Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam will close the 74th San Sebastián Film Festival with an out-of-competition screening of "Le Faux Soir," a drama depicting a real-life Belgian resistance operation during the Second World War. The film, receiving its European premiere after debuting at the Toronto festival, dramatises the moment resistance fighters printed a fake edition of the Nazi-controlled newspaper Le Soir to mock the occupiers, an act some historians regard as the first-ever media hack.

Based on Marie Istas's book about the 1943 operation, the film stars Arieh Worthalter, Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou and François Damiens, among others, in a Belgian-French co-production. Roskam, a former journalist who previously won San Sebastián's best screenplay jury prize for "The Drop," also directed episodes of the miniseries "Black Bird." The festival, which earlier named Fatih Akin's "Ghost Song" as its opening film, runs from 18 to 26 September 2026.