In Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the most uninhibited competitive section of the San Sebastián Film Festival (which celebrates its 71^st edition between 22 and 30 September), where no limits are imposed in terms of style or duration, Ion de Sosa, Andrés Di Tella, Ashmita Guha Neogi, Kohei Igarashi and Rati Oneli will be showing off their new works as world premieres, flanked by a number of renowned filmmakers. In total, 25 titles will take part in this strand: 15 features, eight shorts and two medium-length films.

The opening will fall to Remembering Every Night by Japan’s Yui Kiyohara and will also take in Jean-Luc Godard’s posthumous short that premiered at Cannes, Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars'. The honour of closing the gathering will be given to Buenos Aires-born Ulises de la Orden, who will show The Trial [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], a non-fiction film that was first unveiled in the Berlinale Panorama.

Among the other European titles that audiences will get to enjoy is the award winner from the Encounters section of the Berlinale Orlando, My Political Biography [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Paul B. Preciado
scheda film], which picked up four prizes, including the Special Jury Award: in his feature debut, Spanish author, philosopher and queer activist Paul B Preciado uses the Virginia Woolf novel as a starting point to tackle issues such as gender and non-binary bodies. Also set to get an airing is the winner of the Award for Best Film in the same section of Berlin, Here [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bas Devos
scheda film], in which Belgium’s Bas Devos follows a migrant whose return home is postponed by the possibility of romance.

Likewise, the new effort by France’s Damien Manivel will be screened: The Island [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], a story of friendship and the transition to adulthood, scooped a Special Mention in the French competition of FIDMarseile. With this film, he is taking part in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera for the third time, after having presented The Night I Swam [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Damien Manivel, Kohei Igar…
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intervista: Damien Manivel
scheda film] in 2019. Also partaking in this section is the feature-length directorial debut by France’s Éléonore Saintagnan, Camping du Lac [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which recently participated in the Cineasti del presente section of the Locarno Film Festival, where it pocketed the Special Jury Prize.

The selection also includes La Palisiada [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Delphine Girard
scheda film], a co-production involving Belgium, Canada and France directed by Delphine Girard, which will be premiered beforehand in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori; and Grace [+leggi anche:
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Lastly, the European co-productions The Delinquents [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Rodrigo Moreno and The Human Surge 3 [+leggi anche:
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All of the movies in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, a section organised by the San Sebastián Film Festival and Tabakalera – International Centre for Contemporary Culture, will be vying for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award, worth €20,000.

Here is the list of selected titles:

Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars' - Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland) (short film) (opening film)
Remembering Every Night - Yui Kiyohara (Japan) (opening film)
Single Light - Shaylee Atary (Israel) (short film)
Here [+leggi anche:
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Mixtape La Pampa - Andrés Di Tella (Argentina)
Aunque es de noche - Guillermo García López (Spain) (short film)
Through the Night [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Delphine Girard
scheda film] - Delphine Girard (Belgium/Canada/France)
Contadores - Irati Gorostidi (Spain) (short film)
Oyu - Atsushi Hirai (France) (short film)
Two of Us - Kohei Igarashi (Japan/France) (short film)
The Island [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Damien Manivel (France)
Nights Gone By [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alberto Martín Menacho
scheda film] - Alberto Martín Menacho (Switzerland/Spain)
The Delinquents [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rodrigo Moreno
scheda film] - Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina/Luxembourg/Chile/Brazil)
Sīlan - Ashmita Guha Neogi (France) (medium-length film)
We Are the Hollow Men - Rati Oneli (Georgia) (short film)
Grace [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Ilya Povolotsky (Russia)
Orlando, My Political Biography [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Paul B. Preciado
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Camping du Lac [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Éléonore Saintagnan (Belgium/France)
Mamántula - Ion de Sosa (Germany/Spain) (medium-length film)
La Palisiada [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Philip Sotnychenko
scheda film] - Philip Sotnychenko (Ukraine)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Thien An Pham (Vietnam/Spain/Singapore/France)
The Human Surge 3 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Eduardo Williams (Argentina/Portugal/Netherlands/Taiwan/Brazil/Hong Kong/Sri Lanka/Peru)
Absence - Wu Lang (China)
Short Story - Wu Lang (China) (short film)
The Trial [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Ulises de la Orden (Argentina/Italy/France/Norway) (closing film)