The 71st annual San Sebastián International Film Festival, which will run from September 22-30, has released parts of its lineup for the upcoming festival. Besides its usual entries, the festival also has a section known as Perlak, which screens recent critically acclaimed movies that have not yet been released in Spain.
The section’s lineup will include Celine Song’s Sundance hit Past Lives, Maite Alberdi’s documentary The Eternal Memory, Christian Petzold’s Afire, Jonathan Glazer’s submission from Cannes The Zone of Interest, Todd Haynes’s May December, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy. Hirokazu Kore-eda Monster, and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, the winner of Palme d’Or Award at Cannes.
Dumb Money by filmmaker Craig Gillespie, which will premiere in Toronto next month, also made the cut. Les indésirables, the latest film from French director Ladj Ly, will close out the section.
The festival will also be showing Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land, Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano, and Michel Franco’s Memory.
Except for Les indésirables, all the films in the Perlak section are choices for the Audience Awards, which are voted by the festival goers. The prizes include $54,000 for the best film award and $22,000 for the best European film. The awards are announced at the end of the festival, on September 30.
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