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New Mike Leigh, Pablo Larrain Films in San Sebastian Competition

The festival adds world premieres and returning directors, including Pablo Larraín’s adaptation of Mariana Enríquez stories and Mike Leigh’s new feature.

  • On Tuesday, the San Sebastian Film Festival revealed new competition titles featuring works from acclaimed directors Mike Leigh, Pablo Larraín, and Hans Petter Moland.
  • Running September 18-26 in the Basque Country, the 74th San Sebastian Film Festival continues blending established international auteurs with emerging talent in its Official Selection.
  • Competition entries include Leigh's 'Tender Loving Care' and Moland's 'Growth of the Soil,' alongside a 4-hour feature version of Larraín's Netflix horror miniseries 'My Sad Dead.'
  • Additional selections feature French director Nicole Garcia's 'Milo,' Japanese novelist Maha Harada's directorial debut 'In My Father's Room,' and Yeşim Ustaoğlu's 'What Remains.'
  • These entries join three Spanish features announced July 17: Mikel Gurrea's 'Sants,' Javier Ruiz Caldera's 'Five Minutes,' and Roberto Bueso's 'El mal padre,' completing the main competition lineup.
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The name of the Chilean filmmaker joins others such as those of veteran Mike Leigh or Argentine Benjamin Naishtat in the Official Section of the 74th edition of the Donostiarra competition

·Madrid, Spain
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The production will be presented in the competition of the Official Section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, in a feature film format. Then, by the end of September, it will arrive in Netflix.

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Pablo Larraín will present the fiction in feature-length format in the contest, and will face the films of Nicole Garcia, Maha Harada, Hans Petter Moland, Benjamin Naishtat and Yeşim Ustaoğlu A prestigious translator of Homer attacks 'The Odyssey' of Nolan: "I would be ashamed to have written some of it" The San Sebastian Film Festival announced on Tuesday that Mike Leigh, Pablo Larrain, Nicole Garcia, Maha Harada, Hans Petter Moland, Benjamin N…

·Madrid, Spain
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EL NACIONAL broke the news on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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