Thirteen Latin American films will compete for the Horizontes Award

the movie Unnamed, a co-production between the United States and Mexico and winner of the award for best direction and best photography at Sundance, will inaugurate the Horizontes Latinos section.

Thirteen films from various Latin American countries will compete for the Horizontes Prize, worth 35,000 euros, at the 57th edition of the San Sebastián Festival. Each year in the San Sebastian competition, the Horizontes Latinos section traces a journey through the most interesting and innovative Latin American cinema of the year, with some titles that are backed by awards won at the year's major festivals, and others that begin a promising journey.

Horizontes Latinos includes feature films produced wholly or partially in Latin America, directed by filmmakers of Latin origin, or whose setting or theme is Latin communities from the rest of the world. In addition, they must meet the requirement of not having been previously presented at any Spanish festival or commercially released in Spain.

Films from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay participate in the next edition, which in some cases have had the support of production from European countries such as Spain, Germany, France, Holland and Portugal, and North Americans, such as the United States and Canada.

The film will inaugurate the Horizontes Latinos section Unnamed, a co-production between the United States and Mexico, which was one of the first triumphs of the season, winning the Best Director Award (Cary Joji Fukunaga) and the Best Cinematography Award (Adriano Goldman) at the Sundance Festival, and later the Edinburgh Skillset New Directors Award.

Some of the selected films had their first opportunity when they were still unfinished and were selected to participate in one of the editions of Cinema in Progress, the biannual call that the San Sebastián and Toulouse festivals undertake jointly.

The Tree, Riptide, Optical Illusions, The Invention of Meat y Perpetually mobile have come out of the Films in Progress quarry, and some of them, once they finished with the aid obtained, have participated in international festivals: this is the case of the tree (Rotterdam) o The invention of meat (Locarno).

Other films selected for Horizontes Latinos have been presented or awarded at major festivals: Gigante It was one of the big surprises of the Berlin Festival and won three awards from the Official Section; in Cannes they stood out The travels of the wind in Un Certain Regard, Daniel and Ana in the Directors' Fortnight and Huacho in Critics' Week; Boyita's last summer was acclaimed at the Bafici and Arena sea, in Guadalajara. Besides, France has been selected for Venice Days.