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San Sebastián 2021

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55 articles available in total starting from 20/07/2021. Last article published on 15/10/2021.

Review: The Daughter

Review: The Daughter

After Cannibal and The Motive, which took part in previous editions of this festival, Manuel Martín Cuenca returns to lay bare the meanness hidden behind the most obsessive of desires  

27/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Out of Competition

Thierry de Peretti • Director of Undercover

Interview: Thierry de Peretti • Director of Undercover

“Cinema allows us to show the ambiguities of journalists’ working methods”

The French director spoke to Cineuropa about his competition film and revealed why you can learn a lot about the state from the way it deals with crime  

27/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Selman Nacar • Director of Between Two Dawns

Interview: Selman Nacar • Director of Between Two Dawns

“San Sebastián is the only place that could heal me as a filmmaker”

Cineuropa caught up with the Turkish director after the world premiere of his debut film, which last year won a couple of work-in-progress prizes at this very festival  

27/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | New Directors

Romanian debut film Blue Moon wins the Golden Shell at San Sebastián

Romanian debut film Blue Moon wins the Golden Shell at San Sebastián

In a bold move, the jury has bestowed the festival’s main prize upon Alina Grigore’s raw and challenging movie; Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s and Tea Lindeburg’s works also won big  

26/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Awards

Alejandro Amenábar • Director of La Fortuna

Interview: Alejandro Amenábar • Director of La Fortuna

“Why can’t we go back to the emotions we felt at the cinema as children?”

We chatted with the Spanish filmmaker about to take San Sebastián by storm with his first TV series, produced by Movistar Plus+, inspired by a graphic novel and brimming with action and adventure  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Out of Competition

Review: The Grandmother

Review: The Grandmother

The worlds of Paco Plaza and Carlos Vermut collide in a hair-raising film which encourages us to think about the fleeting nature of beauty, along with loneliness and the high price we pay for success  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastian 2021 | Competition

Tea Lindeburg  • Director of As In Heaven

Interview: Tea Lindeburg • Director of As In Heaven

"There are still 300,000 women a year who die in childbirth"

The Danish director's feature debut centres on a teenage girl in the late 1800s who sees her dream of getting an education threatened when her mother goes into a complicated labour  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: Mikado

Review: Mikado

With an impressive economy of resources, Emanuel Pârvu explores the ideas of guilt and accountability  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | New Directors

Paco Plaza  • Director of The Grandmother

Interview: Paco Plaza • Director of The Grandmother

“Any director would aspire to wanting someone to walk out of their film at the movie theatre”

Horror comes pounding on the doors of San Sebastián with brute force in this film by the Spanish director, which was penned by Carlos Vermut, the winner of the Golden Shell for Magical Girl  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Johnny Depp launches his own European production company

Johnny Depp launches his own European production company

The US actor has teamed up with Spain’s A Contracorriente Films and previous partners to create IN.2 Film  

24/09/2021 | Production | Funding | UK/Spain

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