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San Sebastián 2024


82 articles available in total starting from 07/05/2024. Last article published on 03/04/2025.

Akaki Popkhadze • Director of In the Name of Blood

Interview: Akaki Popkhadze • Director of In the Name of Blood

“Cinema is my way to tell people that I love them”

The Georgian-born, French-raised director discusses his crime-thriller debut and its tender undertones  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: Bagger Drama

Review: Bagger Drama

Swiss helmer Piet Baumgartner embarks on a sensitive and honest exploration of the healing process of a working-class family after the tragic loss of the daughter  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Behrem • Director of and actor in Gülizar

Interview: Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Behrem • Director of and actor in Gülizar

"We haven't seen that much Turkish male representation in cinema that gives us hope"

The Turkish director and the actor share the thought process behind the filmmaker's debut feature, with an emphasis on the depiction of Turkish men in cinema  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: Most People Die on Sundays

Review: Most People Die on Sundays

The film by Argentina's Iair Said is a tragicomedy as minimal as it is everyday. Starring the director himself, with subtle humour it tackles heavy issues such as euthanasia, ageing and loneliness  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastian 2024 | Horizontes Latinos

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

Review: The Red Virgin

Review: The Red Virgin

Paula Ortiz revisits the 1977 Spanish classic directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez and although visually the result is more sophisticated, narratively it is less charming  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Special Screenings

Review: The Girls at the Station

Review: The Girls at the Station

Juana Macías’ new film brings originality, authenticity and emotiveness to the delicate and thorny topic of underage prostitution  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | RTVE Galas

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

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