Glenn Close will chair the San Sebastian Festival jury

Glenn Close will chair the San Sebastian Festival jury

The jury awards the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, as well as Jury Prizes for Photography and Screenplay. The Official Awards will be announced and delivered at the festival’s Closing Gala on September 24.

Close was for the last time at the Spanish festival with The Wifewhich closed the Official Selection in 2017. The film earned Close her eighth Academy Award nomination.

As previously announced, the Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodriguez will open the festival with his latest film Prison 77 (Model 77), which is projected out of competition.

Other titles to be screened at the festival include the highly anticipated latest film from Sebastian Lelio, The Wonderbased on the novel by Emma Donoghuestarring Florence Pugh along with a cast that includes Ciarán Hinds, Tom Burke, Tony Jones, elaine cassidy Y Niam Algar. South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo will launch its latest proposal Top / Walk Up in competition. The film follows the interactions of a middle-aged filmmaker. This will be the second participation of the South Korean filmmaker in the Official Selection.

The winner of the Nobel Prize and the Booker Prize, kazuo ishigurowill also bring your film Living room to the festival after his functions in the jury of Venice. The film is an English adaptation of the classic ikiru from 1952 from akira kurosawa. bill nighty stars and Oliver Hermanus directs. Ishiguro wrote the script.

Source: Ambito

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