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17 articles available in total starting from 17/07/2026. Last article published on 22/09/2026.

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Javier Ruiz Caldera • Director of 5 More Minutes

Interview: Javier Ruiz Caldera • Director of 5 More Minutes

“I find it stimulating, as a director and as a viewer, that the same film can elicit such different emotions”

The Catalonian filmmaker dissects aspects of his new work, such as its cocktail of genres, the festival world’s disdain for comedies and how hard it is to make sense of today’s world  

22/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Review: Brace Your Heart

Review: Brace Your Heart

Amanda Kernell’s third feature places a young Sámi woman’s struggle for independence at the heart of a restrained tale of love, trauma and resilience  

22/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Review: Krux

Review: Krux

In her feature debut, set at the end of World War II, Tony Vahl creates a heady sense of quiet terror around the story of a village encouraged to mass suicide by local leaders  

21/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Review: 5 More Minutes

Review: 5 More Minutes

Javier Ruiz Caldera directs from a screenplay by comedian and actor Berto Romero, built on repetitive sequences that push its protagonists into extraordinary situations  

21/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Fatih Akin • Director of Ghost Song

Interview: Fatih Akin • Director of Ghost Song

“I make films because I’m looking for the truth – whatever that means”

The German-Turkish director shares the Hitchcockian inspirations that influenced his way of shooting Hamburg, and his desire to go back to basics  

21/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Review: The Bad Son

Review: The Bad Son

Spanish actor Jaime Lorente makes his directorial debut with an intimate story about inherited trauma and the struggle to escape a tragic fate  

21/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Review: Ghost Song

Review: Ghost Song

Fatih Akin’s Hamburg-set bittersweet tragedy-fantasy wears its heart on its sleeve, turning a supernatural teen fairy-tale romance into something more  

21/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Review: Les Misérables

Review: Les Misérables

Fred Cavayé delivers a new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s celebrated popular novel, modernising its ambitions and placing it at the crossroads of melodrama and action cinema  

18/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Tony Vahl • Director of Krux

Interview: Tony Vahl • Director of Krux

“I reflected on how it’s so easy to say yes to everything, but also how powerful it is to say no against the masses”

The writer-director shares her approach to her dark debut feature, an entanglement of moral dilemmas in a rural German village at the end of World War II  

18/09 | Toronto 2026 | Discovery

Yesim Ustaoğlu • Director of What Remains

Interview: Yesim Ustaoğlu • Director of What Remains

"The main character strives for a kind of purity that allows her to be herself and to fear nothing"

The Turkish filmmaker sheds light on her new movie, centred on a woman who takes to the road to try to find herself  

16/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

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