Zabaltegi-Tabakalerathe most open section of Zinemaldia, will count for its 71st edition with 25 titles including feature films, short films and medium-length films come, for the most part, from the main film festivals in the world. This will be the case of last work by Jean-Luc Godardpassed away almost a year ago posthumous short film premiered at Cannes and this will open the double session section with the Japanese Remember every nightby Yui Kiyohara.
Zinemaldia will pay special tribute to the the highest representative of New wavewith the projection of Announcement of the movie that never was: Phoney Warsa posthumous short film by Godard which some of the images, ideas and references that the filmmaker had considered for his next film and that, now, serves as a tribute to his figure and his cinema.
The short film can be seen accompanied by the film Remember every nightby the young Japanese filmmaker Yui Kiyoharawho went through the Forum section of the Berlinale.
There closingfor its part, will be carried out by the Argentinian documentalist Odysseus of the Order with The trialin which he details the judicial process carried out in 1985 against the military juntas of the Argentine dictatorship.
These three works will compete in a section that will total 25 titles, including fifteen feature films, eight short films and two medium-length films. The Goya for Best Documentary for delicate balancethe man from madrid William Garcia Lopezwill display the short Even if it’s nightrecorded in the colony of La Cañada Real, and the Parisian Eleonore Saintagnan will make his film debut, lake campsiteSpecial Jury Prize in the Cineasti section of the Locarno Film Festival.
Chinese also debuts in the long wu lang with absencewho will compete in Donostia twice, since his short film was also selected short story. Argentinian Edward Williamsinstead, will show his second work, rise of human 3a story set in a strange and mysterious world that also comes with a Locarno award.
The producer, screenwriter and actor of the Golden Shell winner Beginningby Dea Kulumbegashvili, Rati Onelimake the short film We are the hollow menwhile the Belgian Lower Devos will be in competition with the winner of the award for best film in the Berlinale’s Encounters section, here.
An old acquaintance in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the French Damien Manivel will present the film the island; Ukrainian Philip Sotnychenko his first movie, The Palisade; and the Argentinian Rodrigo Morenospecial mention in Horizontes Latinos with the Guardianwill be with The criminals. In addition, the Argentinian also Andres Di Tella will return to this competitive section of the San Sebastian contest with the feature film La Pampa Mixtapeand the writer, philosopher and activist Paul B. Preciado will make his debut there with Orlando, my political biographywinner of four prizes in Berlin.
The list continues with proposals from different corners of the world such as the Japanese atsushihirai And Kohei Igarashiwho will be with the shorts Back to Toyama And two of us, respectively; India Ashmita Guha Neogi with medium length Silane; belgo-canadian Delphine Girard with the movie leave the night; the Russian Ilya Povolotsky with the movie Grace; and the Israelis Shaylee Atary with the short single light.
Two Basque titles
All these proposals are added to the four names of Spanish production previously announced by the festival. Alberto Martin Menacho will be in competition with his first film, the night beforeand the Vietnamese An Pham Thien with Inside the shell of the yellow cocoon; while there will be a representation of Euskal Herria with two filmmakers, the urnietarra Ion of Sosawith medium length mammuleand the Navarrese Irati Gorostidiwith the short film accountants.
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