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variety.comWomen Rule Still Coming into the festival, many of the biggest main competition buzz pictures were directed by women.
Many now figure, according to a El Diario Vasco Spanish critics’ poll, as Golden Shell frontrunners: Isabel Helguera’s animated pic “Sultana’s Dream,” Raven Jackson’s Sundance hit “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Jaione Camborda’s Toronto platform screener “The Rye Horn” and Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang’s “A Journey in Spring.” New Talent All of these four films are debuts or sophomore outings in a competition where 10 of the 16 tiles are indeed first or second films.
Standouts for Variety take in “Fingernails,” Christos Nikou’s second feature, “calmly controlled, beautifully played,” ran a review. “Puan,” Maria Alché second feature (though Benjamín Naishtat’s fourth), a light comedy treating weighty themes such as Argentina’s sense of identity.
There’s “an enormous amount of fresh talent coming through, and those new voices, that for the most part don’t come from the U.S.,” CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland said at San Sebastian’s Creative Investors’ Conference (CIC), co-organized by CAA.
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