Eleven filmmakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA will show their first and second films in the San Sebastian Festivals (Sep 20-28) New Directors section.
Among them are new projects featuringNick RobinsonandBel Powley, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Denis Lavant, and Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim.
Below is the lineup:
Gulizar/Gulizaris a Turkish-Kosovar co-production about a young victim of sexual assault in the run-up to her wedding.
Turn Me OnSan Sebastian Film Festival
It marks the feature debut from Turkish moviemakerBelkis Bayrak;
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Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim star inHiver a Sokcho/Winter in Sokcho, the first movie from the French-Japanese directorKoya Kamura.
The French-Korean co-production tells the tale of a young Korean girl whose life is thrown into disarray when a French artist arrives in the Asian country;
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Sivaroj Kongsakulmade his feature directorial debut withEternity(2010), screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong.
In his second work,Regretfully at Dawn, the Thai director entwines the fates of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier;
Brule le sang / In the Name of Blood, a French-Belgian-Austrian co-production, is the first work from GeorgiasAkaki Popkhadze.Starring names including Nicolas Duvauchelle, Florent Hill-Chouaki and Denis Lavant, Popkhadzes debut following the murder of a pillar of the Georgian community is set in Nice;
Having directedWalking in Darkness(2019), which premiered in the Bright Future section of the Rotterdam Festival, Chinese moviemakerYongkang Tang(Taiyuan, 1983) will participate in New Directors with his second film,Stars and the Moon, about a boy from a mountain village who spends every day scouring the sky, convinced that he will see aliens.
Michael Tyburski, who made his debut at Sundance Festival withThe Sound of Silence(2019), will compete in the section with his second film,Turn Me On.
Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, this sci-fi romantic comedy is set in a new age community where people must take a pill every day to eradicate all human emotions.
These projects join Spanish projects already announced including debutsLa guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortes, fromAnton Alvarez(C. Tangana), opening film of New Directors, andPor donde pasa el silencio / Where the Silence Passes, fromSandra Romero.
There are two second features:La llegada del hijo/The Arrival of the Son,from Cecilia Atan and Valeria Pivato (La novia del desierto/The Desert Bride), andAzken erromantikoak(Los ultimos romanticos), from David Perez Sanudo (Ane).
All of these films will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, coming with 50,000 divided equally between the director and distributor of the film in Spain.
