JA Bayona to chair the San Sebastián jury
- The Spanish filmmaker will be joined by Gia Coppola, Mark Strong, Laura Carreira, Zhou Dongyu, Lali Espósito and Anne-Dominique Toussaint, while Marco Müller will preside over the New Directors jury
The San Sebastián International Film Festival has announced the juries for its upcoming 73rd edition, set to take place from 19-27 September, and whose programme was recently rounded off (see the news).
The Official Selection jury will be presided over by Spanish filmmaker JA Bayona, who was previously selected at the festival with The Impossible [+see also:
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interview: Juan Antonio Bayona
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interview: JA Bayona
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interview: Laura Carreira
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making of
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The Kutxabank-New Directors Award jury will be chaired by Italian producer and programmer Marco Müller (former head of the Venice Film Festival), who will be joined by Swedish director Isabella Eklöf (winner of the Special Jury Prize at the festival in 2023 for Kalak [+see also:
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interview: Isabella Eklöf
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interview: Charlène Favier
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The Horizontes Award jury will be chaired by Spanish director Pilar Palomero (a Goya winner for Schoolgirls [+see also:
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interview: Pilar Palomero
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interview: Pilar Palomero
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Lastly, the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award jury will be presided over by French producer Yaël Fogiel (Les Films du Poisson), and will include Spanish art curator Xabier Arakistain and Danish screenwriter Line Langebek Knudsen (The Girl with the Needle [+see also:
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interview: Magnus von Horn
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(Translated from Spanish)
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