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The San Sebastián International Film Festival has withdrawn the accreditation and expelled the film director Eugène Green from the competition for his refusal to wear a mask during the screening of his film

Atarrabi et Mikelats

, which was screened last night in the Zinemira section.

The Zinemaldia has explained, in a statement, that in the projection of the film in room 9 of the Prince Green cinemas

"it was required up to five times by the Festival staff to put on the mask

and put it on correctly", to what the filmmaker ignored.

Finally,

"due to their lack of collaboration"

, the Festival management asked the director to leave the room and two Ertzaintza agents informed him that they were going to process an administrative complaint for failing to comply with the sanitary measures established to contain the spread of the covid -19, for which the filmmaker could be fined.

The San Sebastian Festival has also decided to withdraw his accreditation, so Green has lost his status as a guest of the Zinemaldia

"due to his lack of respect for the measures adopted in accordance with the health authorities

and the Festival staff and for putting at risk the health of the audience and the film crew during and after the screening. "

After Green was expelled, the film crew's discussion continued with actors Lukas Hiriart and Saia Hiriart.

Green, born in 1947 in New York although living in Paris, presented the film

Atarrabi et Mikelats

, a story shot in Basque that immerses itself in Basque mythology and that the Festival had programmed in the Zinemira section.

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