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The TCM-Audience Award comes with E30,000 ($37,000) for the Spanish distribber of the winning film.

Including seven films from Cannes, two from Berlin and three upcoming Venice titles, the festival-of-festivals section also features the Morgan Spurlock fast-food expose "Super Size Me," a Sundance breakout.

It's one of three documentaries in the section, which also showcases Hubert Sauper's analysis of an ecological disaster in Lake Victoria, "Darwin's Nightmare," to unspool at Venice, and Patricio Guzman's bio doc "Salvador Allende."

Per the San Sebastian festival org, the larger docu presence this year reflects a boom being experienced in this genre at all international events.

The Festival Tops section sports a strong presence of pics from established auteurs such as Agnes Jaoui's Cannes screenplay winner "Look at Me"; Xang Yimou's martial-arts extravaganza "House of Flying Daggers"; the critically admired "Moolaade" from Senegal's Ousmane Sembene; Jean Luc Godard's "Notre musique," for many critics a return to form; and two Venice screeners, Claude Chabrol's Ruth Rendell adaptation "The Bridesmaid" and Mike Leigh's "Vera Drake."

But the Festival Tops section is rounded up by two films up-and-coming directors: real-life transvestite kickboxer bio "Beautiful Boxer," from Singapore stage helmer Ekachai Uekrongtham, and "Whisky," the second film from Uruguayan directorial duo Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, a highlight of Cannes Un Certain Regard.

Festival Tops forms one half of the Zabaltegi sidebar, San Sebastian's main parallel section to its official competition. The other, Zabaltegi's New Directors panorama, was announced earlier this month.

The San Sebastian festival will run Sept. 17-25.