The 59th San Sebastian International Film Festival will fill the streets of the basque city with movies and glamor from this friday up to saturday 24th. This year the Official Selection accounts 20 movies, like Amen directed by the korean Kim Ki Duk or the world premiere of the french movie Intouchables directed by Eric Toledano y Olivier Nakache. The spanish director Álex de la Iglesia and the chinese actress Bai Ling will be part of the jury that will decide which movies deserves the Golden Shell.

In addition to the Official Selection there will be 20 other selection of movies, each one with dedicated to a different theme, like spanish movies, latino movies, mexican movies, chinese movies and even films for the kids.

This year the Donostia prize goes to the famous and awarded Glenn Close who will present her last movie Albert Nobbs directed by Rodrigo García, which even though it is on the Official Selection it will not participate to the competition. If you don’t know Glenn Close, she played the role of Patty Hewes a brilliant and manipulator lawyer on the drama series Damages, this interpretation lead her to be awarded with two Emmys and a Golden Globe.

During the next week you can also enjoy exhibitions like the one dedicated to the italian director Federico Fellini or another one dedicated to International Amnesty.

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Wednesday 14 September 2011 20:11 | Published by Blogtelopia-krds2 | Categoriy: General Tourism,events