Tomorrow the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will open. Until September 25, a long list of interpreters, filmmakers, producers and screenwriters will visit the city to present their films, in addition to the Donostia Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp Awards.
Established filmmakers such as Laurent Cantet, Terence Davies, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Claudia Llosa and Claire Simon will compete in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival. Inés Barrionuevo will show her fourth feature film and Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg will present their first films. Do you want to know what else the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival? We tell you
Marion Cotillard and Jonhny Depp, Donostia Awards
Marion Cotillard, one of the most international French actresses, will receive one of the two Donostia Awards of the 69th edition of the San Sebastián Festival during the opening ceremony, tomorrow, September 17, at the Kursaal Auditorium.
Born in Paris into a family of artists, debuted as an actress when she was still a child in one of his father's plays, Jean-Claude Cotillard. After participating in television series, he made his first film role in L'histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse (Philippe Harel, 1994). Winner of the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in La Môme / La Vie en Rose (Life in Pink, Olivier Dahan, 2007), she has shone with intensity in both European and American productions.
The second Donostía Prize will be collected by American actor Jonhny Depp on September 22, in recognition of his career. An actor in more than 90 audiovisual productions, he has been nominated for an Oscar three times and has won a Golden Globe. He has also produced a dozen films, including the most recent, Minamata by Andrew Levitas; Hugo by Martin Scorsese, or Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan by Julien Temple.
Official section
The movie Yi miao zhong / One Second (One Second), by Zhang Yimou, will open the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Yimou will compete for the first time in the Official Selection. He will do so with his particular tribute to the cinema, starring a prisoner who escapes from the labor camp in the midst of the Cultural Revolution.
It was one of the last titles in the Official Selection confirmed along with that of director and writer Michael Showalter, who returns to the big screen with The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Also among the latter was the work of the director, actor and screenwriter Thierry de Peretti. This one delves into Enquête sur un scandale d'Etat / Undercover in a journalistic investigation into a former mole, a witness to police corruption.
Other filmmakers who will compete in the official section for the Golden Shell They will be: Inés Barrionuevo, Iciar Bollaín, Laurent Cantet, Terence Davies, Alina Grigore, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Zhang Ji, Fernando León de Aranoa, Tea Lindeburg, Claudia Llosa, Paco Plaza, Claire Simon and Jonás Trueba.
Further…
The Klasikoak section returns with six titles directed by Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Luis María Delgado, Francis Ford Coppola and Bertrand Tavernier. Four more, ten, will be the Latin American movies, These include three debut operas and the return of filmmakers such as Paz Fábrega, Alonso Ruizpalacios and Lorenzo Vigas, who will compete for the Horizontes Award.
In addition, a total of 18 titles will compete for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award in the most open competitive section of the San Sebastian Festival. This year, thirteen feature films, a medium-length film and four shorts are included in this year. These include works by Joanna Hogg, Radu Jude, Gaspar Noé, and Jean Gabriel Périot.
We do not forget the XX edition of Nest, the international competition of student short films Film Festival of San Sebastiá. 14 films have been selected from among the 310 presented by 157 schools from 42 countries. The chosen works come from Argentina, Brazil, China, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Spain, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Romania and Switzerland.
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