Goya-winning Spanish filmmaker José Luis Guerin is back in competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival with “ Good Valley Stories ” (“Historias del Buen Valle”), almost a quarter of a century after “Work in Progress” played at the Basque fest in 2001. The film takes place over three years in Valbona, a suburban district of Barcelona, as Guerín prods at issues of displacement, identity, urban life, and ecological conflicts in this small neighborhood that serves as a microcosm of the world.

Speaking with Variety ahead of the world premiere, Guerín says he has had his work featured in some of the largest festivals across the world, but for a film like “Good Valley Stories,” it feels right to have the world premiere in his home country. “Some aspects of it will inevitably be lost in

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