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San Sebastian Fest’s Ikusmira Berriak Unveils New Projects, Including a Mermaid Horror Thriller and a Queer Cowboy Tale
Ikusmira Berriak, backed by the San Sebastián Festival and one of Spain’s most prominent development programs, unveils 2025 projects.
This year, for example, at least four of the six projects register warped societal pressures via physical metamorphosis, enrolling genre to depict such correlatives such as collapse (“La Koreana”), disappearance (“900 Tons), trans-gender transformation (“Cowboy Billi”) and even literal bestialization (“Mermaids”). Ikusmira Berriak’s six projects for its 2025 residency are drawn from students of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, contenders at the last five editions of San Sebastián’s international film school forum Nest, the Basque Country, Spain and the rest of the world. Set again in rural Spain, in this case a village in Jaén province, north of Granada, a story based on the figure of Spanish mystic poet San Juan de la Cruz and the friendship between two young queer people, Luz and Pedro, and the dying Omar.
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