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The San Sebastian Festival will present in its Made in Spain section some of the best Spanish productions of the year. The titles programmed for the 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival are:



10.000 KM (LONG DISTANCE)
CARLOS MARQUES-MARCET (SPAIN)
Winning film of four awards at the Málaga Festival, including Best Film. Alexandra and Sergi are a couple from Barcelona who are thinking about having a baby when she receives a professional offer to work in Los Angeles for a year. Trusting in the strength of their relationship, they decide to postpone their plans and take up the challenge.




ÁRTICO (ARCTIC)
GABRIEL VELÁZQUEZ (SPAIN)
A film that won a special mention in the Generation section of the last Berlin Festival. Jota and Simón are two "quinquis" aged 20 who wander carelessly out into the street every day to get by as they can with whatever comes up. But apart from their thefts, their wheelings and dealings, something else twists their guts. Both want something they don't have.




CARMINA Y AMÉN
PACO LEÓN (SPAIN)
Sequel to Carmina o revienta (Carmina or Blow Up), again directed by Paco León. When her husband dies suddenly, Carmina convinces her daughter María not to register the death until two days later so that she can collect the double pay packet he had pending. For two days they hide the body and pretend not to grieve in the everyday life of a block of flats in a poor part of Seville.




CIUTAT MORTA (DEAD CITY)
XAVIER ARTIGAS, XAPO ORTEGA (SPAIN)
A non-fictional film winner of the Silver Biznaga for Best Documentary at the Málaga Festival. In the case known as '4F', a group of youngsters landed in jail, accused of attempting to murder a local policeman in Barcelona. They denounced torture and abuse. One of the girls finally took her own life to prove her innocence.




HERMOSA JUVENTUD (BEAUTIFUL YOUTH)
JAIME ROSALES (SPAIN - FRANCE)
In his latest film, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes, Jaime Rosales tells the tale of Natalia and Carlos, two 20 year-olds in love who struggle to get by in today's Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they would like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great expectations. To earn a bit of money, they decide to shoot an amateur porn movie.




OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS (SPANISH AFFAIRS)
EMILIO MARTÍNEZ-LÁZARO (SPAIN)
The biggest box-office hit in the history of Spanish cinema. Rafa, Andalusian to the bone, has never had to put a foot out of his beloved Seville to get the things he loves most in life: sherry, hair gel and women. Until one day everything changes with the appearance of the first woman to resist his charms.




OPEN WINDOWS
NACHO VIGALONDO (SPAIN - USA)
The latest film by Nacho Vigalondo is a thriller starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey. Jill, the most exciting actress of the day, refuses to honour a dinner date with Nick, a fan and winner of an Internet contest. To make up for it, a guy called Chord will help Nick to follow the actress's every move from his laptop.




SOBRE LA MARXA (THE CREATOR OF THE JUNGLE)
JORDI MORATÓ (SPAIN)
This is the tale of the man who created a jungle beside the motorway. In it, he built wacky constructions that he proceeded to burn to the ground, only to build them over and over and again for decades. A documentary presented at the Locarno and Málaga festivals.




STELLA CADENTE (FALLING STAR)
LLUÍS MIÑARRO (SPAIN)
Lluís Miñarro's fiction debut competed in the Official Selection at the Rotterdam Festival. Tale of the Spanish adventure of Amadeo of Savoy, a brilliant shooting star who set about trying to modernise an "impossible" country. The film reflects on the futility of power and the difficulty of appreciating beauty.




THE FOOD GUIDE TO LOVE
DOMINIC HARARI, TERESA DE PELEGRÍ (SPAIN - IRELAND - FRANCE)
A delicious romantic comedy set in Dublin about a popular Irish food writer and the decided Spanish woman who inspired him to heed his heart rather than his stomach. Oliver Byrne, a food journalist, meets Bibiana, an art curator. Is their romance a recipe for disaster, or has Oliver finally found the ingredients of true love?




YO DECIDO. EL TREN DE LA LIBERTAD
(SPAIN)
A collective documentary portraying the protests following the recent draft bill restricting the right to abortion. On learning the news, a small group of women from Asturias takes action that prompts hundreds of thousands of people to travel from all over the country to Madrid by train, coming together in a massive demonstration and even reaching other capitals across the world.

culinary cinema


20 September:
Restaurante: Basque Culinary Center
Cocineros: Iñaki Aizpitarte, Philippe Arrambide, Rubén Trincado

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY
LASSE HALLSTRÖM (USA)
A flavour-packed comedy starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren and directed by the acclaimed filmmaker, Lasse Hallström. Hassan Kadam is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of a perfect pitch who opens an Indian restaurant in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France, a hundred feet from the Michelin starred French restaurant run by Madame Mallory: the two eateries soon declare war on one another.



21 September:
Restaurant: ni neu
Chefs: Mikel Gallo, Kenji Takahashi

LITTLE FOREST - NATSU & AKI / LITTLE FOREST - SUMMER/AUTUMN
JUNICHI MORI (JAPAN)
Eat to live. Cook to eat. Ichiko lives off the land and recharge. A life style where everything is interconnected. A film is comprised of four seasons in Japan. The simple, yet inventive recipes are sure to make you feel hungry!



22 September:
Restaurant: Basque Culinary Center
Chef: Jakob Mielcke

TXIPIRONES EN SU TINTA (SQUID IN ITS INK) (Short film)
XABIER GUTIÉRREZ (SPAIN)
The painter Juan Vich and the chef Xabier Gutiérrez each make their own version of the dish, baby squid in its ink. With no words, in silence, each one goes about his work.




FOODIES
THOMAS JACKSON, CHARLOTTE LANDELIUS, HENRIK STOCKARE (SWEDEN - NETHERLANDS)
The interest in haute cuisine has grown exponentially. Now, we enter the world of the most influential people on the food scene - the foodie. A subculture of blogging food critics with a mission to eat at the best restaurants on earth.



23 September:
Restaurant: Restaurante Tenis Ondarreta
Chefs: Aitor Arregui, Kevin Patricio

HOZOUR / PRESENCE (Short film)
HOSSEIN RASTI (IRAN)
Each year, during the 7 days mourning for the third Imam of Shiis in a small town in Iran, a special vow food called “abgoosht”, is offered to more than 5000 persons. People prepare food and bread while weeping and whispering some religious chants.




SOUL OF A BANQUET
WAYNE WANG (USA)
Director Wayne Wang takes us into the world of Cecilia Chiang, the woman who introduced America to authentic Chinese food. The film is equal parts a delectable showcase of gastronomy and a touching portrait of Chiang.



24 September:
Restaurant: Basque Culinary Center
Chefs: Francis Paniego, Nacho Manzano

BROOKLYN FARMER (Short film)
MICHAEL TYBURSKI (USA)
A group of urban farmers in New York City called "Brooklyn Grange" set out to build the world's largest rooftop farm in one of the world's biggest cities.




RECIPE
ERIC KHOO (SINGAPORE)
The new film by reputed director Eric Khoo (Be With Me, Tatsumi) is the story about the relationship between a woman and her ageing mother and their common love for cooking.





25 September:
Restaurant: Mirador de Ulía
Chef: Rubén Trincado

STEAK (R)ÉVOLUTION / STEAK (R)EVOLUTION
FRANCK RIBIÈRE (FRANCE)
Gourmet road trip looking for the best steaks in the world. Breeders, farmers, butchers, cooks, historians and business men all around the world (France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Argentina, Brazil) share their secrets.



26 September:
Restaurant: Basque Culinary Center
Chef: Gastón Acurio

NERUA, UN VIAJE A LA ESENCIA (NERUA, A JOURNEY TO THE ESSENCE) (Short film)
IVÁN MIÑAMBRES (SPAIN)
A documentary explaining the roots and details of the project of the chef of the Nerua restaurant at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a proposal that stretches beyond gastronomy.




BUSCANDO A GASTÓN (FINDING GASTON)
PATRICIA PEREZ (PERU - USA)
A tour of Peruvian gastronomy on the heels of chef Gaston Acurio in his quest to use cuisine as a catalyst for change in his country. Stories, dreams and flavours from a country caught up day to day in the power of cuisine.

Grosse surprise à San Sebastian puisque c'est Magical Girl *dont on m'a parlé comme une grosse branlette pour les cahiers* qui a remporté le coquillage d'or du meilleur film et le coquillage du meilleur réalisateur, fait sans précédent depuis Elephant avec le jury cannois de Chereau. Le cinéma espagnol se tire la part du lion vu que le policier pas mal La Isla minima grapille aussi deux prix. Par contre rien pour Ozon, rien pour Petzold, rien pour Eden et rien pour Haemoo mais le cinéma français récompensé via le prix spécial du jury pour le nouveau Cedric Kahn avec Kassovitz.

http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2014/news/1/4903/in

Des prix hors palmares "officiel" pour Ozon... Vrai que Magical girl c'est la surprise...