Cannes Film Festival teams up with San Sebastián for multi-film event

Erik Anderson September 16, 2020

Seventeen films from the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes 2020 will be presented

After joining Deauville, the Festival de Cannes is continuing to show the films from its Official Selection that were not able to be shown on La Croisette. This time, Cannes will be teaming up with the San Sebastián International Film Festival, with a unique and exceptional collaboration.

During the opening evening, José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastián Festival, will pay special tribute to the Festival de Cannes. Thierry Frémaux, its General Delegate, will join Rebordinos in San Sebastián. Seventeen films from the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes 2020 will be presented in different sections including, as part of an unprecedented joint decision, films in competition.

Through its presence in San Sebastián, the Festival de Cannes aims to support the writers, artists and films from all over the world that make up its 2020 Selection.

Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, explains further: “Every year, the International Film Festival of San Sebastián is one of the best events in September, with an extraordinary audience and incredible artistic talent to be found in all the cinemas of the city. We are delighted to be associated with the event and would like to thank José Luis Rebordinos’ teams for the support they have given to the films in the Official Selection 2020.”

Here are the seventeen films from the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes 2020, which will be presented in San Sebastián from September 18 to 26, 2020

PASSION SIMPLE by Danielle Arbid: Competition

SUTEMOSE (IN THE DUSK) by Šarūnas Bartas: Competition

ASA GA KURU (TRUE MOTHERS) by Naomi Kawase: Competition

ÉTÉ 85 (SUMMER OF 85) by François Ozon: Competition

DRUK (ANOTHER ROUND) by Thomas Vinterberg: Competition

DASATSKISI (BEGINNING) by Dea Kulumbegashvili: Competition

EL OLVIDO QUE SEREMOS (FORGOTTEN WE’LL BE) by Fernando Trueba: Official Selection – Out of Competition

FALLING by Viggo Mortensen: The Donostia Award for Viggo Mortensen

16 PRINTEMPS (SPRING BLOSSOM) by Suzanne Lindon: New directors

CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES (MEMORY HOUSE) by João Paulo Miranda Maria: New directors

LIMBO by Ben Sharrock: New directors

ADN (DNA) by Maïwenn: Perlak

THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS by Michael Dweck et Gregory Kershaw: Culinary Zinema

I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE by Sameh Alaa – short film: Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

STEPHANIE by Leonardo Van Dijl – short film: Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

MURALLA CHINA (CHINESE WALL) by Santiago Barzi – short film/Cinéfondation Selection 2020: Nest

I WANT TO RETURN RETURN RETURN by Elsa Rosengren – short film/Cinéfondation Selection 2020: Nest

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.