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Denzel Washington will be opening the 62nd San Sebastián Film Festival with the European premiere of "The Equalizer", a film by Antoine Fuqua
The actor will receive the Donostia lifetime achievement award

The Equalizer, a film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, will be opening out-of-competition the forthcoming San Sebastián Festival on the 19th of September. Actor and director will be presenting the film in the Kursaal Auditorium.

Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Written by Richard Wenk. Based on the Television Series Created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim. Produced by Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Denzel Washington, Alex Siskin, Steve Tisch, Mace Neufeld, Tony Eldridge, and Michael Sloan.

New Directors :



CHRIEG
SIMON JAQUEMET (SWITZERLAND)
On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.




IN HER PLACE
ALBERT SHIN (CANADA - SOUTH KOREA)
A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.




KÁIN GYERMEKEI / CAIN'S CHILDREN
MARCELL GERŐ (HUNGARY - FRANCE)
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.




KAK MENYA ZOVUT / NAME ME
NIGINA SAYFULLAEVA (RUSSIA)
Two 17-year-old Muscovite girls, Olya and Sasha, are going to Crimea to meet Olya’s father Sergey. At first girls have their fun. Little do they know that the innocent joke they invent will turn into great drama and change their lives forever.




LIMBO
ANNA SOFIE HARTMANN (GERMANY)
A small town in rural Denmark; teenager Sara and newly arrived teacher Karen grow a connection amidst projections, quiet expectations and daily life all around. Courage leads to disappointment and when an unexpected event occurs, Karen is left on her own.




LA MADRE DEL CORDERO (THE MOTHER OF THE LAMB)
ROSARIO ESPINOZA, ENRIQUE FARIAS (CHILE)
Cristina, a 49 year old woman, has spent her entire life caring for her mother Carmen. She re-encounters Sandra, a liberal and open-minded ex-colleague who will show her friend other ways to live.




MODRIS
JURIS KURSIETIS (LATVIA - GREECE - GERMANY)
Unable to deal with her teenage son, the boy's mother turns him in for a small crime. But a teenager's life cannot handle police probation. Based on true events.




UNA NOCHE SIN LUNA (A MOONLESS NIGHT)
GERMÁN TEJEIRA (URUGUAY - ARGENTINA)
On New Year's night, three lonely night owls arrive in a small town way out in the Uruguayan countryside, where they will have the opportunity to change their destiny. A film about love, loneliness, opportunities and the passing of time.




NO TODO ES VIGILIA (IT´S NOT VIGIL)
HERMES PARALLUELO (SPAIN - COLOMBIA)
In his new film, Hermes Paralluelo tells a love story. A love story that begins when its lead characters, Antonio and Felisa, have been together for over 60 years and their delicate health means they can no longer care for one another. The prospect of having to move into a home for the elderly looms menacingly on the horizon. The film portrays love in old age, nights of fitful sleep over the worry of loneliness, death and separation from a loved-one. Fear of leaving life in the hands of others and of losing independence.




TOTO SI SURORILE LUI / TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
ALEXANDER NANAU (ROMANIA)
From Emmy-Award winning Romanian director Alexander Nanau comes an amazing family love story. Totonel (10) and his sisters are growing up in a poor city suburb, waiting for their mother to come home from prison.




LOS TONTOS Y LOS ESTÚPIDOS (THE SILLY ONES AND THE STUPID ONES)
ROBERTO CASTÓN (SPAIN)
Second feature by Roberto Castón, whose movie Ander competed in the Panorama Section at Berlin in 2009. Mario, Paula, Miguel and Lourdes run into one another while looking (some more than others) for a way out of a life they don't like. The situation forces them to make decisions, listening either to their hearts or to the fear of change. They are accompanied in the process by the film's director, played by Roberto Álamo.




UROK / THE LESSON
KRISTINA GROZEVA, PETAR VALCHANOV (BULGARIA)
In a small Bulgarian town, Nadezhda, a young teacher, tries to find out which of her students is stealing in class, so that she can teach them the difference between right and wrong. But when she finds herself in debt to moneylenders, will she know the right road to take? What happens when an honest person turns into a criminal?




VINCENT N'A PAS D'ÉCAILLES / VINCENT
THOMAS SALVADOR (FRANCE)
Vincent is not just a young man among others. His strength, reflexes and agility increase when in contact with water. There he meets Lucie, falls in love, and shares his secret with someone for the first time...

Bon alors grunt, quand est-ce que tu nous confirmes que les films d'Ozon, de Mia Hansen-Love et de Petzold sont en compétition?

Bon du coup je m'en charge tout seul:
http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2014/news/1/4296/in

Vraiment aucune valeur ajoutée à aller à Toronto cette année donc.

Tu seras donc notre reviewer officiel de Toronto.

Le reste de la compet´ annoncée la semaine prochaine.

The competition for the Golden Shell at the coming San Sebastian Festival, running from September 19 to 27, unites the latest films by outstanding filmmakers on the international panorama. New titles to join them in the Official Selection will be announced next week.



CASANOVA VARIATIONS
MICHAEL STURMINGER (FRANCE - AUSTRIA - GERMANY)
John Malkovich stars in the unique project that captures the myth of the greatest seducer of all times, Casanova. Based on Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova and with arias from W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. His story is told both through fiction and on-stage performances that unravel the tale of his adventures, his passions, and ultimately his fear of death.




THE DROP (THE DROP)
MICHAËL R. ROSKAM (USA)
In his Hollywood debut, Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead) adapts a novel by Dennis Lehane in a film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini in his last role for the cinema.The Drop takes an inside look at organized crime’s use of local New York City bars as money-laundering “drops”. When lonely Brooklyn bartender Bob Saginowski uncovers a drop of a different sort in the form of a battered pit bull puppy that he rescues from certain death, he comes into contact with Nadia, a mysterious woman hiding a dark past.




EDEN
MIA HANSEN-LØVE (FRANCE)
In her latest film, moviemaker Mia Hansen-Løve recreates the French house period. In the 90's, French electronic music is developing at a fast pace. In the exciting Paris nightlife, Paul is taking his first steps as a DJ.




HAEMU (HAEMOO)
SHIM SUNG-BO (SOUTH KOREA)
Bong Joon-ho co-writes and produces the directorial debut of Shim Sung-bo, screenwriter of Memories of Murder. A fishing ship’s crew attempts to smuggle in illegal migrants which ends in a catastrophe with the crew driven into madness.




UNE NOUVELLE AMIE / THE NEW GIRLFRIEND
FRANÇOIS OZON (FRANCE)
The latest film by François Ozon, winner of the Golden Shell in 2012, is the tale of two women who have been friends since childhood. The two marry and one has a baby. Shortly afterwards, the mother falls seriously ill and makes her friend promise that she will take care of the baby and her husband. When she dies, the friend decides to visit the father and the baby, but a tremendous surprise awaits her.




PHOENIX
CHRISTIAN PETZOLD (GERMANY)
Christian Petzold, winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director at the Berlin Festival in 2012 with Barbara, presents in San Sebastián's Official Selection his new film, once again starring Nina Hoss. A singer was betrayed and sent to a concentration camp. She returns with her face completely disfigured and asks a distinguish surgeon to reconstruct it in order to regain her former appearance as closely as possible. Having recovered from the operation, she sets out to find her husband, a pianist. But their reunion will not go the way she expected.




STILLE HJERTE / SILENT HEART
BILLE AUGUST (DENMARK)
The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and a Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother´s decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

Du coup, quelle est finalement la durée de EDEN? Ca devait pas être en deux parties?

Initialement oui, deux films. Mais personnes n'a voulu les financer. Donc un seul.

Lol

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Anahí Berneri, Susanne Bier, Maxime Giroux, Cristián Jiménez and Cédric Kahn join the Official Selection at the 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Autómata, by Gabe Ibáñez, rounds off Spanish participation

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A new international corps of reputed moviemakers will present their films in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival. All of these titles, along with those already announced, will compete for the Golden Shell. We will shortly confirm the new films to complete the Official Selection.

 

AIRE LIBRE (OPEN AIR)
ANAHÍ BERNERI (ARGENTINA)
Argentinian director Anahí Berneri returns to competition in the Official Selection with this film which was presented in the first San Sebastian Co-Production Forum in 2012. A young married couple, Lucía and Manuel, seem to have forgotten the desires and projects that brought them together. Separately, Lucía and Manuel come back into touch with their personal desires while they draw further apart. They feel like teenagers and discover their immaturity. With no common roof, in the open air, they no longer know how to get home.

 
 

AUTÓMATA
GABE IBÁÑEZ (BULGARIA - SPAIN)
Gabe Ibáñez directs a futuristic thriller starring Antonio Banderas. A sci-fi film somewhere between a detective movie and a western set against the argument of Technological Singularity, the theory that speculates on the moment when artificial intelligence may develop to the point of matching and even overtaking human intelligence.

 
 

EN CHANCE TIL / A SECOND CHANCE
SUSANNE BIER (DENMARK - SWEDEN)
How far are decent people willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust? Director Susanne Bier (winner of the Foreign Language Film Academy Award in 2011 with Hævnen / In a Better World) and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen have crafted another startling yet moving drama, about how easily we lose our grasp on justice, when we face the unthinkable and life as we know it is hanging by a thread. A thrilling story about real people forced into incredible circumstances.

 
 

FÉLIX ET MEIRA / FELIX AND MEIRA
MAXIME GIROUX (CANADA)
In his third feature, Canadian director Maxime Giroux narrates the story of Félix, an eccentric and penniless young man whose wealthy father is dying, and Meira, a Hasidic woman married with a child. They were not meant to meet, let alone fall in love.

 
 

LA VOZ EN OFF
CRISTIÁN JIMÉNEZ (CHILE - FRANCE - CANADA)
Chilean director Cristian Jiménez returns to San Sebastián with the tale of Sofia, a 35 year old woman who has two children she loves. But everything has been going wrong for her lately. Looking for peace after her recent separation, she decides to take a vote of silence in reverse: no mobile phone, no TV, no Internet, no books for a year. But her peace is short-lived.

 
 

VIE SAUVAGE / WILD LIFE
CÉDRIC KAHN (FRANCE)
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in the shadow, hunted by the police but always free and on the move.

 
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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.