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San Sebastian Unveils New Directors Strand, With New Pic From ‘Sound of Silence’ Director Michael Tyburski


Georgian Nice mafia thriller ‘In the Name of Blood’ and ‘Gulizar,’ from Turkey’s Belkis Bayrak, also added to the prestige sidebar.

Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of its New Directors competition, which takes in “Turn Me On,” the new feature from Michael Tyburski, helmer of Sundance hit “The Sound of Silence.” Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, an IFC Films U.S. pick-up, “Turn Me On,” a sci-fi romantic comedy, joins buzz titles in the section, the festival’s biggest sidebar, such as “In the Name of Blood,” a Nice-set Georgian mafia movie from Georgia’s Akaki Popkhadze, prized at Clermont Ferrand for his latest short, and “Gulizar,” the first feature from Turkish moviemaker Belkis Bayrak, about a young victim of sexual assault in the run-up to her wedding. Also selected for New Directors are “Winter in Sokcho,” from French-Japanese director Koya Kamura, starring Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim, “Regretfully at Dawn,” directed by Thai helmer Sivaroj Kongsakul, and “Stars and the Moon,” the second movie from China’s Yong

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