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San Sebastian 2024 / Competition


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

Albert Serra  • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

Interview: Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

“I work with images like poets work with words”

The Catalonian filmmaker breaks down his way of understanding cinema and the creative process underpinning his new film, a bullfighting documentary portraying a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra presents a daring and truly extraordinary film about the world of bullfighting, painting the portrait of a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

Interview: Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

“The proximity of a death places us in another place in our own lives”

In her third film, the Spanish filmmaker touches on accompaniment in illness and how she brought the original story by Eider Rodríguez on which it is based to her own region  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: When Fall Is Coming

Review: When Fall Is Coming

In François Ozon’s newest film, discontent brews in a cosy autumnal Burgundy village laden with intergenerational guilt, resentment and no way out but onwards  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Icíar Bollaín • Director of I Am Nevenka

Interview: Icíar Bollaín • Director of I Am Nevenka

“Even when they’re fiction, my stories draw inspiration from reality”

The Spanish actress-director is back with a film based on real events, about a trailblazer who defied those around her and dared to report a politician in her town for harassment  

22/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Glimmers

Review: Glimmers

Spanish director Pilar Palomero presents a devastating and beautiful film starring a compelling Patricia López Arnaiz about the end of life and its continuity  

22/09/2024 | San Sebastian 2024 | Competition

Review: I Am Nevenka

Review: I Am Nevenka

In a narrative that swings back and forth between drama, thriller and indictment, Icíar Bollaín reconstructs one of Spain’s most high-profile recent cases of workplace and sexual harassment  

21/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Audrey Diwan • Director of Emmanuelle

Interview: Audrey Diwan • Director of Emmanuelle

“I wanted a story that slowly breaks the codes of this stifling world”

The French filmmaker reflects on the research and creative process behind her new film, inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan's novel of the same name  

20/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Emmanuelle

Review: Emmanuelle

Audrey Diwan directs an impressive feminist version of Emmanuelle starring a dazzling Noémie Merlant  

20/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: On Falling

Review: On Falling

Laura Carreira’s feature debut is a pessimistic look at modern labour, following a migrant worker in her job as a warehouse picker  

11/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

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