Diego Lerman, the director will be one of the Argentines present at the San Sebastian Film Festival next September. Photo: Juan Manuel Foglia.
The next edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will have an Argentine presence in the competition. porn melancholy by Manuel Abramovich, e Alternate, by Diego Lerman, will be two of the films that will participate in the search for the Golden Shell at the 70th edition of the Spanish Festival. The meeting will take place from 16 to 24 September in that city in the north of Spain.
Manuel AbramovichSolar, Light years, Soldier), will present at the Basque festival porn melancholywith Lalo Santos composing a portrait of a sex influencer who posts photos of her naked body and homemade porn videos for her thousands of followers on social networks. The film shows how the success he gets in his public life contrasts with the permanent melancholy that drags him into private life.
From you Alternatethe new film by the other Argentine Diego Lerman (A kind of family, The invisible gaze, So suddenly), centers on a temporary teacher, played by Juan Minujín, who must abandon his teaching duties when one of his students is threatened by a local drug lord.
In particular Alternate alson was selected to participate in the Special Presentations section of the 47th. edition of the Toronto Film Festivalwhich will take place a few days before the Basque Festival, between 8 and 18 September.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, one of the Argentines present at the San Sebastián Festival. The actor stars in a Spanish film. Photo: Telam
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In addition to the films by directors Abramovich and Lerman, Argentina’s participation in the San Sebastián festival is now completed with one year one night, with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart. This film will be part of the Perlak section, the where section critically acclaimed films participate and which have already been awarded at other festivals.
one year one night is a Spanish film, directed by Isaki Lacuesta, adaptation of the novel Peace, love and death metal by Ramón González, who takes as reference the Paris attacks of November 2015culminating in the tragic taking of hostages in the Bataclan hall in Paris by Islamic suicide bombers.
Perez Biscayart, the only Argentine to obtain the César Prize (the French Oscar) in 2017 for the French film 120 beats per minute, this time he plays Ramón in this story. Together with Céline, they are a young couple who meet at the Bataclan in Paris on the night of November 13, 2015.
John Minujin. The film “El suplente”, in which he stars, will compete at the San Sebastian Film Festival in September.
During the terrorist attack, both manage to take refuge in the musicians’ locker room, but when they leave they are no longer the same. That night left a deep mark on their lives that will mark them forever.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, with a career that, parallel to Argentina, is developing in Europe with good repercussions, shares the cast of this film with Spanish and French actors and actresses.
According to the announcement of the Festival, which today unveiled part of what will be the confirmed programming so far, the Argentine films in competition will compete with Le Lyceenfrom the French Christophe Honoré; The wonderby the Chilean Sebastián Lelio; Superior, from South Korean Hong Sang-soo; Y Spartaby the Austrian Ulrich Seidl, among other films that aspire to win the first prize of the traditional Festival.
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Source: Clarin
