San Sebastian announces Pearls

Arnold, Audiard, Baker and Coppola among films in festival favourites sidebar

by Amber Wilkinson

Emilia Pérez will open San Sebastian's Pearls
Emilia Pérez will open San Sebastian's Pearls Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

San Sebastian Film Festival has announced the 16 films that will make up its Pearls sidebar at this year's festival, which runs from September 20 to 28. The section, which will include three films out of competition, celebrates work that has been celebrated at other festivals.

The section will open with Jacques Audiard's Cannes jury prize-winning Emilia Pérez, about a cartel boss who starts a new life, and close with Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño's latest collaboration Marco, which explores the story of a concentration camp deportee, whose claims turned out to be fabricated.

Pearls 2024 poster
Pearls 2024 poster

Other films from Cannes include Sean Baker's Palme d'Or-winning Anora, Cannes Grand Prix-winner All We Imagine As Light, Best Script winner The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat and Special Jury Prize-winner The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Also from this year's Croisette comes Angela Arnold's Bird, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope, Emmanuel Courcol's The Marching Band and Paul Schrader's Oh Canada.

Winners from elsewhere include Adam Elliot Annecy Festival best feature animation Memoir Of A Snail and Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs, which picked up the Silver Bear in Berlin.

Walter Salles' I'm Still Here will arrive fresh from competing in Venice and the section will be rounded out by two more out-of-competition films, Maria Callas: Letters And Memories, directed by Tom Volf and Yannis Dimolitsas, and Chris Sanders' animation The Wild Robot.

Share this with others on...
News

World of difference Sarah Goher on exploring the life of a child maid through a little girl's eyes in Happy Birthday

'The higher we got.. the more intense and emotional it got' Alexander Murphy on love and migration in Goodbye Sisters

Lifted up by an idea Kent Jones on Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, and Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht’s Surabaya Johnny in Late Fame

Remote but connected Daood Alabdulaa and Louise Zenker on Syria, ISIS, women's stories and Walud

Carlo Rambaldi retrospective announced MoMA and Cinecittà to screen 15 of the VFX legend's works

Sundance announces feature line-up Scottish films among those making the cut

More news and features

Interact

More competitions coming soon.