Chloe, by Atom Egoyan, will inaugurate the competition in San Sebastián

Chloe, by Atom Egoyan, will open the 57th edition of the competition, which will close with Mother and Child by Rodrigo García. Bruno Dumont, Christophe Honoré, François Ozon and Juan José Campanella will also compete in the Official Section.

Canadian director Atom Egoyan will open the 57th edition of the San Sebastian Festival in competition with the film Chloe, starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried. Egoyan, one of the great innovators of modern cinematographic language with films like Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (The Sweet Future, 1987), Felicia’s Journey, 1999) o Ararat (2002), will compete for the first time in San Sebastián.

Bruno Dumont, Atom Egoyan, François Ozon and Juan José Campanella, among other directors, will compete for the Golden Shell in the Official Section of the San Sebastián Festival. Other prestigious directors such as Jeon Soo-il, Lu Chuan, Ana Kokkinos and Matthias Glasner will also present their new films in competition at Official, and Christophe Honoré will return to San Sebastián after participating last year with The beautiful person. In addition, the winner of an Oscar for Best Short Film Aaron Schneider will compete with his first feature, Get Low.

Three of the most prestigious French directors are competing this year for the Golden Shell. Bruno Dumont, after winning the Grand Jury Prize twice in Cannes, with Humanity (1999) y Flanders (2006), confirms the singular personality of his cinema with Hadewijch. François Ozon, who already competed in San Sebastián with Under the sand (2000) and author of an extensive work that includes 8 Femmes, 2002), The time left (2005) y Ricky (2009), will present The shelter. And Christophe Honoré returns to the Official Section for the second consecutive year with Making Plans For Lena, starring Chiara Mastroianni, Marie-Christine Barrault and Jean-Marc Barr.

After having obtained great success at Zabaltegi-New Directors 2005 with his first feature film, Oyun (The Play), the Turkish director Pelin Esmer premieres in the Official Section with 11 and 10 colors, a co-production between Türkiye, France and Germany.

German cinema will be represented by Matthias Glasner, the director of The mediocre (1999) y Free Will (The Free Will, 2006), con This Is Love.

The United States will participate with Get Low, the first feature film as director of cinematographer Aaron Schneider, who already has an Oscar for Best Short Film for Two Soldiers (2003). Get Low stars Donostia award-winning Robert Duvall, alongside Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek.

From Argentina, Juan José Campanella, adds The secret of his eyes to a career that includes some of the greatest hits of recent Argentine cinema, such as the same lovethe same rain (1999), the Oscar candidate for Best Foreign Language Film The bride's son (2001) y Moon of Avellaneda (2004), starring Ricardo Darín.

Asia, Australia and Spain

Asian cinema will be supported by three titles: the Korean film Yeong-do Da-ri / I Came From Busan, by Jeon Soo-il, award-winning director in Venice and Pusan ​​with films such as The Bird Who Stops in the Air (1999), Time Between Dog and Wolf (2006) y With the Girl of Black Soil (2007); the china City of Life and Death, from director Lu Chuan, author of Xun quiang (The Missing Gun, 2002) and Kekexili (Mountain Patrol, 2004), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Festival; and the Iranian Keshtzarhaye sepid / The White Meadows, by Mohammad Rasoulof, director of The Twilight (2002) y Iron Island (2005), Special Jury Prize at the Gijón Festival.

Australia will be present with director Ana Kokkinos and Blessed, her third feature film after Head On (1998) y The Book of Revelation (2006), which tells a story from the double point of view of some children and their mothers.

Three Spanish films will participate in the Official Competition Section: The damned, The woman without a piano y Me too; and Fernando Trueba will present out of competition The Victory Dance.

Another prominent name in contemporary cinema, Rodrigo García, will close the Festival with the American film Mother and Child, starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening and Samuel L. Jackson. The director of Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, 2000), Nine Lives (Nine Lives, 2005) and Passengers (2008) had Alejandro González Iñárritu as executive producer.