The Madrid filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza, with "Courtromm 3h (Sala del Juzgado 3H)" , and the Argentine Pablo Agüero, with "Akelarre" , will compete again for the Concha de Oro at the 68th San Sebastián Film Festival .

The Donostiarra contest has released this Thursday the Spanish productions or with Spanish participation that will be seen in their next edition, whose Official Section will host the pass of two series: "Riot Control", by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, scheduled out of competition, and "Homeland " as a special screening.

In total fourteen titles will be distributed by the different sections of the Zinemaldia, including "Rifkin's Festival", by Woody Allen , which has American, Spanish and Italian production and which will open the Festival, out of competition, on September 18.

In this pandemic year, the presentation of the Spanish titles in Madrid has been omitted and the media have received a press release along with a video in which the directors talk about their work.

In this recording, the person in charge of the event, José Luis Rebordinos, highlights that the Festival "takes on its full meaning when it is really useful for the Spanish film industry ", adding that it is "essential" that it "feel comfortable" and "feel who can promote their films, exchange experiences and do business. "

Pablo Agüero , who in 2015 went to the Official Section with "Eva does not sleep", will compete with "Akelarre", a historical drama about a judicial process of witchcraft filmed in Basque and Castilian in Basque lands.

Starring Amaia Aberasturi and Alex Brendemühl, Agüero's fifth feature film, a production between Argentina, France and Spain, won one of the awards at the VI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum in 2017.

Méndez Esparza , a filmmaker based in the United States, returns with a nonfiction story that takes place in a family court specialized in cases in which minors are involved.

"Courtroom 3H (Sala del Juzgado 3H)", a Spanish-American co-production, is the third feature film by this director, who with "Here and There" (2012) won the Critics' Week Grand Prize in Cannes and with " Life and nothing else ", which was part of the Official Section of the Zinemaldia in 2017, received the Fipresci Prize and the John Cassavetes Prize at the Spirit Awards.

Sorogoyen will participate for the third time in the Official Section, where he competed in 2016 with "May God forgive us", which won the award for best screenplay, and in 2018 with "The Kingdom".

This time he presents "Antidisturbios" , a Movistar + series of six chapters about a group of policemen accused of murder after executing an eviction, starring Vicky Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Álex García, Hovik Keuchkerian and Roberto Álamo, among others.

"Patria", the HBO Europe series created by Aitor Gabilondo on the novel by Fernando Aramburu , will arrive in the Official Section a year after its managers will reveal the first images, just 20 seconds, in the last edition.

New Directors, section for first and second films, will host the debut of Bilbao's David Pérez Sañudo, who will compete with "Ane", a film shot in Basque, and Isabel Lamberti, born in Germany and raised in Spain and the Netherlands, who does it with "The last spring", set in the shantytown of Madrid's Cañada Real.

The Pamplona Imanol Rayo , who won the Zinemira Prize with his debut, "Bi anai" (2011), participates with "Hil kanpaiak (Chimes to death)", based on the novel "33 ezkil", by Miren Gorrotxategi.

In "Perlak" will be screened "The Mole Agent", by the Chilean Maite Alberdi , premiered in the official documentary competition of the last Sundance Festival and which was awarded at the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum in 2017.

To Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Juan Cavestany returns , who after films like "People in places" and series like "Shame", presents "An optical effect", in which he entangles Pepón Nieto and Carmen Machi in "a fantastic time loop".

In addition, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera has programmed three short films, including "Correspondence", which reflects the exchange of "film letters" between the filmmakers Carla Simón , author of "Verano 1993", and the Chilean Dominga Sotomayor.

"I no longer sleep", selected in the Kimuak program of the Basque Government, will mean the premiere of the young Donostiarra Marina Palacio after passing through Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), while Laida Lertxundi, who was responsible for the postgraduate course in Creation of this educational center, will participate with "Autoficción", experimental work.

In addition, Warner Spain and the Zinemaldia will offer a charity pass of "The Summer We Live" , the romantic drama directed by Carlos Sedes and starring Blanca Suárez, Javier Rey and Pablo Molinero.

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