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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2017

San Sebastian Film Festival 2017

Special Screenings

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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Dying (Morir)

The lives of Luis and Marta are abruptly paralysed. Lies, guilt and fear put the couple’s stability and love to the test.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Fernando Franco; Writer: Coral Cruz, Fernando Franco; Stars: Marian Álvarez, Andrés Gertrúdix, Iñigo Aranburu)

Faces Places (Visages, Villages)

Review preview for Faces Places

Whether she is probing at the ideas of the ties that bind us to a home or considering the morality of goat horns, she constantly nudges us to move around and, perhaps, get a better view.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
The director and photgrapher travel through France as their friendship blossoms.

(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Agnès Varda, JR)

Full review See: Agnès Varda on Faces Places, honours, outsiders and Demy , Early bird highlights of DOC NYC 2017

Fireworks, Should We See It From The Side Or The Bottom? (Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?)

Animated adventure for two schoolmates who face being separated.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Nobuyuki Takeuchi; Writer: Shunji Iwai, Hitoshi Ohne; Stars: Suzu Hirose, Masaki Suda, Mamoru Miyano)

See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut)

November 1919. Two survivors of the trenches set up a scam based on war memorials.

(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Albert Dupontel; Writer: Albert Dupontel, based on the novel by Pierre Lemaitre; Stars: Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Niels Arestrup, Émilie Dequenne, Mélanie Thierry, Michel Vuillermoz, Frans Boyer, Nicolas de Lavergne, Philippe Duquesne, Grégoire Foessel, Carole Franck, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Travis Kerschen, Kyan Khojandi)

The Summit (La Cordillera)

At a Summit for Latin American presidents in Chile, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures a political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons.

(Country: Argentina, France, Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Erica Rivas, Christian Slater, Elena Anaya, Paulina García, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Gerardo Romano, Alfredo Castro, Rafael Alfaro, Marcelo Longobardi, Gabriela Pastor, Manuel Trotta)

Wonders Of The Sea

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A chance to see the seas in a new way.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Nature documentary, narrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2017; Director: Jean-Michel Cousteau, Jean-Jacques Mantello; Writer: David Chocron, Francois Mantello, Jean-Jacques Mantello; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau, Celine Cousteau)

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