Film Festivals

2023 San Sebastián: Lila Avilés, Felipe Galvez, David Zonana & Carolina Markowicz Fill Horizontes Latinos Section

Published on August 3, 2023

A dozen film titles with items dating back to this year’s Sundance (David Zonana‘s Heroic), Berlinale (Lila Aviles‘ Totem and Tatiana Huezo‘s The Echo) and the Cannes Film Festival (Felipe Galvez‘s The Settlers) will mix it up in the Horizontes Latinos Section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF, September 22-30). They will go up against the world premieres to The Sleepwalkers‘ Argentinean filmmaker Paula Hernandez‘s latest El Viento Que Arrasa (which will open the section) and Charcoal Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz‘s Toll which will close the section. Here are the selections:

A Ravaging Wind (Arg-Uruguay) – opening night film – Dir. Paula Hernandez
Toll (Bra-Port) – closing night film – Dir. Carolina Markowicz
Alemania (Arg-Sp) – Dir. Maria Zanetti
Blondi (Arg-Sp-US) – Dir. Dolores Fonzi
Clara Gets Lost In The Woods (Arg) – Dir. Camila Fabbri
The Castle (Arg-Sp-Fr) – Dir. Martin Benchimol
The Echo (Mex-Ger) – Dir. Tatiana Huezo
Heroic (Mex) – Dir. David Zonana
Los Impactados (Arg) – Dir. Lucia Puenzo
The Settlers (Chile-Arg-UK-Tai-Fr-Den-Swe) – Dir. Felipe Galvez
A Strange Path (Bra) – Dir. Guto Parente
Totem (Mex) – Dir. Lila Aviles

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).