The Tabakalera cinema hosted the presentation of the San Sebastian Film Festival's 73rd edition, to offer a total of 254 titles from 56 countries. At the start of the event, the Festival director, José Luis Rebordinos, and the Head of Communications, Ruth Pérez de Anucita, read a statement on the Gaza genocide before revealing the list of personalities who will visit the city from September 19 to 27.

A long list of filmmakers, actors, producers and screenwriters have confirmed their attendance at the Festival's 73rd edition. As well as the Donostia Award-winners Esther García and Jennifer Lawrence, figures including Juliette Binoche, Paul Dano, Harris Dickinson, Matt Dillon, Colin Farrell, Denis Lavant, Maria de Medeiros, Ron Perlman, Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgard will come to San Sebastián to present their latest films. Other big names in the contemporary filmmaking world such as Olivier Assayas, Edward Berger, Arnaud Desplechin, Claire Denis, Hasan Hadi, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Agnieszka Holland, Richard Linklater, Kleber Mendonça Filho, François Ozon, Jafar Panahi, Raoul Peck, Joachim Trier and Rebecca Zlotowski will present their latest proposals to the public and the media.

A good many of these presences will be linked to the competitive Official Selection: the director Edward Berger and the actors Colin Farrell and Fala Chen (Ballad of a Small Player); the filmmaker Claire Denis and the actors Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Tom Blyth and the screenwriter Suzanne Lindon  (Le Cri des gardes / The Fence ); the director Arnaud Desplechin and the cast members Nadia Tereszkiewicz, François Civil and Hippolyte Girardot (Deux pianos); he director Alice Winocour, the actresses Ella Rumpf and Anyier Anei (Couture); the director Agnieszka Holland (Franz); the screenwriter and director James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg); the director Joachim Lafosse and the actress Eye Haïdara (Six jours ce printemps-là / Six Days in Spring); the actress Juliette Binoche, who brings her directorial debut (In-I in Motion), and the British actress Lesley Manville, who will accompany the director Kasia Adamik (Winter of the Crow).

Participants in other sections too will walk the red carpets and attend the meetings with the public. Actor Denis Lavant will come to San Sebastián for the premiere of Värn in New Directors and the screening of L'Étranger / The Stranger in Perlak together with François Ozon and Benjamin Voisin, and the actor Harris Dickinson and the producer and screenwriter Alex Russell will present their respective directorial debuts, Urchin and Lurker in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera. Perlak will congregate Olivier Assayas and the actor Paul Dano (Le mage du Kremlin / The Wizard of the Kremlin); the filmmaker Hasan Hadi (Mamlaket al-Qasab / The President's Cake); the actors Saja Kilani and Motaz Malhees (The Voice of Hind Rajab); Richard Linklater (Nouvelle vague);  Jafar Panahi (Un simple accident / It Was Just an Accident); Joachim Trier, accompanied by the actress Renata Reinsve and the actor Stellan Skarsgård (Affeksjonverdi / Sentimental Value); Rebecca Zlotowski (Vie privée / A Private Life); and Hlynur Pálmason (Ástin sem eftir er / The Love That Remains), who will also premiere a film in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera (Jóhanna af Örk / Joan of Arc) and has an exhibition at the Tabakalera centre for contemporary culture.

In addition, two of the world's finest soundtrack composers, Alexandre Desplat and Alberto Iglesias, will attend the Festival to take part in a conversation, details of which will be provided next

Ozon is presenting as part of the official selection a new adaptation for the big screen of one of the most complex novels of the 20th century.

"L'étranger" by Alexandre Camus is difficult to translate into images, and even Luchino Visconti, with his 1967 adaptation, could not escape unscathed.

Great actors, great cinematography and a modern look on existentialism and still "The Stranger" is not the best film of this year competition.

But in its radical and almost too faithful adherence to the novel, it succeeds in creating a new perspective, a contemporary and moving look on Colonial Algeria and creates compassion with the simple man who can not escape his destiny.

And we? Can we excape our destiny? A philosophical film with many layers and an invite to rethink existence.

Alice Kanterian 

Ozon is presenting as part of the official selection a new adaptation for the big screen of one of the most complex novels of the 20th century.

"L'étranger" by Alexandre Camus is difficult to translate into images, and even Luchino Visconti, with his 1967 adaptation, could not escape unscathed.

Great actors, great cinematography and a modern look on existentialism and still "The Stranger" is not the best film of this year competition.

But in its radical and almost too faithful adherence to the novel, it succeeds in creating a new perspective, a contemporary and moving look on colonial Algeria and creates compassion with the simple man who can not escape his destiny.

And we? Can we excape our destiny? A philosophical film with many layers and an invite to rethink existence.

Alice Kanterian 

Emma Corrin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Myha’la, Alisha Boe, and Sarah Catherine Hook all step up for the conversation series at the Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission Space.

Still: Autobiography of a Handbag by Joanna Hogg

Joanna Hogg, one of the U.K.’s leading women filmmakers, director of The Eternal Daughter starring Tilda Swinton, and Giornate degli Autori jury president in 2024; and Alice Diop, French author who in 2022 won the Grand Jury Prize and the Lion of the Future at Venice 2022, for her first feature film, Saint Omer: these are the filmmakers selected for the 2025 Miu Miu Women’s Tales showcase. Their short films will be screened at Giornate degli Autori on Saturday, August 30th, at 4:15pm, in the Sala Perla at the Palazzo del Casinò.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HANDBAG by Joanna Hogg (Italy, 2025, 24’) is an unconventional journey seen from the point of view of the Miu Miu Wander bag: from socially codified spaces like ultra-modern factories, enormous Italian villas, to run-down urban outskirts, passing from one owner to another, from a privileged teenager to a working-class killer, what emerges is a silent account of contemporary Italy, made of joys, sorrows, desperation and desire. FRAGMENTS FOR VENUS by Alice Diop (United States, France, 2025, 21’) is instead a reflection on the representation of the black woman body in the history of arts, freely inspired by the poem Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015) by the American poet Robin Coste Lewis.

The Miu Miu Women’s Tales project was born in 2012 and is a bright example of an artistic partnership between two different industries, who share the common goal of valorizing women’s talent and creativity. Every year, Miu Miu, Creative Partner of Giornate degli Autori, commissions two acclaimed women authors the creation of a short film each; the shorts are screened during the Venice Film Festival, with their directors and casts in attendance.

Still: Fragments for Venus by Alice Diop

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