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Ink
Ink
Drama charting Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper and its upturning of the landscape under editor Larry Lamb in 1969.
Heart Of The Beast
Heart Of The Beast
After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.
Brace Your Heart
Brace Your Heart
Ejva inherits her late father's reindeer herd. As she struggles to keep the herd thriving, local leader Heaika falls for her, and though hesitant, she feels compelled to accept. But everything changes when Nejla, Heaika's cousin, arrives.
5 More Minutes
5 More Minutes
A husband and wife in an ailing marriage discover that actions really do have consequences in this twist on the time loop motif.
The Invite
The Invite
Joe and Angela are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbours are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.
Minotaur
Minotaur
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Fjord
Fjord
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
All Of A Sudden
All Of A Sudden
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
Narciso
Narciso
Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military regime, he becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom. But then, after his final show, he is found dead…
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San Sebastian Film Festival Features

Care and community
Mike Leigh and the Tender Loving Care cast on humanity and looking out for one another
Puppy love
Brad Pitt on the 'moving' Heart Of The Beast shoot thanks to furry co-star Odin
Tackling a taboo
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad on putting paedophilia in the frame in her debut Cute
An innocent angle
Lu Po-Shun on coming at the themes of Will You Still Be My Friend from a child's perspective
Open Invite
Olivia Wilde on reinvention, improvisation and why her latest movie had to be shot on film
Bearing witness
Beth de Araújo and Channing Tatum talk about a child's eye view of crime in Josephine
The buzz of a bond
Fernando Eimbcke on fun and games in Flies
Breaking the cycle
Júlia de Paz Solvas and Núria Dunjó on resilience and hope in The Good Daughter

San Sebastian Film Festival News

Golden night for Tender Loving Care
Mike Leigh's film takes trio of prizes in San Sebastian
La Bola Negra wins in Toronto
Spanish queer drama comes out on top in audience vote
Naomi Watts dedicates Donostia to David Lynch
Star says: He really just changed my life
Werner Herzog honoured as San Sebastian opens
German auteur receives Donostia as festival starts on political note
One Battle After Another wins again
Paul Thomas Anderson film takes FIPRESCI Grand Prix
Naomi Watts to receive Donostia Award
San Sebastian will honour British star
San Sebastian announces José Giovanni retrospective
20-film showcase dedicated to French crime writer
Mike Leith, Pablo Larraín and Benjamín Naishtat join San Sebastian Competition
Tender Loving Care, My Sad Dead and Glaxo added to line-up
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