In the section Direccions – with the collaboration of Movistar + – we find great references of the current cinema with 18 of the best films of the year, some of them awarded in international festivals as Amante por un día by Philippe Garrel (Prize SACD Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes 2017), Grain by Semih Kaplanogu (Grand Prix in Tokyo 2017), Lean on Pete by Andrew Haigh (Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor in Venice 2017), the documentary Mrs. Fang by Wang Bing (Golden Leopard in Locarno 2017) , as well as the new works of Guy Maddin, Arnaud Desplechin, Hong Sang-soo, Paul Schrader, Sharunas Bartas or Denis Côté and the Spanish premiere of Disobedience, the first film shot outside Chile by the recent Oscar winner Sebastián Lelio, Madame Hyde, Serge Bozon’s new film, starring Isabelle Huppert, or Frost of the focus of the 2016 D’A retrospective, Sharunas Bartas, with Vanessa Paradise among its protagonists.
- Accidence by Guy de Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson (Canada, 2017)
- Alive in France by Abel Ferrara (France, 2017)
- Amante por un día by Philippe Garrel (France, 2017)
- Colo by Teresa Villaverde (Portugal, 2017)
- The Day After by Hong Sang-soo (Corea, 2017)
- Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio (EE UU, 2017)
- First Reformed by Paul Schrader (EE UU, 2017)
- Los Fantasmas de Ismaël by Arnaud Desplechin (Francia, 2017)
- Frost by Sharunas Bartas (Lituania,France, Polonia, Ucrania, 2017)
- Grain by Semih Kaplanoglu (Turquía, 2017)
- The Green Fog by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson (USA, Canada, 2017)
- Lean On Pete by Andrew Haigh (Reino Unido, 2017)
- Madame Hyde by Serge Bozon (Francia, 2017)
- Mademoiselle Paradis by Barbara Albert (Austria, 2017)
- Mrs. Fang by Wang Bing (China, 2017)
- Razzia by Nabil Ayouch (Marruecos, Bélgica, Francia, 2017)
- Sollers Point by Matt Porterfield (EE UU, 2017)
- Ta Peau Si Lisse de Denis Côté (Canadá, 2017)