Debut film in competition in San Sebastian

Two Swiss coproduction’s – “Puppy Love” and “L'amour est un crime parfait” – and the short film “Keine Anzeichen,” produced at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, will be screened at the 61^st San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 20-28, 2013).

Debut film in competition
Delphine Lehericey’s “Puppy Love” will compete against 16 other works screened in the New Directors International Competition, devoted to first or second feature films, and is thus in the running for the Kutxa-New Directors Award, endowed with EUR 50,000. The coproduction between Switzerland (Box Productions), Belgium, Luxemburg and France is the first fiction film by Swiss director Delphine Lehericey. It tells the coming-of-age story for 14-year-old Diane. The director will attend the screening of her film in San Sebastian, thanks to support provided by SWISS FILMS.

Directly from Toronto
After having been screened at the festival in Toronto last week, the fiction film “L'amour est un crime parfait” by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu – a French-Swiss coproduction by Vega Film (Zurich) starring Mathieu Amalric – will compete in the festival’s Pearls section. The film, together with 15 other works, is in the running for the Audience Award comprised of two different awards: one for Best Film, endowed with EUR 50,000; the other for Best European Film, endowed with EUR 20,000.

Short work in film school competition
Muriel Kunz’s 5-minute short film “Keine Anzeichen” (Lucerne School of Art and Design, Video Department) will be among the 15 entries screened in the International Film Students Meeting, a competition devoted to works from film schools from all over the world.

The San Sebastian International Film Festival is the most important film festival in Spain and one of the 14 international A-category festivals accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

Geneva, September 18, 2013