08/27/2008
Films by Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), the Coen brothers (Burn After Reading), Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs) and Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky) will feature alongside one another on the programme of Zabaltegi-Pearls at the coming San Sebastian Festival.
Films to have garnered awards at major Festivals all over the world and which have awakened particular interest on their international rounds but which have not yet been released in Spain will constitute this section of the Festival. The films presented in Zabaltegi-Pearls will compete for the TCM Audience Award, carrying €70,000 for the Spanish importer of the winning film. A second prize of €35,000 will go to the European film landing most votes. These prizes cannot be awarded to one same film.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, directed by Woody Allen, and presented in the Official Selection out-of-competition at the last Cannes Festival, will open the Zabaltegi-Pearls section.
This section includes several of the works to have bagged the biggest awards of the season at international events: Golden Palm at Cannes (Entre les murs), Golden Camera at Cannes (Hunger), Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes (Tokyo Sonata), the two acting awards at Berlin Festival (The Song of Sparrows and Happy-Go-Lucky), the Fipresci Award at Berlin Festival (Lake Tahoe) and the Panorama Audience Award at Berlin Festival (Lemon Tree).
Zabaltegi-Pearls will also feature the films that opened the Venice Mostra (Burn After Reading) and closed Sundance Festival (CSNY Déjà vu), together with the latest releases from three directors who competed with their first works at San Sebastian before going on to obtain consolidated international recognition: Olivier Assayas, Majid Majidi and Simon Staho.
On the other hand, Zabaltegi-Specials will showcase, among other particularly interesting proposals, the two new movies from the Official Jury Chairman; Jonathan Demme, (Rachel Getting Married and Neil Young Trunk Show: Scenes From a Concert), in addition to the most recent work from the director Terence Davies, to whom San Sebastian is dedicating a retrospective this year (Of Time and the City) and from Philippe Garrel (La frontière de l’aube), to whom a retrospective was dedicated last year. Moreover, the President of Cannes Festival, Gilles Jacob, will present a new short, Retour à Tullins-Fures, as part of a homage to Cannes Festival. And the documentary Yakuza eiga-Une histoire secrète du cinéma japonais will also be screened as a complement to the Japan in Black retrospective.
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