This year RTVE will throw three film Galas at the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition to preview the titles in which it has a participation: ¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila / May I Speak With the Enemy?, by Alexis Morante; Escape, by Rodrigo Cortés, and Las chicas de la estación / The Girls at the Station, by Juana Macías.

RTVE, Official Festival sponsor, has signed an agreement to extend its cooperation with the event over the next three years, under which it increases from two to three the number of galas held in San Sebastian to present the films in which it has a participation.

The three RTVE Galas

¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila / May I Speak With the Enemy?, which will have its preview in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, directed by Alexis Morante and starring Óscar Lasarte, Carlos Cuevas, Natalia de Molina and Salva Reina, is an uplifting fable based on the period when Miguel Gila fought in the war and survived execution by firing squad. An anti-war argument narrating the tragic events he experienced first-hand during the fighting and how he lent them his own comical slant.

The latest movie from Rodrigo Cortés, Escape, with Mario Casas in the leading role and Martin Scorsese as executive producer, will have its gala in the Kursaal 2. This is the story of N., a broken man who’s done with making decisions; he only wants to live in prison and will do whatever it takes to get there. A highly personal movie, impossible to classify, with Anna Castillo, José Sacristán, José María Pou, Blanca Portillo, Guillermo Toledo and Juanjo Puigcorbé, among others, in the cast alongside Mario Casas.

Las chicas de la estación / The Girls at the Station, by Juana Macías, to show at the Príncipe Cinemas, is inspired by true events at a juvenile facility in Mallorca, where several of the girls fall into a prostitution ring. The film draws a generational portrait of a sector of young people close to crossing the line of no return.  

Films in which RTVE has a share in San Sebastian

As well as these three films, this year RTVE comes to San Sebastian with four movies the Official Selection and two in New Directors. Los destellos / Glimmers (Pilar Palomero), El llanto / The Wailing (Pedro Martín-Calero), Tardes de soledad (Albert Serra) and Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) will compete for the Golden Shell; while Por donde pasa el silencio / Where the Silence Passes (Sandra Romero) and La llegada del hijo / Surfacing (Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato) will have their presentation in the section for first or second films.