The San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed the remaining projects in it Zabaltegi Specials and Pearls sections.
The Pearls section, which already include Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, will be rounded with Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon, Terry Gilliam’s fantasy adventure film The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, starring Heath Ledger in his last role; Sherry Horman’s Desert Flower, about a young Somali woman who flees to the US, and Rachid Bouchareb’s London River, which tells the story of two people affected by the London bombings. London River has won Sotigui Kouyate the Silver Bear award at Berlin for best actor.
Meanwhile, Michael Winterbotton and Mat Whitecross’ The Shock Doctrine, which charts the impact of Milton Friedman’s radical economic theories over the past 40 years, has been added to the Specials section, alongside Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange about influential US rock group The Doors.
Haneke will also be present at San Sebastian up the Fipresci prize for The White Ribbon.
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