The 74th San Sebastián Film Festival has added Pablo Larraín, Mike Leigh, Marion Cotillard and films from Japan, Norway and Turkey to its main competition, rounding out a slate that already included three Spanish titles announced earlier in July.

Larraín's "My Sad Dead" ("Mis muertos tristes"), a Netflix-produced adaptation of Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez, leads the new additions. It stars Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi and Alejandra Flechner, and was produced by Fabula, the Chilean banner behind Larraín's festival regulars. The film enters the competitive selection — the strand that competes for the Golden Shell, the festival's top prize — alongside Leigh's "Tender Loving Care," which features Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O'Flynn and Alice Bailey Johnson (Variety).

Nicole Garcia's "Milo" ("7:40 ce matin-là"), starring Marion Cotillard, also joins the race. The French director's film brings a distinct European star presence to a lineup that now spans four continents.

Benjamín Naishtat's "Glaxo," set in a small provincial town across the late 1950s to the 1980s, adds another Argentine voice — this one outside the Netflix pipeline. Japan enters through Maha Harada's "In My Father's Room." Hans Petter Moland's "Growth of the Soil" ("Markens Grode") is a Norway, Denmark and Germany co-production. Yeşim Ustaoğlu's "What Remains" ("Artakalan") brings together Turkey, France, Luxembourg and Bulgaria.

Three Spanish titles were already in place from an earlier announcement on July 17: Mikel Gurrea's "Sants," Berto Romero's "Five Minutes More" and Roberto Bueso's "El mal padre."

For context on how the festival assembles its programme: the main competition is the marquee selection, but San Sebastián runs several parallel strands. The New Directors section, focused on first and second features, was set to be announced later in the same week as these competition additions, according to Variety. The festival also operates Culinary Zinema, a food-and-film strand; Klasikoak, for restored classics; and WIP Latam and WIP Europa, which showcase works-in-progress to buyers and sales agents — the market side of a festival that doubles as an industry meeting point.

The 74th edition also features a retrospective dedicated to French writer and filmmaker José Giovanni, according to the festival's official site.

San Sebastián, held in the Basque Country city of the same name, is the highest-ranked film festival in the Spanish-speaking world. It runs September 18–26. The programme additions bring the main competition to a point where the international spread — Latin America, Western Europe, East Asia — reads as deliberate, though the festival has not framed it that way.