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Many titles already announced for this year's competition were by filmmakers who are established either as directors --- Claude Chabrol with "Rien ne va plus" and John Sayles' Spanish-lingo "Men With Guns" (Hombres armados) --- or screenwriters (William Nicholson with "Firelight").
But fest director Diego Galan also has chosen lesser-known helmers for the 16-pic official competition: Paddy Breathnach's "I Went Down," admired at the recent Edinburgh Fest; "J'irai au paradis, car l'enfer c'est ici," by France's Xavier Durringer; the German-French co-production "Obsession," helmed by Peter Sehr; Lavinia Currier's "Simoon: A Passion in the Desert" (U.S.); and Andreas Gruber's "Die Schuld der Liebe," an Austrian-Swiss film.
The 45th San Sebastian Fest opens Sept. 18 with "My Best Friend's Wedding" and closes Sept. 27 with the European preem of David Fincher's "The Game."
Tex-Mex road movie
"Perdita" is described by those who have seen rushes as a wild Tex-Mex road movie, and the local industry buzz had been that the pic would not be ready for the festival.
But it has been speeded through post-production in Madrid, and will now play Sept. 25 on a megascreen at San Sebastian's Velodrome in what looks like one of the standout events of the fest.
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