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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 'Tabakalera Generation', a key part of the Centre's film programme on its tenth anniversary
The Tabakalera cinema screen will show films by the generation of filmmakers who have established their careers with the support of the centre and the EQZE in programmes such as Ikusmira Berriak and Noka
Feminism will be another of the main themes that will be a central pillar of Tabakalera's film offering in 2025
The cinema pass and tickets for the 2025 screenings will be available from 20 December on the website and at the Tabakalera Information Point.
More than 172,000 spectators flocked to the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival, which once again beat its record of accredited guests, whose numbers came to over 5,300
A talk between Esther García and Alberto Iglesias and get-together between Helena Taberna and Isaac Rosa join the ‘Filmmakers’ Dialogue’ initiative
A total of 16 professionals from the world of film will participate until June in the eight talks organised by the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea with San Sebastian Festival’s Z365 initiative and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
The meeting between Maria Elorza and Marian Fernández will open the fourth year of the season on 14 January
The San Sebastian Festival, the Malaga Festival and Orca Films promote MASS, a Spanish film season in Buenos Aires and Montevideo
With the collaboration of Spain’s Ministry of Culture, the films ‘La Casa’, ‘Los destellos’, ‘Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre’, ‘Segundo premio’ and ‘Soy Nevenka’ will screen in November and December
The San Sebastian Festival and the Tokyo Cervantes Institute promote the programme of activities: ‘San Sebastian in Japan’
The film ‘Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre’ will screen in the Japanese capital and open the Hokkaido Food Film Festival
The document collection of the Video Festival, directed by Guadalupe Echevarría, is now part of Artxiboa
‘Historiak #11’ explains the curating decisions and proposals of this pioneering initiative held in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival from 1982 to 1984
Tabakalera and Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea's joint programme of talks on film will bring together Pilar Palomero, Eider Rodríguez, Mar Coll, Jon Garaño, Antón Álvarez, Marta Nieto and Paula Ortiz in San Sebastian
The initiative, which has the collaboration of San Sebastian Festival’s Z365 area and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, merges the ‘Filmmakers' Dialogues’ and ‘Spoken Cinema’ programmes into fourteen talks, the first of which will take place on October 19 with Pilar Palomero and Eider Rodríguez
Proyecta to present twelve projects looking for co-production
Organised by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes and the San Sebastian Festival, the activity will run from 2-6 December in Montevideo
Tribute to Néstor Basterretxea at Tabakalera’s cinema
Tabakalera, the Basque Film Archive and the San Sebastian Festival are commemorating the artist’s hundredth anniversary with screenings of a large selection of his filmography
A documentary on his life and work, and the screening of four short films directed by the artist himself will round out the tribute
'Tardes de soledad' carries off the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival's 72nd edition
‘Soy Nevenka / I Am Nevenka’ wins the Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award
‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is the surprise film of San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition
Tomorrow, the Victoria Eugenia will host two screenings of the movie, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga
Pedro Almodóvar receives the Donostia Award and makes a passionate defence of freedom 44 years after his debut at the Festival
Eight micro-short films compete for the Eusko Label Award
The Eusko Label section also comes with the out-of-competition showing of five shorts commissioned by Jaione Camborda, Borja Crespo, Iratxe Fresneda, Mikel Gurrea and Andrea Jaurrieta
Antonio Chavarrías, Andrea Jaurrieta, Sonia Méndez, Pilar Palomero, Celia Rico and Chema Rodríguez, finalists for the Dunia Ayaso 2024 Award
The accolade recognises the gender perspective in film and comes with 5,000 euros
The San Sebastian Festival shows its support of Argentine cinema and joins the Malaga Festival to announce Spanish film dates in Buenos Aires and Montevideo
1,840 square metres of sustainable red carpet
The San Sebastian Festival has 1,840 m² of sustainable red carpet, donated by the Sustainability Department at Gipuzkoa Provincial Council and made with 100% recycled and recyclable materials, which will guide stars as they walk at this edition committed to sustainability
Thanks to the joint work of Emaús Gizarte Fundazioa, Sin Desperdicio, and Spanset, the red carpet will be turned into around a thousand reusable bags for donation to the Gipuzkoa Food Bank, thereby promoting the circular economy and solidarity
The short films ‘Antón’ and ‘Cafunè’ win the first edition of the Loterías Award for short films about social issues
Almost 100 works about social issues were submitted for the award created by the San Sebastian Festival and Loterías.
Spanish Screenings On Tour will boost Spanish audiovisual in the US market on its third edition
Under the slogan ‘Spanish Audiovisual: Creativity, Diversity & Success’, the program will land on the prestigious American Film Market, that will take place from the 5th to the 10th of November in Las Vegas
This new edition follows the success of Rom at the MIA market (2023) and Buenos Aires at Ventana Sur (2022), strengthening Spanish Screenings as an international vehicle for Spanish audiovisual
It is part of the actions of Spanish Screenings XXL – An International Market for Spanish Audiovisual Productions with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Work and ICEX, along with the Málaga and San Sebastián Festivals.
Cate Blanchett defends the ''desire to know'' while accepting the first Donostia Award at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival
The Donostia Award to Javier Bardem seals 30 years of ''very great friendship'' with the San Sebastian Festival at the opening of the 72nd edition
Maximiliano Schonfeld brings a video installation taking its inspiration from the universe of his feature film ‘Sombra grande / Big Shadow’
Tabakalera will host this proposal from tomorrow and until the last day of the San Sebastian Festival on the 28th
Seven films to compete for the 18th RTVE-Otra Mirada Award at the San Sebastian Festival
The jury is made up of former RTVE president Elena Sánchez Caballero, director Juana Macías and producer and programmer Paz Lázaro
French cinema’s first rugby team to play a friendly match at the San Sebastian Festival
'Le Quinze de la Pelloche', made up of film industry professionals, will play against local club Azeri Zaharrak on Saturday 21st in Hernani
Seven Ibero-American films will compete for the Spanish Cooperation Award
For the tenth 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 AECID and the Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry
The San Sebastián Festival once again partners with Repsol to reduce its CO2 emissions
For the second year running, the company is collaborating as a multi-energy Partner with various solutions that allow the Festival to advance in its decarbonisation goals
Eleven Basque fashion brands to dress the stars at the San Sebastian Film Festival
For the eighth year running, the ‘Dressing the stars’ project will help to promote and focus attention on Basque fashion thanks to the looks created by local designers for the public appearances of actors and actresses, as well as for the gala presenters and directors
Tabakalera opens the exhibition ‘Extramission: The Capture of Glowing Eyes’ by the filmmaker and artist Jessica Sarah Rinland
The exhibition is the result of the collaboration between Tabakalera, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and the San Sebastian Festival, underlining their joint commitment to artistic and audiovisual creation
The exhibition will be open to the public in the Tabakalera Exhibition Hall 2 until 12 January 2025 and will later be shown at the Rotterdam Festival
The Argentine-British filmmaker, who has had a residency at Ikusmira Berriak, will present her latest feature film, ‘Monólogo colectivo / Collective Monologue’, in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section
The Official Jury will be presided over by Jaione Camborda alongside Leila Guerriero, Fran Kranz, Christos Nikou, Carole Scotta and Ulrich Seidl
Andrew Garfield will take part in a conversation with the director of 'We Live in Time', John Crowley, and screenwriter Nick Payne on Friday the 27th
Fourteen films selected for Perlak to compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award, sponsored by the San Sebastian City Council
The City Council and the Festival will distribute 1,000 free tickets among the unemployed
The Euskadi Basque Country Karpa and Keler Topagunea, meeting points at the San Sebastian Festival
The marquis on the Kursaal esplanade will open from 12:00 to 23:00 every day of the Festival and the Tabakalera audiovisual lab from Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th
The San Sebastian Festival hosts its third Creative Investors’ Conference, attended by companies including Anton Corp., Charades, Goodfellas, Globalgate, K&S Films, LuckyChap, The Match Factory, Plus M Entertainment, MUBI, Netflix and many more
Some of the film world’s leading decision makers will participate in panels and networking activities on September 24 and 25 in a conference created in collaboration with CAA Media Finance
Eight films from the San Sebastian Festival compete for the Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award
Juan Diego Botto will preside over the jury, on which he will be accompanied by the screenwriter Alicia Luna and the Director of Social Innovation with the Basque Government, Asier Aranbarri
EITB, Official Sponsor of Donostia Zinemaldia, reinforces its commitment to Basque cinema
EITB will organize the Basque Cinema Gala, a high-profile recognition of the success of our cinema, on September 24 at the Vitoria Eugenia theater.
In addition, the EITB Gala on the 25th will host the premiere of the musical film "Itsasita"; and the Velodrome will host the first major preview of "Go!azen 11". EITB is present in the 12 Basque productions that will be screened at Zinemaldia.
EITB has organized, once again, a professional meeting with the audiovisual industry, and will expand, even more, its presence at the Festival, with a great mobile set outdoors.
The San Sebastian Festival, Euskadiko Orkestra and the SGAE Foundation organise the ‘Concert & Screening’ at the Velodrome on the afternoon of Saturday 21st
Euskadiko Orkestra, the SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastián Festival present the film music concert that the orchestra will offer within the framework of Zinemaldia. The Velodrome will open on the first Saturday of the Festival for lovers of music, cinema and the general public, a show that combines the symphonic performance of soundtracks with the montage of film scenes
The delight for the eyes and ears for an hour and a quarter, on Saturday, September 21, for the first time in the afternoon, at 6:00 p.m., with free admission
The San Sebastian Festival to assemble up-and-coming talents in Tabakalera
Kabia will unite moviemakers attending the Festival with industry professionals on Monday 23
The San Sebastian Festival partners with Mugi to improve the mobility of accredited persons and reduce their carbon footprint
The Gipuzkoa Transport Authority will set up a stand at the Kursaal at which to purchase and top-up travel passes; it will also have a photocall display, organise draws and hand out merchandising
As well as the Donostia Award-winners Pedro Almodóvar, Javier Bardem and Cate Blanchett, the following actors have also confirmed their attendance at San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition: Pamela Anderson, Monica Bellucci, Jamie Campbell Bower, Johnny Depp, Andrew Garfield, Isabelle Huppert, Noémie Merlant, Ángela Molina, Franco Nero, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sharpe and Tilda Swinton
Filmmakers like Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Leos Carax, Costa-Gavras, Audrey Diwan, Arnaud Desplechin, Mati Diop, Adam Elliot, Coralie Fargeat, Payal Kapadia, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Mike Leigh, Joshua Oppenheimer, François Ozon, Mohammad Rasoulof, Walter Salles, Jane Schoenbrun and Paolo Sorrentino will present their films to the audience and the media
Ikastetxeak Belodromoan will connect the audience of schoolchildren with outer space
The film chosen in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center and the Filmoteca Vasca is ‘ Little Allan-The Human Antenna / Alan giza antena’, which will screen dubbed into Basque
The Movies for Kids programme comes with six movies for family audiences
Sean Baker, Leos Carax, Laura Carreira and Jane Schoenbrun among the Film Talks at San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition
The section will address questions such as production from a feminist point of view, inclusion in the industry and artificial intelligence
The San Sebastian Festival will organise an event to support Argentine cinema on Tuesday 24, given the dismantling of its industry
With the participation of the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, the 72nd edition will be attended by a special delegation of producers, moviemakers and journalists from the Latin American country
On the 24th, coinciding with the Official Selection screening of ‘El hombre que amaba los platos voladores’, there will be a gathering of professionals from the sector and a showing of the film ‘Traslados’
A special screening of ‘120 battements par minute / 120 Beats Per Minute’ to commemorate the Sebastiane Award’s 25th anniversary at the San Sebastian Festival
Eneko Sagardoy and Anna Castillo will sit on the jury of the accolade to be presented on 27th September
The poster for this special edition is a tribute to the diverse public who have accompanied the 25 years of GEHITU’s LGBTIQA+ Award presented at the Festival, work of local designer Rubén B. Caballero
Andreu Buenafuente and Berto Romero to take the opening gala through its steps at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The Catalan comedy double act will present the gala together with Bárbara Goenaga, while Itziar Ituño and Malcolm Treviño-Sitté will present the closing gala, and Marta Etura and Eneko Sagardoy the two Donostia Award galas
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.
John Crowley to close the Official Selection at San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition with ‘We Live in Time’
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in this romantic drama programmed out of competition
San Sebastian Festival to show the world premiere of ten Basque productions competing for the Irizar Award
Raúl de la Fuente’s ‘Los Williams / The Williams’ will open Zinemira, while Carmen Chaplin’s ‘Chaplin | The Spirit of the Tramp’ will close the section
20 films with Basque production have been selected for the Official Selection, New Directors, Perlak, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Nest, Culinary Zinema, Zinemira, Made in Spain, the Velodrome, Movies for Kids and the EiTB Gala
The Zinemira Award goes to the career of actress Elena Irureta
Thirteen short films from Chile, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Portugal, the UK and the USA to compete for the NEST THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO Award at the San Sebastian Festival
A total of 428 films have been submitted for the 23rd edition of the international film students meeting, the highest figure in the history of the section
Made in Spain to include 21 titles including films by Antonio Chavarrías, Andrea Jaurrieta, Isaki Lacuesta & Pol Rodríguez, Álex Montoya, Celia Rico, María Trénor, David Trueba and Jonás Trueba
The world premieres of the non-fiction films ‘Tiempo de silencio y destrucción’ and ‘Mucha mierda / Break a Leg’ will open and close the section
A documentary from Paco Plaza about the Mugaritz to open Culinary Zinema and ‘El hoyo 2 / The Platform 2’, by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, to close the section at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Four films to compete for the Culinary Zinema Award
Filmmakers including Mati Diop, Leos Carax, Arnaud Desplechin, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Elena López Riera, Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias and Jane Schoenbrun to participate in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
San Sebastian Festival’s most open zone will include the world premiere of films directed by Nino Benashvili, Wu Lang, Yoyo Liu and Maximiliano Schonfeld
The remaining titles are, in the main, feature-length and short films to have been awarded or programmed at Cannes, Berlín, Locarno, Rotterdam, Sundance and Venecia, among other festivals
‘Poor Things’ by Yorgos Lanthimos to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2024 for Best Film of the Year
The Greek director receives this recognition from the international critics for the first time
‘¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila / May I Speak With the Enemy?', ‘Escape’ and ‘Las chicas de la estación / The Girls at the Station’, in the RTVE Galas at San Sebastian Festival
The San Sebastian Festival, the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and the Filmoteca Vasca present ‘En la otra isla / On the Other Island’, a selection of restored Cuban films from the 60s and 70s
The season falling within the Klasikoak programme will screen 17 short and mid-length movies together with one feature-length film in five showings at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola’s new film theatre in Tabakalera
‘Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness’, directed by Johnny Depp, to participate out of competition in the Official Selection while ‘Lumière!, l'aventure continue’, by Thierry Frémaux, joins the Special Screenings
The second movie by Piet Baumgartner and the debut from Sylvia Le Fanu complete the New Directors section at the San Sebastian Festival
The San Sebastian Festival will once again provide the Puxika Gorria playroom with a view to fostering work-life balance of accredited guests
Set up in San Telmo Museum, the service is for children from the age of six months to twelve years
This year the service will be open to the general public on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd
The Velodrome will screen the series ‘Celeste’ and the first episode in the latest season of ‘Go!azen’, as well as ‘Marco’, closing film of Perlak, and the closing film of the Official Selection
Tickets for these showings will go on sale tomorrow, 20 August, at 10:00
The venue with capacity for 3,000 spectators will also provide the setting for the traditional Concert & Screening and the Ikastetxeak Belodromoan morning screenings for schoolchildren
Arnold, Audiard, Baker, Coppola, Courcol, Elliot, Fargeat, Hong, Kapadia, Rasoulof, Salles, Schrader and Sorrentino to compete in San Sebastian Festival’s Perlak section
‘Marco’, by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, will close the section, also to show ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Maria Callas: Letters and Memories’ out of competition
Pedro Almodóvar to receive a Donostia Award at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Spain’s most internationally famous director, screenwriter and producer will receive a tribute on Thursday 26th prior to the screening of his latest film, ‘La habitación de al lado / The Room Next Door’
Klasikoak to programme ‘The Piano’ by Jane Campion; ‘Sha Fu’, by Tseng Chuang-Hsiang; ‘Tatuaje’, by Bigas Luna; ‘Surcos’, by José Antonio Nieves Conde, and ‘Un rêve plus long que la nuit’, by Niki de Saint Phalle
The restored copy of ‘Tasio’, by Montxo Armendáriz, will open the section on Saturday 21st in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
WIP Europa to show four films by Seyhmus Altun, Nino Akhvlediani, Jurgis Matulevicius and Sarah Miro Fischer
Three of the four productions, coming from Germany, Georgia, Lithuania and Turkey, are first or second films
WIP Europa will run from 23 to 25 September as part of the industry activities at the San Sebastian Festival
Gabriela Amaral Almeida, Martín Boulocq, Victoria Galardi, Natalia López Gallardo, Santiago Loza, Natalia Meta, Hernán Rosselli, and Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, amongst others, will present their projects at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
The fourteen selected projects come from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay and Switzerland and seven of them are first or second films
The Co-Production Forum will run from 23-25 September as part of the Industry activities at the San Sebastian Festival
The retrospective dedicated to the Italian ‘poliziesco’ will include 22 titles
The ‘Violent Italy. Italian Crime Films’ season comes with the publication of a book on the subject written by Felipe Cabrerizo
José Luis Torres Leiva to open Horizontes Latinos and Celina Murga to close the section featuring the participation of filmmakers including Lola Arias, Juliana Rojas, Luis Ortega, Astrid Rondero & Fernanda Valadez, Mariana Rondón and Salvador del Solar
Also competing for the Horizontes Award, coming with 35,000 euros, are Ana Endara, Federico Luis, Yennifer Uribe Alzate, Iair Said, Sofía Paloma Gómez & Camilo Becerra and Nele Wohlatz
WIP Latam to present six films by Iván Fund, Daniel Hendler, Nayra Ilic, Paula Morel Kristof, Kim Torres and Simón Vélez
Four of the six productions, coming from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay, are first or second films
WIP Latam will run from 23 to 25 September as part of the industry activities at the San Sebastian Festival
Tabakalera to host an exhibition by artist and filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland in September
The exhibition will open to the public on 17 September and is a Tabakalera production in collaboration with the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the San Sebastian Festival
The Argentine-British filmmaker, who is a former resident of Ikusmira Berriak and has been selected for the Locarno Festival, will present her latest feature film, 'Monólogo colectivo / Collective Monologue', in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section
Artificial intelligence plays the lead part in the selection of Zinemaldia Startup Challenge projects
Ten projects from Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Spain and the UK will participate in the initiative
Maite Alberdi, Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer and François Ozon to compete in the Official Selection alongside first-timers Laura Carreira and Xin Huo
Their films join the Audrey Diwan film opening the competition and the four Spanish-produced titles competing for the Golden Shell, directed by Iciar Bollain, Pedro Martín-Calero, Pilar Palomero and Albert Serra
Four films to compete for the XII Sebastiane Latino Award
The prize given by GEHITU goes to the film that best represents sexual and gender diversity
Eleven moviemakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA to show their first and second films in San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors section
All films will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, coming with 50,000 euros
DAMA to sponsor the DAMA Youth Award at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Registration to participate in the Youth Jury can be made from 1-9 August
Starting this year, the intellectual property management entity will promote an award that highlights promising young filmmakers from the New Directors and Horizontes Latinos sections
Iciar Bollain, Pilar Palomero, Albert Serra and the debut of Pedro Martín-Calero to compete for the Golden Shell at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s series ‘Querer’ will participate in the Official Selection out of competition
‘Yo, adicto’ by Javier Giner and Aitor Gabilondo and ‘La virgen roja’ by Paula Ortiz will show in the Official Selection Special Screenings
Antón Álvarez will open the New Directors section, for which the movies by duo Cecilia Atán-Valeria Pivato, David Pérez Sañudo and Sandra Romero have also been selected
RTVE and the San Sebastian Film Festival strengthen their collaboration
The Corporation will be the official sponsor of the event for the next three editions
The number of galas hosted by RTVE within the framework of the San Sebastian International Film Festival is increased to three as well as the coverage in RTVE’s programming
Ikusmira Berriak opens the 11th call for its residencies on 2 July
The submission deadline for the audiovisual project development programme is 2 September
This year the initiative celebrates its 10th anniversary with the publication of a book and a film diary
The conversations held at the Filmmakers’ Dialogue season will be available for viewing from tomorrow on the KMK YouTube channel
This third edition of the programme enjoyed the participation of J.A. Bayona, Isabel Coixet, Sara Mesa, Isabel Herguera and Belén Atienza, among others
The research work carried out under the Artxiboa grants will address the historical presence of animated films at the Festival, its relationship with New Spanish Cinema and the International Meeting of Film Schools
The proposals of Harri X. Fernández, Sonia García López and Carlos F. Heredero have been selected for the second edition of the José Ángel Herrero-Velarde grants, promoted by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa
A public day will take place on 22 June, including a tour of the archive, presentation of the first research works carried out under the grants and the screening of ‘Battleship Potemkin’
The San Sebastian Festival is now receiving submissions for WIP Europa
The deadline for submissions is July 3
The San Sebastian Festival is now receiving submissions for WIP Latam
The deadline for submissions is July 3
Nest opens on Monday June 3 its call for submissions
The deadline for submissions is July 3
The twenty-third edition of the international short film competition for film students will be held from 23 to 27 September 2024
The section will a have a prize of 10,000 euros for the director of the winning film.
Call for the second edition of the Eusko Label micro-short film competition, organised by the San Sebastian Festival and HAZI to draw attention to and back local produce
As well as the competing works, the Eusko Label section will include five short films out of competition, commissioned by the Festival from prestigious moviemakers in the field of Basque film
Cate Blanchett will receive a Donostia Award at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival
The Australian actress and producer, winner of two Academy Awards, will receive the event’s highest honorary award and will also feature on the official poster
The official poster is the work of graphic designer José Luis Lanzagorta based on a photograph by Gustavo Papaleo
EITB, new Official Sponsor of the San Sebastian Festival
The Communications Group will greatly boost its informative cover of the 72nd edition
Audrey Diwan’s 'Emmanuelle' will make its world premiere as the Opening Film in Competition at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival, following in the footsteps of 2023’s publicly and critically acclaimed international hit 'The Boy and the Heron'
The San Sebastian Festival and Loterías create a competition for short films related to social issues
The deadline for submitting works for the Loterías Award, with two prizes carrying 10,000 and 5,000 euros, is 17 June
'Tasio' (Montxo Armendáriz, 1984), restored by the Basque Film Archive, has been selected for Cannes and will open the Klasikoak section of the San Sebastian Festival
The feature film by the director from Navarre has been restored by the L'immagine Ritrovata laboratories in Bologna
The San Sebastián Festival reduced its carbon footprint by 14% between 2022 and 2023
Two workshops on sustainable narratives and storytelling to be held in May and June in San Sebastian
The sixth edition of Zinemaldia Startup Challenge is now open for submissions
The initiative falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, a strategic commitment by the Festival promoted by the Basque Government through the Department of Economic Development and SPRI
The project is part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’, which is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), promoted by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service
The San Sebastian Festival opens its call for entries for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
The deadline for submitting projects is June 17
Lau Haizetara announces the open call for its 20th Documentary Co-Production Forum
The deadline for the registration of projects is June 28
The San Sebastián Festival and the Basque Film Archive will be offering more than 120 screenings of classic cinema in Klasikoak
The initiative takes the form of a classic film festival that will be extended in time, between April and September, and in space, with screenings in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Pamplona and Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Albertina Carri, Laura Citarella, Isaki Lacuesta, Elena López Riera, Jean- Gabriel Périot and Catarina Vasconcelos are the tutors for the projects of the tenth edition of Ikusmira Berriak
The Gipuzkoa Provincial Council Department of Culture announces the second edition of the José Ángel Herrero-Velarde grants for research into the historical archives of the San Sebastian Festival
Three researchers will receive a grant of 3,500 euros and 2 weeks’ use of a work space at the Filmoteca Vasca
The period for submitting projects opens on 15 March and will remain open until 26 April
Eight films presented at the San Sebastian Festival rack up a total of 21 Goya Awards
'Society of the Snow', winner of the City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award for Best Film, was the most lauded film of the night
San Sebastian Festival, fourth most important cultural initiative of 2022
The San Sebastian Festival is now receiving film submissions for its 72nd edition
The original Disney+ series ‘Cristóbal Balenciaga’ will have its launch at San Sebastian’s Victoria Eugenia Theatre on Monday, 22 January, presented by the Council’s Department of Culture and its Crossover Festival
The event, which will have the collaboration of the San Sebastian Festival, will be attended by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga, Lourdes Iglesias, Alberto San Juan, Cecilia Solaguren, Bina Daigeler, Josean Bengoetxea and Alberto Iglesias, and will include screening of the first three episodes
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