UPDATE (23 August 2018): The section has been topped off with the last two titles - France's Meteorites [+leggi anche:
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The San Sebastián International Film Festival has begun to reveal details of the programme for its 66^th edition, which will unspool between 21 and 29 September this year. This morning, a press conference was held to disclose the identities of 13 of the titles (either first or second works) that will be duking it out to take home the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which comes with €50,000 (intended for the director and the Spanish distributor). Three Spaniards stand out particularly among the emerging directors: Elías León Siminiani, whose new film – following the enthralling Mapa [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], starring Lola Dueñas and Anna Castillo. The screenplay for the latter took part in the Script Station Lab at Berlinale Talents (see the news).

The list of European representatives in the New Directors section is rounded off by a clutch of other titles: from Romania comes Hadrian Marcu with A Decent Man [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], a project that arose from the first edition of Glocal in Progress, starring the winner of the Silver Shell for Best Actor at last year’s edition of this very same festival, Bodgan Dumitrache; from Switzerland comes Hannes Baumgartner with his feature debut, Midnight Runner [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laurits Flensted-Jensen
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scheda film], a co-production between Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia; and Core of the World [+leggi anche:
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Debutant Francisco Marise will come to the Basque city all the way from Argentina with Para la guerra [+leggi anche:
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Finally, rocking up from Asia is Jesus, the first film by Hiroshi Okuyama, an award-winning music video director, as well as Vietnam’s Ash Mayfair with The Third Wife, the screenplay for which won the Spike Lee Film Production Fund Award in 2014.

Here is the list of selected films:

New Directors

Notes For a Heist Film [+leggi anche:
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Jesus (Boku wa Iesu-sama ga kirai) – Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan)
Breeze (Qing Feng De Wei Dao) - Kung Yang (China)
Midnight Runner [+leggi anche:
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Julia y el zorro – Inés María Barrionuevo (Argentina)
La camarista – Lila Avilés (USA/Mexico)
Meteorites [+leggi anche:
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Cold November [+leggi anche:
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Neon Heart [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laurits Flensted-Jensen
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Ciervo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Koldo Almandoz
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Para la guerra [+leggi anche:
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Core of the World [+leggi anche:
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The Third Wife – Ash Mayfair (Vietnam)
A Decent Man [+leggi anche:
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Journey to a Mother’s Room [+leggi anche:
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