The San Sebastián International Film Festival has announced the juries for its upcoming 73rd edition, set to take place from 19-27 September, and whose programme was recently rounded off (see the news).

The Official Selection jury will be presided over by Spanish filmmaker JA Bayona, who was previously selected at the festival with The Impossible [+leggi anche:
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The Kutxabank-New Directors Award jury will be chaired by Italian producer and programmer Marco Müller (former head of the Venice Film Festival), who will be joined by Swedish director Isabella Eklöf (winner of the Special Jury Prize at the festival in 2023 for Kalak [+leggi anche:
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The Horizontes Award jury will be chaired by Spanish director Pilar Palomero (a Goya winner for Schoolgirls [+leggi anche:
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Lastly, the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award jury will be presided over by French producer Yaël Fogiel (Les Films du Poisson), and will include Spanish art curator Xabier Arakistain and Danish screenwriter Line Langebek Knudsen (The Girl with the Needle [+leggi anche:
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