For the first time, the centre’s film programme has been designed in coordination with the city’s calendar of film festivals
The offer for 2023 will place particular emphasis on the goal of sharing with the locals and highlighting creative processes through meetings with filmmakers
The pass and individual tickets for screenings in 2023 will be available from 20 December from the Tabakalera website and from its Information Point
The gender identity report has added a new professional category: sound
Thanks to the new website, ‘Artxiboa’, the more than 4,000 digital documents (photographs, posters, dailies…) are now open for public consultation, in addition to a catalogue of more than 27,000 fact sheets on materials available for examination by specialists
Sponsored by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, the research project developed by the Festival and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, with the collaboration of the Filmoteca Vasca, Medialab Tabakalera and the Kutxa Fundazioa, brings its first phase to an end
More than 1,300 professionals from 30 countries participated in the activities of the initiative’s first edition
Games from Spain, in the Maquinitas section, attracted key stakeholders from the videogame industry
Spanish Screenings belongs to the ‘Spain, Europe’s Audiovisual Hub’ part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, promoted by the Ministries of Culture and Sport and Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation
A total of 348 projects have been submitted for the ninth edition of a programme which has achieved consolidation on the international scene
Ikusmira Berriak will double the amount of its grant thanks to support of the ICAA, meaning that each moviemaker will receive 10,000 euros to work on their proposal
Nine networking activities including working breakfasts, a co-production meeting and happy hours will be organized while members of the delegation will also participate in seven conferences and panels
21 projects in development, seven works in progress, 40 films ripe for remake, 21 completed films in Market Screenings and three Market Premieres will be presented, plus those available at the Video Library
Ventana's Sur Maquinitas section will also include projects and activities, brought to the event by Games from Spain, initiative of ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones
The work, published in Basque, will have its launch tomorrow at Tabakalera as part of the Literaktum Festival and events to celebrate the Festival’s 70th anniversary
The book is based on an original and entertaining premise: a party attended by deceased film stars to have received the Donostia Award
The first episode, dedicated to internationalization, will air on 17 November
A space giving a voice to Spanish audiovisual industry professionals on news in the sector
The initiative is part of the Spanish Screenings 360, initiative of Spanish Screenings XXL
Works in Progress, Market Premieres, recent films and remakes will also be presented to the international industry
The initiative, to be completed with networking activities, will showcase Spanish productions in all of the market sections
On the 3rd of November Estibaliz Urresola, Irati Gorostidi and Maider Fernández Iriarte will be involved in the first of the nine conversations, which will end at the end of May with Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga
Access to the sessions, in which the Z365 area of the San Sebastián Festival and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola collaborate, will be open in both in-person and online formats
Organised by Ventana Sur, the Cannes Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Festival, the activity will run from 28 November to 2 December
Mine S carries off the Best European Startup Award
kino_greentoken wins the Best Entrepreneurial Team Award
The collaboration takes the shape of a report on participation by gender including new categories and the increased presence of women filmmakers
The filmmaker David Cronenberg received the award from Gaspar Noé and Viggo Mortensen sent him a congratulatory video
The actress received the accolade from Isabel Coixet
The Spanish Screenings themed calls for submissions will include selected projects by the Sitges Festival, Weird, Abycine Lanza and Conecta Fiction
Spanish Screenings on Tour 2022 will run at Ventana Sur between 28 November and 2 December
Isabel Coixet and Gaspar Noé to present the Donostia Award to Juliette Binoche and David Cronenberg, respectively
Loreto Mauleón and Paco León host a gala celebrating the event’s seventieth anniversary
Almost 2,200 boys and girls attended the first Ikastetxeak Belodromoan showing, where RSAIT, the robotics research group at the University of the Basque is running a daily screening of ‘Terra Willy: Planeta ezezaguna’ (Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet) with the special appearance of Pepper the social robot
From this edition, we have an official TikTok. Through this entertainment platform you will have the chance to enjoy exclusive and live content, fun moments and collaborations with content creators that you don't want to miss
Santiago Tabernero will direct the ceremony, kicking off at 20:30 on Friday 16 in the Kursaal and to be broadcast live on TVE’s La 2 channel, ETB1, eitb.eus, the Festival website and TikTok
For the eight consecutive year, AECID, together with the San Sebastian Festival, is promoting the accolade which recognises the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights
The Award is part of the alliance between the AECID and the Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry
The contenders are two titles in the Official Selection, three in New Directors and one in Perlak
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa director and screenwriter of ‘Cinco lobitos’; Salima Jirari El Kouaihi, expert in diversity, and Maite López Pisonero, Deputy Director of Film at RTVE make up the jury
The Award will be presented on Saturday 24 at the Festival closing gala
The US actress will not be able to travel to San Sebastian due to a family emergency
The Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín will be the president of the jury
The City Council and the Festival will distribute 1,000 free tickets among the unemployed
The Thought and Discussion area will address aspects such as the defence of equality and gender diversity, environmental and labour sustainability in the film industry and the impact of new technologies
The Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea project, with the collaboration of Donostia Kultura and the participation of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, pays posthumous homage to the professional career and life of Luis Gasca
The exhibition includes graphic work and photographs, an expanded agenda of conversations with important figures from the world of cinema and comics and a digital space with information and peculiarities of the project, in audiovisual format
The filmmaker and artist from San Sebastian takes a photography project featuring the portraits of people from several of the San Sebastian Festival departments or with connections to the event to the centre’s second floor
With the measures already introduced, the 9-day event could see a reduction of some 62 tons of CO2Eq, according to the estimate of the consultancy firm CREAST
The Chinese moviemaker joins the list of 16 filmmakers previously announced
The filmmakers coming to San Sebastian include Cronenberg, the Dardennes, Claire Denis, Louis Garrel, Christophe Honoré, Neil Jordan, Koreeda, Lelio, Mungiu, Ozon, Hong Sangsoo and Ulrich Seidl.
The film will screen out of competition following the closing gala on September 24
The film chosen in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center is ‘Terra Willy: Planeta ezezaguna’ (Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet), which will screen dubbed into Basque
The participants in this year’s themed dinners are Albert Raurich (Dos Palillos), Vanessa González and Andrés Viñales (La Huella), Naoyuki Haginoya (Nomo), Yinfeng Tang and his executive chef Sanhuai Yu (Chila) and Virgilio Martínez (Central)
The other two premieres are ‘El color del cielo’, opening movie of the section, and ‘Entre montañas’, by Unai Canela
Also screening are the films by Roberto Bueso, Zaida Carmona, Juan Miguel del Castillo, Rodrigo Cortés, Carlota González-Adrio, Albert Serra, Adrián Silvestre, Carla Simón and Jonás Trueba
Carla Simón will participate in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera out of competition with the short film ‘Carta a mi madre para mi hijo’
The ten films selected for the Platino Industry-SSIFF Co-Production Forum are projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Mexico
Eleven films that were part of the San Sebastian Festival programme between 1988 and 2010 will be screened until December
Seventeen films make up the Basque participation at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition
The work of the technicians, personalised in the figure of Txema Areizaga, will receive a tribute in the shape of the Zinemira Award
Fernando León de Aranoa will screen ‘Sintiéndolo mucho’, his documentary on Joaquín Sabina, together with the composer himself and Leiva
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
The five episodes of ‘Fácil’ will premiere on September 20 at the Movistar Plus+ Gala
San Sebastian Festival’s most open competitive section will include the world premiere of the latest movie from Santiago Loza
The other titles are in largely works to have received awards or have been programmed in Berlin, Cannes, Jeonju, Sundance and Venice, amongst other festivals
The new work by the American director closes a selection of 17 titles critically acclaimed and/or awarded at other international festivals
Fifteen of the scheduled feature films will be eligible for the City of Donostia / San Sebastián People's Choice Award
Projects by Asier Altuna, Aina Clotet, Gerardo Herrero, Baltasar Kormákur, Swel Noury and María Trenor, amongst others, will be pitched at the first meeting between international investors and Spanish producers
The initiative, which runs on Sept 19 and 20, is part of 'Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech'
Three of the selected titles are animated, while the other two combine animation with real-life images
The Festival executive will preselect five films and a jury will decide the winning film
During the event, several lines of communication will promote the 2030 Agenda and energy savings as a necessity and an opportunity The Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda will be one of the sponsors at the coming edition of the film festival‘Peter von Kant’, François Ozon’s homage to Fassbinder, and ‘Moonage Daydream’, Brett Morgen’s immersion in David Bowie’s universe, will open and close the section, respectively
‘L’innocent’, by Louis Garrel; ‘Living’, by Oliver Hermanus; ‘Corsage’, by Marie Kreutzer, and ‘Argentina, 1985’, by Santiago Mitre, will also compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award
For the first time in the history of the international competition for film students two works in the Basque language have been selected
The award given by the Gehitu association goes to the Latino film best representing sexual and gender diversity
Once again, the Ibero-American LGBTIQA+ festivals will hold their meeting in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival
‘Las paredes hablan’, Saura’s documentary on the art world, will show at a Gala on Wednesday, September 21
‘Historias para no contar’, the latest work from Cesc Gay, will screen at the Gala to take place at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre on Thursday 22
RTVE backs all of the Spanish films competing for the Golden Shell in San Sebastian
The films by Fernando León de Aranoa, Paco León and Fermín Muguruza will screen on Saturday 17, Sunday 18 and Friday 23, respectively
The film stars Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar and Botto himself
The fourteen selected projects come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Spain
The Co-Production Forum will run on September 19, 20 and 21
The debuts from Mariano Biasin, Fabián Hernández, Juan Pablo González, Carolina Markowicz, Manuela Martelli, Valentina Maruel and Andrés Ramírez Pulido complete the Horizontes Latinos section
The productions come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico
WIP Latam will run on September 19, 20 and 21
Rounding off the season is the book ‘Conversations with Claude Sautet’, a volume of interviews with the filmmaker
Nadejda Koseva, Anatol Durbala, Selman Nacar and Tonia Noyabrova will present their second films
WIP Europa will run on September 19, 20 and 21
The section will programme the movies ‘Érase una vez…’, ‘Tampopo’, ‘Nueve cartas a Berta’, ‘Pirveli mertskhali’ and ‘Dans la nuit’
Ventana Sur, Latin America’s leading audiovisual market, will run in Buenos Aires from 28 November to 2 December 2022
Its main sections will have widespread Spanish presence with a selection of projects in development in showcase mode under the label Spanish Screenings On Tour (calls for submissions open from August 4)
The five projects by Spanish entrepreneurs or startups will participate in a specific, newly created competition to run as part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’
Zinemaldia & Technology will run on September 22 at Tabakalera and will include the presentation of the ten projects and a round table on Metaverse
The Official Selection will also include the debuts from Genki Kawamura and Marian Mathias
The special screening of ‘La (très) grande evasion / Tax Me If You Can’, a documentary by Yannick Kergoat, will also show out of competition
Set up in San Telmo, the service is for boys and girls from the age of six months to twelve years
All of the films in the section, still missing the odd title, will compete for a prize of 50,000 euros
The project, included in the latest edition of Ikusmira Berriak, is directed by Irati Gorostidi and produced by Claudia Salcedo de Apellaniz y de Sosa
For the fourth year running, TCM promotes this award turning the spotlight on the young promises of cinema in the New Directors and Horizontes Latinos sections
The accolade given by GEHITU will recognise the title that best represents gender and sexual diversity
Also featuring in the Official Selection are the special screening of Isabel Coixet’s ‘El sostre groc’, and the participation out of competition of the series ‘Apagón / Offworld ’, helmed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodríguez and Isaki Lacuesta
The Velodrome will host three world premieres: ‘Rainbow’, by Paco León; ‘Sintiéndolo mucho / Feeling It’ by Fernando León de Aranoa, and 'Balck is Beltza II: Ainhoa’, by Fermin Muguruza
The publication explores the concept of the disillusionment deriving from the Transition in the political-cultural context of the Basque Country, through Izagirre’s films and other contemporary literary productions
ZINE: Film Research Series also reviews Eceiza’s bio-filmography, based on a selection of unpublished materials from his personal collection that were recently deposited in the Basque Film Archive
Four international filmmakers take the leap from the cinema screen to the exhibition hall
The exhibition is the result of the co-production of Tabakalera with Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and the collaboration of the San Sebastian Film Festival
It will open to the public tomorrow and can be visited until 8 January 2023
Starring Miguel Herrán and Javier Gutiérrez, among other actors, the movie will screen out of competition on September 16
The deadline for submissions is August 1
‘Imagine a Film Festival’, featuring videos running for 150 minutes plus on some twenty screens, can be visited until 24 September
The registration deadline for the audiovisual project development programme is September 1
The entertainment platform signs an agreement with the Festival to bring cinematic culture closer to TikTok’s global community of more than one billion people
The Festival pledges to offset more than half of its carbon footprint through the Fund launched by the Naturklima Foundation and Gipuzkoa Provincial Council’s Department of Environment
For the second year running, the Festival will use recycled and recyclable material to make the red carpets
The Canadian director and screenwriter will receive the accolade during a gala at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed by the screening of his latest movie, ‘Crimes of the Future’
From the 27th to the 29th of June Pamplona will be hosting this event focusing on financing, investments and technology tools in the animation and videogame industry
The presentation is the result of a collaboration agreement between Next Lab Finance & Tech and Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech
The 70th edition will launch a new collection of books published in collaboration with the Filmoteca Vasca; the first in the series will focus on the French moviemaker
The Spanish moviemaker will visit Tabakalera weeks after the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere of her first feature, ‘El agua’, conceived at Ikusmira Berriak
The deadline for submissions is July 1
The deadline for submissions is July 1
The international short film competition for film students, now in its 21st edition, returns to its usual format and will be held between 19 and 23 September 2022
The deadline for submissions is July 1
The section will a have a prize of 10,000 euros for the director of the winning film
The initiative is part of ‘Spanish Screenings XXL. An international market for Spanish audiovisual production'
The deadline for submitting projects is 1 July
The French actress will collect the award at a gala to include the screening of ‘Avec amour et acharnement (Both Sides of the Blade)’, a movie directed by Claire Denis
The company from San Sebastian, Dimensión, has designed the poster from a portrait by the photographer Brigitte Lacombe
This year’s poster collection is a homage to outlook and to all ways of looking at life and the cinema
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 July until 24 September, the last day of the event