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San Sebastian: Nick Robinson & Bel Powley Sci-Fi Romance ‘Turn Me On’ Among Lineup For New Directors Strand


Among the New Directors lineup are films with Nick Robinson and Bel Powley, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Denis Lavant, and Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim.

Eleven filmmakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA will show their first and second films in the San Sebastian Festival’s (Sep 20-28) New Directors section. Starring names including Nicolas Duvauchelle, Florent Hill-Chouaki and Denis Lavant, Popkhadze’s debut following the murder of a pillar of the Georgian community is set in Nice; Having directed Walking in Darkness(2019), which premiered in the Bright Future section of the Rotterdam Festival, Chinese moviemaker Yongkang Tang(Taiyuan, 1983) will participate in New Directors with his second film, Stars and the Moon, about a boy from a mountain village who spends every day scouring the sky, convinced that he will see aliens.

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