The San Sebastián Film Festival has selected "Le Faux Soir," a Belgian-French WWII resistance drama from director Michaël R. Roskam, as its closing night film. The picture will have its European premiere at the festival following its world premiere in Toronto's Special Presentations strand, and will close proceedings after the awards ceremony on 26 September at the Kursaal. The selection marks Roskam's return to San Sebastián 12 years after "The Drop" won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay there in 2014.

Set in Nazi-occupied Belgium in 1943, the film dramatises how Resistance fighters produced a fake edition of the newspaper Le Soir, mimicking its paper, nameplate and layout while filling it with articles mocking the occupiers, after the Germans had turned the title into a propaganda outlet and banned Armistice commemorations. The ensemble cast is led by Arieh Worthalter alongside Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou, Mara Taquin, Bouli Lanners, Julien Frison and François Damiens. The film is produced by Belgium's Frakas Productions and Roskam's Harbor Men Pictures with France's Rectangle Productions, with Goodfellas handling international sales and Cinéart releasing it in the Benelux region. Roskam, a former journalist who broke through with "Bullhead," wrote the screenplay loosely adapting Marie Istas's book; the 74th San Sebastián Film Festival runs from 18 to 26 September.