27 Nights, the newest movie from Uruguayan filmmaker Daniel Hendler, will open this 12 months’s San Sebastian Movie Pageant, whereas Winter of the Crow, by the Polish director Kasia Adamik, will function the closing night time gala screening
Hendler directs and stars in 27 Nights. The movie options actress Marilú Marini as an 80-year-old millionaire pressured right into a psychiatric clinic by her daughters. Hendler has one other movie within the San Sebastian programme this 12 months titled A Free Finish, which screens within the pageant’s Horizontes Latinos part following its debut within the Highlight part at Venice.
Winter of the Crow, a co-production between Poland, the UK, and Luxembourg, is a thriller set within the Chilly Struggle throughout the 80s. The movie stars British actress Leslie Manville. Adamik additionally co-wrote this movie based mostly on a brief story by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018. The story follows the story of a British professor who arrives in Poland to offer a lecture in December 1981, simply as martial regulation is coming into power.
San Sebastian will this 12 months run from 19-27 September. Jennifer Lawrence will likely be feted with an honorary Donostia Award for profession achievement alongside Pedro Almodóvar’s Longtime producer, Esther García.
Different titles set to display on the pageant embody the directorial debut from Juliette Binoche, IN-I In Movement, a non-fiction movie that interrogates In-I, the hybrid dance and theatre present produced by the actress in 2007 with the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.
