The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
Virtually every film that scooped up an award in Cannes, from Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light (grand prize), Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (special jury prize) and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (best screenplay) to Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or winner Anora, will screen in the Spanish festival’s sidebar, and compete for San Sebastian’s audience awards.
Jacques Audiard’s transgender crime musical Emilia Pérez, which won Cannes’ jury prize and the best actress honors for its ensemble cast, will open the Perlak section on Sept. 20.
Other Cannes titles, including Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, Parthenope from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, and Francis Ford Coppola‘s divisive opus Megalopolis, will also screen in the Perlak section. As will Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs, winner of the Silver Bear-grand jury prize in Berlin, Walter Salles I’m Still Here, which will premiere in Venice, and Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, which won the Cristal for best feature film at the Annecy animation festival this year.
Chris Sanders’s animated feature The Wild Robot, featuring the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, and Pedro Pascal, will screen out of competition at San Sebastian, as will Tom Volf and Yannis Dimolitsas’ documentary Maria Callas: Letters and Memories, about the legendary opera diva.
Closing the section on Sept. 28, out of competition, is Marco, a biopic from Spanish directors Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi about Enric Marco, a Catalan imposter who falsely claimed to be a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.
The competition titles are in the running for the City of Donostia San Sebastian audience awards, voted on by festival goers, including the best film prize, worth $55,000 (€50,00) and the best European film award, which comes with a $22,000 (€20,000) cash bursary, awarded to the winning films’ Spanish distributors.
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