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San Sebastian 2022 / Competition


32 articles available in total starting from 16/02/2022. Last article published on 06/10/2022.

Review: Il Boemo

Review: Il Boemo

This jaunty biopic of Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, helmed by Petr Vaclav, is brimming with music and human instinct, but it could do with being a tad more edgy and mucky  

20/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

Petr Vaclav • Director of Il Boemo

Interview: Petr Vaclav • Director of Il Boemo

“This Icarian story of a rise and fall excited me”

Cineuropa talked to the Czech director about his biggest film to date and about the origins of this period drama that resurrects music that has not been heard for 250 years  

19/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

Review: The Substitute

Review: The Substitute

Argentinian filmmaker Diego Lerman returns with a vibrant and honest portrayal of life in a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires  

19/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

Review: Runner

Review: Runner

Marian Mathias' first feature film statically depicts a young woman’s escape  

19/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for San Sebastián competition title Pornomelancolía

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for San Sebastián competition title Pornomelancolía

Manuel Abramovich’s feature follows the life of a sex influencer with thousands of followers  

16/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

Review: Winter Boy

Review: Winter Boy

Christophe Honoré delivers a poignant and formally very impressive work centred on a grieving teenager  

12/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

Ulrich Seidl and Christophe Honoré will compete for the Golden Shell at San Sebastián Film Festival, among others

Ulrich Seidl and Christophe Honoré will compete for the Golden Shell at San Sebastián Film Festival, among others

The Basque festival announces the rest of the official section of its 70th edition, which includes the new films by these two European masters, Sparta and Winter Boy  

02/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

A feast of Spanish cinema at the 70th anniversary of San Sebastian

A feast of Spanish cinema at the 70th anniversary of San Sebastian

No fewer than 18 titles make up the great Spanish selection at the Basque festival: featuring, among others, the new works by Pilar Palomero, Jaime Rosales, Fernando Franco and Paco León  

15/07/2022 | San Sebastián 2022

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