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The 59th San Sebastian Film Festival runs from September 16 to 25.
Retrospectives include a showcase of the work of Jacques Demy and thematic retrospectives called Digital Shadows: The Last Generation Of Chinese Film, celebrating film from the country from 2000 to 2010 and American Way Of Death: American Film Noir 1990 to 2010.
View Films by Strand:
- American Way Of Death: American Film Noir 1990 to 2010
- Culinary Zinema
- Horizontes Latinos
- Made in Spain
- Official Selection
- Velodrome
- Zabaltegi-New Directors
- Zabaltegi-Pearls
- Zabaltegi-Specials
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![Bertsolari](/images/stills/b/bertsolari_2011.jpg)
A documentary about the art of improvised rhyming verse sung in the Basque tongue.
![Skylab](/images/stills/s/skylab_2011.jpg)
Nostalgic comedy on about family reunion set in the Seventies.
![I Wish](/images/stills/i/i_wish_2011.jpg)
Two brothers hatch a plot to make their reunion wish come true.
![Jiro Dreams of Sushi](/images/stills/j/jiro_dreams_of_sushi_2011.jpg)
A documentary following the 85 year old master sushi chef, Jiro Ono
![El Bulli: Cooking in Progress](/images/stills/e/el_bulli_cooking_in_progress_2011.jpg)
A look into the creative and culinary processes behind one of the world's most famous restaurants.
![Swirl](/images/stills/g/girimunho_2011.jpg)
Snapshot of the life of a widowed octogenarian.
![Blood Of My Blood](/images/stills/b/blood_of_my_blood_2011_2.jpg)
An intense family melodrama set in the outskirts of Lisbon.
![Life Without Principle](/images/stills/l/life_without_principle_2011.jpg)
To narrates the intertwining fates of three people desperate to get their hands on money fast, all set around a robbery haul.
![Los Marziano](/images/stills/m/marzianos_family_2011.jpg)
A bittersweet family comedy about two long-estranged brothers and the tense friction arising between them when they’re forced together for a family celebration.
![Either Way](/images/stills/e/either_way_2011_20492.jpg)
Finnboeg and Alfred paint lines on a road in this gentle comedy. Re-released to coincide with David Gordon Green's remake Prince Avalanche.
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