"Yuli", the film based on Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, will compete at the San Sebastian Festival

Madrid, July 20 (EFE) .- The film "Yuli", directed by the Spanish Iciar Bollaín and that tells the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta will be competing for the Golden Shell of the 66th Festival of San Sebastián (Spain), with titles like "El reino", by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, or "Quién te cantará" by Carlos Vermut.

The director of the festival, José Luis Rebordinos, presented today at the headquarters of Madrid Film Academy directs films with a Spanish production that we can see in San Sebastián, among which is the story of Acosta, who plays in the film Bollaín.

You can see in San Sebastian "El ángel", of the Argentine Luis Ortega, with Chino Darín, Lorenzo Ferro and Cecilia Roth.

This film participated in the Una una mirada section of the last Cannes Film Festival, and will be screened at San Sebastian in Pearls, which collects the most movies In Perlas, you will also see "Petra", from Spanish Jaime Rosales, with the Spanish actress Argentinian Bárbara Lennie, and "Día más con vida", the animated adaptation of the Spanish Raúl de la Source and the Polish Damian Nenoe of the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski's book on his experience in the Angolan war

Among the other films announced today, there is "Entre dos aguas", by Isaki Lacuesta, who will participate in the official competition; "Time later", with which José Luis Cuerda continues the story of the legendary "Amanece that no es poco" and which will be one of the special screenings of this edition of San Sebastián.

Outside the competition will be the television series "Gigantes", directed by Enrique Urbizu and Jorge Dorado, with José Coronado and Daniel Grao

In the competitive section of Zabaltegi there will be "Teatro de Guerra", a co-production Hispanic-Argentinean led by Lola Arias, on the veterans of the War of Las Malvinas, and "Belmonte", the Uruguayan Spanish Federico Veiroj, a history on the art filmed in Montevideo

And in New directors is scheduled "Para la guerra", a coproduction of Cuba, Spain and Argentina, directed by Francisco Marise and which explores the memory and solitude of a former Cuban soldier, veteran special forces.