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The 67th edition of the festival ran from September 20 to 28. There was a retrospective dedicated to Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón - including his classic Macario - and Penelope Cruz and Donald Sutherland received a Donostia Awards for lifetime achievement. Read about the winners here.
View Films by Strand:
- Horizontes Latinos
- Nest Film Students
- New Directors
- Official Selection
- Pearls
- Retrospective - Roberto Gavaldón
- Velodrome
- Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
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A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.
![Waiting For The Barbarians](/images/stills/w/waiting_for_the_barbarians_2019.jpg)
A magistrate in a colonial town suffers a crisis of conscience about the regime he works for.
![Ema](/images/stills/e/ema_2019.jpg)
A dancer and her choreographer husband find themselves trying to stop their lives falling apart after an adoption goes awry.
![Ghost Town Anthology](/images/stills/g/ghost_town_anthology_2019.jpg)
After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
![Fire Will Come](/images/stills/f/fire_will_come_2019.jpg)
A convicted arsonist returns to his rural home.
![The Truth](/images/stills/t/truth_2019.jpg)
A reunion between a French cinema star and her daughter descends into confrontation.
![The Other Lamb](/images/stills/o/other_lamb_2019.jpg)
A young girl begins to question her place in the religious community she was born into.
![The Sleepwalkers](/images/stills/s/sleepwalkers_2019.jpg)
A mother and her daughter are pushed to their emotional limit during a family celebration.
![Proxima](/images/stills/p/proxima_2019.jpg)
A female astronaut finds the demands of work take their toll on her single-mum relationship with her young daughter.
![The Moneychanger](/images/stills/m/moneychanger_2019.jpg)
A money launderer sees the Uruguayan dictatorship as an opportunity to make a killing.
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