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 [+leggi anche:
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Fresh off the premiere of his latest film The Love that Remains [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hlynur Pálmason
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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intervista: Lucile Hadžihalilović
scheda film], winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the Berlinale, a dark tale in which Marion Cotillard plays a mysterious actress who seduces an orphaned girl; and Hungary's György Pálfi, who will present Hen [+leggi anche:
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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Known for his performance in Triangle of Sadness [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ruben Östlund
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scheda film] and Babygirl, British actor Harris Dickinson will present his directorial debut with Urchin [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], winner of the FIPRESCI prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. Another first is from Catalan Jaume Claret Muxart with Strange River [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jaume Claret Muxart
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sarah Miro Fischer e Marie…
scheda film], the first feature from Sarah Miro Fischer, which premiered in Berlinale's Panorama; the aforementioned A Scary Movie; and The Last Rapture, from Marta Medina and Enrique López Lavigne.

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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Iván Fund
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The selected titles:

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

A Scary Movie [+leggi anche:
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God Is Shy – Jocelyn Charles (France) (short)
Strange River [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jaume Claret Muxart
scheda film] - Jaume Claret Muxart (Spain/Germany)
Brand New Landscape – Juiga Danzuka (Japan)
Urchin [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Harris Dickinson
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Happiness – Paz Encina (Paraguay) (short)
The Ice Tower [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lucile Hadžihalilović
scheda film] - Lucile Hadzihalilovic (France/Germany)
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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sarah Miro Fischer e Marie…
scheda film] - Sarah Miro Fischer (Germany/Spain)
Two Seasons, Two Strangers – Sho Miyake (Japan)
Variations – Lur Olaizola (Spain) (short)
Always Night – Luis Ortega (Argentina) (medium-length film)
Hen [+leggi anche:
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intervista: György Pálfi
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Joan of Arc – Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/France)
Under the Flags, the Sun [+leggi anche:
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Blue Heron [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Sophy Romvari (Canada/Hungary)
Lurker – Alex Russell (USA/Italy)
April Tune – André Silva Santos (Portugal) (short)
The Strike – Gabrielle Stemmer (France) (medium-length film)
Two Times João Liberada [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Paula Tomás Marques
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Fiume o morte! [+leggi anche:
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Horizontes Latinos

Limpia – Dominga Sotomayor (Chile) (opening film)
The Ivy [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ana Cristina Barragán
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Olmo – Fernando Eimbcke (USA/Mexico)
Dolores - Maria Clara Escobar, Marcelo Gomes (Brazil)
A Loose End [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Daniel Hendler (Uruguay/Argentina/Spain)
The Message [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Iván Fund
scheda film] – Iván Fund (Argentina/Spain/Uruguay)
Cuerpo celeste [+leggi anche:
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Elder Son [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Cecilia Kang (Argentina/France)
Landmarks [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lucrecia Martel
scheda film] - Lucrecia Martel (Argentina/USA/Mexico/France/Netherlands/Denmark)
A Poet [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Simón Mesa Soto
scheda film] - Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/Germany/Sweden)
Copper – Nicolás Pereda (Mexico/Canada)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Diego Céspedes
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