Founded in 1953, the San Sebastián International Film Festival, a category A festival, is Spain's largest and most important film festival. Around twenty feature films compete each year in the Official Competition for the Golden Shell Award.
In the past twenty years, France has won this prestigious award three times, for What's Life? by François Dupeyron in 1999, My Son by Martial Fougeron in 2006, and In the House by François Ozon in 2012.

This year France is represented in the Official Competition by the feature A Faithful Man by Louis Garrel, as well as six minority-French co-productions that are also vying for the top award.

In the festival's many other sections, we can also note the selection of The Sisters Brothers by Jacques Audiard in the Perlak section and Meteorites by Romain Laguna in the New Directors section, where it will be screened in a world premiere.

The following members of the French artistic delegation have already been announced: the directors Jacques Audiard, Bruno Dumont, Louis Garrel, Romain Laguna, Michel Ocelot, and Virgil Vernier, and the actors Laetitia Casta, Alane Delhaye, Lily-Rose Depp, Zéa Duprez, Philippe Jore, and Bernard Pruvost.

Official Competition

• A Faithful Man by Louis Garrel
• High Life by Claire Denis (minority production)
• Quién te cantará by Carlos Vermut (minority production)
• The Realm by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (minority production)
• Rojo by Benjamin Naishtat (minority production)
• The Black Book by Valeria Sarmiento (minority production)
• Vision by Naomi Kawase (minority production)

New Directors

• Meteorites by Romain Laguna
• Journey to a Mother's Room by Celia Rico Clavellino (minority production)

Velodrome

• Dilili in Paris by Michel Ocelot

Zabaltegi

• Manta Ray by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
• Coincoin and the Extra Humans by Bruno Dumont
• Sophia Antipolis by Virgil Vernier
• The Image Book by Jean-Luc Godard (minority production)
• Long Day's Journey into Night by Bi Gan (minority production)
• De Natura by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (short film)
• Song for the Jungle by Jean-Gabriel Périot (short film)

Made in Spain

• Facing the Wind by Meritxell Colell Aparicio (minority production)

Horizontes Latinos

• Our Time (Was to Defend our Island) by Carlos Reygadas (minority production)
• Los Silencios by Beatriz Seigner (minority production)
• A Twelve Year Night by Álvaro Brechner (minority production)
• The Heiresses by Marcelo Martinessi (minority production)

Perlak

• The Sisters Brothers by Jacques Audiard
• Petra by Jaime Rosales (minority production)
• Birds of Passage by Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego (minority production)
• Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhang-Ke (minority production)
• Capernaum by Nadine Labaki (minority production)
• Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski (minority production)

Zinemira

• Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil by Paul Urkijo Alijo (minority production)