Films


The opening film will be La Comunidad by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia.
The competition will close with a screening of Karl Francis' Spanish produced film One Of The Hollywood Ten, starring Jeff Goldblum and Greta Scacchi, which will screen out of competition.

Official Competition

The Weight Of Water by Kathryn Bigelow (also at Toronto)
Harrison's Flowers by Elie Chouraqui
Commonwealth - La Comunidad - by Alex de la Iglesia
Shiner by John Irvin
Parias by Nicolas Klotz
Tinta Roja by Francisco Lombardi
Under The Sand - Sous Le Sable - by Francois Ozon (also at Toronto)
Sin Dejar Huella by Maria Novaro
La Perdicion De Los Hombres by Arturo Ripstein
Face by Junji Sakamoto
Les Rivieres Pourpres, Matthieu Kassovitz
Plenilune - Plenilunio - by Imanol Uribe

New Directors: Official Competition

Alaska.De by Esther Gronenborn
Barking Dogs Never Bite by Bong Joon-ho
The Other Side - El Otro Barrio - by Salvador Garcia Ruiz
Fore Stormen by Reza Parsa
Country
by Kevin Liddy

Zabaltegi (Open Zone)

The Open Zone of the festival, known as the Zabaltegi, has this year been split into two divisions: Festivals' Top, which will present features already screened at other festivals, and New Directors.

New Directors

Sexy Beast by Jonathan Glazer (Spain/UK)
El Celo - Presence of Mind - Antonio Aloy (Spain/USA)
El Factor Pilgrim by Santiago Amoedo and Alberto Rodríguez (Spain)
Too Much Flesh by Jean Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold (France/USA)
Eu Nao Conhecia Tururu - I Didn' t Know Tururu - by Florinda Bolkan (Brazil)
Le Rat by Nicolas Bonilori and Christopher Ali (France)
Time's Up by Cecilia Barriga (Spain)
England! by Achim von Borries (Germany)
Quand on Sera Grand by Renaud Cohen (France)
La Espalda del Mundo by Javier Corcuera (Spain)
Aunque Tu No Lo Sepas - What you Never Knew - by Juan Vicente Cordoba (Spain)
El Bola by Achero Manas (Spain)
76 89 03 by Flavio Nardini and Cristian Bernard, (Argentina)
Undertaker's Paradise by M. X. Oberg (Germany)
Orgienhaus - House of Orgies - by Mathieu Seiler (Switzerland)
Bunny by Mia Trachinger (USA)
Sangue Vivo by Edoardo Winspeare (Italy)

Festival's Top

The Festival Top section is comprised of films that were award winners at other international festivals; this year's selection has a heavy emphasis on the Cannes Festival as most of the titles had their premieres there.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
by Ang Lee (Opening Film)
Wo De Fu Qin Mu Qin - The Road Home - by Zhang Yimou (Closing Film)
Summer or 27 Missing Kisses by Nana Djordjadze
Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)
Purely Belter by Mark Herman
Under Suspicion by Stephen Hopkins
A la Verticale de L'Ete by Tran Anh Hung
Le Gout des Autres by Agnes Jaoui
Nurse Betty by Neil LaBute
Asi es si la Vida by Arturo Ripstein
Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel
Nationale 7 by Jean-Pierre Sinapi
Les Diseur de Verite by Karim-Traïda
Lost Killers by Dito Tsintsadze
Woman on Top by Fina Torres
Trolosa - Faithless - by Liv Ullman

To celebrate the 15 th anniversary of the construction of the Anoeta Velodrome, the festival is offering a special program of films for all tastes and ages at this gigantic theatre.

Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci, which will be presented by the director at a special screening on Friday the 22nd.
Cecil B. Demented by John Waters
The Little Vampire by Uli Edel
Dinosaur by Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag
X-Men by Brian Singer

The closing Marathon at the Velodrome will include the Zabaltegi and Official Section closing films, together with the live broadcast of the award-giving ceremony.