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The new feature films by Arnaud Desplechin, Kentaro Hirase and Yutaro Seki, Agnieszka Holland, Milagros Mumenthaler, and Alice Winocour will compete in the Official Selection of the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival, which will take place from 19 to 27 September.
Arnaud Desplechin (Roubaix, 1960) will participate for the first time in the Official Selection with Deux pianos / Two Pianos, in which a virtuoso pianist returns to Lyon, his hometown, after a long absence to experience a story of impossible love. The film's cast includes François Civil, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Charlotte Rampling and Hippolyte Girardot. Since his debut with La sentinelle / The Sentinel (1992), the French filmmaker has competed numerous times at Cannes and other international festivals. In 2009, Rois et reine / Kings and Queen (2004) was featured in the San Sebastián Festival retrospective Backwash: Cutting Edge of French Cinema. Additionally, the Perlak section brought back Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse / My Golden Days (2015) after its screening at the Directors' Fortnight, and Spectateurs! / Filmlovers! (2024) was part of Zabaltegi-Tabakera, having premiered at Cannes out of competition.
The duo made up of Kentaro Hirase (San Francisco, 1986) and Yutaro Seki (Kanagawa, 1987), who co-directed Miyamatsu to Yamashita / Roleless (New Directors, 2022) with Masahiko Sato, will compete in the Official Selection with their second feature film, the Japanese production SAI / SAI: disaster. Actor Teruyuki Kagawa comes back to star in this dark tale in which a mysterious man tragically enters the lives of a number of people, appearing under different identities.
Agnieszka Holland (Warsaw, 1948) will compete for the third time in the Official Selection with Franz, a co-production of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland that narrates the life of the writer Franz Kafka from his birth to his death. Holland, who was already in the running for the Golden Shell with Total Eclipse (1995) and Copying Beethoven (2006), took her first steps at the San Sebastián Festival, participating in the New Creators section with the collective film Zdjecia próbne / Screen Tests (1978). Her most renowned films also include Bittere Ernte / Angry Harvest (1986) and Europa Europa (Zabaltegi, 1990), respectively nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film and for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as others such as Olivier, Olivier (1992), The Secret Garden (1993) and Green Border (2023), which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice.
Argentine filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler (Córdoba, 1977) will debut in the San Sebastián competition with her third piece, Las corrientes / The Currents, a Swiss/Argentine co-production starring Isabel Aimé González Sola in the role of a woman confronting a past she thought she had left behind. The Locarno Festival hosted the premieres of her first two films, Abrir puertas y ventanas / Back to Stay (2011), which won the Golden Leopard, and La idea de un lago / The Idea of a Lake (2016), which in 2013 was one of the projects of the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum. Both were part of the Horizontes Latinos programming.
Filmmaker Alice Winocour (Paris, 1976), who won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastián with Proxima (2019), will return to the competition with her fifth film, Couture, a French/American co-production starring Angelina Jolie and Louis Garrel and set in the fashion world. The French director competed in the Critics' Week at Cannes with her first film, Augustine (2012). She returned to the same Festival with Maryland / Disorder (2015), which participated in Un Certain Regard, and with Revoir Paris / Paris Memories (2022), which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight.
These titles join the four previously announced Spanish productions that will also compete in the Official Selection: Maspalomas, by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi; Historias del buen valle / Good Valley Stories, by José Luis Guerin; Los Tigres, by Alberto Rodríguez, and Los domingos / Sundays, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. The rest of the feature films included in the competition will be announced in the coming weeks.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - In competition
Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved.
Four people lead ordinary lives in different places, their paths never crossing. A mysterious man appears in each story, always as someone else. One moment, a cram school instructor; the next, a truck driver, a barber - his identity constantly shifting. Then, death strikes. A detective pursues the truth, closing in on a revelation...
Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. Franz will give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremony in Switzerland. Back in Buenos Aires, she says nothing, but something in her has shifted - quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.
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