Zinemaldia reveals the first names of the Official Selection: Robin Campillo, Joachim Lafosse, Cristi Puiu…
Euskaraz irakurri: Sail Ofizialeko lehen izenak iragarri ditu Zinemaldiak: Robin Campillo, Joachim Lafosse, Cristi Puiu…
The films by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman, among others, will compete for the Golden Shell at the 71st edition of the San Sebastián Festival, which will be held between the 22nd and September 30th. In addition, the newcomer from the United States Raven Jackson will be part of the Official Selection with a feature film developed in the Ikusmira Berriak program.
Maria Alché (Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1983) and Benjamin Naishtat (Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1986), winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director for “Rojo”, they jointly direct ‘Puan’, in which Marcelo Subiotto and Leonardo Sbaraglia play two professors at odds over a university chair.
Robin Campillo (Mohammédia, Morocco. 1962) will compete for the first time in San Sebastián with the film ‘L’île rouge/Red Island (The Red Island)’, whose setting is the French colonization of Madagascar. His fourth work as a director comes after winning the Cannes Grand Jury Prize with ‘120 battements par minute (120 BPM)’.
The director Raven Jackson (Tennessee, USA. 1990) will compete in San Sebastián with her debut ‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’, a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
For his part, Joachim Lafosse (Uccle, Belgium. 1975) will return to the official competition with his tenth feature film, ‘Un silence’, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, the director won the Silver Shell for Best Director for ‘Les chevaliers blancs’.
After her debut with the film ‘Quitters’ (2015), Noah Pritzker (San Francisco, USA. 1986) will visit San Sebastián for the first time to present his second feature film, ‘Ex-Husbands’, which portrays the sentimental ups and downs of several men from the same family. The cast of the film includes Griffin Dunne, James Norton, Miles Heizer, Rosanna Arquette and Eisa Davis.
The works of the director Cristi Puiu (Bucharest, Romania. 1967) have gone through the Cannes and Karlovy Vary festivals, and ‘The Death of Mr. Lazarescu’ (The death of Mr. Lazarescu, 2005) is considered a capital work of the new wave of romanian cinema. This year he will be in the official competition with ‘MMXX’, which follows the adventures of “a handful of wandering souls trapped at the crossroads of History”.
Martin Rejtman (Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1961) will participate for the first time in the Official Selection with ‘La práctica’, a comedy in which the actor Esteban Bigliardi plays a yoga teacher immersed in a marital crisis.
Source: Eitb
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