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Juliette Binoche, one of Europe’s most international actresses, will feature on the official poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, to run from 16-24 September. Winner of an Academy Award for her work in The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996), the French actor will visit the city for the fourth time to receive one of this year’s Donostia Awards in recognition of an extensive career which has seen her play almost 75 characters, from power-wield...
The exhibition celebrating San Sebastian Festival’s 70th anniversary will pay homage to the public, the industry, the press and to the city itself
The public is invited to send photographs taken over these seven decades for their inclusion in one of the installations
Tabakalera will host the show “Imagine a Film Festival” from 4 June until 24 September, the last day of the event
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Thanks to everyone. We look forward to seeing you next year!
In these last days of 2021, on behalf of the team who make the Festival possible, I would once again like to thank you for y...
Marion Cotillard received on the festival opening (Sep 17) the first of the two Donostia Awards to be presented at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition.
Penélope Cruz presented the honorary award to the French actress during the opening gala with the theme of the hugs interrupted by the pandemic, and which also served to remember those who have recently left us, such as the filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and the former Festival director, Luis Gasca.
“I didn’t expect...
The Zinemaldia + Plus focus will offer two screenings with films starring Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp, recipients of the Donostia Award at the 69th edition
Tabakalera’s shared screen will programme ‘Deux jours, une nuit’, by the Dardenne brothers, on September 4, and ‘Dead Man’, by Jim Jarmusch, on September 9
During the month of September, San Sebastian Festival will offer two new screenings as part of the Zinemaldia + Plus focus running on Tabakalera&rsqu...
A publication, a podcast, a commemorative video, masterclasses and Zinemaldia + Plus screenings to celebrate Nest’s 20th anniversary
Filmmakers Céline Sciamma, Laura Wandel, Mina Fitzpatrick, Inês de Lima, Kiro Russo and Óscar Vincentelli will participate in the activities, as will the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola alumni Noemí Cuetos and Marcela Hinojosa
Nest, San Sebastian Festival's competitive section for short films by film school students world...
The Movistar+ Gala will take place on Sunday 19 at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre with the presence of Raphael and the exclusive preview of one episode
The documentary series Raphaelismo, a Movistar+ original, will be presented at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition, to run from September 17-25. Its release on the platform is scheduled for 2022. The series brings an intimate portrait of the artist’s successes, secrets, fears and dreams, including unseen audiovisual footage, m...
Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, has obtained the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2021 after having been voted best film of the year 2021 by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. Participating in the vote were 593 critics from all over the world, who have chosen this North American production from all of the films released after 1st July 2020.
The other four finalists were Another Round (Druk) by Thomas Vinterberg, winner of the ...
The San Sebastian Festival analyses the involvement of female directors, producers, scriptwriters, editors, cinematographers and composers in the films of the 68th edition
The gender identity report detects a higher presence of female professionals in the selected films than in the total number of films viewed, but the percentage never exceeds 40%
The San Sebastian Festival publishes its second gender identity report on the people who work – in the categories of directing, production, ...
San Sebastian Festival, Kutxa Fundazioa and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola reveal “other approaches” to the Festival’s early years
The exhibition in the Kutxa Kultur Plaza consists of thirty photographs from the period falling between 1953 and 1970
The show is curated by the team of Zinemaldia 70: all possible stories, the research project sponsored by the Spanish lottery organisation, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado
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The Culture Observatory at the Fundación Contemporánea has published the results of its analysis of Spain’s cultural panorama. The San Sebastian Festival has been ranked third most important cultural initiative at the end of 2020.
The Festival's third place means moving up a position with respect to last year's ranking, which is once again headed by the Museo del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. In third place is the Festival and four...
The French Ministry of Culture names the Director of the San Sebastian Festival Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres
José Luis Rebordinos places this honorary distinction within the context of his links to the French culture and filmmaking
The French Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, informed the Director of San Sebastian Festival by letter of his appointment as Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Lettres of the...
66,234 spectators watched 151 films from 50 countries at San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition, attended by 2,626 accredited professionals, including 689 journalists from 376 media outlets and 1,185 film industry professionals (487 of whom participated online).
In last year’s rundown we opened with references to record audience attendance (178,687 spectators in 2019) and accreditation numbers (4,319 in 2019). But even then we warned that it was difficult to grow f...
The French-Georgian co-production also wins the Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay awards
The Silver Shell for Best Actor goes to the group of actors in 'Druk / Another Round' and The Special Jury Prize goes to the music documentary 'Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan'
The Jury Prize for Best Cinematography goes to Yuta Tsukinaga for his work in 'Nakuko wa ineega / Any Crybabies Around?'
The French-Georgian co-pro...
WIP LATAM Awards
WIP LATAM INDUSTRY AWARD
Piedra Noche / Dusk Stone
Iván Fund (Argentina - Chile)
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San Sebastian Festival’s surprise film, to screen tomorrow, Saturday (Victoria Eugenia Theatre, 15:45), is Sportin’ Life, the latest work from Abel Ferrara, who will be here in San Sebastian to present it.
During lockdown, the director of movies such as Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996) filmed a 68-minute documentary released at Venice Festival and featuring his wife, Cristina Chiriac, his daughter Anna and friends including actors Willem ...
“Life is a gift”
Viggo Mortensen collects the Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival from the filmmaker Agustín Díaz Yanes
Before introducing ‘Falling’, his directorial debut, the actor received greetings from the producer Jeremy Thomas, the footballer Beto Acosta and the director David Cronenberg
Today V...
Francy Fabritz (Germany)
Tomás Paula Marques (Portugal)
Viktor van der Valk (Iceland)
They decided to award the following short films with:
ORONA - NEST AWARD
The award carries 10,000 euros. For its bold but intimate storytelling capable of suggesting the depth of fictional and also real power games.
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“It’s time to return to the cinema”
José Luis Rebordinos, at the opening gala of San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition, said: “We have an unequivocal engagement to show films before a physical audience in film theatres”
Thierry Frémaux: “Cinema will never die”
Woody Allen: “I hope you like the film as much as we liked living and shooting it in San Sebastian”
Rifkin’s Festival, the new romantic com...
British actor Joe Alwyn completes the official jury chaired by Luca Guadagnino
Elena Anaya, Candela Peña, Blanca Suárez, Paz Vega, Raúl Arévalo, Alejandro Sanz, Javier Cámara, Irene Escolar, Bárbara Lennie and Roberto Álamo are some of the Spanish cinema stars attendees currently confirmed
San Sebastian Festival will have at its 68th edition a long list of guests who will visit the city to accompany the films and projects i...
Jon Maya and Harkaitz Cano direct and write the opening and closing galas, as well as the Donostia Award and Basque Cinema galas
The concept of distance, deeply felt in these times of pandemic, and the need to return to film theatres, are the central themes of tomorrow’s gala serving to open the San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition at the Kursaal. The dancer and choreographer Jon Maya will act as MC, while the author Harkaitz Cano will produce the script.
The tandem of creators ...
Aaron Sorkin, Francisco Ramos, Ted Hope and Marc Orts, leading figures of the Conversations and Master classes at San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition
Thought and Discussion, the Festival’s new area dedicated to promoting discussion on the cinema, will also include the European Film Forum, conferences and round tables
All of the activities will be broadcast in streaming mode on sansebastianfestival.com
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The San Sebastian Festival has included seventeen titles from the Cannes 2020 selection in its different sections
Danielle Arbid, Šarūnas Bartas, Naomi Kawase, Dea Kulumbegashvili, François Ozon and Thomas Vinterberg will compete in the Official Selection
‘El olvido que seremos / Forgotten We’ll Be’ by Fernando Trueba will close the Festival
The San Sebastian Festival, the 68th edition of which will run from September 18-26, has included in t...
The casting director from Eibar will collect the award at the Basque Cinema Gala on September 22
Casting director Sara Bilbatua will receive the Zinemira Award given by San Sebastian Festival and the Ibaia and EPE/APV producers associations in recognition of an outstanding personality of Basque cinema. Bilbatua, responsible for the casting on more than 75 audiovisual productions in the last 25 years, will collect the award at the Basque Cinema Gala in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre on September...
Open and streaming broadcast www.sansebastianfestival.com
The coming edition of the San Sebastian Festival’s European Film Forum, running on Tuesday, September 22 from 15h.-16h45 and broadcast live on the Festival website, will reflect on the challenges and opportunities faced by the European audiovisual industry in the context triggered by Covid-19. It will also make an in depth analysis of how this situation is affecting the European audiovisual sector, which was alre...
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