Jonatan Etzler’s “Bad Apples” and Stroma Cairns’ “The Son and the Sea” are two of the 14 titles selected for the new directors of San Sebastián of this year Strand, the largest side bar outside the main festival competition, as well as its Latino Horizontes section.
Standing Jason Anderson “Game of Thrones” and “Hanna”, Saoirse Ronan and describes as a primary school that bites satirical comedy with Thriller elements, Bad Apples “Reps the English-Language Build of Swedish Writer-Director Etzler (One More Time”). Hanway films launched in 2023 years.
A winner of the Bafta TV Award for the “Mood” mini-series, on which she made three of her six episodes, “The Son and the Sea” in Cairns marks her debut, a tape of sleight of hand on the northeast coast of Scotland.
Locating the first or second features, the new directors also adopts “AS We Breath”, from Turkey Seyhmus Altun, which made the WIP Europa Cup of San Sebastian, and “Redoubt”, the fictional beginnings of John Skoog of Sweden, a CPH: Dox Winner with “Ridge”.
There is a good word of mouth on “White Flowers and Fruits” by Yukari Sakamoto, a drama tinged with supernatural in a Christian boarding school for girls, and on the tribeny Rai bazaar, presented in the village of 2024 in the in progress bazaar. The film aims to reshape the position of women in society, Variety observed.
Titles of new directors:
“Bad apples”, “ (Jonathan Etzler, United Kingdom)
Based on Rasmus Lindgren, with a scenario by Jess O’kane, “Bad Apples” turns on a primary school teacher (Ronan) who takes desperate measures to control an unruly student. “Jonatan has an unrivaled capacity to create a hilarious and horrible cinema from the uncomfortable truths of human nature,” commented the producer of pulse film, Oskar Pimlott.
“While we breathe”, (Seyhmus Altun, Türkiye)
“New Age” (alias “anecumen”, Irati Gorostidi, Spain)
Already announced, the expansion of the expected features of the short “contadores” of the week of the Basque director Gorostidi Gorostidi, which takes place in a hippie commune of the 70s in the mountains, housing idealists disillusioned by the Movement of Basque workers. From the leader Basque producer Leire calls via Apellaniz y de Sosa (“The Sacred Spirit”) and Sr. & Sra (“Samsara”), released in Spain by the Halage-Cross-Cross distributor Elástica Films.
“Before the right day”, (Tsao shih-ha, taiwan)
“Dance of the living”, “ (“Le Combat”, Jose Alayón, Spain)
One spacing on the arid island of Fuerteventura and arguing the world of traditional struggle, a relational drama with the two casts to death by the death of the woman and the mother of the family. Better known as a producer at El Viaje Films, an important international co -producer (“White on White”), the second film of Ayalón as a director, working with Ace Dp Mauro Herce (“Sirât”).
“Foreign lands”, ” (Anton Yarush, Sergey Borovkov, Russia)
“If we don’t burn, how do we light up at night,” (Kim Torres, Costa Rica)
“Nighttime sounds”, ” (Zhang Zhongchen, China)
“Redoubt,” (John Skoog, Sweden, Denmark)
“The form of Momo”, “ (Tribeny Rai, India)
“The son and the sea”, ” (Stroma Cairns, United Kingdom, United States)
Jonah, ADHD charismatically and created dyslexically, travels with the best companion Lee in the northeast of Scotland where they meet Charlie, who is deeply deaf. Their friendship leads Jonas to “discover the courage to be vulnerable and this joy is possible despite the loss”, explains the synopsis. Pic “Gather a personal experience and sons of family history to ask: how will boys become men if there is no one to show them the way? Cairns commented.
“Eneide”, ” Emilie Thalund, Denmark
“Flowers and white fruits”, ” Yukari Sakamoto (Japan)
More to come
