Gas Natural Fenosa is renewing its agreement as Official Sponsor of the Festival and is presenting the shorts that form part of Cinergy in its second year.
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Today the company presented this unique film project for the second year running, in which the directors, Isabel Coixet, Santiago Segura and Paco León have taken part with stories that raise awareness about energy efficiency through humour.
During the presentation of the proj...
The San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua have presented a new edition of the short film competition “euskaraz bizi nahi dut” (I want to live in Basque). This year will yet again include a section for professionals and another for amateurs with a total of more than 5,000 euros in prizes. The best works will be screened at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival.
This morning the San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua presented a new edition of the short film competition &ldq...
The four projects to take part in the 2015 residencies programme have now been selected.
Oskar Alegría, Marianne Slot and Paz Lázaro made up the committee of experts.
The programme will incorporate a new feature: the REC Post-production Award.
In February this year we presented the IKUSMIRA BERRIAK project, organised in collaboration by Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture, the San Sebastian Festival and the San Sebastian European Capital of Culture...
The award will go to the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights
The 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will for the first time present the new Spanish Cooperation Award to the producer of the Latin American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights.
All of the Ibero-American films selected for the O...
The 14th International Film Students Meeting will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th September 2015 as part of the 63rd San Sebastian Festival.
The 14th International Film Students Meeting, co-organized by the San Sebastian Festival and Tabakalera-International Contemporary Culture Centre of San Sebastian, proposes an exchange of audiovisual experiences and knowledge at one of the most important movie events in the world.
The Meeting has the backing of San Sebastian Europea...
The design of the official poster represents the stimulation of the senses prompted in spectators by cinema.
The Festival will run from Friday, 18 until Saturday, 26 September.
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POSTERS
The new image for the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival was unveiled at an event in the Newton Auditorium of San Sebastian’s Eureka! Zientzia Museoa. An announcement was also made at the gathering as to the winning proposals of the poster competition calle...
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New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015 is the thematic retrospective programmed by the San Sebastian Festival for its 63rd edition, to take place from September 18-26.
Beyond the bounds of the films produced by the big studios, the phenomenon of independent cinema in Japan has generated an important source of cinematic creativity expressed in a series of films produced outside the industry. This category includes not only the first works by ...
IKUSMIRA BERRIAK is a new programme of support to audiovisual projects committed to innovation and experimentation in areas of both cinematic language and means of production. The initiative is the result of collaboration between Tabakalera – International Contemporary Culture Centre, Donostia Zinemaldia / San Sebastian Festival, San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016, Donostia Kultura and the Filmoteca Vasca Foundation. Its main objective is to promote audiovisual creation.
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Here is a video showing the best of the 62nd San Sebastian International Film Festival.
30 minutes of what the best moments at the Festival celebrated last September.
Video includes Donosti Award winners Denzel Washington and Benicio del Toro and great artists like Willem Dafoe, Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Pedro Almodóvar, Ricardo Darín, etc...
Please have a look and enjoy
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GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
Magical Girl
Carlos Vermut (Spain - France)
The new film from Carlos Vermut (Diamond Flash) is a tale of crossed destinies starring José Sacristán, Bárbara Lennie and Luis Bermejo. Alicia, an ailing child who dreams of the dress in the Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko; Luis, her father, who will do anything he can to make her dream come true; Bárbara, a pretty y...
III Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Egeda best project award
“AGOSTO”directed by Armando Capó and produced by La Feria Producciones (Costa Rica - Cuba).
Sponsored by EGEDA, (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association).
Special mention
“WALLS” directed by Pablo Iraburu and Migueltxo Molina and produced by Arena Comunicaci&oa...
AUDIENCE AWARD
The Salt of the Earth
Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (France)
This latest documentary by Wim Wenders won the Un Certain Regard Special Prize at the Cannes Festival. For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international c...
The Jury of the 13rd International Film Students Meeting, consisting of students from centres in Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Israel, Litguania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom; chaired by the Laurent Cantet has decided to grant the following awards:
Panavision Award, FREAK Independent Film Agency Award, the BioBio Cine – DuocUC Award and an invitation to participate in the SHORT FILM CORNER at ...
MAGALLANES
SALVADOR DEL SOLAR (PERU - ARGENTINA - COLOMBIA)
Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.
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III Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Egeda best project award
“AGOSTO”directed by Armando Capó and produced by La Feria Producciones (Costa Rica - Cuba).
Sponsored by EGEDA, (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association).
Special mention
“WALLS” directed by Pablo Iraburu and Migueltxo Molina and produced by Arena Comunicación (Spain).
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Director Naomi Kawase who had to present her film Futatsume no mado / Still the Water at San Sebastian had to cancel her visit to San Sebastian. She couldn’t be on time in twon because of the strike of airline Air France.
Naomi Kawasi apologizes to the San Sebastian audience and festival’s organizers and regrets not being able to attend one “of her favourite festivals in the world” in her own words.
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The actor is the Executive Producer of the film, which will have its world premiere in the Savage Cinema section
Actor Orlando Bloom has confirmed his attendance at the San Sebastian Festival to present the world premiere of one of the films in the Savage Cinema section, The Greasy Hands Preachers, directed by Arthur De Kersauson and Clément Beauvais, on 26 September at 24:00 in the Chamber Hall of the Kursaal (K2). The actor is Executive Producer of the film.
Bloom will roll...
For the third year running the San Sebastian Festival will subtitle its galas live in three languages thanks to its collaboration with the Royal Board on Disability
The initiative is possible yet again this year thanks to the Festival's collaboration with the Royal Board on Disability, through the Spanish Centre of Subtitling and Audiodescription.
This edition also has the support of the Carlos III University in Madrid, which provides the Festival with the UC3Mti...
Movistar TV has developed the official application offering complete up-to-date news on events as they happen at the Festival
Completing the sponsorship is the organisation of a round table on The false border between cinema and television series and an action tied to football in solidarity with the Cris Foundation for Cancer Research
Madrid, 16 September 2014. Movistar TV is, for the second year running, official sponsor of the 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festiva...
The new acoustics will permit screenings with better sound
The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, and the Manager of the Kursaal Auditorium, Iker Goikoetxea, presented the reforms made to the Kursaal Auditorium with a view to the improved sound of screenings at the 62nd edition.
A rock and textile cladding has been fitted to several parts of the auditorium: rear wall, the wall separating the amphitheatres and side entrance ramps; and a textile claddi...
Actor Karra Elejalde and the presenter Edurne Ormazabal were the masters of ceremonies of the 62nd San Sebastian Festival opening gala, on 19 September at 21:00 in the Kursaal Auditorium.
To present the contents of this edition, they were accompanied by other big names from Spanish cinema: Maribel Verdú, Unax Ugalde, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Mireia Gabilondo, Eduard Fernández and Imanol Arias.
During the gala, Denzel Washington received the Don...
Denzel Washington received the Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement recognition, during the opening gala of the 62ng San Sebastian Film Fest.
The Equalizer, a film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, was the film out-of-competition chosen to open the San Sebastian Festival. Actor and director were presenting the film in the Kursaal Auditorium.
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Jaeger- LeCoultre and Fundacion Aladina started up a new campaign to raise funds for the children with cancer during the 62 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Time to Smile, there is no time to waste but lives to save
Several Spanish artists such as Belén Rueda, Eduard Fernández, Imanol Arias, Manuela Vellés, Juana Acosta and Miguel Angel Muñoz donated some photographies that will be shown in an exhibition set at the Hotel Maria Cristina during the Festival....
Seven important personalities from the film scene will sit on the Official Jury at the San Sebastian Festival
Alongside them will be an eighth member: the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, arrested on 10 May of this year by the Federal Security State of the Russian Federation (FSB) and today in a Moscow prison for having backed the Euromaidan protests in Kiev and his opposition to the annexation of Crimea by Russia.
To defe...
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