With four films in competition (Memoir of War, So Help Me God, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, and C'est la vie!), French cinema will make a strong showing at this year's San Sebastián International Film Festival, to be held from September 22 through 30 in the Spanish seaside town.
As was the case last year, four majority-French productions will be presented in the Official Competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival, with a special screening also held of See You Up There by Albert Dupontel.
Added to the fifteen other French titles spread across the various festival sections, that makes a total of close to twenty French productions to be screened at this event held in the Spanish Basque Country.
Agnès Varda will be in attendance (alongside her co-director JR) to accompany a screening of their film Faces, Places (Faces, Places). The filmmaker will also receive one of the three Donostia Awards presented this year, in honor of her illustrious career.
In addition to this, Thierry Frémaux will present his film Lumière! on September 23, just prior to its release in Spanish theaters.
As for the delegation representing French cinema this year, around forty French artists will travel to Spain for the event, including Bérénice Bejo, Albert Dupontel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Olivier Nakache et Éric Toledano, Robin Campillo, Kev Adams, Robert Guédiguian, Léa Drucker, Xavier Legrand, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Emmanuel Finkiel, Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Vincent Elbaz, Raymond Depardon, Thierry Frémaux, Agnès Varda and JR, Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Roschdy Zem, Marine Francen...
Official Competition
- Memoir of War by Emmanuel Finkiel
- So Help Me God by Yves Hinant & Jean Libon
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Nobuhiro Suwa
- C'est la vie! by Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache
- Voices by Constantin Popescu (minority-French production)
- Love Me Not by Alexandros Avranas (minority-French production)
- The Captain by Robert Schwentke (minority-French production)
- Submergence by Wim Wenders (minority-French production)
- Sollers Point by Matt Porterfield (minority-French production)
- A Sort of Family by Diego Lerman (minority-French production)
Official Selection (Special Screenings)
New Directors
- The Price of Success by Teddy Lussi-Modeste
- The Sower by Marine Francen
- Cargo by Gilles Coulier (minority-French production)
Pearls
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) by Robin Campillo
- Happy End by Michael Haneke
- Custody by Xavier Legrand
- The House by the Sea by Robert Guédiguian
- The Leisure Seeker by Paolo Virzi (minority-French production)
- You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay (minority-French production)
- Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino (minority-French production)
Horizontes Latinos
- Los Perros by Marcela Said
- April's Daughter by Michel Franco (minority-French production)
- Hunting Season by Natalia Garagiola (minority-French production)
Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
- 12 Days by Raymond Depardon
- Braguino by Clément Cogitore
- Lover For A Day by Philippe Garrel
- The Night I Swam by Damien Manivel & Kohei Igarashi
- The Square by Ruben Östlund (minority-French production)
- Spell Reel by Filipa César (minority-French production)
Savage Cinema
Donostia Awards, Special Screening
- Faces, Places by Agnès Varda & JR
Special Screenings
- Lumière! by Thierry Frémaux
- Wonders of the Sea 3D by Jean-Michel Cousteau & Jean-Jacques Mantello
- The Summit by Santiago Mitre (minority-French production)
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