Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid and The Man I Love by Ira Sachs are among the titles that will screen as part of the Perlak competition sidebar for fall fest favorites this year at San Sebastian.
San Sebastian announced its Perlak titles this morning. The festival will run from September 18 to 26. Scroll down for the full lineup.
Club Kid is Firstman’s feature debut as a director. The film stars Cara Delevingne and Diego Calva and premiered in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes, where A24 picked it up. The film follows a hard-partying New York City club promoter, whose life is upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.
Sachs’s The Man I Love follows a New York performance artist, Jimmy George, in late 1980s New York. Jimmy is dying of AIDS as that crisis devastates the city’s artistic community. Despite the prognosis, his desire to live, love, and make art endures. Luther Ford, Tom Sturridge, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Rebecca Hall also star.
San Sebastian’s Perlak section will also screen Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner Fjord. The film follows an immigrant Romanian family living in Norway who are subject to an investigation by the local judicial system.
This year at San Sebastián will be José Luis Rebordinos’s last at the helm. The longtime fest director steps down at the end of this year and will be replaced by Maialen Beloki.
Beloki holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarra and a PhD (Cum Laude) in Film Theory, Analysis and Documentation from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
Her career combines cultural management, teaching and research. She is part of the Academic Board of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, where she also lectures, and has collaborated as a professor at Mondragon Unibertsitatea.
MinotaurAndrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)Country(ies) of production: France – Germany – LatviaCast: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Boris Kudrin, Yuriy Zavalnyouk, Varvara Zmykova, Vladimir Friedman, Elena Bogdanovich-Golubeva, Mikhail SamodakhovOpening FilmRussia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
Juste une illusion / Just an IllusionEric Toledano (France), Olivier Nakache (France)Country(ies) of production: FranceCast: Louis Garrel, Camille Cottin, Pierre Lottin, Simon Boublil, Alexis Rosesnstiehl, Jeanne LamartineClosing film out of competition1985, Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris with his middle-class family, caught between an older brother who brushes him off and parents who never stop arguing. No longer a kid but not yet an adult, Vincent fumbles through life’s big questions: identity, friendship, family, first crushes… and why adults never seem to have figured things out either.
Club KidJordan Firstman (USA)Country(ies) of production: USACast: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego CalvaPeter, a hard-partying New York City club promoter accustomed to a life of excess, electronic music and endless nights, sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended when a woman he doesn’t know shows up on his doorstep with Arlo, a 10-year-old boy she claims is his son. What started out as an impossible situation soon turns into a mad, fun and tender connection, as unexpected as it is transformative.
CowardLukas Dhont (Belgium)Country(ies) of production: Belgium – France – NetherlandsCast: Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin CampagneSurrounded by brutality but bound by tenderness, two World War I soldiers find a fragile sanctuary of love and art amid the shadows of the Belgian trenches. Lukas Dhont’s Coward asks a profound question for a generation sent to war: when the world demands violence, is walking away the truest act of bravery?
FatherlandPaweł Pawlikowski (Poland)Country(ies) of production: Poland – Germany – Italy – FranceCast: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Anna MadeleyFatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.
FjordCristian Mungiu (Romania)Country(ies) of production: Romania – France – Norway – Sweden – DenmarkCast: Sebastian Stan, Renate ReinsveThe Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, settle in a village in a remote fjord where they strike up a close relationship with their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite the differences in their education. When the teenage Elia Gheorghiu turns up at school with bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education the children receive from their parents might have anything to do with it.
HopeNa Hong-jin (South Korea)Country(ies) of production: South KoreaCast: Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon , MIchael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell, Cameron BrittonReinforcements have been diverted to battle wildfires and all communication has been cut off. Hope Harbor’s police outpost chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of the elderly, while in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to track the beast find themselves hunted instead. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
JosephineBeth de Araújo (USA)Country(ies) of production: USACast: Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Mason ReevesAfter accidentally witnessing a rape in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, 8-year-old Josephine starts to demonstrate violent and paranoid behaviour. The trauma destabilises her family as her parents seek justice and a way to recover her lost security.
La bola negraJavier Calvo (Spain), Javier Ambrossi (Spain)Country(ies) of production: Spain – FranceCast: Guitarricadelafuente , Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn CloseStory narrating the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritence. This is one of Federico García Lorca’s last, unfinished, works.
Le corset / Iron BoyLouis Clichy (France)Country(ies) of production: France – BelgiumVoices: Gary Clichy, Rod Paradot, Dimitri Colas, Aurélie Vassort, Brune Moulin, Alexandre Astier, Jean-Pascal ZadiIron Boy tells the tale of Christophe, an 11-year-old boy who tries to follow in his father’s steps, helping in their family farm. But everything changes the day he is prescribed an incapacitating iron corset, meaning that he can no longer do the everyday farm chores. However, this sudden change will give Christophe the opportunity to discover new passions like swimming and music, and to make friends who will forever mark his life.
Soudain / All of a SuddenRyusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)Country(ies) of production: France – Japan – Germany – BelgiumCast: Virginie Efira, Tao OkamotoAs the director of a care facility for the elderly, Marie-Lou strives to introduce an innovative care philosophy based on listening and respecting residents’ dignity, despite resistance from some members of her staff. Her encounter with Mari, a Japanese theater director battling cancer, will forever change her life. By forming a deep, supportive friendship, the two women join forces in a shared struggle to “make the impossible possible.”
Succederà questa notte / It Will Happen TonightNanni Moretti (Italy)Country(ies) of production: Italy – France – SpainCast: Louis Garrel, Jasmine TrincaMatteo is playing tennis when a woman in a bride’s dress runs onto the court. It’s Greta. She kicks off her shoes, grabs a racket and invites him to play. For seven years, the woman will never be far from Matteo’s mind. As they follow their paths and parallel lives, fate seems determined to keep them apart. But one day they run into each other again and now, perhaps, their time has come. Will it happen tonight?
TanglesLeah Nelson (Canada)Country(ies) of production: Canada – USAVoices: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Samira WileyWhen Alzheimer’s begins to erase her mother’s personality, Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90’s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family’s conservative small town. Initially confident she can manage the situation, she soon realizes she must accept the harsh, disorienting reality of the disease to become the daughter her family needs.
The InviteOlivia Wilde (USA)Country(ies) of production: USACast: Olivia Wilde, Seth Roger, Penélope Cruz, Edward NortonJoe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic neighbours, Pina and Hawk, round for dinner, a seemingly innocent evening gives way to confessions, hidden desires and situations that are as awkward as they are funny, putting their relationship to the test.
The Man I LoveIra Sachs (USA)Country(ies) of production: USA – FranceCast: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, Luther Ford, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Tom SturridgeIn the vibrant New York of the late 80s, Jimmy George, a famous underground artist, is experiencing a decisive moment in his life in which, despite everything, beauty and love are still possible.
Wild Horse NineMartin McDonagh (United Kingdom)Country(ies) of production: USA – UK – ChileCast: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girolamo, Ailin SalasShortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee set out to Easter Island from Santiago, where they are stationed alongside their boss and bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
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