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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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The premiere of ‘Rainbow’, directed by Paco León, will be accompanied by Dora, Ayax Pedrosa and Wekaforé, as well as other members of the cast, including Carmen Maura, Carmen Machi, Luis Bermejo and Hovik Keuchkerian
The musician and moviemaker Fermin Muguruza will present ‘Black is beltza II: Ainhoa’ together with Maria Cruickshank, Itziar Ituño, Antonio de la Torre, Ariadna Gil and Darko Peric
Having ceased to exist for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Sebastian Festival will return at its 70th edition to screenings in the Velodrome, on a giant screen with capacity for almost 3,000 spectators and a screen of 400 square metres. To introduce the three world premieres programmed this year, we will have the visit alongside their directors of several members of their artistic teams, including big names from the music scene.
The Velodrome will reopen its doors on Saturday 17 at 20:00 with the showing of Sintiéndolo mucho / Feeling It, a documentary by Fernando León de Aranoa on the composer Joaquín Sabina, who will accompany the director at the presentation alongside another professional colleague, the musician Leiva.
A day later, on Sunday at 20:00, it will be the turn of Rainbow, Paco León’s take on the classic The Wizard of Oz. Both the filmmaker himself and several actors with experience in the field of music have confirmed their attendance, such as the lead character, Dora, Ayax Pedrosa and Wekaforé, as well as other members of the cast including Carmen Maura, Carmen Machi, Luis Bermejo and Hovik Keuchkerian.
Lastly, the musician and moviemaker Fermin Muguruza will show the animated film Black is beltza II: Ainhoa, whose introduction will also have the presence of many of the actors lending their voice to the characters: Maria Cruickshank, Itziar Ituño, Antonio de la Torre, Ariadna Gil and Darko Peric.
Individual tickets for each of these films cost 8.25 euros. Purchases are limited to a maximum of four tickets per showing. Purchases of ten or more tickets in a single operation will benefit from a 25% discount.
Saturday, September 17
A portrait of Joaquín Sabina without his bowler hat, made only inches from his skin, nocturnal and calculated, by his friend, the moviemaker Fernando León de Aranoa. A story like his voice, hoarse, direct and unadorned, narrating with no extenuating circumstances the intimacy of the artist, his behind the scenes, his B side. Which starts when he comes down off the stage, which accompanies him in his everyday life, and in his unexpected moments: in the laughs and in the drama. Sintiéndolo mucho is the result of thirteen years of filming together, and it travels to all of Joaquín Sabina’s stages, public and private, in and out of the spotlight. A walk through the keys of his life and his work: of what moves him, of what inspires him, of what hurts him, always developed on the basis of lively, shared situations between the musician and the moviemaker.
Sunday, September 18
Dora is a teenager with an extraordinary talent for music and boundless energy difficult to keep in check. After a huge fight with her father on her birthday, Dora leaves home with her dog Totó and sets out on a journey to find the mother she has never met, having disappeared when she was a baby. On the way she makes new friends who join her on a road trip to Capital City; but she also has to deal with dangerous enemies who will try at all costs to prevent her from discovering the mystery of her past. But Dora’s vitality and magic will help her to reach not only the end of her journey, but the start of another one.
Friday, September 23
Ainhoa was born by a miracle in La Paz (Bolivia), after the death of her mother Amanda in a simulated car accident. She grew up in Cuba and in 1988, at the age of 21, she traveled to the Basque Country to discover the land of her father Manex. In the midst of repression and political conflict, she meets Josune, a committed journalist, and her gang of friends. After one of them dies of a heroin overdose, Ainhoa and Josune set out on an initiatory journey that will take them across Lebanon, Afghanistan and the city of Marseille. These are the last years of the Cold War and they will delve into the dark world of drug trafficking networks and their close links to political plots.
In addition to these three screenings, the Velodrome recovers the Concert & Screening organised with the Basque Symphony Orchestra and the SGAE Foundation; the screening of a film related to scientific knowledge for schoolchildren from Monday to Friday in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Filmoteca Vasca, and the event running on the last day of the Festival with broadcast of the closing gala, the film closing the Official Selection (still to be announced) and the closing film of Perlak, Moonage Daydream, an immersion in the universe of musician David Bowie directed by Brett Morgen.
Saturday, September 24 - Perlak
Considered to be one of the greatest artists of our time, David Bowie has been changing culture for more than 50 years. Told through magnificent and kaleidoscopic images and performances unseen until now –tied together by Bowie's words and music– Moonage Daydream invites spectators into a unique world, the Bowie world.
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