27/08/2024 - The Basque film festival announces the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera selection, following the unveiling of the Horizontes Latinos selection

As every year, the parallel sections of the San Sebastián International Film Festival will screen a varied selection of the best of the festival season in the Basque city, including some world premieres. The 72nd edition, which will take place from 20 to 28 September, will include 23 films in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section and 14 in the Horizontes Latinos section.

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the festival's most open competitive section, will once again focus on award-winning titles and those featured at the Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Sundance and Venice film festivals. Thirteen feature films, two medium-length films and eight short films are competing for the section's award. Among them, the Golden Bear winner in Berlin, Dahomey [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Mati Diop will open the section, and April [+see also:
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interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili
film profile], the new film by Georgian Dea Kulumbegashvili after her debut film Beginning [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili
film profile], will close it. The feature films also include the latest titles from veterans such as Arnaud Desplechin (Filmlovers! [+see also:
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film profile]) and Leos Carax (the medium-length film It’s Not Me), both arriving from Cannes, and emerging talents such as Nelson Carlo De los Santos Arias (Pepe [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Nelson Carlo De Los Santos …
film profile], winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale), as well as a world premiere (Big Shadow by the Argentinian Maximiliano Schonfeld) and two from the Ikusmira Berriak project residency (Collective Monologue [+see also:
film review
interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland
film profile] by Jessica Sarah Rinland, premiered at Locarno film festival, and Ulysses [+see also:
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film profile] by Hikaru Uwagawa).

The Horizontes Latinos section once again focuses on titles fully or partly produced in in Latin America, providing a great sample of the continent's diverse and crucial industry. Among the fourteen feature films competing for the section's award is When Clouds Hide the Shadow, the new film by the Chilean José Luis Torres Leiva after having competed for the Golden Shell with Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], which will open the section. And The Freshly Cut Grass by the Argentinian Celina Murga, which just won Best Screenplay at Tribeca, will close the festival. Also, four films that featured in the industry section of the WIP Latam festival (including last year's winner, Most People Die on Sundays [+see also:
film review
film profile] by Iair Said, already presented in the ACID section at Cannes), two in the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum (Celina Murga's film and Zafari [+see also:
film review
film profile], the new work by Venezuelan Mariana Rondón after winning the Golden Shell with Bad Hair [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mariana Rondón
film profile]) and another from the Ikusmira Berriak programme (Sleep With Your Eyes Open [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] by Nele Wohlatz, premiered in the Encounters section at the Berlinale).

The selected films:

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Dahomey [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Mati Diop (France/Senegal/Benin) (opening film)
Hymn of the Plague - Ataka51 (Germany/Russia) (short film)
Where Time Stood Still - Nino Benashvili (Georgia/United States/Canada) (short film)
It’s Not Me - Leos Carax (France) (medium-length film)
Leela - Tanmay Chowdhary (India) (short film)
Filmlovers! [+see also:
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film profile] - Arnaud Desplechin (France)
Every You Every Me [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Michael Fetter Nathansky
film profile] - Michael Fetter Nathansky (Germany/Spain)
To a Land Unknown [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mahdi Fleifel
film profile] - Mahdi Fleifel (United Kingdom/Palestine/France/Greece/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar/United Arab Emirates)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat [+see also:
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interview: Johan Grimonprez
film profile] - Johan Grimonprez (Belgium/France)
Super Happy Forever [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Kohei Igarashi
film profile] - Kohei Igarashi (France/Japan)
Here Comes the Sun - Wu Lang (China) (short film)
Across the Waters - Viv Li (France) (short film)
Milky White - YoYo Liu (China) (short film)
Southern Brides - Elena López Riera (Spain/Switzerland) (medium-length film)
How to Be Pehuén Pedre - Federico Luis (Argentina/Germany) (short film)
My Sunshine [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Hiroshi Okuyama
film profile] - Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan/France)
When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes) (Etorriko da (Eta zure begiak izango ditu)) - Izibene Oñederra (Spain) (short film)
Pepe [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Nelson Carlo De Los Santos …
film profile] - Nelson Carlo De los Santos Arias (Dominican Republic/France/Germany/Germany/Namibia)
Collective Monologue [+see also:
film review
interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland
film profile] - Jessica Sarah Rinland (Argentina/United Kingdom)
I Saw the TV Glow - Jane Schoenbrun (United States)
Big Shadow - Maximiliano Schonfeld (Argentina)
Ulysses [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Hikaru Uwagawa (Japan/Spain)
April [+see also:
film review
interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili
film profile] - Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia/France/Italy) (closing film)

Horizontes Latinos

When Clouds Hide the Shadow - José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile/Argentina/South Korea) (opening film)
Reas [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Lola Arias
film profile] - Lola Arias (Argentina/Germany/Switzerland)
Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara (Panama/Colombia)
Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us [+see also:
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film profile] - Sofía Paloma Gómez, Camilo Becerra (Chile/Argentina/Spain)
Simon of the Mountain - Federico Luis (Argentina/Chile/Uruguay/Mexico)
Kill the Jockey [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Luis Ortega
film profile] - Luis Ortega (Argentina/Mexico/Spain/Denmark/United States)
Sujo [+see also:
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film profile] - Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez (Mexico/United States/France)
Cidade; Campo [+see also:
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film profile] - Juliana Rojas (Brazil/Germany/France)
Zafari [+see also:
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film profile] - Mariana Rondón (Peru/Venezuela/Mexico/Mexico/France/Brazil/Chile/Dominican Republic)
Most People Die on Sundays [+see also:
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film profile] - Iair Said (Argentina/Italy/Spain)
Ramón y Ramón [+see also:
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film profile] - Salvador Del Solar (Peru/Spain/Uruguay)
Skin in Spring - Yennifer Uribe Alzate (Colombia/Chile)
Sleep With Your Eyes Open [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Nele Wohlatz (Brazil/Argentina/Taiwan/Germany)
The Freshly Cut Grass - Celina Murga (Argentina/Uruguay/United States/Mexico/Germany) (closing film)

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)