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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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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
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
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 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
Isabel Coixet & Sara Mesa, J.A. Bayona & Belén Atienza, Isabel Herguera & Pablo Berger, Víctor Uriarte & Carlos Muguiro, Elena Martín, Laura Ferrés & Javier Macipe, Belén Funes & Marçal Cebrián will participate in the third edition of Filmmakers' Dialogues, organised by the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea cultural centre
Contemporary Westerns, Marguerite Duras and Cinema and Science inaugurate the 2024 Tabakalera Film Season
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.
Tabakalera and Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea present a joint programme to talk about the cinema
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
The San Sebastian Festival and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola open the second call for submissions for the José Ángel Herrero-Velarde grants going to researchers born or living in Spain
The fourth issue of ‘ZINE’ magazine investigates the teaching practice of Harun Farocki and other experiences of film pedagogy
María Alché, Maddi Barber, Benjamín Naishtat and David Pérez Sañudo, among others, will be attending Zinemaldia + Plus this spring
French noir movies, Ruth Beckermann and new Zinemaldia + Plus and Cinema and Science seasons join in the opening of Tabakalera cinema in 2023
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
San Sebastian Festival’s 70 years of history, available for consultation online and in person
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
The final three sessions of Zinemaldia + Plus this year will feature the filmmaker Antxon Eceiza, the carte blanche given to Paolo Moretti and the presentation of the new web page devoted to the Festival archive
Albert Serra, Mikel Gurrea, Fernando Franco, Pilar Palomero, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Carlota Pereda, Alberto Rodríguez and Belén Funes will be taking part in the second ‘Filmmakers’ dialogue’ course, organised by the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea cultural centre
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
The San Sebastian Festival, CIMA and the feminist associations belonging to the GTI complete a year of working together
The collaboration takes the shape of a report on participation by gender including new categories and the increased presence of women filmmakers
Isabel Coixet, Selva Almada, Elena López Riera, Ruth Beckermann and Natalia López Gallardo, among the conversations and masterclasses at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition
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
Marina Palacio exhibits her false film posters in Tabakalera
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
San Sebastian Festival continues to take steps to become a carbon-neutral event
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 Nosferatu 'Zinemaldia 70' season to return in October
Eleven films that were part of the San Sebastian Festival programme between 1988 and 2010 will be screened until December
The cinematographic work of Koldo Izagirre and the bio-filmography of Antxon Eceiza are the themes explored in the third issue of ZINE
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
San Sebastian Festival will be the first institution to offset its footprint through the Gipuzkoa Voluntary Carbon Fund
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
Elena López Riera to present her short films at a new session of Zinemaldia + Plus
The Spanish moviemaker will visit Tabakalera weeks after the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere of her first feature, ‘El agua’, conceived at Ikusmira Berriak
Tomorrow the first edition of the ‘Filmmakers’ dialogue’ course will end with Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña
‘Filmmakers’ Dialogue,’ for students and cinephiles, is organised with the Z365 area, the festival all year round of the San Sebastian Festival, and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Radu Jude will introduce a film and give a talk at Tabakalera during his residency at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
The Rumanian filmmaker will accompany the screening of his directorial debut, 'Cea mai fericită fată din lume' / 'The Happiest Girl in the World' while also sharing the creative proces of 'Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc' / 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn', winner of the Golden Bear in 2021
Carla Simón will participate tomorrow in the 'Filmmakers' Dialogue' course after winning the Golden Bear at the Berlinale
The session will be online and can be followed by the 280 people registered for the course
Filmmakers' Dialogue', aimed at students and film enthusiasts, is organised by Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea with the Z365 area, the San Sebastian Festival's year-round festival, and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
The 'Filmmakers' Dialogue' course with Icíar Bollaín and Carla Simón will continue in February at the Koldo Mitxelena cultural centre
'Filmmakers' Dialogue', for cinema students and aficionados, is organised with the Z365, festival all year round initiative organised by the San Sebastian Festival and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
The latest book in the Nosferatu Collection: ''Zinemaldia 1953-2022. Singularidades del Festival de Donostia / San Sebastián'' is now available
The fifth edition of the 'Cinema and Science' season proposes almost fifty screenings accompanied by introductions and discussions with scientists
The Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre is organising the ‘Filmakers’ dialogue’ course for cinema fans and film students given by film professionals
Icíar Bollaín, Lara Izagirre, Carla Simón, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Jonás Trueba will be taking part in this course organised with the Z365 area, the all-year-round festival of the San Sebastian Festival, and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
70 years of San Sebastian Festival in the Tabakalera cinema
The new 'Zinemaldia 70' Nosferatu season will take a look at the Festival's history on its 70th anniversary, screening 40 films to have featured on its programme since 1953
The Zinemaldia + Plus seasons, the fifth edition of 'Cinema and Science' and the season dedicated to the German moviemaker Christian Petzold will kick off the programme for the year in January
The movie voucher and individual tickets for the 2022 screenings will be available for purchase from December 22 on the Tabakalera website and from the centre's Information Point
San Sebastian Festival, Kutxa Fundazioa and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola look back at the changes experienced by the Festival during the Spanish Transition
Kutxa Kultur Plaza will host, until 20 February 2022, an exhibition including 30 photographs portraying a decade marked by experimentation and the shift to democracy, but also by profound instability
The show ‘Festival in transition: the San Sebastian International Film Festival in times of change (1976-1985)’ is curated by the team of the research project ‘Zinemaldia 70. All possible stories”
More than 96,000 people attended the screenings, round tables and masterclasses at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition
The San Sebastian Film Festival & Tabakalera join together to analyse the influence of new technologies in the audiovisual sector
The '2deo, Zinemaldia & Technology' sessions, a meeting place for filmmakers, technologists and professionals from the film industry, will be held on Wednesday 16 June and Thursday 17 June
The attendees will learn about the new technological advances that are being incorporated into the cinema and different tools such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the use of drones.
The Elías Querejeta Film School, the Basque Film Library and the San Sebastián International Film Festival publish the first issue of 'ZINE: Film Research Series'
This biannual online publication will explore the connections between film culture and other disciplines from both the sciences and the humanities, with particular emphasis on Basque cinema
The first issue analyses the cinematographic work of Nestor Basterretxea from the point of view of constructivism, and presents the work of María Jesús 'Tatus' Fombellida.
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