# 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival

The 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival took place from 20 to 28 September 2024 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

## Background

A restored 4K version of Montxo Armendariz's film Tasio (which premiered at the 1984 San Sebastián Film Festival) was announced to be part of the 'Klasikoak' slate. Audrey Diwan's Emmanuelle was later revealed to be the festival's opening film, as well as part of the official selection's competitive lineup. 2023 Donostia Award winner Javier Bardem is expected to receive the award in 2024, as the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike prevented him from attending the 71st festival. On 9 May 2024, the festival's organization unveiled the official poster for the 72nd edition; it features Donostia Award winner Cate Blanchett and it was designed by José Luis Lanzagorta based on a black and white photograph by Gustavo Papaleo. On 12 July 2024, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain disclosed the 17 Spanish-produced titles which are to be part of the festival slate. On 14 August 2024, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar was announced as the recipient of another Donostia Award. In September 2024, We Live In Time was announced as the festival's closing film, in a non-competitive slot. On 17 September 2024, the official selection jury was announced.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Jaione Camborda, Spanish film director and screenwriter – Jury president
* Leila Guerriero, Argentine journalist and writer
* Ulrich Seidl, Austrian film director, writer and producer
* Chrístos Níkou [fr], Greek film director, writer and producer
* Carole Scotta [fr], French film producer and distributor
* Fran Kranz, American actor and film director

### Kutxabank-New Directors Award

* Philippe Bober, French film producer – Jury president
* Izibene Oñederra, Spanish film director and screenwriter
* Eduardo Crespo, Argentine film director
* Aulona Selmani, Swizz film director, writer and actress
* Jessica Kiang, Irish film critic, essayist and programmer

### Latin Horizons

* Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, Argentine film critic and former director of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Jury president
* Pedro Fernandez Santos, Spanish film producer
* Valentina Maurel [es], Costa-Rican film director and writer

### Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award

* Emilie Bujès, French festival programmer and art director for Visions du Réel – Jury president
* Santiago Loza, Argentine film director and writer
* Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Icelandic film producer

### Irizar Basque Film Award

* Itziar Lazkano [es], Spanish actress and theatre director – Jury president
* Joseba Lopezortega, Spanish historian and director of the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film (ZINEBI)
* Izaskun Rodríguez, Spanish journalist and professor

## Sections
### Official selection

The official selection slate includes the following pictures:

#### In competition

    Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
| Bound in Heaven | 捆绑上天堂 | Huo Xin | China |
| Conclave | Conclave | Edward Berger | Germany |
| Emmanuelle | Emmanuelle | Audrey Diwan | France |
| The End | The End | Joshua Oppenheimer | DenmarkGermanyIrelandItaly |
| Glimmers | Los destellos | Pilar Palomero | Spain |
| Hard Truths | Hard Truths | Mike Leigh | United KingdomSpain |
| The Man Who Loved UFOs | El hombre que amaba los platos voladores | Diego Lerman | Argentina |
| Last Breath [eu] | Le dernier souffle | Costa-Gavras | France |
| The Last Showgirl | The Last Showgirl | Gia Coppola | United States |
| In Her Place | El lugar de la otra | Maite Alberdi | Chile |
| I'm Nevenka | Soy Nevenka | Icíar Bollaín | Spain |
| On Falling | On Falling | Laura Carreira | United KingdomPortugal |
| Serpent's Path | Hebi no Michi | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | JapanFrance |
| Afternoons of Solitude | Tardes de soledad | Albert Serra | SpainFrancePortugal |
| The Wailing | El llanto | Pedro Martín-Calero | SpainFranceArgentina |
| When Fall Is Coming | Quand vient l'automne | François Ozon | France |

#### Out of Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
| Querer (TV series) | Querer (TV series) | Alauda Ruiz de Azúa | Spain |
| Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness | Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness | Johnny Depp | United KingdomHungaryItaly |
| We Live in Time | We Live in Time | John Crowley | United Kingdom |
| Special Screenings ||||
| I, Addict (TV series) | Yo, adicto | Javier Giner, Elena Trapé [es] | Spain |
| Lumiere! The adventure continues | Lumière!, l'aventure continue | Thierry Frémaux | |
| The Red Virgin | La virgen roja | Paula Ortiz | United StatesSpain |

### New Directors

The New Directors slate includes:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
| The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés | La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés | Antón Álvarez | Spain |
| The Last Romantics | Azken erromantikoak | David Pérez Sañudo [es] | Spain |
| Bagger Drama | Bagger Drama | Piet Baumgartner [de] | Switzerland |
| In the Name of Blood | Brûle le sang | Akaki Popkhadze | FranceBelgiumAustria |
| Gulizar | Gülizar | Belkis Bayrak | TurkeyKosovo |
| Winter in Sokcho | Hiver à Sokcho | Koya Kamura | FranceSouth Korea |
| The Arrival of the Son | La llegada del hijo | Cecilia Atán [es], Valeria Pivato [es] | SpainArgentina |
| My Eternal Summer | Min evige sommer | Sylvia Le Fanu | Denmark |
| As Silence Passes By | Por donde pasa el silencio | Sandra Romero | Spain |
| Regretfully at Dawn | Regretfully at Dawn | Sivaroj Kongsakul | Thailand |
| Stars and the Moon | Stars and the Moon | Yongkang Tang | China |
| Turn Me On | Turn Me On | Michael Tyburski | United States |

### Latin Horizons (Horizontes Latinos)

The Latin Horizons slate includes the following films:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
| Beloved Tropic | Querido trópico | Ana Endara [es] | PanamaColombia |
| Cidade; Campo | Cidade; Campo | Juliana Rojas | BrazilGermanyFrance |
| The Freshly Cut Grass [de] | El aroma del pasto recién cortado | Celina Murga | ArgentinaUruguayUnited StatesMexicoGermany |
| Kill the Jockey | El jockey | Luis Ortega | ArgentinaMexicoSpainDenmarkUnited States |
| Maybe It's True What They Say About Us | Quizás es cierto lo que dicen de nosotras | Sofía Paloma Gómez, Camilo Becerra | ChileArgentinaSpain |
| Most People Die on Sundays | Los domingos mueren más personas | Iair Said [es] | ArgentinaItalySpain |
| Ramón y Ramón | Ramón y Ramón | Salvador del Solar | PeruSpainUruguay |
| Reas [es] | Reas [es] | Lola Arias | ArgentinaGermanySwitzerland |
| Skin in Spring [de] | La piel en primavera | Yennifer Uribe Alzate | ColombiaChile |
| Simon of the Mountain | Simón de la montaña | Federico Luis | ArgentinaChileUruguayMexico |
| Sleep With Your Eyes Open | Dormir de olhos abertos | Nele Wohlatz [es] | BrazilArgentinaTaiwanGermany |
| Sujo | Sujo | Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez | MexicoUnited StatesFrance |
| When Clouds Hide the Shadow | Cuando las nubes esconden las sombras | José Luis Torres Leiva | ChileArgentinaSouth Korea |
| Zafari | Zafari | Mariana Rondón | PeruVenezuelaMexicoFranceBrazilChileDominican Republic |

### Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section includes:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Across the Waters | Across the Waters | Viv Li | France |
| April | Aprili | Dea Kulumbegashvili | FranceItalyGeorgia |
| Big Shadow | Sombra grande | Maximiliano Schonfeld | Argentina |
| Collective Monologue | Monólogo colectivo | Jessica Sarah Rinland | Argentina |
| Dahomey | Dahomey | Mati Diop | France |
| Every You Every Me | Alle Die Du Bist | Michael Fetter Nathansky [de] | GermanySpain |
| Filmlovers! | Spectateurs ! | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| Here Comes the Sun | Yao yuan de xia wu | Wu Lang | China |
| How to Be Pehuén Pedre | Cómo ser Pehuén Pedre | Federico Luis | ArgentinaGermany |
| Hymn of the Plague | Gimn chume | Ataka51 | GermanyRussia |
| It's Not Me | C'est pas moi | Leos Carax | France |
| Leela | Leela | Tanmay Chowdhary | India |
| Milky White | Nai niu | YoYo Liu | China |
| My Sunshine | ぼくのお日さま | Hiroshi Okuyama | JapanFrance |
| Pepe | Pepe | Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Dominican RepublicFranceGermanyNamibia |
| Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Johan Grimonprez | BelgiumFrance |
| Southern Brides | Las novias del sur | Elena López Riera [ca] | SpainSwitzerland |
| Super Happy Forever | Super Happy Forever | Kohei Igarashi [ja] | FranceJapan |
| To a Land Unknown | To a Land Unknown | Mahdi Fleifel | Reino UnidoPalestineFranceGreeceNetherlandsGermanyQatarUnited Arab Emirates |
| Ulysses | Ulysses | Hikaru Uwagawa | JapanSpain |
| When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes) | Etorriko da (Eta zure begiak izango ditu) | Izibene Oñederra | Spain |
| Where Time Stood Still | Sadac dro idga | Nino Benashvili | GeorgiaUnited StatesCanada |

### Perlak

The 'Perlak' section includes:
    Highlighted title indicates City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award winner.
    Highlighted title indicates City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award for Best European Film winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Apocalypse in the Tropics | Apocalypse in the Tropics | Petra Costa | Brazil |
| Emilia Pérez (opening film) | Emilia Pérez (opening film) | Jacques Audiard | France |
| Marco (closing film, out of competition) | Marco (closing film, out of competition) | Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi | Spain |
| I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | BrazilFrance |
| All We Imagine as Light | All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | FranceIndiaNetherlandsLuxembourg |
| Anora | Anora | Sean Baker | United States |
| Bird | Bird | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه‌ی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | IranGermanyFrance |
| The Marching Band | En fanfare | Emmanuel Courcol | France |
| Megalopolis | Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Memoir of a Snail | Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot | Australia |
| Oh, Canada | Oh, Canada | Paul Schrader | United States |
| Parthenope | Parthenope | Paolo Sorrentino | ItalyFrance |
| The Substance | The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom |
| A Traveler's Needs | 여행자의 필요 | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea |
| Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs (out of competition) | Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs (out of competition) | Tom Volf, Yannis Dimolitsas | FranceItalyGreece |
| The Wild Robot (out of competition) | The Wild Robot (out of competition) | Chris Sanders | United States |

### Velodrome (Velódromo)

The following pictures will be screened at the Velodrome:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Celeste (TV series) | Celeste (TV series) | Elena Trapé [es] | Spain |

### Retrospective: Violent Italy

The retrospective section 'Violent Italy', dedicated to Italian crime films, includes the following titles:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Obsession | Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| Escape to France | Fuga in Francia | Mario Soldati | Italy |
| In the Name of the Law | In nome della legge | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| The Crossroads | Il bivio | Fernando Cerchio | Italy |
| Four Ways Out | La città si difende | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| The City Stands Trial | Processo alla città | Luigi Zampa | Italy |
| The Facts of Murder | Un maledetto imbroglio | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| Mafioso | Mafioso | Alberto Lattuada | Italy |
| The Violent Four | Banditi a Milano | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
| The Day of the Owl | Il giorno della civetta | Damiano Damiani | ItalyFrance |
| Inquiry of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri | FranceItaly |
| Caliber 9 | Milano calibro 9 | Fernando Di Leo | Italy |
| Execution Squad | La polizia ringrazia | Steno (Stefano Vanzina) | ItalyFrance |
| Revolver | Revolver | Sergio Sollima | ItalyGermany |
| Almost Human | Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare | Umberto Lenzi | Italy |
| Illustrious Corpses | Cadaveri eccellenti | Francesco Rosi | ItalyFrance |
| The Tough Ones | Roma a mano armata | Umberto Lenzi | Italy |
| The Iron Prefect | Il prefetto di ferro | Pasquale Squitieri | Italy |
| Il caso Moro | Il caso Moro | Giuseppe Ferrara | Italy |
| Good Morning, Night | Buongiorno, notte | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Last Night of Amore | L'ultima notte di Amore | Andrea Di Stefano | Italy |

### Klasikoak

The Klasikoak selection includes the following films:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Tasio (1984) | Tasio (1984) | Montxo Armendáriz | Spain |
| Tattoo, the First Adventure of Pepe Carvalho (1978) | Tatuaje, primera aventura de Pepe Carvalho | Bigas Luna | Spain |
| The Woman of Wrath (1984) | Sha fu | Tseng Chuang-hsiang | Taiwan |
| Furrows (1951) | Surcos | José Antonio Nieves Conde | Spain |
| The Piano (1993) | The Piano (1993) | Jane Campion | Australia |
| Un rêve plus long que la nuit (1976) | Un rêve plus long que la nuit (1976) | Niki de Saint Phalle | France |

### RTVE Galas

RTVE programmed galas for three film presentations:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| May I Speak with the Enemy? | ¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila | Alexis Morante | SpainPortugal |
| Escape | Escape | Rodrigo Cortés | SpainFrance |
| The Girls at the Station | Las chicas de la estación | Juana Macías | Spain |

### Culinary Zinema

The films in the Culinary Zinema slate are listed as follows:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre | Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre | Paco Plaza | Spain |
| The Platform 2 (closing, out of competition) | El hoyo 2 | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Spain |
| Grand Maison Paris | Grand Maison Paris | Ayuko Tsukahara | JapanUnited Kingdom |
| Northern Food Story | Kita no syokukei | Tetsuya Uesugi | Japan |
| Shelf Life | Shelf Life | Ian Cheney | United States |

### Made in Spain

The films in the Made in Spain slate are listed as follows:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Tiempo de silencio y destrucción | Tiempo de silencio y destrucción | Joan López Lloret | Spain |
| Mucha mierda | Break a Leg | Alba Sotorra | Spain |
| As Neves | As Neves | Sonia Méndez [gl] | Spain |
| A House on Fire | Casa en flames | Dani de la Orden | SpainItaly |
| El hombre bueno | El hombre bueno | David Trueba | Spain |
| Concrete Flowers | Flores del cemento | Luismi Pantiga | Spain |
| Artificial Justice | Justicia artificial | Simón Casal | SpainPortugal |
| Holy Mother | La abadesa | Antonio Chavarrías | SpainBelgium |
| La casa | La casa | Álex Montoya [ca] | Spain |
| Little Loves | Los pequeños amores | Celia Rico Clavellino | SpainFrance |
| Mamífera | Mamífera | Liliana Torres | Spain |
| Nina | Nina | Andrea Jaurrieta | Spain |
| Norberta | Norberta | Sonia Escolano, Belén López Albert | Spain |
| Orgullo vieja | Orgullo vieja | Chema Rodríguez | Spain |
| To Laugh, To Sing, Perhaps To Cry | Reír, cantar, tal vez llorar | Marc Ferrer | Spain |
| Rock Bottom [ca] | Rock Bottom [ca] | María Trénor | SpainPoland |
| Saturno | Saturno | Daniel Tornero | Spain |
| Saturn Return | Segundo premio | Isaki Lacuesta, Pol Rodríguez | SpainFrance |
| Dreams and Crumbs | Sueños y pan | Luis (Soto) Muñoz | Spain |
| The Other Way Around | Volveréis | Jonás Trueba | Spain |

## Awards

Some of the festival awards as listed as follows:

### Main Competition

* Golden Shell: Afternoons of Solitude by Albert Serra
* Special Jury Prize: Cast of The Last Showgirl
* Silver Shell for Best Director: Laura Carreira for On Falling & Pedro Martín-Calero for The Wailing
* Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance: Patricia López Arnaiz for Glimmers
* Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance: Pierre Lottin for When Fall Is Coming
* Jury Prize for Best Screenplay: François Ozon for When Fall Is Coming
* Jury Prize Best Cinematography: Piao Songri for Bound in Heaven

### Other official awards

* Kutxabank-New Directors Award: Bagger Drama by Piet Baumgartner
** Special Mention: La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés by Antón Álvarez
* Horizontes Award: Kill the Jockey by Luis Ortega
* Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award: April by Dea Kulumbegashvili
** Special Mention: Collective Monologue by Jessica Sarah Rinland
* Nest Award: The Reign of Antoine by José Luis Jiménez Gómez
* Culinary Zinema Award: Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre by Paco Plaza
* Eusko Label Award – First Award: Las Guardianas by Borja De Agüero
** Eusko Label Award – Second Award: KM 0 by Jon Martija Leunda
* Irizar Basque Film Award: Chaplin, Spirit of the Tramp by Carmen Chaplin
** Special Mention: Réplica by Pello Gutiérrez Peñalba
* San Sebastian Audience Award: The Marching Band by Emmanuel Courcol
* San Sebastian Audience Award for Best European Film: The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
* Dama Youth Award: Turn Me On by Michael Tyburski

### Industry awards

* WIP LATAM Industry Award: A Loose End by Daniel Hendler
* EGEDA PLATINO Industria Award for the Best WIP LATAM: Cuerpo Celeste by Nayra Ilic
* WIP Europa Industry Award: Blue Marks by Sarah Miro Fischer
* WIP Europa Award: Blue Marks by Sarah Miro Fischer
* XIII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Best Project Award: The Two Landscapes by Francisco Lezama
* DALE! Award: The Two Landscapes by Francisco Lezama
* Artekino International Prize: Mar de Lebo by Mariana Saffon
* ELAMEDIA - Euskadi Post-Production Award:

### Other awards

* RTVE-Another Look Award: All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
** Special Mention: On Falling by Laura Carreira
* Spanish Cooperation Award: Sujo by Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez
* Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award: I'm Nevenka by Icíar Bollaín
* Dunia Ayaso Award: Little Loves by Celia Rico Clavellino

### Parallel awards

* FIPRESCI Award: Bound in Heaven by Huo Xin
* Feroz Zinemaldia Award: Afternoons of Solitude by Albert Serra
* Sebastiane Award: Reas by Lola Arias
* Lurra - Greenpeace Award: The Wild Robot by Chris Sanders
* SIGNIS Award: Glimmers by Pilar Palomero
* Ateneo Guipuzcoano Award: Afternoons of Solitude by Albert Serra

### Donostia Award

* Pedro Almodóvar
* Cate Blanchett