# 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival

The 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival took place from 16 to 24 September 2022 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. The awards were announced on 24 September 2022, with The Kings of the World winning the Golden Shell.

## Background

Partnering with the Málaga Film Festival, the 70th edition will feature 'Spanish Screenings XXL', a beefed up joint version of the 'Spanish Screenings' film market, hitherto showcased at Málaga. In May 2022, French actress Juliette Binoche was revealed to be the protagonist of the film's official poster as well as the recipient of a Donostia honorary career award. In June 2022, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg was disclosed as the recipient of another Donostia Award.
The official selection's film Prison 77 will open the festival, screened out of competition. Other than the opener, an initial lineup with some titles from Spain was announced on 15 July 2022. A slate of 12 international main competition works was announced on 2 August.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Matías Mosteirín, Argentinian producer - Jury President
* Antoinette Boulat, French casting director and filmmaker
* Tea Lindeburg, Danish filmmaker
* Rosa Montero, Spanish writer
* Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho filmmaker
* Hlynur Pálmason, Icelandic director
American actress Glenn Close was slated to feature as Jury president, but cancelled her visit in the wake of a "family emergency".

### Kutxabank-New Directors Award

* Alina Grigore [es], filmmaker, Romania - Jury President
* Paolo Moretti, programmer, Italy
* Paula Arantzazu Ruiz [es], film critic, Spain
* Selva Almada, writer, Argentina
* Ashmita Guha, filmmaker, India

### Horizonte Latinos

* Giovanni Pompili, Italian producer - Jury President
* Tatiana Huezo, Salvadoran filmmaker
* Júlia Olmo, Spanish film critic

### Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award

* Albertina Carri, Argentine director, screenwriter and producer - Jury President
* Vanja Kaluđerčić, director of Rotterdam Film Festival
* Manuel Calvo, producer and director

### Irizar Award

* Ander Izagirre [es], journalist and writer - Jury President
* Nerea Kortabitarte, communicator and writer
* Txema Muñoz, programmer

## Sections
### Official selection

The lineup of titles selected for the official selection include:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
| Il Boemo | Il Boemo | Petr Václav | Czech RepublicItalySlovakia |
| Cork | Suro | Mikel Gurrea [eu] | Spain |
| Forever [da] | Resten af livet | Frelle Petersen [da] | Denmark |
| Great Yarmouth-Provisional Figures | Great Yarmouth-Provisional Figures | Marco Martins | PortugalFranceUnited Kingdom |
| A Hundred Flowers | Hyakka | Genki Kawamura [ja] | Japan |
| The Kings of the World | Los reyes del mundo | Laura Mora | ColombiaLuxembourgFranceMexicoNorway |
| La maternal | La maternal | Pilar Palomero | Spain |
| Pornomelancholia [de] | Pornomelancolía | Manuel Abramovich | ArgentinaFranceBrazilMexico |
| The Rite of Spring | La consagración de la primavera | Fernando Franco | Spain |
| Runner [de] | Runner [de] | Marian Mathias | United StatesGermanyFrance |
| Sparta | Sparta | Ulrich Seidl | AustriaFranceGermany |
| The Substitute | El suplente | Diego Lerman | ArgentinaSpainItalyMexicoFrance |
| Walk Up | 탑 | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea |
| Wild Flowers | Girasoles silvestres | Jaime Rosales | SpainFrance |
| Winter Boy | Le Lycéen | Christophe Honoré | France |
| A Woman | Kong Xiu (孔秀) | Wang Chao | China |
| The Wonder | The Wonder | Sebastián Lelio | United KingdomIreland |

#### Out of Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Marlowe | Marlowe | Neil Jordan | SpainIrelandFrance |
| Offworld | Apagón | Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodríguez, Isaki Lacuesta | Spain |
| Prison 77 | Modelo 77 | Alberto Rodríguez | Spain |
| Special Screenings ||||
| El sostre groc [es] | El sostre groc [es] | Isabel Coixet | Spain |
| Tax Me If You Can | La (très) grande évasion | Yannick Kergoat | France |

### Latin Horizons (Horizontes Latinos)

The line up of films selected for the Latin Horizons section is as follows:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| My Imaginary Country | Mi país imaginario | Patricio Guzmán | FranceChile |
| Octopus Skin | La piel pulpo | Ana Cristina Barragán | EcuadorGreeceMexicoGermanyFrance |
| 1976 | 1976 | Manuela Martelli | Chile |
| Charcoal | Carvão | Carolina Markowicz | BrazilArgentina |
| Dos estaciones | Dos estaciones | Juan Pablo González | MexicoFranceUnited States |
| The Padilla affair | El caso Padilla | Pavel Giroud | SpainCuba |
| The Pack | La Jauría | Andrés Ramírez Pulido | FranceColombia |
| Noise | Ruido | Natalia Beristáin | Mexico |
| Sublime | Sublime | Mariano Biasin [de] | Argentina |
| I Have Electric Dreams | Tengo sueños eléctricos | Valentina Maurel | BelgiumFranceCosta Rica |
| A Male | Un varón | Fabián Hernández | ColombiaFranceNetherlandsGermany |
| Vicenta B. | Vicenta B. | Carlos Lechuga | CubaFranceUnited StatesColombia |

### New Directors

The initial lineup of films selected for the Kutxabank-New Directors section is as follows:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| To Books and Women I Sing | A los libros y a las mujeres canto | María Elorza | Spain |
| Carbon | Carbon | Ion Bors | MoldovaRomaniaSpain |
| The Great Silence | Den Store Stilhed | Katrine Brocks | Denmark |
| Spare Keys | Fifi | Jeanne Aslan, Paul Saintillan | France |
| Thunder | Foudre | Carmen Jaquier | Switzerland |
| Carbide | Garbura | Josip Žuvan | Croatia |
| Grand Marin | Grand Marin | Dinara Drukarova | France |
| Jeong-sun | Jeong-sun | Ji-hye Jeong | South Korea |
| Daughter of Rage | La hija de todas las rabias | Laura Baumeister | NicaraguaMexicoNetherlandsGermanyFranceSpain |
| Roleless | Miyamatsu To Yamashita | Masahiko Sato, Yutaro Seki, Kentaro Hirase | Japan |
| Nagisa | Nagisa | Takeshi Kogahara | Japan |
| On Either Sides of the Pond | Pokhar Ke Dunu Para | Parth Saurabh | India |
| Tobacco Barns | Secaderos | Rocío Mesa | SpainUnited States |
| A Tale of Shemroon | Chevalier noir | Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi | FranceGermanyItalyIran |
| Something You Said Last Night | Something You Said Last Night | Luis De Filippis | CanadaSwitzerland |

### Perlak

A list of films selected for the 'Perlak' lineup is as follows:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | ArgentinaUnited States |
| Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades | Alejandro G. Iñarritu | Mexico |
| The Beasts | As bestas | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | SpainFrance |
| Broker | 브로커 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | South Korea |
| Corsage | Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | AustriaFranceGermanyLuxembourg |
| Don't Worry Darling | Don't Worry Darling | Olivia Wilde | United States |
| God's Crooked Lines | Los renglones torcidos de Dios | Oriol Paulo | Spain |
| The Innocent | L'innocent | Louis Garrel | France |
| Living | Living | Oliver Hermanus | United Kingdom |
| Moonage Daydream | Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen | United States |
| On the Fringe | En los márgenes | Juan Diego Botto | SpainBelgium |
| One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France |
| One Year, One Night | Un año, una noche | Isaki Lacuesta | SpainFrance |
| Peter von Kant | Peter von Kant | François Ozon | France |
| R.M.N. | R.M.N. | Cristian Mungiu | RomaniaFranceBelgium |
| Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | BelgiumFrance |
| Triangle of Sadness | Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |

### Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

The lineup of films in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section is as follows:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| The Mountain [fr] | La montagne | Thomas Salvador [fr] | France |
| Les créatures qui fondent au soleil | Les créatures qui fondent au soleil | Diego Céspedes | ChileFrance |
| Trenque Lauquen | Trenque Lauquen | Laura Citarella | ArgentinaGermany |
| A Human Position | A Human Position | Anders Emblem | Norway |
| Friends on a Country Road | Amigas en un camino de campo | Santiago Loza | Argentina |
| Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) | Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) | Peter Strickland | United KingdomAustralia |
| Piggy | Cerdita | Carlota Pereda | SpainFrance |
| Chords | Cuerdas | Estibaliz Urresola | Spain |
| Diarios | Diarios | Andrés Di Tella [es] | Argentina |
| The Water | El agua | Elena López Riera | SwitzerlandFranceSpain |
| Godland | Godland | Hlynur Pálmason | DenmarkIcelandFranceSweden |
| Heartbeat | Heartbeat | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| Third Notebook | Hirugarren koadernoa | Lur Olaizola [eu] | Spain |
| Robe of Gems | Manto de gemas | Natalia López Gallardo [es] | MexicoArgentina |
| Meet Me in the Bathroom | Meet Me in the Bathroom | Dylan Southern | United Kingdom |
| Mutzenbacher [de] | Mutzenbacher [de] | Ruth Beckermann | Austria |
| Itchan and Satchan | Naname no rouka | Takayuki Fukata | Japan |
| Nest | Nest | Hlynur Pálmason | DenmarkIceland |
| Nowhere to Go But Everywhere | Nowhere to Go But Everywhere | Erick Shirai, Masako Tsumura | Japan |
| Piaffe | Piaffe | Ann Oren [fr] | Germany |
| A Short Story | Po Sui Tai Yang Zhi Xin | Bi Gan | China |
| Unrest | Unrueh | Cyril Schäublin [de] | Switzerland |
| Letter to My Mother for My Son | Carta a mi madre para mi hijo | Carla Simón | Spain |

### Velodromo

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Black Is Beltza II: Ainhoa | Black Is Beltza II: Ainhoa | Fermin Muguruza | Spain |
| Rainbow | Rainbow | Paco León | Spain |
| Feeling It | Sintiéndolo mucho | Fernando León de Aranoa | SpainMexico |

### Made in Spain

The slate of films selected for screening in the 'Made in Spain' section is as follows:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Color of Heaven | El color del cielo | Joan Marc Zapata | SpainSwitzerland |
| The House Among the Cactuses | La casa entre los cactus | Carlota González-Adrio | Spain |
| Alcarràs | Alcarràs | Carla Simón | SpainItaly |
| Love Gets a Room | El amor en su lugar | Rodrigo Cortés | Spain |
| The Critic | El crítico | Juan Zavala, Javier Morales Pérez | Spain |
| Alone in the Mountains | Entre montañas | Unai Canela | Spain |
| Girlfriends and Girlfriends | La amiga de mi amiga | Zaida Carmona | Spain |
| Unfinished Affairs | La maniobra de la tortuga | Juan Miguel del Castillo [es] | SpainArgentina |
| Full of Grace | Llenos de gracia | Roberto Bueso | Spain |
| My Emptiness and I | Mi vacío y yo | Adrián Silvestre | Spain |
| You Have to Come and See It | Tenéis que venir a verla | Jonás Trueba | Spain |
| Tequila. Sex, Drog and Rock and Roll | Tequila. Sexo, drogas y rock and roll | Álvaro Longoria | Spain |
| Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | FranceSpainGermanyPortugal |

### Surprise film

The following film was programmed as a surprise:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Blonde | Blonde | Andrew Dominik | United States |

## Awards
### Main Competition

* Golden Shell: The Kings of the World by Laura Mora
* Special Jury Prize: Runner by Marian Mathias
* Silver Shell for Best Director: Genki Kawamura for A Hundred Flowers
* Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance: Paul Kircher for Winter Boy & Carla Quílez for Motherhood
* Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance: Renata Lerman for The Substitute
* Best Screenplay: Wang Chao & Dong Yun Zhou for A Woman
* Best Cinematography: Manuel Abramovich for Pornomelancholia

### Other awards

* Kutxabank-New Directors Award: Spare Keys by Jeanne Aslan, Paul Saintillan
** Special Mention: On Either Sides of the Pond by Parth Saurabh
* Horizontes Award: I Have Electric Dreams by Valentina Maurel
* Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award: Godland by Hlynur Pálmason
* San Sebastian Audience Award: Argentina, 1985 by Santiago Mitre
* San Sebastian Audience Award for Best European Film: The Beasts by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
* Spanish Cooperation Award: Noise by Natalia Beristáin
* RTVE-Another Look Award: El sastre groc by Isabel Coixet
** Special Mention: Corsage by Marie Kreutzer
* Irizar Basque Film Award: Cork by Mikel Gurrea
** Special Mention: To Books and Women I Sing by María Elorza
* TCM Youth Award: To Books and Women I Sing by María Elorza
* Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award: Tori and Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
* Nest Award: Blue Mountain by Sofía Salinas & Juan David Bohórquez
** Special Mention: Anabase by Benjamin Goubet
* Dunia Ayaso Award: Tobacco Barns by Rocío Mesa
** Special Mention: El sastre groc by Isabel Coixet
* FIPRESCI Award: Cork by Mikel Gurrea
* Feroz Zinemaldia Award: The Kings of the World by Laura Mora
* Euskal Gidoigileen Elkartea Award: Cork by Mikel Gurrea & Francisco Kosterlitz
* Sebastiane Award: Something You Said Last Night by Luis De Filippis
* Lurra Greenpeace Award: Alcarràs by Carla Simón
* SIGNIS Award: The Kings of the World by Laura Mora
** Special Mention: Runner by Marian Mathias

### Donostia awards

* Donostia Award for Lifetime Achievements: Juliette Binoche and David Cronenberg