On September 29 the Gehitu association will present its Sebastiane Award 2017 going to the film production screened at the San Sebastian Festival which best reflects the realities, freedoms and social progresses of the LGBTI collective. This award, which celebrates its 18th edition, will go to a work chosen from among seven candidates selected for the Official Selection, New Directors, Horizontes Latinos, Pearls, Culinary Zinema and Made in Spain sections at the Festival’s 65th edition. The winning film of the Sebastiane Latino Award 2017 for Best Latin American Film of the year on the subject of LGTBI, Una mujer fantástica (A Fantastic Woman) (Chile, Germany, Spain and the USA), directed by Sebastián Lelio, will open Horizontes Latinos.

The Gehitu association and its Sebastiane Award jury wish to highlight the important participation of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese delegates in the 3rd Meeting of Ibero-american LGTBI Film Festivals. This meeting will take place on 25 and 27 September, in collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival and Acción Cultural Española, and has the mission to build bridges between the two continents in order to serve as a framework of reflection on the reality of this kind of festivals.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Soldaţii. Poveste din ferentari / Soldiers. Story From Ferentari

Adi, a young anthropologist recently left by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari (the poorest neighborhood in Bucharest) to write a study on manele music (the pop music of the Roma community). While researching his subject, he meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict who promises to help him. Soon, the two begin a romance in which Adi feeds Alberto improbable plans to escape poverty while Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. When the money runs out, both find themselves trapped in an apartment where they love and use each other, in a game of need and power that has no winners.

NEW DIRECTORS

Cargo

In the cold waters of the North Sea, Leon Broucke falls overboard his fishing boat right before the eyes of his eldest son, Jean. The old man slips into a deep coma, leaving his son behind with a huge debt and the responsibility of the family business. The absence of his father sets off an aftershock of conflicts between him and his two brothers. Francis is torn between his family and leaving with his secret lover. William returns home to escape his life of crime, and redeem himself. Desperate to build a future for his 8-year-old son, Jean recriminates his brother for his criminal past. Cargo is a story about how desperation can bring a family to the edge of destruction.

HORIZONTES LATINOS

Una mujer fantástica

Marina is a young waitress and wannabe singer; Orlando owns a printing company. Together they plan their future. When Orlando dies suddenly, Marina has to stand up to his family and society to show them what she truly is: a complex, strong, forthright and... fantastic woman. Teddy Award and Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale 2017. Sebastiane Latino Award.

PEARLS

120 Battements par minute (120 BPM) / 120 Beats Per Minute

Paris, in the early 1990s. A group of young activists multiply their actions to raise awareness of AIDS. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by the radical stance and energy of Sean, who throws the last of his strength into the struggle. Grand Prix at Cannes.

Call Me By Your Name

North of Italy, Summer 1983. Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old American/French/Italian boy spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa lazily transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day Oliver, an American 24-year-old, arrives to help Elio’s father in his academic activities while working on his doctorate on Heraclitus for a few weeks. Elio and Oliver will discover the beauty of desire slowly unfolding in the course of this unique summer.

CULINARY ZINEMA

The Cakemaker

Thomas, a young German pastry maker, is having an affair with Oren, a married Israeli man who makes frequent business trips to Berlin. When Oren dies in a car accident in Israel, Thomas heads for Jerusalem in search of answers to his death. Using a false name, Thomas worms himself into the life of Anat, his lover’s recently widowed wife, to the point of becoming assistant chef in her bar.

MADE IN SPAIN

Pieles

Physical appearance conditions us in regard to society, whether or not it is our choice. Pieles is the tale of physically diverse people whose differences have forced them to hide, shut themselves away or group together. Samantha, a woman with an inverted digestive system, Laura, a girl with no eyes, or Ana, a woman with a deformed face. Lonely people who fight to find their place in a society that only understands one kind of physical appearance, which excludes and mistreats those who don’t fit in.

Out of Competition

Short Films

• For The Good Times (Zinemira Kimuak)
  Andrés Daniel Sainz
  On the birthday of the patriarch of the family, one of his sons decides to come out of the closet and test the tolerance of his nearest and dearest. But the surprises that he has up his sleeve do not end there.

• El sueño de Ana (Zabaltegi-Tabakalera)
  José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile)
  Ana tells us about a dream she had with her partner, recently deceased. El sueño de Ana is the epilogue of the coming feature film project currently being prepared by José Luis Torres Leiva, entitled Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos (Death Will Come and It Will Have Your Eyes), about death, love and the start of a new phase.
  
• Flores (Zabaltegi-Tabakalera)
  Jorge Jácome

Films

• La llamada (TVE Gala)
  Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi (Spain)
  Segovia. A Christian Summer camp, called 'The Compass'. Bernarda, a nun who has just got there, wants to save the camp with her song Viviremos firmes en la fe. Sister Milagros, a young woman who doubts, remembers she liked Presuntos Implicados very much. María and Susana, two adolescents who are there as a punishment, have a band called Suma Latina. But since God appeared to María, everything is changing. And that's because God loves Whitney Houston.

Gender Studies - Short Films

• Euritan (Zinemira Kimuak)
  Irati Gorostidi, Arantza Santesteban
  The film Euritan is a review of the narrative Klara eta biok, written by Itxaro Borda in 1985. Pitting the author against the words of her past, it updates her view on the peripheral relationship around the Basque character.