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James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander in Submergence
The festival opened on September 22 with the European premiere of Wim Wenders' Submergence and closed on September 30 with The Wife.
Argentinian star Ricardo Darín and Monica Bellucci received lifetime Donostia Awards. There was also a retrospective programme of Joseph Losey films. The Golden Shell was won by The Disaster Artist.
View Films by Strand:
- Classic Retrospective: Joseph Losey
- Culinary Zinema
- Horizontes Latinos
- Made In Spain
- Movies For Kids
- New Directors
- Official Competition
- Other Activities
- Pearls
- Savage Cinema
- Special Screenings
- Velodrome
- Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
- Zinemira
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Psychological thriller about a servant who begins to manipulate his employer.
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Nature documentary, narrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Documentary about a remote Siberian town and a feud between two families who live there.
When a live-in maid's path crosses that of a travelling salesman, her life will change forever.
At the end of the Second World War, a young German soldier steals a captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer he gathers a group of deserters and proceeds to kill is way through a beaten Nazi Germany.
A young girl struggles to adapt to her new life in the countryside after the death of her mum.
Documentary about the world's highest peaks.
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