Spring [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isabel Lamberti
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 – Isabel Lamberti (Holland/Spain)
Limbo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ben Sharrock
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Ben Sharrock (UK)
Along the Sea (Umibe no kanojotachi)Akio Fujimoto (Japan/Vietnam)

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