The competition strand of the festival. Films fight it out for the prestigious Golden and Silver Shell awards. No one film can receive more than two prizes.
Read our full 2010 San Sebastian Film Festival coverage.
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| Bicycle, Spoon, Apple and Chicogrande |
Addicted To Love (Country: China; Director: Hao Lui; Writer: Hao Lui; Cast: Jiang Mei Hua, Niu En Pu) Two former childhood sweethearts meet again by chance and their love affair rekindles, despite the fact one of them has Alzheimer's. Official Site
Amigo (Country: US; Director: John Sayles; Writer: John Sayles; Cast: Chris Cooper, DJ Qualls, Garret Dillahunt, Yul Vazquez, Lucas Neff, James Parks, Dane DeHaan, Stephen Taylor, Bill Tangradi, Joel Torre, Rio Locsin, Bembol Roco, Irma Adlawan, Ronnie Lazaro, Pen Medina) Set during the American-Philippine war as the head of a bario has to answer to both the Americans and the Filipino patriots, with deadly consequences. Full Review See: San Sebastian Film Festival: Death and birth, Genpin, October and John Sayle's Amigo Official Site
Bicycle, Spoon, Apple (Bicicleta, Cullera, Poma) (Country: Spain; Director: Carlos Bosch; Writer: Carlos Bosch; Cast: Diana Garrigosa, Pasqual Maragall) Documentary charting the battle of one and his family against the march of Alzheimer's. Out Of Competition. See: San Sebastian Film Festival, Peter Mullan, Bicycle, Spoon, Apple, Honey
Black Bread (Pa negre) (Country: Spain, France; Director: Agustí Villaronga; Writer: Emili Teixidor, Agustí Villaronga; Cast: Sergi López, Laia Marull, Marina Gatell, Eduard Fernández, Roger Casamajor, Pep Tosar, Mercè Arànega, Joan Carles Suau, Nora Navas, Eva Basteiro-Bertoli, Francesc Colomer, Elisa Crehuet, Lluïsa Castell, Jesús Ramos, Marina Comas) In post-war rural Catalonia, a boy finds a pair of bodies and - when is father is blamed for their deaths - sets out to find who killed them. See: San Sebastian Film Festival Day Four
Chicogrande (Country: Mexico; Director: Felipe Cazals; Writer: Felipe Cazals; Cast: Damián Alcázar, Juan Manuel Bernal, Bruno Bichir, Alejandro Calva, Pablo Fulgueira, Iván Rafael González, Tenoch Huerta, Daniel Martinez, Lisa Owen, Johnny Randall, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Jorge Zárate)
Following the frustrated invasion of Columbus, Pancho Villa retreats, only to be injured... Chicogrande, one of his young followers, is tasked with finding medical help. Opening Night Film. Out Of Competition.
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| Colours In The Dark and The Great Vázquez |
Colours In The Dark (Satte Farben vor Schwarz) (Country: Germany; Director: Sophie Heldman; Writer: Sophie Heldman, Felix zu Knyphausen; Cast: Leonie Benesch, Senta Berger, Bruno Ganz, Ruth Glöss, Traute Höss, Sylvana Krappatsch, Thomas Limpinsel, Barnaby Metschurat, Sybille J. Schedwill, Carina N. Wiese) The impact of terminal illness on a long-married couple. Competitor for the Kutxa-New Directors Award. See: San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds, I Saw The Devil, Colours In The Dark
Eat Pray Love (Country: US; Director: Ryan Murphy; Writer: Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt, Elizabeth Gilbert; Cast: Julia Roberts, I. Gusti Ayu Puspawati, Hadi Subiyanto, Billy Crudup, Viola Davis, A. Jay Radcliff, Mike O'Malley, Ashlie Atkinson, James Franco, Lisa Roberts Gillan, Ryan O'Nan, Gita Reddy, Dwayne Clark, Jen Kwok, Mary Testa) A newly divorced woman goes on a round-the-world voyage of self-discovery. Out Of Competition. Official Site
Elisa K (Country: Spain; Director: Jordi Cadena, Judith Colell; Writer: Lolita Bosch, Jordi Cadena; Cast: Aina Clotet, Nausicaa Bonnín, Ramon Madaula, Pep Sais, Lydia Zimmermann, Hans Richter, Jordi Gràcia, Maria de la Pau Janer, Clàudia Pons, Ricard Farré, Pol Montañés) The effect of childhood abuse on a young girl, both at the time and in later life. Full Review Official Site
Father (Aita) (Country: Spain; Director: José María de Orbe; Writer: José María de Orbe, Daniel V. Villamediana) An old abandoned house, the caretaker who looks after it, the village priest, spaces, sounds, lights and shadows, the passing of time. An intimate yet collective story unfolds in the darkest corners of the house. Competitor for the Kutxa-New Directors Award. Full Review See: San Sebastian Film Festival: Sarah's Key, Beautiful Boy, Barney's Version, Aita
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| NEDS and Father |
The Great Vázquez (El Gran Vázquez) (Country: Spain; Director: Óscar Aibar; Writer: Óscar Aibar; Cast: Santiago Segura, Álex Angulo, Manolo Solo, Biel Durán, Jesús Guzmán, Enrique Villén, Pere Ponce, Mercè Llorens, Pep Sais, Pere Vall, Jordi Banacolocha, Itziar Aizpuru, Lita Claver, Alberto Vidal, Hector Vidales)
Biopic of Sixties Barcelona comic book writer Manuel Vázquez.
Home For Christmas (Country: Ireland; Director: Charlie McCarthy; Cast: Isabella Devine, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dearbhla Molloy, Martin Murphy, Emily Nagle, Colin O'Donoghue, David Wilmot)
A modern Christmas Carol based on a selection of short stories from the Norwegian author Levi Henriksen’s collection ”Only Soft Presents Under the Tree” (Bare mjuke pakker under treet).
The Mosque (A Jamaa) (Country: Morocco, France; Director: Daoud Aoulad-Syad; Cast: Abdelhadi Touhrach, Bouchra Hraich, Mustapha Tahah, Naceur Oujri, Salem Dabella)
The director says: "For the filming of my last movie "Waiting for Pasolini", sets were built on land leased from local villagers. Among the sets, a mosque was built on the land of Moha, a villager who also appears in the movie.
At the end of filming, the filming team leaves the village. Villagers demolish all the sets, with the exceptions of the mosque. This mosque became a real place of prayer for the whole village. For Moha this is a real disaster"
Mount Bayo (Cerro Bayo) (Country: Argentina; Director: Victoria Galardi; Writer: Victoria Galardi; Cast: Eugenia Alonso, Guillermo Arengo, Juan Barberini, Adriana Barraza, Elisa Carricajo, Inés Efron, Adela Gleijer, Marcela Kloosterboer, Verónica Llinás, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Nicolas Silberg)
The lives of a family in a Patagonian village are irrevocably changed after the matriarch attempts suicide. Competitor for the Kutxa-New Directors Award.
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| Amigo and Eat Pray Love |
Mysteries Of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa) (Country: Portugal, France, Brazil; Director: Raoul Ruiz; Writer: Camilo Castelo Branco, Carlos Saboga; Cast: Léa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud, Clotilde Hesme, Lena Friedrich, Malik Zidi, José Afonso Pimentel, Catarina Wallenstein, Filipe Vargas, Ricardo Pereira, Miguel Monteiro, João Baptista, Carloto Cotta, Marco D'Almeida, Sofia Aparício, Maria João Bastos) A whirlwind of adventures and escapades, coincidences and revelations, sentiments and violent passions, vengeance, love affairs, all wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us from Portugal to France, Italy, and as far as Brazil. Official Site
NEDS (Country: UK; Director: Peter Mullan; Writer: Peter Mullan; Cast: Connor McCarron, Gregg Forest, Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Marianna Palka, Peter Mullan, Gary Lewis, Joe Szula, David McKay, Steven Robertson) Story of a boy who finds growing up in Glasgow in the Seventies is tough. Full Review See: San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds, I Saw The Devil, Colours In The Dark, San Sebastian Film Festival, Peter Mullan, Bicycle, Spoon, Apple, Honey
Sarah's Key (Elle s'appelait Sarah) (Country: France; Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner; Writer: Tatiana De Rosnay, Serge Joncour, Gilles Paquet-Brenner; Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Mashkevich, Arben Bajraktaraj, George Birt, James Gerard, Frederick Guillaud) A journalist uncovers family secrets that link her to a young Jewish girl persecuted 60 years previously. Closing Night Film. Out Of Competition. Full Review See: San Sebastian Film Festival: Sarah's Key, Beautiful Boy, Barney's Version, Aita
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