A Fantastic Woman San Sebastian has announced the 12 films that will compete for the Horizontes Latinos prize at this year's festival, including the latest from Sebastián Lelio, Michel Franco and Adrián Biniez.
The films in this section have been produced partially or totally in Latin America and directed by filmmakers of Latin American origin or which have Latino communities as their subject matter.
Among the familiar names in competition is Lelio, Sebastián Lelio, whose first film, La Sagrada Familia, competed in Horizontes Latinos in 2005 and whose fourth, Gloria, won the Films in Progress Award in San Sebastian in 2012. His latest film, A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica), Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale, will open the section.
Biniez - who took home the Horizontes award in 2009 for his debut Gigante - also returns to the festival with The Waves (Las Olas), his third feature. Michel Franco,...
The films in this section have been produced partially or totally in Latin America and directed by filmmakers of Latin American origin or which have Latino communities as their subject matter.
Among the familiar names in competition is Lelio, Sebastián Lelio, whose first film, La Sagrada Familia, competed in Horizontes Latinos in 2005 and whose fourth, Gloria, won the Films in Progress Award in San Sebastian in 2012. His latest film, A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica), Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale, will open the section.
Biniez - who took home the Horizontes award in 2009 for his debut Gigante - also returns to the festival with The Waves (Las Olas), his third feature. Michel Franco,...
- 8/16/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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