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Mike Leigh’s latest characteristic Tender Loving Care and My Sad Dead, a caller bid from Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, are among nan titles that were announced this greeting for nan San Sebastian Film Festival. Scroll down for nan afloat database of titles.
My Sad Dead will surface astatine San Sebastian successful its feature-length format. The bid stars Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi, and Carolina Álvarez. The task is based connected 4 short stories by Mariana Enríquez, and tells nan communicative of Ema, a female pinch nan expertise to spot and perceive nan dead. The San Sebastian screening will beryllium a World Premiere.
Leigh’s Tender Loving Care will get astatine San Sebastian aft a world premiere astatine TIFF. Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O’Flynn, and Alice Bailey Johnson prima successful nan film. No synopsis for Tender Loving Care has been provided connected either nan San Sebastian aliases TIFF website. San Sebastian simply describes nan movie arsenic an “insightful exploration of nan modern world.”
Other titles added to San Sebastian coming see 7:40 ce matin-là / Milo, nan latest characteristic movie from Nicole Garcia. Marion Cotillard and Théodore Pellerin prima successful nan project, which tells nan communicative of a female caller retired of jailhouse arsenic she takes connected a waitress occupation successful a café to get person to a young boy who useful successful nan area.
Norwegian filmmaker Hans Petter Moland besides returns to nan San Sebastian Official Selection pinch Markens Grode /Growth of nan Soil, a communicative group successful bluish Norway astir a mates who must put their emotion to nan trial erstwhile faced pinch looming challenges. The movie is based connected nan Nobel Prize-winning caller by Knut Hamsun.
Today’s titles subordinate nan 9 films already announced for nan Official Selection. Those titles see El mal padre, from Roberto Bueso; Sants / Saints, from Mikel Gurrea; and 5 minutos más / 5 much minutes, from Javier Ruiz Caldera.
The 2026 San Sebastian Film Festival runs from September 18 to 26.
San Sebastian 2026:
7:40 ce matin-là / MILO
Nicole Garcia (Algeria)
Country(ies) of production: France. Cast: Marion Cotillard, Théodore Pellerin, Artus , Laure Calamy, Alexis Manenti, Anne Brochet, Eric Elmosnino, Charles Berling
Alice arrives successful a quiet provincial municipality and takes a occupation astatine a section café, blending easy into a life that isn’t hers. Her beingness is nary coincidence. She is location because of Milo, a young mechanic who useful astatine a adjacent garage. To him, Alice is simply a stranger. To her, he is personification tied to a past she has ne'er genuinely near behind. As buried tensions statesman to aboveground and Milo drifts toward uncertain ground, some are pushed to a crossroads: is it imaginable to rebuild a enslaved that shattered decades ago?
Artakalan / What Remains
Yeşim Ustaoğlu (Turkey)
Country(ies) of production: Turkey – France – Luxembourg – Bulgaria. Cast: Öykü Karayel, Metin Akdülger, Ali Kayra Kul, İlyas Salman
A poetess breaks retired of her suffocating life successful bid to get backmost successful touch pinch her soul sound and conscience, questioning accustomed concepts of family and nan meaning of life and paving a caller way for her family members, arsenic well.
Glaxo
Benjamín Naishtat (Argentina)
Country(ies) of production: Brazil – Argentina. Cast: Lali Espósito, Marcelo Subiotto, Esteban Bigliardi, Esteban Lamothe, Manu Fanego, Alan Sabbagh
Chivilcoy, 1957. In a quiet Argentinian town, nan presence of an ominous erstwhile constabulary commissioner and his seductive woman fractures nan enslaved betwixt 4 inseparable young men. Decades later, nan past resurfaces, forcing them to face aged wounds, guilt, and nan anticipation of revenge successful a state which has mislaid its innocence.
Markens Grode / Growth of nan Soil
Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
Country(ies) of production: Norway – Denmark – Germany. Cast: Herbert Nordrum, Asta Kamma August, Gard B. Eidsvold
A alien appears complete nan mountain, carrying small much than his determination. Isak, a man without a past, seeks a spot to settee and carve life from nan earth. High supra nan character line, he finds a barren agelong of land, arsenic unforgiving arsenic it is afloat of promise. The onshore tests him to his limits, until he meets Inger, a solitary female shaped by resilience and quiet secrecy. Together, they strengthen nan elements and build a life, cultivating some nan ungraded and a increasing family arsenic nan seasons turn. Yet arsenic years walk and nan world closes in, and time, hardship, and desire reshape them.
Mis muertos tristes / My Sad Dead
Pablo Larraín (Chile)
Country(ies) of production: Argentina – Chile. Cast: Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi, Carolina Álvarez
Based connected nan work from Mariana Enriquez and directed by Pablo Larraín, My Sad Dead follows Ema, who tin spot and perceive nan dead. After her mother’s death, Ema receives an unexpected sojourn from her niece Julie, pinch whom she shares nan aforesaid unsettling gift. With Julie’s return, family secrets and wounds that ne'er afloat healed will resurface —but truthful will a unusual arena from which nary 1 will look unscathed. The full vicinity will consciousness presences and perceive nan unique sounds of their ain dead.
Muyou nary hito / In My Father’s Room
Maha Harada (Japan)
Country(ies) of production: Japan. Cast: Yu Aoi, Issey Ogata, Eita Nagayama, Eri Watanabe
Satomi useful astatine an creation depository until an letter cover arrives, containing a mysterious key. It leads to an chartless room erstwhile belonging to her precocious father, who died unsocial a period earlier. Drawn by this mini object, she retraces his last days: a man seemingly near down by society, yet sustained by a quiet devotion to words, nan creation of tea, and subtle beauty. Through nan traces of his solitude, Satomi slow discovers nan quiet grace of nan world he inhabited.
Tender Loving Care
Mike Leigh (United Kingdom)
Country(ies) of production: United Kingdom – USA – Singapore. Cast: Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O’Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson
Cannes Festival’s Palme d’Or victor and Academy Award nominee Mike Leigh returns pinch his adjacent characteristic film, continuing his insightful exploration of nan modern world.
