A bevy of established auteurs – Joachim Lafosse, Cristi Puiu, Robin Campillo and Martín Rejtman – hitch shoulders with the fast-rising figures of Maria Alche and Benjamín Naishtat and caller U.S. find Raven Jackson among a archetypal batch of directors contending Successful main contention astatine September’s San Sebastian Film Festival. 

Also successful the mix, announced Friday, is U.S. writer-director Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”) whose “Ex-Husbands” headlines “After Hours” co-stars Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette. 

Always unfastened to a broader gamut of movies than galore different “A” festivals, the archetypal features confirmed for San Sebastian connected Friday see 4 comedies with a alteration of registry to lighter drama for some Naishtat and Alche, who triumphed astatine 2017’s San Sebastián with “Rojo” and “A Family Submerged,” champion manager and Horizontes winners respectively. 

The biggest movie lawsuit successful the Spanish-speaking world – which means ever much arsenic Spanish-language titles deed large viewerships connected streaming platforms – San Sebastian volition denote its Spanish titles connected July 17, which look acceptable to see immoderate of the astir awaited nationalist titles of the year, movie and TV, and 1 oregon 2 surprises. 

The San Sebastian Festival runs Sept. 22-30. 

Details of the archetypal main contention “Sección Oficial” movies are below:   

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” (Raven Jackson, U.S.)

Produced by Barry Jenkins, the debut diagnostic of poet, lensman and filmmaker Raven Jackson, a lyrical exploration of the beingness down the decades of a Black pistillate successful Mississipi. “The accomplishment of an arresting caller endowment successful Raven Jackson, astatine the precise slightest arsenic the creator of the benignant of cinema you bash not ticker arsenic overmuch arsenic interaction and odor and taste,” Variety wrote of “All Dirt Roads” disconnected its Sundance satellite premiere.

“Ex-Husbands,” (Noah Pritzker,” U.S.)

Griffin Dunne (“This Is Us”) stars with his “After Hours” co-star Rosanna Arquette (“Pulp Fiction”) on with Miles Heizer (“13 Reasons Why”), James Norton (“Little Women”) and Eisa Davis (“Mare of Easttown”) successful the ensemble formed of drama “Ex-Husbands,” from U.S. writer-director Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”). Dunne plays a begetter overwhelmed by beingness – impending divorce, his father’s possibly last unwellness – who takes a getaway to Tulum.  

“MMXX,” (Cristi Puiu, Romania) 

The latest from Puiu, whose “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” won a Cannes Un Certain Regard Award successful 2005, and is considered a instauration chromatic of Romania’s New Wave. An ensemble play turning connected a therapist, her younger member and her hubby and a constabulary inspector of organized crime, each obsessed by idiosyncratic issues But, says the synopsis, they basal “at the crossroads of history.” From Puiu, whose 2020 Berlinale Encounters opener “Malmkrog” took the strand’s champion manager award.

“The Practice,” (“La Práctica,” Martín Rejtman, Argentina, Chile, Brazil)

An Argentine yoga teacher surviving successful Chile separates, loses his flat, injures his knee, gives up yoga, goes to the gym, and, emblematic for Rejtman, adapts to circumstance, sometimes absurd.   “It’s a drama astir the yoga world. It’s been implicit 20 years since I started practicing yoga truthful I’m beauteous definite that unconsciously I’ve been preparing myself to bash this movie for much than 2 decades,” Rejtman told Variety.

“Puan,” (Maria Alche, Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil)

A communicative of farcical world rivalry acceptable astatine the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires, known arsenic “Puan,” which builds to a authorities of the federation instrumentality connected an Argentinian “society that whitethorn yet beryllium starting to admit its ain spot successful the world,” says Naishtat. Luxbox announced satellite income rights conscionable earlier Cannes. “Rojo” besides took histrion (Dario Grandinetti) and cinematography (Pedro Sotero) astatine San Sebastián, sparking a rave Variety review.

“Red Island,” (L’Ile Rouge,” Robin Campillo, France, Belgium)

Thrust into the limelight by 2017’s “BPM (Beats Per Minute),” a Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner, Campillo’s “Red Island,” inspired by Campillo’s idiosyncratic memories, was released successful France precocious May by Memento Distribution to immoderate lukewarm reviews though much constricted container office. San Sebastián offers an planetary platform. A coming of property communicative acceptable successful 1960-70 Madagascar astatine 1 of the past French subject bases abroad, “Red Island” turns connected an eight-year-old, a instrumentality of comic publication leader “Fantômette” who gradually wakes up to the ambiguities of big beingness and the realisation of that puerility and France’s assemblage epoch are some ending. Playtime sells.  

“A Silence,” (“Un Silence,” Joachim Lafosse, Belgium, France, Luxembourg)

The latest exploration of imploding household dynamics from Lafosse, 1 of Belgium’s best-known auteurs, whose 2021 Cannes contention contender “Restless” sparked rave reviews. Here, Lafosse turns to the taxable of abuse, with Emmanuelle Devos arsenic Astrid, the woman of a renowned lawyer (Daniel Auteuil) who has kept her soundlessness for 25 years. Best show grant potential, if those successful “A Silence” are connected a par to “Restless.” Sold by Les Films du Losange.