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 film ‘Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre’ will screen in the Japanese capital and open the Hokkaido Food Film Festival
‘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
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
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
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
Tomorrow, the Victoria Eugenia will host two screenings of the movie, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga
The accolade recognises the gender perspective in film and comes with 5,000 euros
Almost 100 works about social issues were submitted for the award created by the San Sebastian Festival and Loterías.
Tabakalera will host this proposal from tomorrow and until the last day of the San Sebastian Festival on the 28th
The jury is made up of former RTVE president Elena Sánchez Caballero, director Juana Macías and producer and programmer Paz Lázaro
'Le Quinze de la Pelloche', made up of film industry professionals, will play against local club Azeri Zaharrak on Saturday 21st in Hernani
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
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
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
The City Council and the Festival will distribute 1,000 free tickets among the unemployed
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
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
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 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.
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
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
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
The section will address questions such as production from a feminist point of view, inclusion in the industry and artificial intelligence
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’
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
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.
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in this romantic drama programmed out of competition
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
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
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
Four films to compete for the Culinary Zinema Award
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
The Greek director receives this recognition from the international critics for the first time
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
The second movie by Piet Baumgartner and the debut from Sylvia Le Fanu complete the New Directors section at the San Sebastian Festival
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
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
‘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
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’
The restored copy of ‘Tasio’, by Montxo Armendáriz, will open the section on Saturday 21st in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
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
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 ‘Violent Italy. Italian Crime Films’ season comes with the publication of a book on the subject written by Felipe Cabrerizo
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
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
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
Ten projects from Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Spain and the UK will participate in the initiative
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
The prize given by GEHITU goes to the film that best represents sexual and gender diversity
All films will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, coming with 50,000 euros
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
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
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
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 deadline for submissions is July 3
The deadline for submissions is July 3
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.
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
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
The Communications Group will greatly boost its informative cover of the 72nd edition
The deadline for submitting works for the Loterías Award, with two prizes carrying 10,000 and 5,000 euros, is 17 June
The feature film by the director from Navarre has been restored by the L'immagine Ritrovata laboratories in Bologna
Two workshops on sustainable narratives and storytelling to be held in May and June in San Sebastian
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
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
'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
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
Some twenty scientists will engage in discussion with those attending the screenings running from January to March in Vitoria, San Sebastian, Bilbao, Pamplona and Saint Jean de Luz
The residency programme of the San Sebastian Festival, Tabakalera and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola celebrates its tenth edition at a time of great international consolidation after the Golden Shell for ‘O Corno’ and the award at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes for ‘Creatura’
The 2024 programme will focus especially on promoting new young talent through the programming of the shared screen.
The cinema pass and tickets for the screenings will be available from 15 December on the website and at the Tabakalera Information Point.
More than 158,000 spectators attended the 71st San Sebastian Festival, which once again beat its record of accredited guests to stand at more than 5,000
The initiative, which has the collaboration of the San Sebastian Festival’s Z365 area and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, combines the ‘Spoken Cinema’ and ‘Filmmakers Dialogue’ programmes in sixteen conversations
With the slogan, ‘Spanish Audiovisual: Talent and Future”, more than 600 professionals from 28 countries have taken part in the eighteen activities that have been held
Spanish Screenings on Tour is one of the axes of Spanish Screenings XXL and forms part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (RTRP) to reinforce the role that Spain plays as an audiovisual hub in Europe
The proposals of Minerva Campos, Violeta Kovacsics and Aida Vallejo have been selected for the second call for grants going to Spanish women researchers
Organised by Ventana Sur, Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes and the San Sebastian Festival, the activity will run from 27 November to December 1 in Buenos Aires
The filmmaker collected the Donostia Award from Ana Torrent in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, the same place where he received the Golden Shell for ‘The Spirit of the Beehive’ 50 years ago
The cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt will introduce the film at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre on Saturday 30th
The event will take place at the MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo from 9 to 13 October with the title ‘Spanish Audiovisual: Talent and Future’
Spanish Screenings on Tour is one of the initiatives of Spanish Screenings XXL and is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) to strengthen Spain’s role as Europe’s audiovisual hub