Seventeen productions will compete in the Official Section of the San Sebastián Festival

The films of Sarah Gavron, Sonthar Gyal, Malgorzata Szumowska, Gonçalo Waddington, Alice Winocour and Paxton Winters complete the list of aspirants for the Gold Pool of the 67th edition.

Three of the most relevant European directors on the contemporary scene, the debut feature of a renowned Portuguese actor, the second film of an American director and the latest film of one of the most interesting Chinese filmmakers of today are incorporated into the list of candidates for the Golden Shell of the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival.

Sarah Gavron's debut feature (United Kingdom, 1970), Brick Lane, was part of the New Directors selection in 2007. After co-directing the non-fiction film Village at the End of the World (2012), made the award-winning Suffragette (Suffragettes, 2015).

After competing in Locarno with his first film (Dbus lam gyi nyi ma / The Sun Beaten Path, Filmmakers of the Present, 2011) and in Berlin with the second, (Gtsangbo / River, Generation KPlus, 2015), Sonthar Gyal (China, 1974) carried out last year Ala Changso, awarded the Grand Jury Prize and the award for best script in Shanghai. In his new movie, Lhamo and skalbe, the protagonists are the members of a couple who cannot get married due to their past.

La película de Malgorzata Szumowska (Cracovia, 1973) 33 scenes from life (2008) won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno and was part of the retrospective at the Promesas del Este Festival. In 2015 he directed Body (Body, 2015), which received the Silver Bear in Berlin and the Audience Award at the European Film Awards, and last year directed Face / Mug (2018), awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Berlin. In The Other Lamb centers on a teenage girl, a devout follower of an alternative religion.

With a long and successful career as a playwright and actor in Portugal, where he has worked with filmmakers such as Tiago Guedes and Ivo Ferreira, Gonçalo Waddington (Lisbon, 1977) debuts as a feature film director with Patrick, the story of a 20-year-old Portuguese young man who lives in Paris.

Alice Winocour (Paris, 1976) has presented her first two films at the Cannes Festival: her debut, Augustine, at the Semaine de la Critique (2012) and her second, Maryland / Disorder, at Un Certain Regard. The winner of the César for best original screenplay for Mustang (2015) directs in Proxima to Matt Dillon and Eva Green, who plays an astronaut who lives alone with her seven-year-old daughter.

Paxton Winters (Texas, USA, 1972) debuted with Crude (2003), awarded in Seattle and Los Angeles. In Brazilian production Pacified, tells the friendship between a teenager and a trafficker recently released from prison, with the police control of the favelas during the Olympic Games held in Brazil as a backdrop.

These six titles are added to those already announced a few days ago, the latest films by Alejandro Amenábar (While the war lasts), Louise Archambault (It was raining birds / Y llovieron pájaros), Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga (The infinite trench), James Franco (Zeroville), Belén Funes (A thief's daughter), Roger Michell (Blackbird), Guillaume Nicloux (Thalasso), José Luis Torres Leiva (Death will come and have your eyes), Ina Weisse (The foreplay), Adilkhan Yerzhanov (A Dark-Dark Man) and David Zonana (Labour).

In total, seventeen productions will compete for the Golden Shell.

In addition, François Girard (The Song of Names), who will close the Official Section, and Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Seventeen) will participate out of competition, and there will be a special screening of La odisea de los giles (Sebastian Borensztein).