The 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will feature a wide roster of stars who have already confirmed their presence at the San Sebastian contest. Besides Donostia Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp Awards, interpreters will attend Javier Bardem, Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Emmanuelle Devos, Dolores Fonzi, María Valverde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon, Clarke Peters and Stanley Tucci, among many others.
In addition, some of the most relevant directors from contemporary cinematography will travel to San Sebastián to present their films, such as the filmmakers of the Official Section Laurent Cantet (Arthur Rambo), Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Earwig) or Claire Simon (Vous ne désirez que moi / I Want to Talk about Duras).
The director of the San Sebastian Festival, Jose Luis Rebordinos, and the head of Communication of the Zinemaldia, Ruth Pérez de Anucita, have announced these names in the official presentation of the 69th edition, which took place this Friday in Tabakalera.
Of the films selected in Perlak, the winner of the Palme d’Or will travel to San Sebastián, Julia Ducournau (Titanium); director Todd Haynes, who will present ‘The Velvet Underground’; Sean Baker will do the same with ‘Red Rocket’, accompanied by actor Simon Rex; and Charlotte gainsbourg He will attend to introduce the cinematic tribute to his mother (Jane by Charlotte / Jane by Charlotte).
The actress Virginie efira will be representing the film ‘Blessed’; Louis Garrel and Joseph Engel for ‘La Croisade’; director Xavier Giannoli and actor Benjamin Voisin to present ‘Les illusions perdues’. The director Joachim Lafosse (Silver Shell in 2015) will travel accompanied by the leading couple, Damien Bonnard and Leïla Bekthi; and Céline Sciamma, in addition to presenting ‘Petite Maman’, will offer a master class at Nest.
Despite the mobility problems derived from the pandemic, there will also be Asian representation as Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, which participates in Perlak.
San Sebastián will receive the visit of renowned filmmakers, selected in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section, as Gaspar Noé (Vortex), accompanied by actress Françoise Lebrun; Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn); Jean-Gabriel Périot (Return to Reims (Fragments)) or Peter Kerekes (Cenzorka / 107 mothers).
Also that of young directors such as Tea Lindeburg, Alina Grigore, Laura Wandel -who will give a master class at Nest-, Florence Miailhe or Kira Kovalenko.
Spanish and Latin American cinema
Likewise, as usual, there will be a large representation of the Spanish and Latin American film industry. According to Rebordinos, “almost the entire starsystem of Spanish cinema” will pass through Donostia. In the Official Section, Carlos Saura will present the inaugural short film of the 69th edition of the Festival, ‘Rosa Rosae. The civil War’; Icíar Bollaín will show ‘Maixabel’ with the scriptwriter Isa Campo and the interpreters Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela and Urko Olazabal.
The director and the protagonist of ‘The good patron’, Fernando León de Aranoa, they will travel to San Sebastián with Celso Bugallo, Tarik Rmili and Manolo Solo and the newcomer Almudena Amor, who also stars in ‘La abuela’ with Vera Valdez; Amor and Valdez will be accompanied in San Sebastián by the director Paco Plaza and the screenwriter Carlos Vermut.
Jonah Trueba (Who prevents) will travel with his cast (Candela Recio, Pablo Hoyos, Silvio Aguilar, Pablo Gavira, Claudia Navarro, Rony-Michelle Pinzaru, Marta Casado and Javier Sánchez), as well as Alejandro Amenábar (La Fortuna), escorted by Stanley Tucci, Clarke Peters (The Wire), Ana Polvorosa, Álvaro Mel, T’Nia Miller and Karra Elejalde.
The representation of ‘La hija’ will be in charge of its director, Manuel Martín Cuenca, and his leading trio (Javier Gutiérrez, Patricia López Arnaiz and Irene Virgüez). Finally, Daniel Monzon (The laws of the border) will close the Festival accompanied by the actors Marcos Ruiz, Chechu Salgado and Begoña Vargas.
The dos Galas RTVE will bring to San Sebastián the ‘Mediterráneo’ team, made up of the actors Eduard Fernández (Concha de Plata 2016), Anna Castillo, Dani Rovira and Sergi López, and the activist Òscar Camps, and the cast of ‘Once upon a time Euskadi’, which includes the actress Marian Álvarez and the actor Arón Piper (Elite).
From the film ‘Josefina’, the actors Roberto Álamo and Emma Suárez will accompany the director Javier Marco. Also attending will be the directors Agustí Villaronga (El ventre del mar); Javier Espada (Buñuel, a surrealist filmmaker), accompanied by Ángela Molina; Ainhoa Rodríguez (Brave Flash); Javier Tolentino (A blues for Tehran); Júlia de Paz (Ama) with her protagonist, Tamara Casellas, Ezequiel Montes and the actors Antonio Dechent and Elena Martínez (Dead man does not know how to live); Adrián Silvestre (Sediments); and Luis López Carrasco (The year of the discovery).
The link between cinema and music will show the presence of Raphael (‘Raphaelismo’, Gala Movistar +); the group Old Morla, who has composed the soundtrack of ‘La hija’ (Official Section); Evaristo Páramos, along with La Polla Records bassist Abel Murua (‘We are nothing’, Zinemira), and the members of the band Belako (‘Pandemic Tour’ 2020 Belako, Zinemira).
From ‘Official Competition’ (Perlak) its directors, the Argentines Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn, will be accompanied by the actors Penélope Cruz and Oscar Martínez. The Peruvian director Claudia Llosa will travel accompanied by the two protagonists of ‘Distancia de salvage’ (Official Section), María Valverde and Dolores Fonzi.
Inés Barrionuevo (Camila will be out tonight, Official Section) will do it with the actresses Maite Valero and Nina Dziembrowski. He will also be at the Kiro Russo Festival, with his film ‘The great movement’ (Zabaltegi-Tabakalera) and as a Nest alumni to participate in the podcast for the 20th anniversary of the meeting.
In addition, linked to the Klasikoak section and the Festival’s tribute to Bertrand Tavernier, the director of the Cannes Festival and the Lyon Lumière Festival, Thierry Fremaux, executor of the French director, will present the screening of Ça commence aujourd’hui (Today everything begins ), which won the Audience Award in San Sebastián in 1999.
Jurors
The jury of the Official Section It will be chaired by director Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia), winner of four official awards last year for her debut feature, ‘Dasatskisi / Beginning’, including the Golden Shell for best film, the Silver Shell for best director and the Jury Prize for the best screenplay. She will be accompanied by the actress Susi Sánchez (Spain), the directors and screenwriters Maite Alberdi (Chile) and Audrey Diwan (Lebanon-France) and by the American producer Ted Hope.
The jury for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award will be made up of Mary Burke (producer and head of Production and Development at the British Film Institute), who will be the president, actress Irene Escolar, and director and actress Suzanne Lindon.
María Zamora (producer), Lila Avilés (director and actress) and Luciano Monteagudo (film critic) will decide the Horizontes Latinos Award, while Sergio Oksman (filmmaker), Miriam Heard (screenwriter and actress) and Elena López Riera (director) will decide they will do with the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize. Aitor Arregi (director and screenwriter), Arantzazu Calleja (musical composer) and Edurne Portela (writer) will choose the winner of the Irizar Award.
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