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The latest film from the producers of Kimi no Na Wa / Your Name, an adaptation of the Prix Goncourt 2013 and a 3D exploration of underwater treasures with the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger join Fernando Franco’s Morir to complete the four special screenings in the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Festival.
Albert Dupontel (Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, France, 1964) has worked as an actor for Gaspar Noé and Jacques Audiard, also having made films including his debut, Bernie (1996) and 9 mois ferme (9 Month Stretch, 2012), closing film of the Pearls section in 2013 and winner of the Césars for Best Screenplay and Best Actress (Sandrine Kiberlain). Here he directs, stars and writes - with the author Pierre Lemaitre, author of the book of the same name - Au revoir là-haut / See You Up There.
Wonders of the Sea 3D, produced and narrated by Schwarzenegger (The Terminator, Total Recall), was shot over a period of three years in underwater worlds from Fiji to the Bahamas. The film is directed by the explorer and producer Jean-Michel Cousteau (Toulon, France, 1938), son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, together with Jean-Jacques Mantello, a pioneer of 3D submarine cinema in films including Ocean World 3D, screened at the Velodrome in 2009.
The production company of Kimi no Na Wa / Your Name, highest grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema, premiered last year at San Sebastian, presents Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miruka? Yoko kara miruka? / Fireworks, Should We See it From the Side or the Bottom? Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo (Fukushima, Japan, 1961) and Nobuyuki Takeuchi, the movie is based on the homonymous TV series by Shunji Iwai.
These three films make up the Official Selection special screenings section together with the already-mentioned Morir, by Fernando Franco (Seville, Spain, 1976), winner with his first film, La herida, of the Special Jury Prize and Silver Shell for Best Actress in San Sebastian (Marian Álvarez).
With these, we have now announced 18 of the Official Selection titles. In the coming weeks we will reveal the remaining titles to complete the section.
November 1919. Two survivors of the trenches set up a scam based on war memorials. One is a brilliant illustrator, the other an unassuming accountant. In the France of the Roaring Twenties, their operation becomes as dangerous as it is spectacular... Adaptation of Pierre Lemaitre’s novel The Big Swindle, winner of the Prix Goncourt.
The lives of Luis and Marta are abruptly paralysed. Lies, guilt and fear put the couple’s stability and love to the test.
Summer break in a town by the sea. One day before a firework festival, classmates excitedly discuss whether fireworks are round or flat when they're viewed from the side. Their classmate Nazuna, who Norimichi has a crush on, is lost in her own thoughts after learning that her mother, who is getting remarried, is making her transfer schools. Nazuna asks Norimichi to run away with her but gets caught by her mother, who drags her home. Norimichi can’t do anything but watch helplessly. Norimichi, frustrated with himself for not helping Nazuna, throws a mysterious ball Nazuna found on the beach. Then suddenly, time gets rewound to the moment before Nazuna is forced to go home… What does fate have in store for Nazuna and Norimichi at the end of the day that keeps repeating itself? When fireworks light up the sky, a miracle of love occurs.
Shot in 3D over three years in locations ranging from Fiji to the Bahamas, the film takes us underwater on a thrilling submarine voyage beneath the seas that cover 71% of our planet’s surface. Spectacular documentary produced and narrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger, mythical star of The Terminator and Total Recall. A film with the mission to raise awareness on the treasures of the sea and the need to preserve them. Co-directed by the son of the emblematic pioneer of scientific dissemination Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
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