The works-in-progress showcases at the San Sebastián Film Festival — the most important festival in the Spanish-speaking world — return this year with eight anticipated projects split between its two categories: WIP Europe and WIP Latam. Both showcases run between Sept. 22-24 in the Basque city.

Amongst the Latin American showcase, prolific Mexican auteur Fernando Eimbcke is set to make the most of his stay in the Basque Country by presenting “Olmo,” backed by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Ent, in Horizontes Latinos and his new project “Flies” as part of the WIP lineup. The Chilean duo of multidisciplinary stop-motion animators León & Cociña follows “The Wolf House” with fantasy “The Neverending Plague,” joining two other sophomore features in Fernanda Tovar’s “Sad Girls” and Esteban Hoyos García

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