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The Canadian director Atom Egoyan will open the competition at the Donostia-San Sebastian Film Festival with his film Chloe, starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried.

Egoyan, one of the great renovators of modern film language with movies like Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1987) or Ararat (2002), will compete for the first time at the Basque city.

Another outstanding name in contemporary cinema, Rodrigo García, will close the Festival with the North American film Mother and Child, starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening and Samuel L. Jackson. The director of Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (2000), Nine Lives (2005) and Passengers (2008) has Alejandro González Iñárritu as its executive producer.

Bruno Dumont, Atom Egoyan, François Ozon and Juan José Campanella, among other directors, will compete for the Golden Shell corresponding to Donostia-San Sebastian Festival''s Official Selection. Other prestigious directors like Jeon Soo-il, Ana Kokkinos and Matthias Glasner will also present their new movies for the Official competition, and Christophe Honoré will return to the city after having participated last year with La belle personne.

Furthermore, the winner of an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Aaron Schneider, will compete with his directorial feature debut, Get Low.