The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016 present a season of films reflecting on some of contemporary society’s great conflicts |
Joshua Oppenheimer, whose film "The Act of Killing" lends the season its name, will be present at the San Sebastian Festival. The Act of Killing. Cinema and global violence is the title of the thematic retrospective forming part of the programme of the San Sebastian Festival’s 64th edition. A selection of 32 films aiming to reflect the times we live in, the situations of violence that exist all over the world: wars, terrorism, territorial occupation, human rights violations, genocides, etc. The season will include some of the most dramatic episodes to have taken place worldwide in recent decades: the activities of terrorist groups such as the IRA or ETA, State terrorism, clashes in the African continent, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the Ukraine war, the violence in certain Latin American countries, the situation of the Sahrawi people, the genocides in Cambodia and Indonesia or Jihadi terrorism. The retrospective includes both fictional and non-fiction titles by prominent contemporary filmmakers including Paul Greengrass, Joshua Oppenheimer, Heddy Honigmann, Hubert Sauper, Amat Escalante, Rithy Panh, Christian Petzold, Steve McQueen, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Danis Tanović, Sergei Loznitsa, Bahman Ghobadi, Ziad Doueiri, Hany Abu-Assad and Julio Medem, among others. The season will also include the premiere of one of the pieces of Europa Transit, a San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016 project consisting of the filming of ten documentaries on the current situation of some ten cities which have been or are today the witnesses of conflicts. The selected films do not stop at being simple witnesses to these conflicts that have caused and will continue to cause so much death and suffering, but have the ability to serve as a weapon of condemnation, as a vehicle for analysis or as a form of direct intervention in many of these tragic problems. Although the aim of the season is not to be exhaustive when addressing potential subjects, countries involved or films, it does endeavour to offer a selection of titles that will help us to analyse some of these realities while watching good cinema. The season is organised jointly with San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016, and has the collaboration of the San Telmo Museum, the Filmoteca Vasca and CulturArts-IVAC (Valencia).
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