27/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: August, Immersed Family, Rust, Kairós, Wandering Girl and Wanderers are the six hopefuls vying for a good result at this year’s festival

Another year, and another edition (number 32, counting those organised in March as part of Cinélatino in Toulouse) of the Films in Progress programme at the San Sebastián International Film Festival is shining a spotlight on Latin American films that are in post-production, awaiting completion and in want of a distributor. Six projects are battling it out this year for one of three prizes that would go a long way in helping them achieve their goals.

August [+see also:
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Immersed Family [+see also:
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France (Petit Film and Les Films du Rat) and Colombia (Dar A Luz Producciones) have joined forces on Kairós, a new film from Colombian director Nicolás Buenaventura, known for his documentaries of the late 1980s. The film centres around a 60-year-old man who loses his job as a bank clerk but maintains his ties to his old office until the day he’s presented with the possibility of robbing it.

The fruit of another collaboration between France (Ciné-Sud Promotion) and Colombia (Día Fragma Producción de Películas) is Wandering Girl [+see also:
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Finally, from Brazil (Grafo Audiovisual) comes Rust, the new film from Aly Muritiba, an exploration of the emotional connection that develops between two young people after a school trip, and Wanderers, directed by Leandro Lara and produced by Mosquito Project, which follows three characters trying to find their place in present-day São Paulo and Rondônia.

(Translated from Spanish)