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San Sebastián 2024 / Competition

25 articles available in total starting from 07/05/2024. Last article published on 28/03/2025.

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Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception  

28/03 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath

Interview: Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath

“What would I do if I didn’t make movies?”

At 91, the cherished Greek-French director still has an active career and has just picked up the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award  

12/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Albert Serra scoops the Golden Shell with Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra scoops the Golden Shell with Afternoons of Solitude

The Catalonian filmmaker has snagged the top prize at the Basque event with his visually stunning doc, which plunges headfirst into the world of bullfighting, with all its light and shadow  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Awards

Review: The End

Review: The End

With his feature fiction debut, Joshua Oppenheimer presents a haunting post-apocalyptic allegorical operetta that sinks its teeth into the true devastations of modernity  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Hard Truths

Review: Hard Truths

British maestro Mike Leigh is back with a family drama that features all the best hallmarks of his brand of cinema, and which is directly connected to the emotional state of the modern world  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

Interview: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

“The horror genre is a very interesting vehicle in which you can use this kind of tale to tell a much deeper story”

The duo explains the creative process behind their film as well as their way of understanding and utilising the horror genre  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Last Breath

Review: Last Breath

Costa Gavras delivers an ultimately uplifting film falling halfway between pedagogical tragicomedy and rugged yet truthful philosophical tale on the eminently delicate subject of death  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: The Wailing

Review: The Wailing

Pedro Martín-Calero and Isabel Peña present a powerful and disturbing film that talks about the effects of violence against women via a contemporary feminist horror story  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

Interview: Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

“It felt important to show that even free time isn’t really free”

The Portuguese director explains how she puts us in the headspace of a warehouse picker in her remarkable debut feature  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Serpent’s Path

Review: Serpent’s Path

Kiyoshi Kurosawa readapts his 1990s film Serpent’s Path, setting it in contemporary France, for an unhinged thriller that investigates the pointless obtuseness of evil  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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