Soshite chichi ni naru / Like Father, Like Son

Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)

Two years after presenting Kiseki / IWish at the Festival, Hirozaku Kore-eda returns to San Sebastian with his latest film, winner of the Jury Award at the last Festival de Cannes. This time Kore-eda tells the story of a man who must make a life-changing decision and choose between his natural son and the son he believed was his after spending 6 years together.

About Time

Richard Curtis (UK)

This comedy directed by Richard Curtis, helmer of films like Love Actually and the screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones's Diary, was presented at the Locarno Film Festival. At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time. His father tells him that all of the men in his family have had the same gift.

Wolf

Jim Taihuttu (Netherlands)

Majid is a talented kickboxer from a grim suburb in The Netherlands. After a stint in prison, gym owner Ben takes him under his wing, but when criminal boss Hakan shows interest in his skills, Majid begins to lose sight of what it is he really wants

Quai d'Orsay

Bertrand Tavernier (France)

Bertrand Tavernier, one of the great masters of contemporary French cinema, adapts in his new film the comic of the same name by Lanzac & Blain, a political satire revolving around Alexandre Tallard de Vorms, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, a man who calls on the powerful and invokes the mighty to bring peace, to calm the trigger-happy, and to cement his aura of Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-waiting. With a brilliant cast including Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Anaïs Demoustier, Julie Gayet, Joséphine de La Baume and Jane Birkin.

The Railway Man

Jonathan Teplitzky (UK-Australia)

Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgård, the film is based on the true story of Eric Lomax, a British officer fascinated with railways since childhood. During World War II he was captured by the Japanese and sent to a work camp on the Burma-Thailand railway line where he and his fellow prisoners were forced to survive the torture inflicted on them by their captors in extreme conditions. Years later, Lomax is retired and lives in the north of England with his wife Patricia, focussed on his passion for trains, when he discovers that the Japanese soldier responsible for a large part of his suffering is still alive...

Pelo malo (Bad Hair)

Mariana Rondón (Venezuela-Peru-Germany)

The third film from the filmmaker and plastic artist Mariana Rondón stars Junior, a 9 year-old with "bad hair". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him, until he is cornered, face to face with a painful decision.

Oktober November / October November

Götz Spielmann (Austria)

Götz Spielmann, reputed Austrian director nominated for an Academy Award in 2008 for his film Revanche, brings us his new film about two sisters who grew up in a hotel in the Austrian Alps, no longer in use. Sonja now lives in Berlin. Her sister Verena, who is a little older, has never left the village. For Sonja it is high time to visit her family once again, and the scenes of her childhood. The reunion slowly but relentlessly brings to light old conflicts between the two sisters.

Mon âme par toi guérie (My Soul Healed by You)

François Dupeyron (France)

Fourteen years after winning the Golden Shell with C'est quoi la vie?, François Dupeyron returns with his new film. When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.

Dallas Buyers Club

Jean-Marc Vallée (USA)

The Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée made an international name for himself with his prizewinning film C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) and has since directed The Young Victoria (2009) and Café de Flore (2011). In the fact-based drama, Spirit Award winner Matthew McConaughey portrays real-life Texas electrician Ron Woodroof, an ordinary man who found himself in a life-or-death battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies. In 1985, Ron was blindsided by being diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. With the U.S. still internally divided over how to combat the virus and restricting medications, Ron grabbed hold of non-toxic alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Seeking to avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, he established a "buyers club", which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies.

Pelo malo (Bad Hair)

Mariana Rondón (Venezuela-Peru-Germany)

The third film from the filmmaker and plastic artist Mariana Rondón stars Junior, a 9 year-old with "bad hair". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him, until he is cornered, face to face with a painful decision.