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
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
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”
A total of 281 projects have been submitted for the programme’s eighth edition, which increases the number of residents from five to six
Tabakalera will host, on December 4, the event ‘Another way of telling: presences, absences and representations of women at San Sebastian Festival (1953-1978)’, including a number of talks and a film screening
The research team at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola has analysed the competition’s visual history through the photographs kept in the Festival archive and in the Kutxateka collection
‘ZINE’ focuses on three works carried out in 1975 by the Les Insoumuses and Vidéa feminist video groups and explores how these groups became involved in Basque political activism following the last executions ordered by Franco’s regime in 1975
The online magazine published by Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), the Basque Film Archive and the San Sebastián Festival offers a fresh look at current research into the Arteleku video collection
The publication will be presented at Tabakalera on the 26th of this month
The event, which will take place on Thursday the 25th in the Institute of Architecture of the Basque Country, will analyse the spatial dimension of film festivals and its relationship with the cities they are held in
Las delicias (2021), Eduardo Crespo's fourth feature film, will have its world premiere on Monday 22nd in the International Competition of the 34th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Eduardo Crespo has been a resident in the last edition of the Ikusmira Berriak program, where he has developed what will be his fifth film, La gruta del viento.
Organised by Ventana Sur, Marché du Film and San Sebastian Festival, the activity will run from November 29 to December 3
Nest alumni Nikica Zdunic (2017) and Ikusmira Berriak residents Arantza Santesteban (2018), Aitziber Olaskoaga (2019) and Jessica Sarah Rinland (2020) will show their work at the 19th edition of Doclisboa. Nikica Zdunic will be present with Women Women Women (2017) in the 'Green Years' section, which this year dedicates a focus to The Academy of Dramatic Art school in Zagreb. Meanwhile, Arantza Santesteban will compete in the International Section with her film 918 Gau (2021), developed in the Ikusmira Berriak program and will have its premiere on Monday 25th. Aitziber Olaskoaga will present her medium-length film, also developed in Ikusmira Berriak, Jo ta Ke (2020) in the program 'Our Images and Your Images of Us' dedicated to films that appropriate and recreate archive, within the 'New Visions' section. Finally, Jessica Sarah Rinland will show Sol de Campinas (2021) in the ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ section.
Tabakalera’s shared screen will host a showing of five titles on October 9th and of another five on November 6th
The North American actor receives the Donostia Award for lifetime achievement
Marion Cotillard: ''Thanks to the San Sebastian Festival for accompanying me in this new phase of my cinematographic journey''
The red carpet used at San Sebastian Festival will be 100% recyclable and will set out on a new life following the event as clothing
The upcoming edition of San Sebastian Festival’s European Film Forum will take place physically in the San Telmo Museum Function Hall on Monday, September 20, at 16:30, and can be followed on the Festival website.
For the seventh 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
Eight films compete for the accolade, which es part of the alliance between the AECID and the San Sebastian Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry
Entitled ‘N5’, the show includes photographs of Belén Rueda, Paz Vega, Rossy de Palma, Bárbara Lennie and Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, among other actresses
Jon Maya will once again direct the galas with the collaboration of screenwriters Harkaitz Cano and Ane García and the musician Luis Mari Moreno Urretavizcaya, aka ‘Pirata’
The presenters, actors, dancers and directors of the galas will wear fashion made in Gipuzkoa and the Basque Country thanks to an initiative promoted by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa’s Departments of the Environment and Culture, the Film Festival, the San Sebastian City Council and the Basque Government
This is a pioneer initiative under which both bodies commit to promoting the energy transition
The two bodies therefore take a step forward in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, and particularly Goal 13: Climate action
The signing took place today at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, attended by Emiliano López Atxurra, President of Alba Emission Free Energy, and José Luis Rebordinos, the Festival Director
Alba Emission Free Energy is the Petronor subsidiary created to promote energy transition and decarbonisation
One more year, free tickets will be distributed among people with economic difficulties
Icíar Bollaín, Daniel Monzón, Javier Marco and Ainhoa Rodríguez compete for this award going to the gender perspective in the seventh art
The winner will be announced on September 24 at the 69th San Sebastian International Film Festival
The competitors include four titles from the Official Selection, one from New Directors, one from Horizontes Latinos, two from Zabaltegi-Tabakalera and three from Perlak
The jury members are Concepción Cascajosa, President of the RTVE Equality Observatory; the actress Anna Castillo, and the journalist Rosa Zufia
The award goes to a film on subjects close to the world of women and will be presented on Saturday 25 at the Festival closing gala
On the 12th, tickets can be purchased online for the first three days of the event
The screening of 'La Croisade / The Crusade', a film with an environmental message, will take place in one of the city's main green lungs and will be carried out according to sustainable criteria
The new divulgatory alliance between Movistar+ and the San Sebastian Festival is born to reinforce the Spanish audiovisual industry and bring the festival experience to the widest audience possible
For the first time a television platform will host a cinema for a major A-category festival with a selection of titles from five sections
The screening schedule of all the films in all sections, will be available on Wednesday September 8 both on the Festival website and in the App
Visiting the city to present their films are moviemakers Sean Baker, Laurent Cantet, Julia Ducournau, Xavier Giannoli, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Radu Jude, Kira Kovalenko, Joachim Lafosse, Gaspar Noé, Todd Haynes, Carlos Saura, Céline Sciamma and Claire Simon, among many others
Four of the five programmed feature films will be world premieres, while the fiction film ‘Délicieux / Delicious’ will have its premiere in Spain
Basque Culinary Center to host five themed dinners related to the screenings
The film will be screened on Saturday 25th, at 16:00, at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
Filmmakers Céline Sciamma, Laura Wandel, Mina Fitzpatrick, Inês de Lima, Kiro Russo and Óscar Vincentelli will participate in the activities, as will the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola alumni Noemí Cuetos and Marcela Hinojosa
Tabakalera’s shared screen will programme ‘Deux jours, une nuit’, by the Dardenne brothers, on September 4, and ‘Dead Man’, by Jim Jarmusch, on September 9
Of the eight Spanish productions selected for the section, half are first films, such as the debuts of Ezekiel Montes and Javier Tolentino
The Movistar+ Gala will take place on Sunday 19 at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre with the presence of Raphael and the exclusive preview of a single episode
Seventeen Basque productions make up the programme of the 69th edition
The Kimuak programme will receive the Zinemira award for its work
Thousands of schoolchildren from Gipuzkoa will enjoy the film ‘Tadeo Jones 2: Midas erregearen sekretua (Tadeo Jones 2: The Secret of King Midas)’, to be presented by the underwater archaeologist, Maria Intxaustegi
The Festival presents its environmental diagnosis, result of an external audit to study the source of its environmental footprint and what to do about it
The French actress will collect the honorary award on September 17 during the opening ceremony
‘The French Dispatch’ and ‘The Power of the Dog’ complete the Perlak selection
The section also includes restored versions of Coppola’s ‘The Rain People’ and ‘The Outsiders: The Complete Novel’, and the screening of ‘Ça commence aujourd'hui (It All Starts Today)’ in homage to Tavernier
The retrospective ‘Flowers in hell. The golden age of Korean cinema’ substitutes three of the titles previously programmed
Installed in San Telmo Museum, the play area offering a creative activities service to accredited guests also opens to staff working for the Festival organisation
This year the age limit has been increased so that children between the ages of six months and twelve years can be enrolled
The space for reflection and discussion by cinema and social stakeholders seeks to discuss ideas and proposals on the inclusion of women professionals in the industry and on film festival codes of ethics, while also endeavouring to reach agreements
The award, given by Gehitu, goes to the Latin film best representing sexual and gender diversity
'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' and 'Enquête sur un Scandale d'Etat / Undercover' complete the list of competing titles in the Official Selection
The Festival’s all-ecompassing competitive section will include titles to have been awarded or programmed at Venice, Cannes and Berlin, among other festivals, and two world premieres
A total of 18 titles will participate: thirteen features, one medium-length film and four shorts
‘Mediterráneo’ will have its premiere at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre on Thursday, September 23
‘Érase una vez en Euskadi’ will have its presentation on Wednesday 22 at the Kursaal 2
The fourteen selected projects come from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay, and seven are first or second works
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will run on September 20, 21 and 22, in hybrid format (the pandemic permitting), with the possibility of organising online meetings with professionals unable to travel to San Sebastian
Five of the selected films are first or second works
WIP Europa will take place on September 20, 21 and 22
The North American actor will collect the Festival’s highest honorary award in recognition of his career on September 22
WIP Latam will run on September 20, 21 and 22 in the framework of San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition
The section will open with ‘Competencia oficial’, by Duprat and Cohn, and close with ‘The Velvet Underground’ by Haynes
There will be two screenings out of competition ‘Titane’, by Ducournau, and ‘Drive My Car’, by Hamaguchi
The section will also screen the debuts of Shipei Wen and Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as the second feature directed by the writer Emmanuel Carrère
Half of the films come from the Festival's Latin American 'work in progress' initiative
The selection includes three first films and the return to the section of directors Paz Fábrega, Alonso Ruizpalacios and Lorenzo Vigas
The selected projects, coming from Denmark, France and Spain, will compete for a prize of 10,000 euros, free access to an incubation space for the first year at one of the BICs belonging to the Basque Technology Park Network and funding of up to 500,000 euros
Zinemaldia & Technology will take place on Thursday September 23 in Tabakalera and will include the pitches of the five finalists and a masterclass
'Las leyes de la frontera', by Daniel Monzón, the Festival closing film; 'La hija', by Manuel Martín Cuenca; Alejandro Amenábar’s series 'La Fortuna' and the short film 'Rosa Rosae. La Guerra Civil' by Carlos Saura will participate out of competition
Among the selected works are five films from the Festival’s works in progress initiatives and from the Co-Production Forum
The 20th edition of the Romanian event, which starts tomorrow, will show films screened in recent years at the San Sebastian Festival
For the third consecutive year, TCM promotes this award going to promising up-and-coming youngsters in the New Directors and Horizontes Latinos sections
The fourth feature film by Inés Barrionuevo and the debuts from Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg will also contend for the Golden Shell and other official awards at the 69th edition
From this edition, the programme will increase the number of residencies from five to six
The programme registration deadline is September 1
The image is by Eva Villar from San Sebastián, based on a photograph by Matthew Brookes
From this year on, the acting awards will be gender-neutral without making any distinction between men and women
‘Flowers in Hell. The Golden Age of Korean Cinema’ includes ten titles produced in the 50s and 60s
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 international short film competition for film students will celebrate its twentieth anniversary during the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The deadline for submissions is July 1
The section will have a prize of 10,000 euros for the director of the winning film
The deadline for submissions is July 1
The deadline for submissions is July 1
The Romanian festival will screen ten Spanish films curated at San Sebastian in recent years
The Georgian director will be in San Sebastian until 7 June to develop her next feature film
This invitation from Tabakalera, the San Sebastian Film Festival, and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola falls within the framework of these three institutions' shared strategic programme to support talent, a year-round Festival (Z365), and film methods
The filmmaker, whose film also won awards for Best Direction, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay, will present her full-length feature film 'Dasatskisi / Beginning' in the cinema, and will hold a talk about her creative process
The movies chosen by Vincent Maraval and Vanja Kaludjercic have been scheduled respectively for May 14 and June 11 on Tabakalera’s shared screen
The competition is open to European entrepreneurs and startups proposing new business projects based on introducing new technologies to the audiovisual field
The deadline for submissions is June 1
The deadline for submitting projects is June 15
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.
The monthly spotlight of Tabakalera’s shared screen will focus, this Friday, on the works of Eduardo Crespo, Mina Fitzpatrick, Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Magdalena Orellana and Marina Palacio
Saturday will see their participation in the recording of Víctor Iriarte’s podcast, ‘El futuro’, where they will talk about their coming projects
'Akelarre', which competed in the Official Selection, won five awards and 'Ane', selected in New Directors, landed Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Leading Actress and Best Female Newcomer
The deadline for the registration of projects is June 18
The gender identity report detects a higher presence of female professionals in the selected films than in the total number of films viewed, but the percentage never exceeds 40%
The exhibition in the Kutxa Kultur Plaza consists of thirty photographs from the period falling between 1953 and 1970 The show is curated by the team of Zinemaldia 70: all possible stories, the research project sponsored by the Spanish lottery organisation, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado
Aitor Gabilondo, Christine Vachon, and Xabier Berzosa will be the mentors of the programme that is being presented today.
The three selected projects will receive financial aid amounting to 6,000 euros and will be presented to the industry at the next San Sebastian International Film Festival