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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Thirteen films presented at the San Sebastian Festival reap 50 Goya Award nominations
Five films presented at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival rack up 35 Feroz Award nominations
Films in Progress 31 is opening its registration period
The next Films in Progress will be held on the 23rd and 24th of March 2017 within the framework of Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
2016 Awards (Preview): Donostia / San Sebastián 2016 European Capital of Culture 2016 Audience Award, Irizar Basque Film Award, EROSKI Youth Award
Emma Suárez, Mireia Gabilondo and Cayetana Guillén Cuervo to present the Opening Gala at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
4K technology comes to the San Sebastian Film Festival with Hispasat
Tabakalera will host HISPASAT 4K International Festival awards gala with the screening of the winning shorts at 19:30 on the 20th
The workshop “Cinema and Technology. The challenges of filming in 4K” will take place in room 9 of Kursaal at 11:00 on the 20th
The producers Nadia Turincev and Corinne Castel make up the Official Jury and the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera's jury, respectively
Amplio seguimiento informativo al Festival de San Sebastián en EiTB
El director del Festival de San Sebastián, José Luis Rebordinos, y la directora general de EiTB, Maite Iturbe, han renovado este miércoles el acuerdo de colaboración
EiTB preestrena el documental ''Buscando a Agirre'' el próximo 20 de septiembre en el Teatro Victoria Eugenia en la Gala conjunta del Cine Vasco y ETB
En la edición de este año el Festival de San Sebastián ofrecerá más de una docena de producciones en las que ha participado ETB
Jaeger-LeCoultre will join the Aladina Foundation’s campaign “A hug for the ICU at the Niño Jesús Sick Kids’ Hospital”, in the framework of the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival
Travis Rice, Peter Hamblin, Takuji Masuda, Craig Stecyk, Patrick Trefz and Art Brewer will join various others in San Sebastian to present the titles in the Savage Cinema section
The 2016 edition of Savage Cinema has lined up a selection of mind-blowing surf and snowboard titles, which will bring both fresh and iconic personalities and filmmakers to the city
Fifteen Ibero-American films compete for the Cooperación Española Award
The San Sebastian Festival collaborates with the BIFF - Bogota International Film Festival
A young talent from Colombia will participate in the International Film School Students Meeting at the Festival’s 64th edition
Ten films selected for Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will be screened in October as part of the Tabakalera programme
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will continue until October 28th in five double showings including the combined screening of one short and one feature film
From September 15th, the installation by Andrés Di Tella will be open for visit in Tabakalera
The San Sebastian City Council will sponsor the San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016 Audience Award in the year of the capital event
In addition to Donostia Award-winners Sigourney Weaver and Ethan Hawke and winner of the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award, Gael García Bernal, a long list of actors have confirmed their presence in San Sebastian: Monica Bellucci, Fan Bingbing, Jennifer Connelly, Javier Bardem, Richard Gere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hugh Grant, Isabelle Huppert, Ewan McGregor, Cynthia Nixon, Ken Watanabe, Lambert Wilson, Shailene Woodley and Lee Yoo-young
Others who will attend the event to accompany their films are the directors Maren Ade, Emmanuelle Bercot, Bertrand Bonello Terence Davies, Hirokazu Koreeda, Pablo Larraín, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Oliver Stone, Bertrand Tavernier and Paul Verhoeven, among many others
The Official Selection Jury is chaired by the Danish moviemaker Bille August.
The Velodrome will house the premiere of the collective film ''Kalebegiak'' in addition to the animated movies ''Storks'' and ''Sausage Party''
The ''biggest film theatre in the world'' as it was dubbed by Oliver Stone, will turn thirty in 2016
The XV International Film Students Meeting will include masterclasses by Bonello, Périot and Tverdovsky
The seven films in the Culinary Zinema section will take us to the origins, traditions and future of food
Six documentaries and a fiction feature will compete for the Tokyo Gohan Award in the San Sebastian Festival section combining cinema and gastronomy
Tickets for the screening-dinner combo will be available for purchase from Monday, September 5th
The San Sebastian Festival and Creative Europe MEDIA organize the second edition of ''Audiences in motion''
Audiences in Motion: Listening to the User
Donostia - San Sebastian - San Telmo Museum
September 18 - 9:30 am
The Japanese animated film ''Kimi no Na wa / Your name'', the living will of Bigas Luna "Bigas x Bigas" and "Colossal", the latest production by Nacho Vigalondo, complete the Official Selection
Zinemira will present more Basque productions than ever
The section will include seventeen films produced in the Basque Country, nine of which will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award
Ramón Barea will receive the Zinemira Award at the Basque Film and ETB Gala, setting for the premieres of ''Igelak (Frogs)'' and ''Agirre Lehendakaria''
A Baltic co-production and a film from the Netherlands join the New Directors selection
Sixteen filmmakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award
Baltasar Kormákur, Feng Xiaogang and Lee Sang-il, join others to compete for the Golden Shell at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The first works by Bartosz M. Kowalski and Emiliano Torres round off the competitive Official Selection
The five filmmakers selected for Ikusmira Berriak share their experiences at the Tabakalera residencies
Tickets for the Donostia Award galas on sale from Friday
Tickets for the Donostia Award galas will be available for purchase on the Festival website from 9 am this Friday, August 26th
Ethan Hawke to receive a Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The European premiere of ''La fille de Brest / 150 Milligrams'' to open the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Emmanuelle Bercot directs this Golden Shell contender starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Benoît Magimel
The FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2016 for Best Film of the year goes to ''Toni Erdmann'' by Maren Ade, who will collect the award at the San Sebastian Festival
''Arrival'' to close Pearls at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The Velodrome will house the screening of the sci-fi thriller by Denis Villeneuve
The Palme d’Or in Cannes, ''I, Daniel Blake'', and the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, ''Fuocoammare / Fire at Sea'' in the Pearls selection
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will present the last works of Ade, Barras, Dudok de Wit, Frears, Hansen-Løve, Koreeda, Kusturica, Lafosse, Larraín, Loach, Ozon, Puiu, Rosi, Sachs and Verhoeven
Six films by Adrián Biniez, Alexandra Latishev, Álvaro Aponte-Centeno, Gustavo Rondón, Jaime Osorio and Santiago Esteves to be presented in Films in Progress 30
Films in Progress 30 will run on September 19th, 20th and 21st September
Juan Andrés Arango, Daniel Burman, Amat Escalante, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Carlos Lechuga and Christopher Murray, among the competitors for the Horizontes Award
Five former participants in last year’s Films in Progress will this year feature in the selection of the best in Latin American cinema
32 films make up the retrospective ''The Act of Killing. Cinema and global violence''
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016 present a season of films reflecting on some of contemporary society’s great conflicts
Savage Cinema brings the most heterogeneous selection in its fourth edition
The early days of surf in Gipuzkoa, the iconic journey of snowboarder Travis Rice, the psychedelia of the 60s and the awaited story of Bunker Spreckels are among the highlights of the selection
The world premiere of ''L’Odyssée / The Odyssey'' to close the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
EFADs and CACI launch Europe-Latin America Co-Production Grant at the San Sebastian Film Festival
Jeff Nichols, João Pedro Rodrigues and Todd Solondz, among other filmmakers, will present their films in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
Two outstanding first films from Latin America and the short films by Bertrand Bonello and Jia Zhang-ke figure in the section’s first competitive edition
The San Sebastian Festival launches an initiative of collaboration with Basque artists
Isabel Herguera and Izibene Oñederra have created the backdrops for the Pearls and the Basque Film gala presentations
The retrospective of Jacques Becker will include all his feature films in the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival
French director’s son, the filmmaker Jean Becker, will attend the presentation
17 projects in development from 11 countries to be presented at the V Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
The Forum will run on September 19th, 20th and 21st in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival’s 64th edition
The San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection will screen the eagerly awaited works of Bertrand Bonello, Fernando Guzzoni, Arnaud des Pallières and Hong Sang-soo, among others
Three debutants: North America’s Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm and Britain’s William Oldroyd will also compete for the Golden Shell
''American Pastoral'', the directorial debut by Ewan McGregor, to compete in the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Festival
Gael García Bernal to receive the first Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award
The San Sebastian Festival and Jaeger-LeCoultre promote a new award to acknowledge the career of prominent figures in the world of Latin cinema
The 15th International Film Students Meeting will take place on 20th-23rd September during the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and will be held in Tabakalera
Alberto Rodríguez, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Jonás Trueba to compete in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival
J.A. Bayona will present “A Monster Calls”, out of competition, and the latest works by Diego Galán and Jo Sol will enjoy special screenings in the framework of the Official Selection
Six films presented at the San Sebastian Festival win twelve of the thirteen Platino Awards
''El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent)'', selected for Horizontes Latinos following its premiere at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, was the big winner of the night.
One of the projects of Ikusmira Berriak’s first edition secures funding from Galician Government
''Trote'' by Xacio Baño will receive €259.000 from Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais
Sigourney Weaver, star of ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'', Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival.
The European premiere of J.A. Bayona’s ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'' will be presented in the Official Selection out of competition
“Rara”, by Pepa San Martín, winner of Sebastiane Latino’s fourth edition
The film will be presented in the Horizontes Latinos section of the Festival’s 64th edition
Kike Maíllo to release his short film ''Cabra y oveja (Goat and sheep)'', produced by Gas Natural Fenosa, at the San Sebastian Festival
Bertrand Tavernier’s latest film will open the first competitive Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
San Sebastian Festival’s ''open zone'' will also present the works of Terence Davies, Lav Diaz and Jim Jarmusch, among others
Six films will compete for the IV Sebastiane Latino Award
The Award given by Gehitu goes to the film that best represents sexual and gender diversity
The EROSKI Youth Award jury will consist of 300 young people between the ages of 18 and 25
EROSKI becomes a San Sebastian Film Festival sponsor
"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition
The San Sebastian Festival will promote GLOCAL IN PROGRESS, a Films in Progress for European films in non-hegemonic languages
This year will see a FOCUS ON GLOCAL CINEMAS with Norway, Iceland and Denmark as guest countries, in the framework of the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
San Sebastián refuerza su imagen turística internacional como Ciudad de Cultura y Festivales
Fourteen films presented at the San Sebastián Film Festival gather 51 nominations at the Platino Awards
IKUSMIRA BERRIAK presents the projects selected
The four projects that will make up part of the 2016 programme are Loba (She-wolf) by Kiro Russo (Bolivia), Calipatria by Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice (Austria), Fantasía (Fantasy) by Aitor Merino and Amaia (Spain) and Suro by Mikel Gurrea (Spain).
Savage Cinema is now selecting films for its fourth edition
The registration period for the San Sebastian Festival section is open until July 18
The 15th International Film Students Meeting will open for registration on June 1st
The Meeting will take place from 20th to 23rd September as part of the 64th San Sebastian Festival.
A poster portraying the San Sebastian Festival as a meeting point is the image of the 64th edition
Its author is San Sebastian designer Jorge Elósegui, from Estudio Primo
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will dedicate a retrospective to the French director Jacques Becker
Films in Progress 30 opens its call for submissions
San Sebastian, 19, 20 and 21 September 2016
Deadline: June 30
The San Sebastian Festival incorporates a Head of Communication
Ruth Pérez de Anucita, new Head of Communication at the San Sebastian Festival
Call open for the V Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
19, 20 and 21 September 2016
Project submission deadline: June 15
Confirmed Ikusmira Berriak experts committee
Yet another year the committee of experts will have the presence of Paz Lázaro, alongside Sergio Oksman and Ada Solomon
The call for the development of projects remains open until april 1st.
San Sebastian poster competition finalists
Voting for the poster competition has closed and the finalists announced for each category.
The winners will be announced on May 5
Films in Progress 29 will present six films from Argentina, Brazil and Chile
The Toulouse edition will take place on 17 and 18 March 2016
Today the period begins for voting by the public in the online poster competition organised by the San Sebastián Film Festival
The public will choose 10 finalists in each category
Online voting will finish on March 15
The San Sebastian Festival, listed fifth most important cultural event in 2015, just as it was in 2014
Zabaltegi, the San Sebastián Film Festival programme 'open zone', becomes a competitive section and changes its name to Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
The Festival and Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture have signed an agreement to create the Zabaltegi - Tabakalera Award
'Truman', which competed in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival, is the big winner at the Goya Awards 2016
5 films presented at the 63rd edition reap a total of 11 Goya Awards
New announcement of 'Ikusmira Berriak', the interinstitutional programme of support to new audiovisual projects
'Truman' and 'El Rey de la Habana (The King of Havana)', winners at the Gaudi Awards
The San Sebastian Festival calls its online poster competition
The image of the 64th edition will be chosen from among all participants
''La novia (The Bride)'' and ''Truman'', two films presented at the last edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, win the Feroz Awards
Films can now be submitted online for participation in the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Films in Progress 29 opens its call for submissions
The new edition will take place on 17 and 18 March in the framework of Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
Monday to Thursday: 09:00h - 15:00h
Friday: 10:00h - 14:00h