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The Australian director is premiering in Zinemaldia right after the film won the last edition of Festival de Annecy, the most important recognition for an animation film in the film festival world. 

Oscar winner in 2004 with his short film “Harvie Krumpet“, Adam Elliot competes in the Perlak section where “Memoir of a snail“ is one of only two animation films. The other one competing for the audience award is a US production, “The Wild Robot“. 

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The film is competing for the Golden Shell at the Festival and it is opening its 72nd edition. 

It is Audrey Diwan’s first time competing for the biggest prize in San Sebastián after participating as a member of the jury in the 2021 edition, one year after winning a Golden Lion in Venice for “L’événement“. 

Noémie Merlant is well known to SSIFF as she already presented, among others, the following films: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” by Sciamma, “The innocent” by Louis Garrel and “One Year, One Night” by Isaki Lacuesta

It is instead the first time in San Sebastián for Spanish actress Chacha Huang. 

The artists talk about their surprising decision of revisiting an  erotic cinema classic by giving it a contemporary look and a feminist approach. 

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In her controversial documentary “Russians at war”, the Canadian-Russian documentarist and reporter Anastasia Trofimova follows soldiers and medics on the front lines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Trofimova claims she filmed the Russian battalion over seven months without Moscow’s permission.

In the film, we see soldiers struggling with the mismanagement of the Russian armed forces. Some express doubts about the war and question their roles in it even as they proceed to follow orders and assert their patriotism.

Trofimova sais that focusing on, and humanizing Russian soldiers is a way to combat further anger and violence.

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At the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Justin Kurzel presents, in competition, “The Order“.

With Jude Law as lead actor and co-producer, the film is based on the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, a chronicle of the rapid rise and fall of a group of disaffected young white men.

Producer Bryan Haas and screenwriter Zach Baylin came across this provocative story and got inspired by a real-life terror plot led by Robert Jay “Bob” Mathews, a longtime member of the neo- Nazi group Aryan Nations.

Justin Kurzel, who had impressed the producing team pair with his talent for visual storytelling in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or nominee “Nitram“, was asked to direct after a conversation with lead actor and producer Jude Law.

The director points out that, even though it is a film that follows the rules of the thriller genre, “family is the theme that plays through all the characters”.

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“I Will Revenge The World With Love – S.Paradjanov” by Zara Jain is dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the world’s freest and most famous artist, filmmaker and incarcerated man. One of his most important messages is that, regardless of global chaos and geopolitical intrigue, we should all continue our work without becoming instruments of a harmful reality. Paradjanov’s story is proof of this truth, and for today’s artists it can serve as inspiration and guidance towards the only winning choice. we talked with the director  Zara Jian and the consultant Joel Chapron, last collaborator of Paradjanov.

For Zara Jian, constructing “I Will Revenge The World With Love – S.Paradjanov” was aimed at interpreting the theme of human freedom under conditions of unfreedom, when freedom is limited both by the borders of the totalitarian state and by the barbed wire surrounding the prison camp, as Paradjanov did for much of his life.

In her film, Zara Jian shows how the inspiration for creativity, inner freedom, and the use of art to fight and overcome abuse is a lesson that has taken root in the minds of many filmmakers of all generations, backgrounds and genres. In the interviews collected, which are more confessions and tributes than interviews, all or filmmakers honour Paradjanov for this, from Atom Eoyan to Emir Kusturica to Tarsem Singh.

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Ben Chaplin is one of the lead characters of the film “September 5” by Tim Fehlbaum, based on the media reaction and live coverage of the first ever  terrorist attack  to be shown on tv, at the Munich Olympics of 1972. Chaplin is the experienced  producer that is the moral conscience of the team, more concerned about the people behind the news than the news itself. Ben Chaplin  is also in awe of the director of the film that managed to keep the narrative tight and realistic.

Ben Chaplin talks about his character and even if he comes out as the thoughtful and the most grounded one, he is not sure that this was his nature. He met people and talk with former colleagues that testify he was a man with a temper, sometime rough but on this specific unexpected and unprecedented situation he showed to be able to keep calm and to look at the bigger picture.

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