The
selection of films that will compete for the Kutxa-New Directors Award has been
released. Sixteen first or second movies directed by emerging talents, a new
generation of filmmakers from all around the world: United States of America,
Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland,
Ukraine, Holland and Belgium. As previously announced, one of the films is a
Spanish production, and two are co-productions with our country.
All
films selected will compete for the Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an
international specific jury carrying €€50,000.
El árbol magnético (The magnetic tree)
Isabel
Ayguavives (Spain-Chile)
A young boy's return
to the country of his birth, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the
country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to
bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local
curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and
affections in the boy.
CI YAN DE YANG GUANG (The Blinding Sunlight)
Yu
Liu (China)
The
real life of a low-income family living in the southern part of Beijing, which
mainly lives on social benefits
Câinele Japonez / Japanese Dog (Japanese Dog)
Tudor
Cristian Jurgiu (Romania)
What does it take to change a solitary
life? After twenty years, an old man, widowed by the recent floods, and his
son, who has been living in Japan, see each other again for the first time.
Their expectations run high and during this brief reencounter, both try to
overcome the distance that has grown between them.
La
Dune (The Dune)
Yossi
Aviram (France-Israel)
Through
the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will
meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page
that they both need to turn for good.
LAS HORAS MUERTAS (THE EMPTY HOURS)
Aarón
Fernández (Mexico-France-Spain)
The
second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already
screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival.
Sebastián, 17, manages his uncle’s cosy rent-by-the-hour motel on the coast of
Veracruz. Miranda, 35, occasionally meets her lover in the Motel, but he often
arrives late. During that spare time, Sebastián and Miranda will become closer
and closer.
Hross í oss / Of Horses and Men (Of Horses and Men)
Benedikt
Erlingsson (Iceland-Germany)
A
country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human.
Love and death become interlaced with immense consequences. The fortunes of the
people in the countryside through the horses' perception.
Levaya Bazaharaim / Funeral at Noon (Funeral at Noon)
Adam
Sanderson (Israel)
In
a small village, Hagar Erlich is somewhat of an alien, unable to find her place
in the town community and in her own life as a newlywed. In the ruins of an
enchanted, abandoned village she will find her secret hideaway.
Losejas / The Gambler (The Gambler)
Ignas
Jonynas (LITHUANIA-LATVIA)
Paramedic
Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to
return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related
to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
Luton (LUTON)
MICHALIS
KONSTANTATOS (Greece)
Jimmy,
Mary and Makis are three people living their everyday day life in an entirely
different manner. They seem to have nothing in common and normally they shouldn’t even know each other…
Mother of George (Mother of George)
Andrew
Dosunmu (USA)
Adenike
and Ayodele are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the celebration
of their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a
child. Adenike has to make a decision that could either save her family or
destroy it.
POR LAS PLUMAS (ALL ABOUT THE FEATHERS)
NETO
VILLALOBOS (Costa Rica)
A
black comedy about Chalo, a lone security guard who acquires his first gamecock
and discovers the bittersweet taste of friendship.
Puppy Love (Puppy Love)
Delphine
Lehericey (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)
Diane
is a mysterious 14-year-old girl. She is always busy looking after her younger
brother, Marc, and has an intense relationship with her father, Christian. The
appearance in her neighbourhood of Julia, a charming young English girl, sends
Diana's life into a spin.
El rayo (El Rayo (Hassan´s Way))
Fran
Araújo, Ernesto de Nova Roldán (Spain-Portugal)
The
odyssey of Hassan, a Moroccan immigrant who can no longer find work in Spain
after thirteen years in the country and decides to go home. He puts all his
savings into a second-hand tractor to secure a living in Morocco and sets out
to drive it back. When he came to Spain he had nothing, now he's returning with
his only belonging: el Rayo.
Wolf (Wolf)
Jim
Taihuttu (Holland)
Majid
is a talented kickboxer from a grim suburb in The Netherlands. After a stint in
prison, gym owner Ben takes him under his wing, but when criminal boss Hakan
shows interest in his skills, Majid begins to lose sight of what it is he
really wants…
Yozgat Blues (Yozgat Blues)
MAHMUT
FAZIL COSKUN (Turkey-Germany)
Sabri,
a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle of Anatolia - has an
emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who come to the town to
sing in a small music hall-bar. This will also affect Neşe and Yavuz. None of
their desires will be how they want them to be.
Zelena Kofta / The Green Jacket (The Green Jacket)
Volodymyr
Tykhyy (Ukraine)
In
the suburbs of the city a 7-years old boy disappears. After months of fruitless
searches the boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident
that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Is this enough to justify a terrible
revenge
