San Sebastian Film Festival

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  New World

  Review preview for New World

  Achieving a delicate balance between the intersecting worlds of police, criminals and corporations, New World is a breath of fresh air.

  After the untimely death of Korea’s biggest crime syndicate chairman, power struggle between top lieutenants begins.
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  Minuscule - Valley Of The Lost Ants

  Review preview for Minuscule - Valley Of The Lost Ants

  Opens your eyes to fresh fields of possibility

  In a peaceful little clearing, the remains of a picnic hastily abandoned spark warfare between two tribes of ants.
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  Enemy

  Review preview for Enemy

  Villeneuve knows how to stoke the tension so that benign moments become first unsettling and then downright creepy.

  Adam leads a monotonous life until he discovers Anthony, a small-time actor physically identical to him.
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  9 Month Stretch

  Review preview for 9 Month Stretch

  You can do nothing but sit in a haze of expectation, waiting for the fun to ferment, which it does

  The lady judge is guilty of sexual discrepancy but what has the most hated criminal in France got to do with it?
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  Wolf

  Review preview for Wolf

  It's a great credit to actor Marwan Kenzari that he is able to keep the audience rooting for him.

  A troubled young man is torn between a potential career as a kickboxer and a life of petty crime.
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  The Dream

  Review preview for The Dream

  It is fascinating to watch the development of ideas in the kitchen via the symbiotic interactions of the three brothers.

  A cinematic encounter, examining cookery as art.
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  Zip & Zap And The Marble Gang

  Review preview for Zip & Zap And The Marble Gang

  It's a well constructed, well paced, well made film, but it's poised and polished and professional where one might hope for something a bit more ramshackle, a mite more rebellious.

  A group of kids rebel against strict rules at their school.
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  Club Sandwich

  Review preview for Club Sandwich

  As Hector, Lucio Gimenez Cacho embodies the three primary desires of any teenage boy: getting one's way, getting one's end away, and potato chips.

  A teenage boy experiences first love while holidaying with his mother.
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  T.S. Spivet

  Review preview for T.S. Spivet

  The film becomes a road trip, avoiding many of the usual booby traps, although not all.

  A young scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch to travel across the country to receive a prize.
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  Devil's Knot

  Review preview for Devil's Knot

  An involving mystery which, alongside its immediate concerns, asks questions about human nature and the inherent mystery of mortality.

  Drama based on the 1993 West Memphis Three murders.

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Features

• Horsing around
  Benedikt Erlingsson on touring Of Horses And Men, his plans for the future and killing the movie star.
• Riding high
  Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson talks sagas, mankind and Mitty.
• In the family
  Hirokazu Kore-eda on Like Father, Like Son
• Working on Le Week-End
  Hanif Kureishi and Roger Michell talk about their latest collaboration
• Hugh Jackman in San Sebastian
  On life as a sex symbol, winning awards, and Wolverine.
• San Sebastian Film Festival - Episode Two
  Fabulous females in Child's Pose, Le Week-End and Gravity, plus why Hanif Kureishi values age over youth.
• San Sebastian Film Festival - Episode One
  Control in Enemy, The Zero Theorem and Like Father, Like Son.
• The real deal
  Paulina García on playing Gloria

News

• Bad Hair glows at San Sebastian
  Venezuelan film takes home Golden Shell.
• San Sebastian honours Hugh Jackman
  Aussie actor to receive Donostia.
• Spanish cinema in spotlight at San Sebastian
  Jake Gyllenhaal film among competition titles.