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Six films will compete for the XVII RTVE-Otra Mirada Award at the San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition, to run from 22-30 September. RTVE, official sponsor of the event, presents this award every year to a feature film reflecting subjects related to the reality of women in all spheres. Films directed, starring or written by men and women creators, whose works address different topics from a gender point of view.
Sitting on this year’s jury are Chelo Aparicio, board member at RTVE; Chelo Loureiro, film director and producer; and Ane Abalde, Director of Art and Heritage at the Kutxa Fundazioa.
Competing for this award in the Official Selection are the titles: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, by Raven Jackson (USA) and The Royal Hotel, by Kitty Green (Australia). The contenders in New Directors are Hi, Mom, directed by Ilia Malakhova (Russia) and Achilles, by Farhad Delaram (Iran-Germany-France). Participants from the Perlak section are Rosalie, by Stéphanie Di Giusto (France); and from Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Quitter la nuit / Through the Night, by Delphine Girard (Belgium-France-Canada).
The award will be presented on Saturday 30 at the Festival closing gala.
The films competing for the award are selected by the Festival from among those having their premiere at each edition. Last year it went to El sostre groc / The Yellow Ceiling, by Isabel Coixet, while a special mention went to Corsage by Marie Kreutzer.
RTVE will hold two galas in San Sebastian to screen previews of the films in which they have a participation, Chinas and La ternura. It will also release four titles in the Official Selection (Un amor, El sueño de la sultana / Sultana’s Dream, O corno / The Rye Horn and They Shot the Piano Player), plus one in New Directors (La estrella azul / The Blue Star) and Cerrar los ojos / Close Your Eyes, by Víctor Erice, a Donostia Award Screening.
Official Selection
A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman's life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.
Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
New Directors
A young filmmaker who currently works in a hospital takes a mental patient out for a short ride to find out who she really is. Now he has to decide whether to run away with her or take her back to the hospital.
Kira is 36. She works at the Pulkovo Airport call centre and lives with her younger sister Vera and her daughters. A couple years ago, their mother kicked the sisters out of the house and later disappeared. It's time for Kira to accept that her mother is dead and move on: get the death certificate, claim her inheritance and start living separately from her sister and nieces. A new life awaits her. But Kira does not want to change anything and dreams only of her mother coming back.
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
One night, a woman in danger calls the police. Anna takes the call. A man is arrested. Weeks go by, the courts search for evidence, and Aly, Anna and Dary face the echoes of that night that they cannot leave behind.
Perlak
France, 1870. Rosalie isn't like other young girls. She is hiding a big secret. Ever since birth her body and face have been covered with hair and she is forced to conceal it to avoid rejection. She is what's called a bearded woman. But she had never wanted to become a fairground attraction. One day, the owner of a café drowning in debt decides to marry her for the dowry, with no inkling of her secret. But Rosalie is tired of hiding and wants to be seen as a woman even if she is different. What will her husband think when he finds out the truth?
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