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James Marsh will close the Official Selection of the 71st San Sebastian Festival with ‘Dance First’ 2m3v6q

The helmer of ‘The Theory of Everything’ directs Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire in this movie about all the lives of writer Samuel Beckett   Dance First, the film from the British moviemaker James Marsh on the subject of Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film winding up the Official Selection out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire. Marsh (Truro, UK. 1963) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for M...

‘La Ternura’ and ‘Chinas’, in the RTVE Galas at the San Sebastian Festival 72111

‘Chinas’, by Arantxa Echevarría, will have its preview on 27 September at the Kursaal 2 The Gala of ‘La Ternura’, by Vicente Villanueva, will take place on the 28th at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre RTVE will come to the Festival with three films in the Official Selection plus another three titles, including ‘Cerrar los ojos / Close Your Eyes’, by the Donostia Award-winner, Víctor Erice RTVE will hold two film Galas at the 71st San Seb...

"Fallen Leaves" by Aki Kaurismäki, to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2023 for Best Film of the Year 1v1wm

‘Kuolleet lehdet / Fallen Leaves’, by Aki Kaurismäki, to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2023 for Best Film of the Year This is the second time the Finnish director will have won the award   Fallen Leaves, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix after having been chosen best film of 2023 by the of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The vote had the participation of 669 critics from all over the world (a record pa...

Hayao Miyazaki to open the 71st San Sebastian Festival with ‘Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka / The Boy and the Heron’ 51w2c

The movie will screen in the Kursaal Auditorium on Friday, 22 September, after the opening gala Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka / The Boy and the Heron, will open the San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition out of competition. Having shown at Toronto Festival on 7 September, San Sebastian will host the European premiere of the latest proposal from the director of Spirited Away. The movie will screen in the Kursaal Auditorium on Friday, 22 September, after the o...

Eusko Label micro-short film competition launches 1v12z

The San Sebastian Festival and HAZI, a public company of the Basque Government Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, promote the Eusko Label micro-short film competition in the endeavour to spread news of and locally sourced produce Two prizes of 6,000 and 4,000 euros reward the best works, with a maximum runtime of three minutes and filmed using a mobile phone The San Sebastian Festival and the Basque Government through HAZI call the Euskal Label mi...

Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Lineup in San Sebastian 616r5j

Iván Fund, Juan Pablo González and Ana Isabel Fernández de Alba, Daniel Hendler, Gabe Klinger, Lucila Mariani, Bárbara Sarasola-Day, Alicia Scherson and Federico Veiroj, among others, will present their projects at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum The fifteen selected projects come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, the Dominican Republic and Urugua The Co-Production Forum will run from 25-27 September in the framework...

Klasikoak to host the world premiere of ‘El realismo socialista / Socialist Realism’, a film never screened before by Raúl Ruiz o663f

  The moviemaker, widow and regular collaborator of the Chilean filmmaker, has rescued, reconstructed and completed this hitherto-unseen film conceived by its author 50 years ago   As part of its Klasikoak section, the San Sebastian Festival will host the world premiere of El realismo socialista / Socialist Realism (1973-2023), an unfinished film by the Chilean moviemaker Raúl Ruiz, wh...

Ten projects based on metaverse, AI among others, to compete in the Zinema Startup Challenge 1s5h2m

Ten projects based on metaverse, AI, machine learning and augmented reality, among others, to compete in the Zinema Startup Challenge The projects by Spanish startups and entrepreneurs will have a specific competition, part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’, one of the initiatives of ‘Spanish Screenings XXL’ and part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) The initiative falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, p...

The first films competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival 614j17

The films by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Raven Jackson, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman, among others, will be competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival The American newcomer Raven Jackson will be forming part of the Official Selection with a film developed in the Ikusmira Berriak programme   María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Ca...

Ikusmira Berriak opens the tenth call for its residencies nv3n

The registration deadline for the audiovisual project development programme is September 1 From this edition, one of the positions on the pre-selection committee will be filled by an alumnus of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) on a rotating basis Ikusmira Berriak, the programme of residencies and audiovisual project development, organised by the San Sebastian Festival, Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), ...

Proyecta, organised by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Festival, are accepting submissions 2r2o4m

The deadline for submissions is August 1 Proyecta, the initiative tly organised by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Festival, opens its call for the submission of audiovisual feature films projects from Europe and Latin America that are at the development stage and are looking for co-production. Open from today, the initiative is for first or second works by their directors.  The call is for fiction and non-fiction projects in development from Latin Ameri...

'The Kings of the World' and San Sebastian 6y6b1b

Laura Mora’s film Los reyes del mundo / The Kings of the World, a Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, , Mexico and Norway, bagged the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition.                                    The official jury also decided to honour Genki Kawamura with the Silver Shell for Best Director for Hyakka / A Hundred Flowers (Japan), while the ...

VIDEO Closing Gala San Sebastian Film Festival 2022 2f1761

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First Awards from San Sebastian 526f6h

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Nest Award at San Sebastian Festival 6p2v46

    Nest Award Jury – 70th Edition President Andrés Di Tella (Argentina)   Jury Luisa Niederschuh, Julian Egger, Lysa Lamorisse, Kinwa Liu, Ane Martinez Juez, Aulona Selmani, Aitziber Olaskoaga, Daniel Peñaranda Restrepo, Carlos Andrés Hurtado, André Di Franco, Gustavo Maan, Mariana Saffon, Nikoloz Mamatsashvili NEST AWARD The award...

Motmo.pro wins the Best Project Award in the new Spanish competition for startups at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge 3e641a

Mine S carries off the Best European Startup Award kino_greentoken wins the Best Entrepreneurial Team Award Motmo.pro is the winning project of the Best Spanish Project Award at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge. This year a specific competition has been created for Spanish entrepreneurs and startups, an initiative forming part of Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech. Motmo.pro, represented by Bruno de Zabala and Janire Váquez, is a player that enables to play songs, inter...

The San Sebastian Festival, CIMA and the feminist associations belonging to the GTI complete a year of working together 1t3cu

The collaboration takes the shape of a report on participation by gender including new categories and the increased presence of women filmmakers The San Sebastian Festival, the groups making up the Interterritorial Work Group on Equality in Audiovisuals 50/50 by 2025 (GTI) and CIMA, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media, have completed a year of t work, having achieved a number of outcomes including the drawing up of a protocol on prevention and action in the event of ...

David Cronenberg awarded in san sebastian: ''The Donostia Award is an encouragement to make more films'' 1i1g5a

  The filmmaker David Cronenberg received the award from Gaspar Noé and Viggo Mortensen sent him a congratulatory video The Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg received the second Donostia Award of San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition at a gala held this evening in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, where the French filmmaker Gaspar Noé presented him with the Festival’s highest honorary award. The gala was followed by the screening of Cronenberg’s la...

Industria Awards at San Sebastian 343b4g

  WIP Latam Awards WIP LATAM INDUSTRY AWARD Best Digital / Deluxe Content Services SPAIN S.L. / Dolby Iberia / Laserfilm Cine y Video / Nephilim producciones / No Problem Sonido / Sherlock Films El castillo / The Castle Martín Benchimol (Argentina) Country(ies) of production: Argentina -   EGEDA PLATINO INDUSTRIA AWARD FOR THE BEST WIP LATAM   ...

Carlos Saura cancels his visit to San Sebastian Film Festival 297344

The filmmaker Carlos Saura, who had planned to present his latest film, Las paredes hablan / The Walls Can Talk, at the Festival, will not be able to travel due to a fall suffered at the last minute. Fortunately, the mishap had no serious consequences, but it has prevented him from travelling to San Sebastian. Tomorrow, Wednesday 21st, one of the RTVE Galas will host a special screening at the Kursaal 2, Las paredes hablan, the eagerly-awaited new documentary by Carlos Saura on the origin of ...

'Blonde', surprise film at the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition: Ana de Armas and Andrew Dominik attending g2bk

Ana de Armas and Andrew Dominik to present 'Blonde', surprise film at the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition The surprise film at the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition is Blonde, the portrait of Marilyn Monroe based on the book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. The screening of the film, to run this Saturday 24 at 19:00 in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, will be attended by its leading lady, the actress Ana de Armas, together with its director, Andrew Dominik. P...

Juliette Binoche dedicates the Donostia Award to silence, ''a faithful travelling companion'' 3i5y4t

The actress received the accolade from Isabel Coixet Juliette Binoche received the first of the two Donostia Awards at the 70th San Sebastian Festival tonight at the Kursaal. The French actress received the Festival's highest honorary accolade from Isabel Coixet and the ceremony was followed by the screening of Avec amour et acharnement / Both Sides of The Blade, directed by Claire Denis. In her thank you speech, Binoche recalled the of her family and friends, her acquaintances, ...

Mia Hansen-Løve, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and John Banville to visit the San Sebastian Festival 13s

Isabel Coixet and Gaspar Noé to present the Donostia Award to Juliette Binoche and David Cronenberg, respectively French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Irish writer John Banville the list of personalities who will be visiting the 70th San Sebastian Festival over the next few days. After having competed with Eden in the Official Selection (2014) and being selected for Perlak with L’avenir /&nb...

Spanish Screenings on Tour 2022 will run at Ventana Sur between 28 November and 2 December 2u6650

Spanish Screenings on Tour presents the details of its first edition and announces its new awards at the San Sebastian Festival The Spanish Screenings themed calls for submissions will include selected projects by the Sitges Festival, Weird, Abycine Lanza and Conecta Fiction       Today, at the San Sebastian Festival, a complete rundown of Spanish Screenings on Tour was given with the presence of Beatriz Navas, Director General of the ICAA, Pablo Conde, D...

The San Sebastian Festival recognises the work of SADE Cines with an honorary Silver Shell c2h29

  Today, September 14, the San Sebastian Festival presented an honorary Silver Shell to the company SADE Cines in recognition of its collaboration with the Festival down through the years. The Sociedad Anónima de Deportes y Espectáculos, popularly known by its acronym, the SADE, was born on 28 December 1925, result of the merger between the companies Vicente Mendizábal e hijos and Príncipe Films. In 1953, when the Festival held its first edition, the SADE was a...

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