The San Sebastián International Film Festival has announced the juries for its upcoming 73rd edition, set to take place from 19-27 September, and whose programme was recently rounded off (see the news).

The Official Selection jury will be presided over by Spanish filmmaker JA Bayona, who was previously selected at the festival with The Impossible [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Juan Antonio Bayona
fiche film] and A Monster Calls [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Juan Antonio Bayona
fiche film], both out of competition. More recently, Bayona won the City of Donostia - San Sebastián Audience Award with his Oscar-nominated title Society of the Snow [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : J.A. Bayona
fiche film], which played in the Perlak section. The director will be accompanied during the deliberations by US director Gia Coppola, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the festival in 2024 for The Last Showgirl; Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira, winner of the festival's Silver Shell for Best Director in 2024 for On Falling [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Laura Carreira
fiche film]; British actor Mark Strong, known for his roles in The Imitation Game [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
making of
fiche film], Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] and 1917 [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film], and seen recently in Tár and the series Dune: Prophecy and Nine Perfect Strangers; Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu, star of Zhang Yimou's Under the Hawthorn Tree; Argentinian singer and actor Lali Espósito (series Sky Rojo); and Belgian-French producer Anne-Dominique Toussaint, whose company Les Films des Tournelles has staged films by Nadine Labaki and Louis Garrel, and this year, Guillermo Galoe's Sleepless City [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Guillermo Galoe
fiche film].

The Kutxabank-New Directors Award jury will be chaired by Italian producer and programmer Marco Müller (former head of the Venice Film Festival), who will be joined by Swedish director Isabella Eklöf (winner of the Special Jury Prize at the festival in 2023 for Kalak [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Asta Kamma August
interview : Isabella Eklöf
fiche film]), French director Charlène Favier (Slalom [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Charlène Favier
fiche film], Oxana [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film]), up-and-coming Chilean filmmaker Beatriz Arias and Spanish film critic Elsa Fernández Santos.

The Horizontes Award jury will be chaired by Spanish director Pilar Palomero (a Goya winner for Schoolgirls [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Pilar Palomero
fiche film], and selected for the festival's competition with Motherhood [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Pilar Palomero
fiche film] and Glimmers [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Pilar Palomero
fiche film]), who will be joined by German producer Christoph Friedel (Pandora Filmproduktion) and Brazilian producer Tatiana Leite (Bubbles Project).

Lastly, the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award jury will be presided over by French producer Yaël Fogiel (Les Films du Poisson), and will include Spanish art curator Xabier Arakistain and Danish screenwriter Line Langebek Knudsen (The Girl with the Needle [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Besir Zeciri
interview : Directors Talks @ European…
interview : Magnus von Horn
fiche film]).