San Sebastian Adds Kitty Green’s ‘The Royal Hotel’ And Riz Ahmed Pic ‘Fingernails’ To Competition Lineup
deadline.comAussie filmmaker Kitty Green’s latest pic, The Royal Hotel, starring Julia Garner, and Fingernails, the latest film from Christos Nikou, with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley, have been added to San Sebastian’s competition lineup.
Overall, six films have been announced as late additions to proceedings in San Seb. The other titles are Kalak (Isabella Eklöf), The Successor (Xavier Legrand), Great Absence (Kei Chika-Ura), and the debut from Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang, A Journey in Spring.
Additionally, the French pic A Real Job, directed by Thomas Lilti, will play the fest’s special screenings section. The Royal Hotel is Kitty Green’s first feature since her 2019 breakout, The Assistant.
The film tells the tale of two backpackers (Garner and Jessica Henwick) who take a job in a pub in the remote Australian Outback.
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