The San Sebastian film festival (September 19-27) has added nine titles to its official selection, including the world premieres of Joachim Lafosse’s Six Days In Spring and Juliette Binoche’s directing debut IN-I In Motion.
Six Days In Spring is among seven new competition titles, and stars Eye Haïdara as a desperate woman who borrows her ex in-laws’ house on the French Riviera to spend a few days’ holiday with her children. Lafosse was previously in San Sebastian with The White Knights (2015) and A Silence (2023), and in competition at Venice in 2006 for Private Property.
Other world premieres in competition include Olmo Omerzu’s Ungrateful Beings, about a recently divorced father who goes on a camping trip with and his two teenage children; and Xiaoyu Qin’s debut fiction feature Her Heart Beats In Its Cage, following a woman who reunites with her son after spending ten years in prison for killing her husband.
Binoche’s directing debut IN-I In Motion plays out of competition, and is a documentary about In-I, the hybrid dance and theatre show produced by the actress in 2007 with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.
Also out of competition is Junji Sakamoto’s Climbing For Life, which tells the story of Japan’s Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Other competition additions are Toronto premieres Ballad Of A Small Player directed by Edward Berger, Claire Denis’ The Fence and James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, plus the international premiere of Amazon MGM’s Belén from Dolores Fonzi.
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