AWARDS
The Golden Shell goes to James Franco02/10/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: The Basque festival’s top prize has been bestowed upon the US actor and filmmaker for his comedy The Disaster Artist, amidst a smattering of surprise and applauseCOMPETITION
The Captain
Robert Schwentke
The Captain and the morality of the pack30/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: From Robert Schwentke comes this fable, set in Germany in the final throes of the Second World War, about the value of justice when all traces of humanity have been lostThe Lion Sleeps Tonight
Nobuhiro Suwa
The Lion Sleeps Tonight : Cinema’s (friendly) ghosts30/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Nobuhiro Suwa cooks up a breathtaking metacinematic concoction that plays with three of cinema’s most basic elements: time, hope and Jean-Pierre LéaudBeyond Words
Diego Lerman
Beyond Words : The limitations of language30/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Urszula Antoniak presents a fiction film doubling as an essay on linguistics and the impossibility of expressing nationalist sentiment through languageA Sort of Family
Diego Lerman
A Sort of Family : Not without my son29/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Bárbara Lennie gives a magnificent performance as a woman desperate to become a mother in this drama by Diego Lerman, co-produced by Argentina, Brazil and myriad European countriesLife and Nothing More
Antonio Méndez Esparza
Life and Nothing More : Good morning resistance28/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: From Antonio Méndez Esparza comes this docudrama set in a North American city, where the mother of a difficult teen battles to get by
Antonio Méndez Esparza • Director29/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Following his award-winning debut Aquí y allá, Antonio Méndez Esparza is competing in the festival's official section with Life and Nothing More, filmed in the USSoldiers. Story from Ferentari
Ivana Mladenovic
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari : A cold look at class inequality28/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIAN 2017: Ivana Mladenovic breaks new ground in Romanian cinema, where LGBT topics are almost non-existent
Ivana Mladenovic • Director28/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: A chat with Romanian director Ivana Mladenovic, whose gay love story, Soldiers. Story from Ferentari, is ground-breaking for Romanian cinemaGiant
Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño
Giant : Between Lynch and Lean27/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño display sensitivity and restraint in this painstaking and compelling account of a real-life case, without once puncturing its aura of epic romance
Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño • Directors25/09/2017 - SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Basque filmmaking duo Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño present Giant, a period drama that recounts the true story of the so-called "Giant of Altzo", who lived in the 19th century
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017
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