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director Benito Zambrano, Enrique Lacuesta Isaki Urbizu and compete in the Official Selection of Festival de San Sebastian, to be held from 16 to 24 September. Two other Spanish films – ‘improviser’ by Asier Altuna and the European premiere of ‘Intruders’, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo – participate in the Official Selection out of competition, three in the Zabaltegi-New Directors and seven more will be presented in Zabaltegi-Specials, as reported by the Film Festival in a press release.
programming the 59th San Sebastian Film Festival includes fifteen films in the Official Spanish and Zabaltegi a selection in living the last works of filmmakers already established along with new works by young filmmakers.
Three of these titles competing for the Golden Shell and three others for the Kutxa-New Directors, while the remaining will be presented out of competition. Thus, ‘No peace for the wicked’, the new film Henry Urbizu Bilbao, competing for the Concha de Oro is a thriller with all the spirit of the best black film starring José Coronado, Rodolfo Sancho, Helena Miquel and Juanjo Artero.
Another of the films competing for this award is entitled ‘The double steps “and that means a return to the Official Festival Isaki Lacuesta, who has competed in the 57th with his film’ The Condemned ‘( 2009) and then obtained the FIPRESCI prize for criticism.
third of the Spanish films competing in the Official Section is “The sleepy voice,” an adaptation of the novel by Dulce Chacón directed by Benito Zambrano, “one of the big surprises of the Spanish film” thanks to his opera premium, ‘Solas’ (1999).
“The sleepy voice,” starring Inma Cuesta, Maria Leon, Marc Clotet and Daniel Holguin, tells the “moving” relationship between two sisters separated by the dictatorship because one is incarcerated in a prison Franco.
Meanwhile, Asier Altuna’s film ‘improviser’ Set in the Official Selection out of competition. This documentary about the most popular Basque bertsolaris the viewer to delve into the secrets of “this complex art of oral poetry.”
As previously announced, at the gala opening will take place the European premiere of ‘Intruders’, a fantastic thriller directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo an international cast led by Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and Kerry Fox film will be presented in the Official Selection out of competition.
the Zabaltegi-New Directors participate three Spanish films ‘Wrinkles’, an animated film directed by Ignacio Ferreras describing the feelings of a group of elders in residence ‘after light’, a documentary film directed by Sandra Sanchez is the nomadic life of Lourdes, which runs weekdays in northern Spain, and ‘Urte Berri On, Amona!’, the first feature solo Esnal Telmo, a film with touches of black humor about the misadventures of a marriage has to take care of the elderly mother of the bride.
ZABALTEGI-SPECIAL
Finally, Zabaltegi-Specials include seven Spanish films, including d’April ’14: Macias vs. companys ‘director Manuel Huerga, which recreates the proclamation of the Republic in Barcelona, and the feature film documentary’ In the end Tunnel ‘, directed by Eterio Ortega, on an original idea by Elias Querejeta, on a final approach to the terrorism of ETA, which explores its roots in the Basque nationalism and presents a collective portrait of that part of Basque society “in a key moment for the future of peace and freedom. “
Spanish Other films that will be in Zabaltegi-Specials are “The Notebook of mud,” a documentary by Isaki Lacuesta conceived in collaboration with the painter Miquel Barceló, “Alien,” an “unpredictable” romantic comedy from director Nacho Vigalondo , and ‘Madrid, 1987′, the new work by David Trueba in which a portrait of the Spanish transition.
Finally, be ‘Puzzled love’, a “surprise” proposal ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audioviuals de Catalunya) through his production company Films scandal, and “Word”, the debut feature by Eduardo Chapero- Jackson, who blends fantasy and rap music.