The British filmmaker Terence Davies returns with his new film, “Sunset Song” at the Film Festival San Sebastian, which will for the first time in its history with an animated film in competition, “The Boy and The Best” , the master of Japanese “anime” Mamoru Hosoda.
Ben Wheatley, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu, Levan Tutberidze, Rúnar Rúnarsson Philippe Lesage and other directors are competing for the Golden Shell the 63rd edition of the Spanish event, to be held from 18 to 26 September.
Following the announcement in July of the seven Spanish films will participate this year in the Official Section, one out of competition – the organization today announced eight new titles, from France, United Kingdom, Iceland, Georgia, Canada, and Japan
The surprise of the competition is the animated film of Mamoru Hosoda on. a lonely boy Tokyo kyuta, crossing the border into an imaginary world where make friends with Kumatetsu, a supernatural creature he will live great adventures.
In the 61st, “football”, work Argentine Juan Jose Campanella 3D, he became the first animated film to open the festival, though not chose the winners.
Davies, who did not win anything in the Festival with “The Deep Blue Sea” in 2011, now presents “Sunset Song,” based on the novel of the same title Scottish Gibbon Lewis Grasicc a screenplay adapted by the director himself.
It is an epic and intimate story about hope, tragedy and love at the beginning of the First World War, starring Agyness Deyn, Kevin Guthrie and Peter Mullan, who as director won the Golden Shell five years ago with “Neds”.
Another Briton, Ben Wheatley , author of the bloody “Tourists” -prize Best Screenplay at Sitges 2012- will compete in San Sebastian “High-Rise”, which tells how a doctor who moves from house looking anonymity, sees shake his good manners and his Mental health from neighbors willing to not leave him alone.
Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss head the cast of this film, based on the novel by JG Ballard.
French cinema will be represented by “Evolution” of Hadzihalilovic, and “21 Nuits avec Pattie”, the Larrieu brothers, directors of “Love is a perfect crime.”
In this work, starring Karin Viard, Sergi Lopez and Isabelle Carré, among others, the Larrieu tell the story of a woman who interrupts his holiday after the sudden death of his mother, and during the preparations for the funeral, the body mysteriously disappears.
Hadzihalilovic, who won the New Directors Award at San Sebastian Festival in 2004 with his second film, “Innocence”, now competes in the Official Selection-the film co-produced with France, Belgium and Spain- on an island inhabited only by women and adolescents, in which a group of boys are subjected to mysterious and sinister medical treatments.
“Moira,” a drama about the life of a young man after leaving imprisonment is to get his family out, it is the proposal of Georgian Levan Tutberidze, while the Icelandic Rúnar Rúnarsson presents “Sparrows”, an initiatory story about a 16 year old should go to live with his father to a remote region of western fjords.
The Canadian Philippe Lesage speaks in “Les Demons” of a ten year old boy who is afraid of everything and see how imaginary demons of his childhood confused with reality in a city of Montreal where they are being abducted a number of young people.
The Festival will announce the titles that will complete the Official Selection. EFE
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