'Joan of Arc'

Source: New Europe Film Sales

‘Joan of Arc’

Films from Hlynur Palmason, Harris Dickinson and Lucile Hadzihalilovic are among the 23 titles competing in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera programme at the 73rd San Sebastian Film Festival (September 19-27).

Icelandic director Palmason is world premiering his film Joan Of Arc, about three siblings who continually create and destroy a knight-like figure. His 2022 feature Godland previously won the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera award while his last film The Love That Remains premiered at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

The strand has no restrictions on length or style, with six shorts and two medium-length titles competing equally with 15 features for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera award of €20,000 – split between the director (€6,000) and the Spanish distributor (€14,000).

UK actor and director Dickinson brings his directorial debut Urchin which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard earlier this year. France’s Hadzihalilovic is screening The Ice Tower, winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution. 

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will open with the world premiere of Sergio Oksman’s A Scary Movie, about a documentary maker and his son who stay at an abandoned hotel in Lisbon. Igor Bezinović’s Fiume O Morte! will close the strand, a non-fiction film surrounding the occupation of the port city of Fiume between 1919-1920.

 

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera 2025 features 

A Scary Movie (Sp-Bra) - opening film
Dir. Sergio Oksman 

Fiume O Morte! (Cro-It-Slovenia) - closing film
Dir. Igor Bezinovic 

Brand New Landscape (Japan)
Dir. Yuiga Danzuka 

Urchin (UK)
Dir. Harris Dickinson

Strange River (Sp-Ger)
Dir. Jaume Claret Muxart 

The Ice Tower (Fr-Ger)
Dir. Lucile Hadzihalilovic

The Last Rapture (Sp)
Dir. Marta Medina, Enrique Lopez Lavigne 

The Good Sister (Ger-Sp)
Dir. Sarah Miro Fischer 

Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Japan)
Dir. Sho Miyake 

Hen (Ger-Gre-Hun)
Dir. Gyorgy Palfi 

Joan Of Arc (Ice-Den-Fr)
Dir. Hlynur Palmason 

Under The Flags, The Sun (Para-Arg-US-Fr-Ger)
Dir. Juanjo Pereira 

Blue Heron (Can-Hun)
Dir. Sophy Romvari 

Lurker (US)
Dir. Alex Russell

Two Times Jao Liberada (Port)
Dir. Paula Tomas Marques 

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