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Tickets for all four events go on sale tomorrow
El Terrat (The Mediapro Studio) is in charge of directing and scripting the four galas of the Festival.
The opening gala of San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition will be directed and presented by Andreu Buenafuente and Berto Romero, who will be accompanied on the Kursaal Auditorium stage by the actress Bárbara Goenaga. El Terrat (The Mediapro Studio) will also produce the other ceremonies, including the closing gala, to be presented by the actors Itziar Ituño and Malcolm Treviño-Sitté.
The actress Marta Etura will present the gala at which Cate Blanchett will receive her Donostia Award (Saturday 21, 19:15). The presentation will be followed by the screening of Rumours, which premiered at the last Festival de Cannes. In the movie directed by Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, Blanchett plays a German chancellor responsible for hosting a G7 summit in the midst of a global crisis.
The Festival’s highest honorary award will go to filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar on Thursday 26th, at 18:00. The event will be presented by Eneko Sagardoy, and the Spanish director will receive his tribute from the actress Tilda Swinton, lead character of La habitación del al lado / The Room Next Door, to screen following the ceremony.
In the opening gala, which will precede the world premiere of Emmanuelle, by Audrey Diwan, Javier Bardem will receive the Donostia Award he was unable to pick up last year due to the actors’ strike, while the FIPRESCI Grand Prix will go to Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and the members of the Official Jury will be introduced.
The closing gala, hosted by Itziar Ituño and Malcolm Treviño-Sitté, will be followed by a screening of the film We Live in Time, directed by John Crowley and starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.
The opening gala will take place on Friday 20th at 21:00 in the Kursaal Auditorium and will broadcast live on La 2 de TVE, RTVE play, ETB1, eitb.eus and the Festival website. The closing gala, to broadcast on the same channels, will start on Saturday 28th at 21:00. The Donostia Awards going to Cate Blanchett and Pedro Almodóvar will go out on ETB4 and eitb.eus (at 19:15 on Saturday 21st and at 18:00 on Thursday 26, respectively) and on La 2 and RTVE Play (at 23:45 on Saturday 21st and at 20:00 on Thursday 26, respectively).
Tickets for the opening and closing gala will go on sale tomorrow, September 3rd, at 10:00. Priced at 80 euros, they can be purchased from the Festival and Kutxabank websites. Tickets will also be available for the two Donostia Award galas, at a price of 50 euros.
Donostia Award Screenings
Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world's wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Zinemaldia Plus+ showings in tribute to the Donostia Award-winners
Zinemaldia Plus+, the San Sebastian Festival’s annual spotlight on the Tabakalera shared screen, will run two sessions in September in tribute to the two Donostia Award-winners at the 72nd edition. To celebrate the career of Australian actress Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006), in which Blanchett stars alongside another Donostia Award-winner, Judi Dench, will screen on Saturday 7th. The showing dedicated to Pedro Almodóvar, on Saturday 14th September, will feature three short films: Extraña forma de vida / Strange Way of Life (2023), starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, premiered at the Festival de Cannes; La voz humana / The Human Voice (2020), starring Tilda Swinton; and La concejala antropófaga / The Cannibalistic Councillor (2009), with Carmen Machi and Penélope Cruz.
The two showings will take place at 19:00 and tickets can now by purchased from the Tabakalera website.
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