Dahomey to open Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

San Sebastian announces 23 free-ranging competition titles

by Amber Wilkinson

Dahomey won the Golden Bear
Dahomey won the Golden Bear Photo: Les Films Du Bal - Fanta Sy

Opening with Dahomey by Mati Dop and closing with April by Dea Kulumbegashvili, the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition has been announced for this year's edition, which will run from September 20 to 28.

Diop's Golden Bear winner, will be joined from other films from Berlin, including Nelson Carlo De los Santos Arias's Pepe.

Other notable festival films, include Jane Schoenbrun's Sundance break-out I Saw The TV Glow and Cannes films, including Leos Carax's It's Not Me and Arnaud Desplechin's Filmlovers!.

Among the 23 titles - 13 features, two medium-length films and eight shorts - competing for the award are four world premieres from Nino Benashvili, Wu Lang, Yoyo Liu and Maximiliano Schonfeld. Schonfeld's Big Shadow is a non-fiction feature about the recovery of the Chaná language in the Entre Ríos province of Argentina. The other three premieres are shorts Benashvili's Caucausus-set Where Time Stood Still, Liu's Milky White and Lang's Here Comes The Sun.

Other shorts in competition include Hymn Of The Plague, fresh from Locarno, and Cannes' mid-length entry Southern Brides.

The award comes with 20,000 euros divided between the director (6,000 euros) and the distribution company of the film in Spain (14,000 euros).

Read more about the full list of titles.

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