As is customary, the San Sebastián Film Festival continues to drip-feed us information as it firms up the films that will form part of its programme, and it has just announced three eagerly awaited new titles that serve to top off the competition for the Golden Shell at its 69^th edition (17-25 September).

One of them is the latest title by seasoned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, One Second, which will have the honour of opening the Basque gathering. The movie, described as his own particular tribute to cinema, revolving around a prisoner who escapes from a labour camp in the midst of the Cultural Revolution and who is in search of images of his daughter, whom he hasn’t seen for years, had previously been announced to compete at the 2019 Berlinale, but it was withdrawn from the programme at the last minute for unspecified reasons, although it appeared to be related to the Chinese government’s censorship procedures.

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The other two films that have been announced are France’s Undercover [+lire aussi :
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Previously, the festival also unveiled the selection of the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera parallel sidebar, which brings together the choicest arthouse cinema from this year, with daring titles that have already passed through various other festivals, as well as the films chosen to form part of the RTVE Galas (Mediterráneo [+lire aussi :
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Lastly, the Horizontes Latinos selection will bring together ten films directed by filmmakers from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela, including five movies that passed through the festival’s Latin American work-in-progress strand, three feature debuts and the return of distinguished names such as Paz Fábrega, Alonso Ruizpalacios and Lorenzo Vigas to this section (read more here). It is also worth noting that the Perlak section will screen 15 films that were previously on the line-ups of festivals of the likes of Cannes, Venice and Berlin. Highly acclaimed auteurs such as Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Todd Haynes (The Velvet Underground), François Ozon (Everything Went Fine [+lire aussi :
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Here are the full main selections:

Competition

One Second – Zhang Yimou (China) (opening film)
Camila Comes Out Tonight – Inés Barrionuevo (Argentina)
Maixabel [+lire aussi :
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interview : Icíar Bollaín
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Arthur Rambo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Laurent Cantet
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Benediction [+lire aussi :
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Blue Moon [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alina Grigore
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Earwig [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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The Good Boss [+lire aussi :
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As in Heaven [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tea Lindeburg
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Fever Dream [+lire aussi :
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interview : Claudia Llosa
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Undercover [+lire aussi :
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interview : Thierry de Peretti
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La abuela [+lire aussi :
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interview : Paco Plaza
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Michael Showalter (USA)
I Want to Talk About Duras [+lire aussi :
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interview : Claire Simon
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Quién lo impide [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jonás Trueba
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Fire on the Plain – Zhang Ji (China)

RTVE Galas

Mediterráneo [+lire aussi :
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Once Upon a Time in Euskadi [+lire aussi :
interview : Manu Gómez
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Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Jude
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107 Mothers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Peter Kerekes
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El gran movimiento [+lire aussi :
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They Carry Death [+lire aussi :
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interview : Samuel M. Delgado et Helen…
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Haruhara-San’s Recorder – Kyoshi Sugita (Japan)
Heltzear – Mikel Gurrea (Spain) (short film)
The Crossing [+lire aussi :
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Le Cormoran – Lubna Playoust (France/Italy) (short film)
Les filles du feu – Laura Rius Aran (France) (medium-length film)
Mi iubita, mon amour [+lire aussi :
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My Uncle Tudor – Olga Lucovnicova (Belgium/Portugal/Hungary) (short film)
Petrov’s Flu [+lire aussi :
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Unclenching the Fists [+lire aussi :
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Returning to Reims (Fragments) [+lire aussi :
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The Souvenir: Part II [+lire aussi :
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Playground [+lire aussi :
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interview : Laura Wandel
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Vortex [+lire aussi :
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Day Is Done (Xia wu guo qu le yi ban) – Zhang Dalei (China) (short film)