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Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Drama chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice following the Second World War.
Belén
Belén
An innocent woman jailed for self-inducing an abortion fights for her freedom.
Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
Bugonia
Bugonia
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Maspalomas
Maspalomas
An accident forces a septugenarian to return to his home town and the daughter he abandoned years before.
Six Days In Spring
Six Days In Spring
Despite adversity, Sana wants her twins to have a spring vacation, but all her plans fall through. Together, they decide to stay in a luxury villa on the Riviera, owned by Sana's former in-laws. Without telling anyone. Six days of sunshine that mark the end of innocence.
Redoubt
Redoubt
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect himself and his neighbours setting him on the path to conflict with his community
Weightless
Weightless
A girl finds boundaries tested and broken on a trip to summer camp.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Ballad Of A Small Player
Ballad Of A Small Player
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
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San Sebastian Film Festival Features

The beauty of doubt
Toni Servillo on costumes by Carlo Poggioli and working with Paolo Sorrentino on La Grazia
A red thread
Dolores Fonzi on how activism led to filmmaking in the case of Belén
Spring in his step
Joachim Lafosse on the personal story behind his latest film and its lighter feel
'I wanted the film to be extremely subjective'
Kasia Adamik on claustrophobia and the cold in 'anti-spy thriller' Winter Of The Crow
Getting the message
Olmo Omerzu on family and communication breakdown in Ungrateful Beings
'I’m very happy to be trusted with characters of this calibre'
Denis Lavant on the art of constructing personas in Redoubt and The Stranger
Class act
Eye Haïdara on building her character and the world of Six Days In Spring
'Even though I'm 36, I still feel connected to the girl I was'
Emilie Thalund on teen desire, body positivity and crossing boundaries in Weightless
Caught in The Currents
Milagros Mumenthaler on the psychological journey of her latest film
Language difficulties
Barry Ward and Barbora Bobulova on communication and multilingual families in Ungrateful Beings
The man who prepared for war
John Skoog on Karl-Göran Persson and Redoubt
Magnifying manga
Shô Miyake on adding 'pure cinema' to Tsuge classics in Two Seasons, Two Strangers
'I didn't make this film myself. The Islamic Republic made it by putting me in prison'
Jafar Panahi on the inspiration for It Was Just An Accident
A sense of place
When The Geese Flew director Arthur Gay on transient characters and the idea of home
'I admit it was crazy idea, but then film people are crazy'
Richard Linklater on chronicling the creation of Godard's Breathless in Nouvelle Vague
Slice of life... and fable
The President's Cake director Hasan Hadi on the challenges and craft behind his debut
'I wanted her to have the space to not know what's right and wrong all the time'
Sarah Miro Fischer on the torn loyalties of her protagonist in The Good Sister
'Reality offers impromptu flowers that you’re able to harvest'
Iván Fund talks about his loose and intuitive approach to filmmaking and story in The Message
Reflections of a cat
Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow

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