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'O corno / The Rye Horn' lands the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition
The feature film O corno / The Rye Horn (Spain-Portugal-Belgium), directed by Jaione Camborda from San Sebastian, carried off the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition. In addition, the official jury decided to give the Silver Shell for Best Director to Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang for Chun xing / A Journey in Spring (Taiwan), while the Best Scre...
On the stage at the Vitoria Eugenia theatre where fifty years ago he received the Golden Shell for his first film El Espíritu de la colmena, Victor Erice picked up the Donostia Award last night. The actress Ana Torrent, who as a child starred in the very same film, had the honour of presenting the director with the statuette, and said that it was enormously moving to give Erice the award “50 years after coming together in the same place to present El espíritu de l...
For the ninth consecutive year, AECID, together with the San Sebastian Festival, is promoting the accolade which recognises the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights
The Award is part of the alliance between the AECID and the Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry
Five films programmed at San Sebastian Festival's 71th edition will compete this year for...
Actresses Greta Fernández and Loreto Mauleón make up the jury alongside the Basque Government Director of Social Innovation, Asier Aranbarri
Six films from the official programme of the 71st San Sebastian Festival compete for the Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country Award, recognising the film that best reflects the values of sustainability and solidarity as the core emblems of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda.
Two of the competi...
The City Council and the Festival have distributed 1,000 free tickets among the unemployed
Seventeen films selected for Perlak will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award, sponsored by the San Sebastian City Council for eight years in a row. This initiative is a tribute from the City Council to its citizens, who decide the award.
The Perlak section, sponsored by Armani Beauty, is made up of titles to have been awarded or acclaimed at other international f...
Spanish Screenings on Tour presents its second edition at the San Sebastian Festival, with a wide variety of genres and formats combining emerging and consolidated talent and demonstrating the excellent health of today's Spanish audiovisual sector
The event will take place at the MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo from 9 to 13 October with the title 'Spanish Audiovisual: Talent and Future'
Spanish Screenings on Tour is one of the initiatives of Spanish Screenings XXL...
Zinemadia Startup Challenge falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, promote by the Basque Governement through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment and SPRI
The competition for Spanish startups is part of “Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech”, one of the axes of Spanish Screenings XXL.
The Basque Government, through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, promotes the Zinemaldia Startup...
The helmer of ‘The Theory of Everything’ directs Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire in this movie about all the lives of writer Samuel Beckett
Dance First, the film from the British moviemaker James Marsh on the subject of Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film winding up the Official Selection out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire.
Marsh (Truro, UK. 1963) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for M...
‘Chinas’, by Arantxa Echevarría, will have its preview on 27 September at the Kursaal 2
The Gala of ‘La Ternura’, by Vicente Villanueva, will take place on the 28th at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
RTVE will come to the Festival with three films in the Official Selection plus another three titles, including ‘Cerrar los ojos / Close Your Eyes’, by the Donostia Award-winner, Víctor Erice
RTVE will hold two film Galas at the 71st San Seb...
‘Kuolleet lehdet / Fallen Leaves’, by Aki Kaurismäki, to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2023 for Best Film of the Year
This is the second time the Finnish director will have won the award
Fallen Leaves, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix after having been chosen best film of 2023 by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The vote had the participation of 669 critics from all over the world (a record pa...
The movie will screen in the Kursaal Auditorium on Friday, 22 September, after the opening gala
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka / The Boy and the Heron, will open the San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition out of competition. Having shown at Toronto Festival on 7 September, San Sebastian will host the European premiere of the latest proposal from the director of Spirited Away. The movie will screen in the Kursaal Auditorium on Friday, 22 September, after the o...
The San Sebastian Festival and HAZI, a public company of the Basque Government Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, promote the Eusko Label micro-short film competition in the endeavour to spread news of and support locally sourced produce
Two prizes of 6,000 and 4,000 euros reward the best works, with a maximum runtime of three minutes and filmed using a mobile phone
The San Sebastian Festival and the Basque Government through HAZI call the Euskal Label mi...
Iván Fund, Juan Pablo González and Ana Isabel Fernández de Alba, Daniel Hendler, Gabe Klinger, Lucila Mariani, Bárbara Sarasola-Day, Alicia Scherson and Federico Veiroj, among others, will present their projects at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
The fifteen selected projects come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, the Dominican Republic and Urugua
The Co-Production Forum will run from 25-27 September in the framework...
The moviemaker, widow and regular collaborator of the Chilean filmmaker, has rescued, reconstructed and completed this hitherto-unseen film conceived by its author 50 years ago
As part of its Klasikoak section, the San Sebastian Festival will host the world premiere of El realismo socialista / Socialist Realism (1973-2023), an unfinished film by the Chilean moviemaker Raúl Ruiz, wh...
Ten projects based on metaverse, AI, machine learning and augmented reality, among others, to compete in the Zinema Startup Challenge
The projects by Spanish startups and entrepreneurs will have a specific competition, part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’, one of the initiatives of ‘Spanish Screenings XXL’ and part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR)
The initiative falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, p...
The films by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Raven Jackson, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman, among others, will be competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival
The American newcomer Raven Jackson will be forming part of the Official Selection with a film developed in the Ikusmira Berriak programme
María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Ca...
The registration deadline for the audiovisual project development programme is September 1
From this edition, one of the positions on the pre-selection committee will be filled by an alumnus of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) on a rotating basis
Ikusmira Berriak, the programme of residencies and audiovisual project development, organised by the San Sebastian Festival, Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), ...
The deadline for submissions is August 1
Proyecta, the initiative jointly organised by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Festival, opens its call for the submission of audiovisual feature films projects from Europe and Latin America that are at the development stage and are looking for co-production. Open from today, the initiative is for first or second works by their directors.
The call is for fiction and non-fiction projects in development from Latin Ameri...
Laura Mora’s film Los reyes del mundo / The Kings of the World, a Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, bagged the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition.
The official jury also decided to honour Genki Kawamura with the Silver Shell for Best Director for Hyakka / A Hundred Flowers (Japan), while the ...
OTHER OFFICIAL AWARDS
Irizar Basque Film Award
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Nest Award Jury – 70th Edition
President
Andrés Di Tella (Argentina)
Jury
Luisa Niederschuh, Julian Egger, Lysa Lamorisse, Kinwa Liu, Ane Martinez Juez, Aulona Selmani, Aitziber Olaskoaga, Daniel Peñaranda Restrepo, Carlos Andrés Hurtado, André Di Franco, Gustavo Maan, Mariana Saffon, Nikoloz Mamatsashvili
NEST AWARD
The award...
Mine S carries off the Best European Startup Award
kino_greentoken wins the Best Entrepreneurial Team Award
Motmo.pro is the winning project of the Best Spanish Project Award at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge. This year a specific competition has been created for Spanish entrepreneurs and startups, an initiative forming part of Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech. Motmo.pro, represented by Bruno de Zabala and Janire Váquez, is a player that enables user to play songs, inter...
The collaboration takes the shape of a report on participation by gender including new categories and the increased presence of women filmmakers
The San Sebastian Festival, the groups making up the Interterritorial Work Group on Equality in Audiovisuals 50/50 by 2025 (GTI) and CIMA, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media, have completed a year of joint work, having achieved a number of outcomes including the drawing up of a protocol on prevention and action in the event of ...
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