Eleven projects spread across the two WIP sections of the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival

17-08-2023

by Alfonso Rivera

Five European projects will be presented in the WIP Europe section and six Latin American ones (three of them in co-production with Europe) in the WIP Latam section of the festival’s industry area.

There are five productions in the of WIP Europe selection, the industry initiative of the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival to be held from 25 – 27 September and is aimed at films of primarily European production currently in the post-production phase and detailed below.

German director Michael Fetter Nathansky (You Tell Me [+]) will present Every You Every Me [+](working title: Mannequins), provisional title of his second film, a drama about the magic of falling in love and the painful process of falling out of love. Sima’s Song [+] is the second feature film by Afghan film maker Roya Sadat (A Letter to the President), a Spanish co-production with the Netherlands and France set in her home country before the outbreak of the civil war, telling story of a confrontation between two friends with opposing political positions.

Rock Bottom [+], a co-production between Spain and Poland and the work of Maria Trénor,is an animation inspired by the life and music of Robert Wyatt. Hungarian film maker Mihaly Schwechtje (Hope you’ll die next time 🙂 [+]) is included with his second feature film, A Hunt for Hedgehogs (Sundvadaszat), about a student opera singer who looks after her cousin’s children. The final entry in this WIP section is the début work from Turkish film maker Zeynep Köprülü, On the Water Surface (Suyun Yüzü), in which the main character travels to her hometown to attend her mother’s second wedding, which takes her own her own inner journey.

The WIP Europe Industry Award consists of the post-production of one of the candidate films into a DCP subtitled in English and Spanish, as well as distribution in Spain.

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