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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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Yesterday, the director Pedro Almodóvar received the second Donostia Award at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival from Tilda Swinton at the Kursaal, where 44 years after his debut with Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, he delivered a passionate defense of freedom, in both fiction and reality. The ceremony was followed by the screening of The Room Next Door, the film that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Mostra.
In his speech, Almodóvar said that “for me, cinema is a blessing or a curse. I can’t imagine any other life than one of nonstop writing and directing,” claiming that the alternative “is nothingness.”
“More than ever, cinema is my life, and my life would have no meaning without the cinema.” In his opinion, “life, in both fiction and reality, is complicated and entails numerous dangers; but without freedom, life isn’t worth living.”
Swinton said that Almodóvar’s films “offer us enlightenment without end,” adding, “You have enchanted, amused, moved, and kept us company for nearly half a century so far, and there is no end in sight.”
She ended by saying: “We congratulate you tonight for your unparalleled contribution to world culture and for inspiring in us such devoted affection. Your work is good for the world, and we thank you for it from the bottom of our hearts. You will live forever. We lucky humans — you make it easier to be one, in spite of everything.”
Allan Owen
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