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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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For the first time, the San Sebastian Festival shares its documentary archive with the citizens
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and the Festival will present, on December 7 in Tabakalera, the research work carried out on archive materials from the years 1976 to 1980
The sixth edition of Ikusmira Berriak chooses the projects by Gabriel Azorín, Jaione Camborda, Diego Céspedes, Elena Martín Gimeno and Jessica Sarah Rinland
Proyecta 2019 will host the presentation of 16 projects in the search for co-production
Organised by Ventana Sur and the San Sebastian Film Festival, the initiative will take place on December 4 in Buenos Aires
Films in Progress 37 is opening its registration period
The next Films in Progress will be held on the 26th and 27th of March 2020 within the framework of Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
‘Pacificado / Pacified’ wins the Golden Shell at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga carry off the Silver Shell for Best Director with ‘La trinchera infinita / The Endless Trench’
Greta Fernández and Nina Hoss win the Silver Shell for Best Actress ex aequo and Bukassa Kabengele does the same in the male category
Donostia Award for the dreamer Penélope Cruz
The actress received the San Sebastian Festival's most important honorary award from Bono (U2) in a surprise ceremony
For the first time, the San Sebastian Film Festival will do a screening simultaneously in six Spanish cities
‘Joker’, recent winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, has been selected as the surprise film of the 67th edition
Javier Bardem, Carlos Bardem and Alvaro Longoria to present the screening of ‘Sanctuary’ in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre on Thursday
Political Donostia Award for Costa-Gavras
“This award is so precious for us, the filmmakers”, said the director
The opening gala of the San Sebastian Festival endorses the “ancient ritual of going to a cinema to watch films”
The 67th edition starts with acknowledgement of the public: “The Festival wouldn’t be the same without it”
The film ‘Zeroville’ will screen in the Official Selection out of competition
The latest work from James Franco cannot compete for the Golden Shell due to having been released in commercial cinemas in Russia only a few days prior to its participation in the Festival
Yanis Varoufakis will not attend the Costa-Gavras Donostia Award gala
José Luis Rebordinos, the Festival Director, will present the award to the filmmaker prior to the screening of his film ‘Adults in the Room’
Genre cinema and the magic of a dark theatre inspire the opening gala of the San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition
The actresses Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Loreto Mauleón will present a ceremony directed by Borja Crespo
'La ola verde' (Que sea ley)', de Juan Solanas, inundará de pañuelos verdes el Festival de San Sebastián para reivindicar la aprobación de la ley del aborto en Argentina
The City Council strengthens its support to the San Sebastian Festival
As usual, free tickets will be distributed among unemployed Donostia citizens and disadvantaged groups
Eva Green and Juliette Binoche will also attend the Festival’s 67th edition to present 'Proxima' and 'La vérité'
Human Rights and Sustainable Development, protagonists of the Cooperación Española Award
TCM sponsors the Youth Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The films competing for the award are all those participating in the New Directors section and the first or second features by filmmakers presenting their works in Horizontes Latinos
Festival de San Sebastián - European Film Forum 2019
New Financing and Collaboration Models Promoting European Works
The Gijon Festival and the San Sebastian Festival join hands once again for the second edition of the Crossroads – Zinemaldia | FICX cycle
Both events renew this initiative to seek common spaces for co-operation to foster the circulation of cinematic works of special interest
Loterías becomes a sponsoring partner of the San Sebastian Festival’s Archive project
Lucía Peralta, who took part as Digital Matte Painter in productions such as ‘Aquaman’ and ‘Game of Thrones’, will give the Zinemaldia & Technology masterclass
At the event, to take place on September 22 in Tabakalera, the five finalist projects of the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge will be presented and the winner announced
‘Audiovisual pleasure’ at the Velodrome
Cinema music by the Basque National Orchestra, The SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastian Film Festival. Soundtracks in concert and film-scene screening
Films running for seven hours, 8-episode series, award-winning films, Chinese operas... the San Sebastian Festival’s extraordinary programme
Twelve films at the San Sebastian Festival compete for the XX Sebastiane Award
The Gehitu association will bring the exhibition ‘All about Pedro... Almodóvar turns 70’ from Cuba
San Sebastian, city of science and cinema
Thanks to the collaboration between the San Sebastian Festival, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Filmoteca Vasca, the screening for schools of the film ‘Tximinoen erresuma’ ('Evolution Man - Monkey Business') at the Velodrome will be presented by scientists from the DIPC
Yet another year we invite you to follow all events at the Festival on our Website, App and Social Media
The screening schedule of all the films in all sections, will be available on Wednesday September 11 both on the Festival website and in the App
Javier Bardem, Laetitia Casta, Costa-Gavras, Penélope Cruz, Ricardo Darín, Gael García Bernal, Valeria Golino, Nina Hoss, Michel Houellebecq, Catherine McCormack, Sam Neill, Tim Roth, Kristen Stewart, Donald Sutherland and Yanis Varoufakis, among others, have confirmed their presence at the San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition
Directors including Louise Archambault, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Kantemir Balagov, Bertrand Bonello, Sarah Gavron, Ciro Guerra, Ken Loach, Hirokazu Koreeda, Ladj Ly, Roger Michell, Takashi Miike, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, Guillaume Nicloux, Malgorzata Szumowska, Ina Weisse, Alice Winocour and Wang Xiaoshuai will visit the city to present their works
The San Sebastian Festival promotes Puxika Gorria / El Globo Rojo, a childcare service for the Festival professionals will open on September 20
The deadline for reservations is September 17
Sale of tickets for the San Sebastian Festival
The Festival's programme and the Film Guide will be available on Wednesday 11
The Velodrome will host the premieres of the series ‘Vida perfecta’, the animated film ‘La gallina turuleca’ and the documentary ‘Sua – Irabazi arte’
The concert organised by the Basque Orchestra, the SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastian Festival will take place on Saturday 21
Ina Weisse, Oren Gerner, Denis Côté, Martín Rejtman and Anna Sofie Hartmann play the leading role in the Nest Film Students meetings and masterclasses
The five filmmakers will converse with the film school students, who will show the 14 short films chosen for this edition
The San Sebastian Festival and the company Amenabar present six films for an audience of children
The company is the San Sebastian Festival’s new Official Collaborator
Gastronomies from Argentina, Korea, Japan, the Mediterranean, the Basque Country and Vietnam inspire the ninth edition of Culinary Zinema
The San Sebastian Festival section organised jointly with the Basque Culinary Center includes nine feature films and four shorts
Altuna and Esnal, Arregi, Garaño and Goenaga, Iñaki Arteta, Iban del Campo, Maider Fernandez Iriarte, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Loïc Legrand, Mikel Urretabizkaia and Helena Taberna to compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award
Seventeen feature films, one medium-length film and three shorts will make up the Basque production distributed between the Official Selection, New Directors, Zabaltegi - Tabakalera, Perlak, Culinary Zinema, Zinemira sections and the Basque Cinema and EiTB galas The producer José María ‘Txepe’ Lara will receive the Zinemira Award
'ROMA' by Alfonso Cuarón, FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2019 for best film of the year
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum dedicates its "Focus on" to Poland
A delegation of ten producers from Poland will come to San Sebastian to discover the Festival and participate in the Europe-Latin AmericaCo-Production Forum and in the other Industry activities
Sixteen titles compose the Made in Spain section
The Festival will premiere a film by David Trueba focussed on Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, a documentary about the need to rebuild bridges in the Basque Country and a compilation of stories about Spanish cinema
The Klasikoak section will offer the chance of a new look at the modern classics ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’, ‘Dao ma zei / The Horse Thief’ and ‘Sátántangó’
Said films, by Paul Schrader, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Béla Tarr respectively, will screen in restored versions
The San Sebastian Film Festival honours Donald Sutherland with the Donostia Award for more than fifty years of excellent performances
The award will be presented prior to the screening of ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’, a thriller directed by Giuseppe Capotondi
Bertrand Bonello, Mati Diop, Takashi Miike and Diao Yinan, among others, to compete for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
Maddi Barber, Andrés di Tella, Izibene Oñederra and Justin Webster will present their latest works
Penélope Cruz will receive the Donostia Award before the screening of ‘Wasp Network’, the latest film from Olivier Assayas
Tickets are now on sale for the gala on September 27 in the Kursaal
The films of Sarah Gavron, Sonthar Gyal, Malgorzata Szumowska, Gonçalo Waddington, Alice Winocour and Paxton Winters join the list of competitors for the Golden Shell at the 67th edition
Seventeen productions will compete in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection
Perlak will show the latest works from Affleck, Eggers, Koreeda, Larraín, Sciamma, Shinkai and Soderbergh, among others
‘The Climb’, a comedy directed by Michael Angelo Covino, will close the section out of competition
‘The Song of Names’, the film starring Tim Roth, Catherine McCormack and Clive Owen, to close the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Canada’s François Girard returns to the world of music after directing films such as ‘Le violon rouge’ (1998) and ‘Boychoir’ (2014)
One of the Donostia Awards at the 67th edition pays homage to the militant cinema of Costa-Gavras
The French filmmaker of Greek origin will collect the award prior to the special screening of ‘Adults in the Room’, his adaptation of Yanis Varoufakis’s memoires
Films in Progress 36 presents six debut films
The industry activity, running on September 23, 24 and 25, will show productions from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay
Asier Altuna, César Díaz, Ana García Blaya, Pablo Giorgelli and Mariana Rondón are among those who will present their new projects at the VIII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
The Forum, to take place from September 22 to 25, will include projects from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela
Roger Michell’s ‘Blackbird’ to open the San Sebastian Festival
Starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska and Sam Neill, the film is a remake of ‘Silent Heart’ (2014), the drama by Denmark’s Bille August, which also competed for the Golden Shell
Fourteen short films will compete in Nest Film Students, which has seen its submissions increase by 22% in a year
The Argentine director Martín Rejtman will chair the jury at the XVIII edition of the international film students meeting, to run from September 23 to 27
The third edition of Glocal in Progress will present three films shot in Albanian, Romanian and Catalan
Two of the three are debut films 'Nematoma', by Ignas Jonynas, awarded at the 2018 edition, will compete in New Directors
Five virtual reality, artificial intelligence, blockchain and augmented reality projects to compete in the first Zinemaldia & Technology Startup Challenge
The selected proposals, from Spain, France, Ireland and Switzerland, will compete for a prize of 10,000 euros, free access for the first year to an incubation space at a BIC in the Basque Technology Park Network and potential funding of up to 500,000 euros The event will run on September 22 at Tabakalera and will include a masterclass and the pitching of innovative business ideas
The film ‘Temblores’, directed by Jayro Bustamante, will receive the seventh Sebastiane Latino Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Horizontes Latinos will present the new films by Jayro Bustamante, Patricio Guzmán, Gael García Bernal, Paula Hernández, Romina Paula, Federico Veiroj and Andrés Wood, among others
‘La cordillera de los sueños (The Cordillera of Dreams)' will open the section, and ‘La Llorona’ will close it, out of competition
The San Sebastian Festival promotes Puxika Gorria / El Globo Rojo, a childcare service for the Festival professionals
Louise Archambault, James Franco, Guillaume Nicloux, José Luis Torres Leiva, Ina Weisse, Adilkhan Yerzhanov and David Zonana to compete in the Official Selection
James Franco, winner of the Golden Shell with ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017), stars and directs ‘Zeroville’
The retrospective dedicated to Roberto Gavaldón at San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition will include twenty feature films by the Mexican director
The cycle, to be completed by a monographic book about the filmmaker, will travel to Filmoteca Española in Madrid in October and November
Fourteen productions from Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, the UK and the USA to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award
Worthy of note among the selected works are films to have landed awards at Films in Progress 35, Glocal in Progress and Ikusmira Berriak
‘La hija de un ladrón (A Thief's Daughter)’, ‘La trinchera infinita (The Endless Trench)’ and ‘Mientras dure la guerra (While at War)’ to compete for the Golden Shell at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The first work from Belén Funes, the new film by Goenaga, Garaño and Arregi, and the latest movie from Alejandro Amenábar make up the list of Spanish films competing in the Official Selection, where Daniel Sánchez Arévalo will present ‘Diecisiete (Seventeen)’ out of competition and ‘La odisea de los giles (Heroic Losers)’ by Sebastián Borensztein will have a special screening
The latest works of Bong Joon Ho, Ken Loach, Nakache and Toledano, Oliver Laxe and Wang Xiaoshuai to compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award
The films 'Beanpole', 'Amazing Grace' and 'Les Misérables' complete the first look ahead at the Perlak section
Ikusmira Berriak programme extends its residency period from six to eight weeks
The call for submissions for the sixth edition will remain open from July 1 until August 30 and opens to students at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Each selected project will receive a development grant of 5,000 euros
Nest Film Students competition opens its submission period
The XVIII edition of the international film students meeting will run from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th September 2019
Lau Haizetara announces the open call for its XV Documentary Co-Production forum
The deadline for the registration of projects is 12 July
Penélope Cruz will receive a Donostia Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The Spanish actress, winner of one Oscar and three Goyas, star of the Festival poster
Zinemaldia & Technology announces a competition for business projects, now in its second edition
The Basque Government promotes the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, whose call for submissions opens today, aimed at entrepreneurs and recently created companies from Europe who are developing a project involving new technologies for the audiovisual field
The second edition of Zinemaldia & Technology, organised by the San Sebastian Festival, Tecnalia, Tabakalera and Petronor, has the support of Creative Europe MEDIA and Vicomtech
The San Sebastian Festival opens its call for submissions for Films in Progress 36
The submission deadline is 30 June
The San Sebastian Festival opens the call for submissions for Glocal in Progress
The deadline for submissions for this activity aimed at European films in non-hegemonic languages is 30 June
The San Sebastian Festival opens the call for the VIII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
The registration deadline is June 15
The 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and Filmoteca Española will dedicate a retrospective to the Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón
Films in Progress 35 to present six films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico
The 35th edition will run on March 28 and 29 within the framework of Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
Eight films presented at the last edition of the San Sebastian Festival bag 16 accolades at the 33rd Goya Awards
El Reino, a competitor in the Official Selection, was the night’s biggest award winner, and Campeones was named best film
Films can now be submitted online for participation in the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Monday to Thursday: 09:00h - 15:00h
Friday: 10:00h - 14:00h