The San Sebastián Film Festival has just announced the films that will form part of the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera and Horizontes Latinos sections at its 73rd edition (19-27 September). The first of these sections concentrates on avant-garde audiovisual works, while the second is the perfect focal point for recent productions from the Central and South American continent, with considerable involvement of European countries on the production side.

A total of 23 films – 15 feature-length, six shorts and two medium-length – will compete in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, with seven world premieres and several pieces chosen from other festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Locarno. Madrid-based Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Oksman will open the section with A Scary Movie [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], the third feature-length effort from Croatia's Igor Bezinović, which came away with the Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at IFFR this year.

Fresh off the premiere of his latest film The Love that Remains [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] in Cannes, Iceland's Hlynur Pálmason will come to this section with the world premiere of Joan of Arc. Other renowned filmmakers such as France's Lucile Hadzihalilovic (who received this festival's New Directors Award with her first feature film Innocence, and the Special Jury Prize on the two occasions that she has competed in the official section with Evolution [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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interview : Lucile Hadžihalilović
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fiche film], a film selected in 2020 for the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, which will screen following its premiere in Toronto, and whose absolute star is a hen. Argentinian filmmaker Luis Ortega (El Ángel [+lire aussi :
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Known for his performance in Triangle of Sadness [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] and Babygirl, British actor Harris Dickinson will present his directorial debut with Urchin [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which recently won the Swatch First Feature Award in Locarno, and follows the experience of a family of Hungarian immigrants who move to a new house in Vancouver. Other debut films will also screen, such as the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize in the Berlinale's Panorama section of Under the Flags, the Sun [+lire aussi :
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These two titles will join the four Spanish-produced films announced a few weeks ago (read more), including The Good Sister [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sarah Miro Fischer et Mari…
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The Horizontes Latinos section, meanwhile, will include the world premieres of Limpia, the new film by Dominga Sotomayor, which will open the competition, and Dolores, by Maria Clara Escobar and Marcelo Gomes. The section will include twelve feature films not yet screened in Spain, from among all those produced totally or partially in Latin America, directed by filmmakers of Latin American origin or with Latin American communities from around the world as their framework or theme. The section will close with The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Diego Céspedes
fiche film], the feature film debut from Chilean Diego Céspedes, winner of the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes. The co-productions between Latin America and Europe in this section include Lucrecia Martel's Landmarks [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lucrecia Martel
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interview : Iván Fund
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The selected titles:

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

A Scary Movie [+lire aussi :
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God Is Shy – Jocelyn Charles (France) (short)
Strange River [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jaume Claret Muxart
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Brand New Landscape – Juiga Danzuka (Japan)
Urchin [+lire aussi :
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interview : Harris Dickinson
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Happiness – Paz Encina (Paraguay) (short)
The Ice Tower [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lucile Hadžihalilović
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No One Knows – Bo Hanxiong (China) (short)
The Spectacle – Bálint Kenyeres (Hungary/France) (short)
The Last Rapture – Marta Medina, Enrique López Lavigne (Spain)
The Good Sister [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sarah Miro Fischer et Mari…
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers – Sho Miyake (Japan)
Variations – Lur Olaizola (Spain) (short)
Always Night – Luis Ortega (Argentina) (medium-length film)
Hen [+lire aussi :
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Joan of Arc – Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/France)
Under the Flags, the Sun [+lire aussi :
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Blue Heron [+lire aussi :
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Lurker – Alex Russell (USA/Italy)
April Tune – André Silva Santos (Portugal) (short)
The Strike – Gabrielle Stemmer (France) (medium-length film)
Two Times João Liberada [+lire aussi :
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interview : Paula Tomás Marques
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Fiume o morte! [+lire aussi :
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Horizontes Latinos

Limpia – Dominga Sotomayor (Chile) (opening film)
The Ivy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ana Cristina Barragán
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Olmo – Fernando Eimbcke (USA/Mexico)
Dolores - Maria Clara Escobar, Marcelo Gomes (Brazil)
A Loose End [+lire aussi :
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The Message [+lire aussi :
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interview : Iván Fund
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Cuerpo celeste [+lire aussi :
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Elder Son [+lire aussi :
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Landmarks [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lucrecia Martel
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A Poet [+lire aussi :
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interview : Simón Mesa Soto
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Copper – Nicolás Pereda (Mexico/Canada)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Diego Céspedes
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