Six Spaniards and only one American are among the 19, mostly European directors competing for the Euros150,000 New Directors' prize at this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30), the festival announced today.

Three of the films will also compete in the Official Section. They are:

  • Spaniard Salvador Garcia Ruiz's The Other Side (El Otro Barrio), his follow-up to 1998's Mensaka;
  • Alaska.De, from German documentarian Esther Gronenbom;
  • and Barking Dogs Never Bite, debut from Korea's Bong Joon-ho.

    • The rest of the films will screen in the New Directors' division of the festival's Zabaltegi (Open Zone) section. They include:

  • Spaniard Antonio Aloy's Presence Of Mind (El Celo);
  • Santiago Amoedo and Alberto Rodriguez's The Pilgrim Factor (El Factor Pilgrim), also from Spain;
  • Jean Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold's Too Much Flesh, a French-US co-production;
  • Brazilian Florinda Bolkan's I Didn't Know Tururu (Eu Nao Conhecia Tururu);
  • Nicolas Bonilori and Christopher Ali's Le Rat, from France;
  • Time's Up!, filmed in New York by Chilean newcomer Cecilia Barriga;
  • German Achim von Borries' England!;
  • Quand On Sera Grand, from France's Renaud Cohen;
  • Javier Corcuera's La Espalda Del Mundo, from Spain;
  • Spaniard Juan Vicente Cordoba's What You Never Knew (Aunque Tu No Lo Sepas);
  • Achero Manas' Pellet (El Bola), also from Spain;
  • 76 89 03, from Argentina's Flavio Nardini and Cristian Bernard;
  • German M. X. Oberg's Undertaker's Paradise;
  • Mathieu Seiler's House Of Orgies (Orgienhaus), from Switzerland;
  • Mia Trachinger's Bunny, from the US;
  • and Italian Edoardo Winspeare's Sangue Vivo.