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San Sebastian´s official Presentation of the 72nd EditionA long list of prestigious filmmakers, actors, screenwriters and producers have confirmed their presence in San Sebastian for the Festival’s 72nd edition. As well as Donostia Award-winners Pedro Almodóvar, Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem – the latter of whom was recognised at the last edition but has been unable to collect his tribute until now – the following will come to San Sebastian to present their movies: Pamela Anderson, Monica Bellucci, Jamie Campbell Bower, Úrsula Corberó, Johnny Depp, Ester Expósito, Andrew Garfield, Karla Sofía Gascón, Isabelle Huppert, Moses Ingram, Noémie Merlant, Ángela Molina, Franco Nero, Lupita Nyong’o, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sharpe and Tilda Swinton As well as the above, important filmmakers from the field of contemporary moviemaking will accompany their latest proposals, such as Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Leos Carax, Costa-Gavras, Gia Coppola, Audrey Diwan, Arnaud Desplechin, Mati Diop, Adam Elliot, Coralie Fargeat, Payal Kapadia, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Mike Leigh, Joshua Oppenheimer, François Ozon, Mohammad Rasoulof, Walter Salles, Jane Schoenbrun and Paolo Sorrentino. Many of these figures will visit in connection with the Official Selection. The director Audrey Diwan together with actors Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower and Chacha Huang will accompany the opening movie, Emmanuelle. To close the Festival, director John Crowley will come to the city with actor Andrew Garfield to present We Live in Time. San Sebastian will also be visited by the director and star of The Last Showgirl, Gia Coppola and Pamela Anderson, and by the director of The End, Joshua Oppenheimer and the actress Moses Ingram. Costa-Gavras will come with a representation of the cast of his film Le dernier souffle / Last Breath led by Charlotte Rampling, Ángela Molina and Marilyne Canto, and the authors of the book of the same name on which the film is based, the writer Claude Grange and the philosopher Régis Debray. Director Mike Leigh will come with the actress Mariane Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) and François Ozon with the actresses Hélen Vincent and Josiane Balasko and the actor Pierre Lottin (Quand vient l'automne / When Fall is Coming). Others also coming to San Sebastian are the director of Conclave, Edward Berger, and the star of Hebi no michi / Serpent’s Path, Damien Bonnard, while Johnny Depp will present his second movie as a director, Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, out of competition, accompanied by the film cast (Riccardo Scamarcio, Antonia Desplat, Bruno Goeury, Luisa Raineri and Ryan McParland). Coming to accompany movies in Perlak are the filmmaker Jacques Audiard and the actor Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez); the director Coralie Fargeat with The Substance; the director Emmanuel Courcol and the actor Pierre Lottin (En Fanfare / The Marching Band); the filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Parthenope); the actress and producer Monica Bellucci and the director Yannis Dimolitsas (Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs); the director Walter Salles (Ainda Estou Aquí / I’m Still Here); the moviemaker Sean Baker (Anora); the director Payal Kapadia with actresses Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam (All We Imagine As Light); the actress Isabelle Huppert, star of Yeohaengjaui pilyo / A Traveler's Needs; the filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof zuzendaria and the actors Misagh Zare, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostam, Setareh Maleki and Niousha Akhsni (Daney anjir maabed / The Seed of the Sacred Fig); the director Adam Elliot (Memoir of a Snail); Bird’s protagonist, newcomer Nykiya Adams; and the director Chris Sanders and the actresses Lupita Nyong’o, Macarena García and Álvaro Morte with The Wild Robot. Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will enjoy the visit of both long-standing filmmakers and new talents: the winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Mati Diop (Dahomey, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera opening film); the winner of the Golden Shell with Beginning Dea Kulumbegashvili, who will present Aprili / April; Hiroshi Okuyama, winner of New Directors with his debut film, Boku wa Iesu-sama ga kirai / Jesus, who will present Boku no ohisama / My Sunshine (Un Certain Regard). Arnaud Desplechin, with the tribute to Spectateurs! / Filmlovers! following its screening at Cannes; Leos Carax and producer Tatiana Bouchain presenting C'est pas moi / It's Not Me; and Jane Schoenbrun, the director of We're All Going to the World's Fair, with their second feature, I Saw the TV Glow, after participating at Sundance and Berlin. The legendary Italian actor Franco Nero will accompany the retrospective Violent Italy. Italian Crime Films and, in particular, the film Il giorno della civetta / The Day of the Owl (Damiano Damiani, 1968), in which he stars.
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