Winterbottom's 'Genova' to compete at San Sebastian film festival

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

MADRID (AFP) — British director Michael Winterbottom's new movie "Genova", a ghost story starring Colin Firth, will compete for the top prize at the San Sebastian film festival in September, the organisers said Thursday.

It is Winterbottom's third time in the official selection at the festival, after the controversial "9 Songs" in 2004 and "A Cock and Bull Story" in 2005.

The film, which was shot mostly in the Italian city of Genoa, is about a man, Firth, who moves to Italy to start a new life with his two daughters after their mother dies.

"Genova" is Winterbottom's first production since "A Mighty Heart" in 2007, about the wife of murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and beheaded by extremists in Pakistan in 2002.

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