This year, apart from Marion Cotillard who will receive the honorary Donostia Award, Laurent Cantet, Thierry De Peretti, and Claire Simon will be representing France for the 69th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 17 through 25 ), the third major international film event of the fall, after the festivals of Toronto and Venice.
The second selection in Competition at San Sebastián for Laurent Cantet after Foxfire (2012) and the first for Thierry De Peretti and Claire Simon: this will be the trio of French filmmakers presenting their new works this year in the running for the Golden Shell, awarded at the end of the most important film festival in Spain. Not to mention Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose new film Earwig is a minority coproduction with the United Kingdom and Belgium).
In terms of "new faces," Flore Vasseur will present, Out of Competition, her documentary Bigger Than Us, and the animation filmmaker Florence Miailhe will present, in the Zabaltegi section, her debut animation feature, The Crossing, after making short films for thirty years.
Lastly, the Perlak section, which brings together films from the year's major international festivals, will allow to audiences to discover French faces and films seen in Cannes in July.
French cinema is also very present, as usual, in international coproductions, with a dozen other films presented during the festival.
About thirty French artists will be present, including (to be confirmed): Swann Arlaud, Leïla Bekhti, Damien Bonnard, Laurent Cantet, Emmanuel Carrère, Julia Ducournau, Thierry De Peretti, Emmanuelle Devos, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Xavier Giannoli, Vincent Lindon, Pio Marmaï, Noémie Merlant, François Ozon, Céline Sciamma, Claire Simon, Benjamin Voisin, and Roschdy Zem.
After Agnès Varda in 2017 and Costa Gavras in 2019, Marion Cotillard is being honored this year by the festival, receiving (jointly with Johnny Depp), a Donostia Award for lifetime achievement. The actress will also present the documentary Bigger Than Us, which she coproduced.
UniFrance will organize a cocktail event on September 19 for all the French talents present in San Sebastían, as well as the Spanish distributors.
All the French films presented at San Sebastián 2021
Official Competition
- Undercover by Thierry De Peretti
- Arthur Rambo by Laurent Cantet
- I Want to Talk About Duras by Claire Simon
- Earwig by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (minority French coproduction)
- Abuela by Paco Plaza (minority French coproduction)
Official Selection (Out of Competition)
Nuev@s Director@s
- Between Two Dawns by Selman Nacar (minority French coproduction)
- The Rust by Juan Sebastián Mesa (minority French coproduction)
Perlak
- Jane by Charlotte by Charlotte Gainsbourg
- The Crusade by Louis Garrel
- Everything Went Fine by François Ozon
- Titane by Julia Ducournau
- Lost Illusions by Xavier Giannoli
- Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven
- Between Two Worlds by Emmanuel Carrère
- Petite Maman by Céline Sciamma
- The Restless by Joachim Lafosse (minority French coproduction)
Horizontes Latinos
- Jesús López by Maximiliano Schonfeld (minority French coproduction)
- Azor by Andréas Fontana (minority French coproduction)
- The Employer and the Employee by Manuel Nieto Zas (minority French coproduction)
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
- The Crossing by Florence Miailhe
- Mi iubita mon amour by Noémie Merlant
- Return to Reims [fragments] by Jean-Gabriel Périot
- Vortex by Gaspar Noé
- Petrov's Flu by Kirill Serebrennikov (minority French coproduction)
- Le Grand Mouvement by Kiro Russo (minority French coproduction)
Culinary Zinema
Zinemira
- Story of a Steering Wheel by Iban Toledo Ibañez, Iñaki Alforja (minority French coproduction)
- All The Moons de Igor Legarreta (minority French coproduction)
Short films - Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
Klasikoak (Classics)
- Three Fables of Love by René Clair, Hervé Bromberger, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Alessandro Blasetti
- It All Starts Today by Bertrand Tavernier
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