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Take the Tour: "Festival Winners: San Sebastián - Golden Shell"

Festival Winners: San Sebastián - Golden Shell
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  • The Rye Horn
    Spain - 2023
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    Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns a living harvesting shellfish. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special ...
  • The Kings of the World
    Colombia - 2022
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    “One day all men fell asleep… And the rims of the world burned”. A story about the disobedience, friendship and dignity that exist in resistance. Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny ...
  • Blue Moon
    Romania - 2021
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    The film follows the psychological journey of a young woman to her dehumanizing process. Irina struggles to achieve higher education and escape the violence of her ...
  • Beginning
    Georgia - 2020
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    In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the ...
  • Pacified
    Brazil - 2019
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    Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. ...
  • Entre dos aguas
    Spain - 2018
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    Isra and Cheíto are two Roma brothers: Isra was sent to prison for drug dealing and Cheíto signed up for the Marines. When Isra is released from prison and Cheíto returns ...
  • The Disaster Artist
    United States - 2017
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    'The Disaster Artist' is the true story of the making of the film 'The Room', which has been called "the Citizen Kane of bad movies". Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic has been ...
  • I Am Not Madame Bovary
    China - 2016
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    After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.
  • Sparrows
    Iceland - 2015
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    Ari, 16, has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. Here he has to navigate a ...
  • Magical Girl
    Spain - 2014
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    Desperate to fulfill his terminally ill daughter’s last wish, grief-stricken teacher Luis (Luis Bermejo) plunges into a vortex of blackmail, deception and double-cross, ...
  • Bad Hair
    Venezuela - 2013
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    Junior is a 9 year-old with "bad hair". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother ...
  • In the House
    France - 2012
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    A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with ...
  • The Double Steps (Los pasos dobles)
    Spain - 2011
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    The best way to escape from your pursuers without leaving any traces behind you is to walk backwards over your own footprints. This is what French artist and author ...
  • Neds
    United Kingdom - 2010
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    If you want a Ned, I’ll give you a fucking Ned! Glasgow, 1973. On the brink of adolescence, young John McGill’s about to start secondary school. He’s a bright boy, a ...
  • City of Life and Death
    China - 2009
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    Year 1937. Japanese troops have entered China's temporary capital, where their cruel occupation will be known as "The Rape of Nanjing." Shot in wide lens black-and-white, ...
  • Pandora's Box (Pandoranin kutusu)
    Turkey - 2008
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    When three forty-something siblings in Istanbul receive a call one night that their aging mother has disappeared from her home at the Western Black Sea Coast of Turkey, ...
  • A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    United States - 2007
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    Mr. Shi is a retired widower from Beijing. When Yilan, his only daughter who lives in the US, divorces, he decides to visit her in the small town where she works as a ...
  • Niwemang (Half Moon)
    Iran - 2006
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    Mamo, an old, renowned musician, has been granted permission to give a concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. His faithful friend Kako will drive a school bus and help collect ...
  • My Son
    France - 2006
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    Julien is an adorable boy on the cusp of adolescence, but he is also a prisoner of love. His mother, neglected by her academic husband, adores him excessively and ...
  • Something Like Happiness
    Czech Republic - 2005
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    Radiography of a group of locals from the working-class district of a small Czech city bearing the scars of industrialisation: the young girl whose boyfriend has ...
  • Turtles Can Fly
    Iran - 2004
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    2004: San Sebastian International Film Festival: Winner Golden Shell. In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Turkey, the villagers desperately ...
  • Gun-shy
    Germany - 2003
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  • Mondays in the Sun
    Spain - 2002
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    Laid off from the local shipyard, Santa (Bardem) and his friends hang out in a bar, nursing their injured pride and political convictions. Looking out for each other, ...
  • Taxi para tres (Taxi para 3)
    Chile - 2001
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  • The Ruination of Men
    Mexico - 2000
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  • What's Life?
    France - 1999
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    Nicolas is a young farmer who lives with his parents and grand parents. His life revolves around the cows to tend to, evenings in the local club, and the sun that rises ...
  • Wind with the Gone
    Argentina - 1998
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    Winner of the "Golden Shell Grand Prize" at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival, the absurdist tale is set during the '70s. Young Buenos Aires cabdriver Soledad (Vera ...
  • The Swindle
    France - 1997
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    Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of ...
  • Bwana
    Spain - 1996
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    Antonio, a taxi driver, his wife, and two chidren arrive one fine afternoon at a solitary beach, looking for sea-shells. However, they will find more than expected: ...
  • Trojan Eddie
    Ireland - 1996
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    The story of Eddie, a small town ex con, who discovers he has talent for selling anything and everything. Eddie sees a way to rise above the low life by setting up on his ...
  • Margaret's Museum
    Canada - 1995
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    In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, ...
  • Running Out of Time
    Spain - 1994
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    Compelling Spanish tale that mixes urban action with suspense stars Carmelo Gomez as a Basque separatist terrorist sent to Madrid to blow up a police station. In the ...
  • The Beginning and the End
    Mexico - 1993
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    Based on the homonymous novel by the Egyptian Nobel-Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz. The widow Ignacia places all the family hopes in his son Gabriel. All the members of the ...
  • Sara
    Iran - 1993
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    Sara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three ...
  • A Place in the World
    Argentina - 1992
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    Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; ...
  • Alas de mariposa
    Spain - 1991
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    A couple wants to have a baby boy but they have a girl. A few years later finally they have the girl.
  • Las cartas de Alou
    Spain - 1990
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  • Homer and Eddie
    United States - 1989
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    A retarded man get help from a sociopathic woman when tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
  • La nación clandestina
    Bolivia - 1989
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  • On the Black Hill
    United Kingdom - 1988
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    The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
  • Wedding in Galilee
    Palestine - 1987
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    A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom ...
  • La mitad del cielo
    Spain - 1986
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    Rosa is an cantabrian woman who travel to Madrid after the Civil War. With the help of Don Pedro, a chief supplies, she opens a restaurant that transforms in a political and intelectual center.
  • Yesterday
    Poland - 1985
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    Set in the 60's. In a small provincial town four high school teenagers are facing the graduation, but all that is on their minds is how to woo the home crowd to a concert ...
  • Rumble Fish
    United States - 1983
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    Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things ...
  • Entre Nous
    France - 1983
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    In 1942, a young Jewish woman, Léna, marries a French soldier, Michel, to avoid being deported to Germany. Meanwhile, another young woman, Madeleine gets married to an ...
  • Demonios en el jardín
    Spain - 1982
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  • Tales of Ordinary Madness
    Italy - 1981
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  • The Orchestra Conductor
    Poland - 1980
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  • A Sad Comedy
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1979
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    Andrei Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's ...
  • The Illegal
    United States - 1977
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    After his daughter's birth, Roberto leaves his town in Michoacan to make money in the United States. He's "an illegal," crossing into California and taking work wherever ...
  • Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1977
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  • Queen of the Gypsies
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1976
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    This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the ...
  • Poachers
    Spain - 1975
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  • Badlands
    United States - 1973
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    1959. Kit Carruthers, a young garbage collector and his 15 years-old girlfriend Holly Sargis from Fort Dupree, South Dakota, are on the run after killing Holly's father ...
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
    Spain - 1973
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    In a small Castilian village in the early 40s, in the wake of the devastating Civil War, Ana and her sister, having seen a mobile projection of Frankenstein, becomes ...
  • The Glass House (TV)
    United States - 1972
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    Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the ...
  • Claire's Knee
    France - 1970
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    The 5th of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, a romanian writer and old ...
  • Dead of Summer
    Italy - 1970
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  • The Rain People
    United States - 1969
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    Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight), a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made ...
  • The Long Day's Dying
    United Kingdom - 1968
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    The saga of three British soldiers and their German captive as they trek through the European countryside.
  • Two for the Road
    United Kingdom - 1967
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    While flying from England to France to meet her architect husband for a vacation, Joanna Wallace reflects on the past 12 years of their relationship. She specifically ...
  • I Was Happy Here
    United Kingdom - 1966
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    Cass followed the bright lights to London, but was quickly disillusioned. She met (and married) Doctor Langdon, and soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the ...
  • Golden Queen
    Czechoslovakia - 1965
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  • Mirage
    United States - 1965
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    In New York City, an accountant's memory suddenly becomes mixed up starting from the moment the building he is in has a power blackout. He is bewildered that he can't ...
  • America, America
    United States - 1963
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    Based on the early life of Kazan's Greek-immigrant uncle, the film tells the story of the struggles of Stavros Topouzoglou in emigrating to America. First of all, he goes ...
  • Mafioso
    Italy - 1962
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    Antonio Badalamenti is a punctilious factory supervisor in Northern Italy who takes his wife (Norma Bengell) and their two adorable children to meet his family in Sicily. ...
  • Arturo's Island
    Italy - 1962
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  • One-Eyed Jacks
    United States - 1961
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    Marlon Brando's only directorial effort. It's the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers ...
  • Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
    Czechoslovakia - 1960
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    Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms ...
  • The Nun's Story
    United States - 1959
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    Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one ...
  • Ewa chce spac
    Poland - 1958
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    Ewa Bonecka came to small town. She's student. She came in the evening, and she want to get a flat. But it's impossible because there are no free rooms at the Hotel. She ...
  • Oh! Sabella
    Italy - 1957
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    Raffaele vive a Napoli, dove studia, ma viene richiamato al paese per dare l'ultimo saluto alla nonna Sabella, morente. Appena arrivato scopre che la nonna non è morente ...
  • Man of Iron
    Italy - 1956
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    The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine ...
  • Days of Love
    Italy - 1954
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  • Cursed Mountain
    Spain - 1954
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  • La guerra de Dios
    Spain - 1953
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Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • The Rye Horn
  • The Kings of the World
  • Blue Moon
  • Beginning
  • Pacified
  • Entre dos aguas
  • The Disaster Artist
  • I Am Not Madame Bovary
  • Sparrows
  • Magical Girl
  • Bad Hair
  • In the House
  • The Double Steps (Los pasos dobles)
  • Neds
  • City of Life and Death
  • Pandora's Box (Pandoranin kutusu)
  • A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  • Niwemang (Half Moon)
  • My Son
  • Something Like Happiness
  • Turtles Can Fly
  • Gun-shy
  • Mondays in the Sun
  • Taxi para tres (Taxi para 3)
  • The Ruination of Men
  • What's Life?
  • Wind with the Gone
  • The Swindle
  • Bwana
  • Trojan Eddie
  • Margaret's Museum
  • Running Out of Time
  • The Beginning and the End
  • Sara
  • A Place in the World
  • Alas de mariposa
  • Las cartas de Alou
  • Homer and Eddie
  • La nación clandestina
  • On the Black Hill
  • Wedding in Galilee
  • La mitad del cielo
  • Yesterday
  • Rumble Fish
  • Entre Nous
  • Demonios en el jardín
  • Tales of Ordinary Madness
  • The Orchestra Conductor
  • A Sad Comedy
  • The Illegal
  • Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano
  • Queen of the Gypsies
  • Poachers
  • Badlands
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • The Glass House (TV)
  • Claire's Knee
  • Dead of Summer
  • The Rain People
  • The Long Day's Dying
  • Two for the Road
  • I Was Happy Here
  • Golden Queen
  • Mirage
  • America, America
  • Mafioso
  • Arturo's Island
  • One-Eyed Jacks
  • Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
  • The Nun's Story
  • Ewa chce spac
  • Oh! Sabella
  • Man of Iron
  • Days of Love
  • Cursed Mountain
  • La guerra de Dios
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