Eleven filmmakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA will present their first and second movies within the San Sebastian Competition’s (Sep 20-28) New Administrators part.
Amongst them are new initiatives that includes Nick Robinson and Bel Powley, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Denis Lavant, and Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim.
Beneath is the lineup:
Gülizar / Gulizar is a Turkish-Kosovar co-production a few younger sufferer of sexual assault within the run-up to her wedding ceremony. It marks the characteristic debut from Turkish moviemaker Belkis Bayrak;
Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim star in Hiver à Sokcho / Winter in Sokcho, the primary film from the French-Japanese director Koya Kamura. The French-Korean co-production tells the story of a younger Korean woman whose life is thrown into disarray when a French artist arrives within the Asian nation;
Sivaroj Kongsakul made his characteristic directorial debut with Eternity (2010), screened at festivals together with Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong. In his second work, Regretfully at Daybreak, the Thai director entwines the fates of an previous man, a little bit woman and a younger soldier;
Brûle le sang / Within the Identify of Blood, a French-Belgian-Austrian co-production, is the primary work from Georgia’s Akaki Popkhadze. Starring names together with Nicolas Duvauchelle, Florent Hill-Chouaki and Denis Lavant, Popkhadze’s debut following the homicide of a pillar of the Georgian group is about in Good;
Having directed Strolling in Darkness (2019), which premiered within the Brilliant Future part of the Rotterdam Competition, Chinese language moviemaker Yongkang Tang (Taiyuan, 1983) will take part in New Administrators together with his second movie, Stars and the Moon, a few boy from a mountain village who spends daily scouring the sky, satisfied that he’ll see aliens.
Michael Tyburski, who made his debut at Sundance Competition with The Sound of Silence (2019), will compete within the part together with his second movie, Flip Me On. Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, this sci-fi romantic comedy is about in a brand new age group the place folks should take a capsule daily to eradicate all human feelings.
These initiatives be a part of Spanish initiatives already introduced together with debuts La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés, from Antón Álvarez (C. Tangana), opening movie of New Administrators, and Por donde pasa el silencio / The place the Silence Passes, from Sandra Romero. There are two second options: La llegada del hijo / The Arrival of the Son, from Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato (La novia del desierto / The Desert Bride), and Azken erromantikoak (Los últimos románticos), from David Pérez Sañudo (Ane).
All of those movies will compete for the Kutxabank-New Administrators Award, coming with €50,000 divided equally between the director and distributor of the movie in Spain.
