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Very strong reception for Prison 77 spanish film opening San Sebastian 70th edition 5b1x4y
I have been impressed by the warmth of the audience welcome to the red carpet show. Young people mostly and very loud. The opening ceremony offered as surprise guests some of the performers of the inagural 1st edition of the festival, commenting 70 years later about their emotions and memories of that special moment. Bruno Chatelin Actress Loreto Mauleón ed the actor and director Paco León to present the opening gala of the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition on Frid...
Glenn Close cancelled her visit to the San Sebastian Film Festival, Matías Mosteirín serves as president of the jury 3wh1w
The US actress will not be able to travel to San Sebastian due to a family emergency The actress Glenn Close has had to cancel her visit to San Sebastian Festival at the last minute due to a family emergency. The Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín will be the president of the jury. Close conveyed to the Festival her regrets for not being able to attend a duty to which she felt very committed. Just last week, the star of Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons posted a video ...
San Sebastian: 70 years of Festival 3z255h
This year the Festival will be celebrating its 70th consecutive edition with the same enthusiasm felt the day it first saw the light on September 21st 1953. Conceived as an International Film Week for the purpose of screening and marketing films, it was not long before the IFFPA granted it B status (non-competitive), thanks to the success of its first edition. A year later it was called the International Film Festival, and in 1955 the IFFPA recognised the festival as competitive, speciali...
Cinema for schoolchildren returns to the Velodrome to talk about robotics 4d17i
The film chosen in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center is ‘Terra Willy: Planeta ezezaguna’ (Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet), which will screen dubbed into Basque Thousands of girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 11 will return to the Velodrome to enjoy the screening of a film bridging the gap between the cinema and science in an activity co-organised by the San Sebastian Festival, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Filmoteca Vasca...
Be scared: the third trimester of Nosferatu Zinemaldia 70 returns 2y4z3z
Eleven films that were part of the San Sebastian Festival programme between 1988 and 2010 will be screened until December in the Nosferatu 'Zinemaldia 70' season to return in October The Nosferatu season dedicated to San Sebastian Festival's 70th anniversary (1953-2022), started in January of this year with the scre...
The world premiere of ‘Marlowe’ to close San Sebastien 6z1m2b
The world premiere of ‘Marlowe’ to close the Official Selection with the presence of Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger The film will screen out of competition following the closing gala on September 24 Marlowe, the film by Neil Jordan bringing the famous private eye back to the screen, will close the Official Selection of San Sebastian Festival's 70th edition. On September 24, the Kursaal Auditorium will host the world premiere of the film, to be attended by the ...
'Fácil', an original Movistar Plus+ series, to screen at San Sebastian Festival 6j6x43
The five episodes of ‘Fácil’ will premiere on September 20 at the Movistar Plus+ Gala Fácil, an original Movistar Plus+ series, in collaboration with Destrucción y Salvación, will screen at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, on September 20, at the Movistar Plus+ Gala in the Kursaal 2. The series, created by Anna R. Costa, produced by Sandra Hermida and starring Natalia de Molina, Anna Castillo, Anna Marchessi and Coria Castillo, will have its...
San Sebastian Film fest Official Selection line-up 1x2h21
The new works directed by Manuel Abramovich, Christophe Honoré, Sebastián Lelio, Diego Lerman, Marco Martins, Laura Mora, Frelle Petersen, Hong Sang-soo, Ulrich Seidl and Petr Václav will compete in the Official Selection at San Sebastian Festival's 70th edition, to run from September 16-24. The competition will also show the debut films from Genki Kawamura and Marian Mathias. The special screening of ‘La (très) grande evasion / Tax Me If You C...
The Basque Government will give an award to the film that best reflects the values of the Sustainable 4e7112
The Basque Government will give an award at the San Sebastian Festival going to the film that best reflects the values of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The Festival executive will preselect five films and a jury will decide the winning film During the event, several lines of communication will promote the 2030 Agenda and energy savings as a necessity and an opportunity The Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda will be one of the sponsors at the coming edition of th...
‘Sublime’, the movie directed by Mariano Biasin, to receive the tenth Sebastiane Latino Award 5o1f3c
The award given by the Gehitu association goes to the Latino film best representing sexual and gender diversity Once again, the Ibero-American LGBTIQA+ festivals will hold their meeting in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival The movie Sublime, directed by the Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Biasin, will receive the tenth Sebastiane Latino Award decid...
"Drive My Car", by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2022 for the Best Film of the Year k1ox
Drive My Car, directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix after having been chosen Best Film of 2022 by the of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The vote had the participation of 646 critics from all over the world, who chose this Japanese production from amongst all films released after 1 July 2021. The other four finalists were Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (Be...
Klasikoak will take a look back at the films of Josep Escobar and Alexandre Cirici Pellicer, Juzo Itami, Nana Mchedlidze, Basili 71c6v
Klasikoak will take a look back at the films of Josep Escobar and Alexandre Cirici Pellicer, Juzo Itami, Nana Mchedlidze, Basilio Martín Patino and Charles Vanel The section will programme the movies ‘Érase una vez…’, ‘Tampopo’, ‘Nueve cartas a Berta’, ‘Pirveli mertskhali’ and ‘Dans la nuit’ Klasikoak, the...
Ten projects based on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Streaming and VFX / SFX, to compete the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge 3sh2i
Ten projects based on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Streaming and VFX / SFX, amongst other technologies, to compete in the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge The five projects by Spanish entrepreneurs or startups will participate in a specific, newly created competition to run as part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’ Zinemaldia & Technology will run on September 22 at Tabakalera and will include the presentation of the ten projects and a round table on Metav...
‘Anekumen’, the project by Irati Gorostidi closes the selection of projects chosen for the ECAM’s Start Me Up programme 1qn6o
‘Anekumen’, the project by Irati Gorostidi included in Ikusmira Berriak, closes the selection of projects chosen for the ECAM’s Start Me Up programme. The project, included in the latest edition of Ikusmira Berriak, is directed by Irati Gorostidi and produced by Claudia Salcedo de Apellaniz y de Sosa Anekumen , the project directed by Irati Gorostidi and pro...
David Cronenberg to receive a Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival 2w4530
The Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg (Toronto, 1943) will receive a Donostia Award at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, thereby recognising the career of one of the most unusual filmmakers to come out of the last 50 years with its highest honorary accolade. On 21 September the Victoria Eugenia Theatre will host the award ceremony followed by the screening of Crimes of the Future (2022), the feature film starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydo...
Juliette Binoche will receive the Donostia Award 17382k
Juliette Binoche, one of Europe’s most international actresses, will visit the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, to run from 16-24 September, for the fourth time to receive one of this year’s Donostia Awards in recognition of an extensive career which has seen her play almost 75 characters, from power-wielding heroines to fragile beings with historical figures, ...
Juliette Binoche features on the official 70th edition poster 6w616
Juliette Binoche, one of Europe’s most international actresses, will feature on the official poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, to run from 16-24 September. Winner of an Academy Award for her work in The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996), the French actor will visit the city for the fourth time to receive one of this year’s Donostia Awards in recognition of an extensive career which has seen her play almost 75 characters, from power-wield...
Exhibition celebrating San Sebastian Festival’s 70th anniversary with an homage to the public, the industry and the press 5n4v1i
The exhibition celebrating San Sebastian Festival’s 70th anniversary will pay homage to the public, the industry, the press and to the city itself The public is invited to send photographs taken over these seven decades for their inclusion in one of the installations Tabakalera will host the show “Imagine a Film Festival” from 4 June until 24 September, the last day of the event ...
San Sebastian The way it was in 2021 a27g
Thanks to everyone. We look forward to seeing you next year! In these last days of 2021, on behalf of the team who make the Festival possible, I would once again like to thank you for y...
San Sebastian in full gear, after a glamorous opening night 64662
Marion Cotillard received on the festival opening (Sep 17) the first of the two Donostia Awards to be presented at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition. Penélope Cruz presented the honorary award to the French actress during the opening gala with the theme of the hugs interrupted by the pandemic, and which also served to those who have recently left us, such as the filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and the former Festival director, Luis Gasca. “I didn’t expect...
The Zinemaldia + Plus focus will offer two screenings with films starring Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp 4h6s5k
The Zinemaldia + Plus focus will offer two screenings with films starring Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp, recipients of the Donostia Award at the 69th edition 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 During the month of September, San Sebastian Festival will offer two new screenings as part of the Zinemaldia + Plus focus running on Tabakalera&rsqu...
Nest, San Sebastian Festival's competitive section for short films by film school students worldwide, turns twenty in 2021 5a4b6k
A publication, a podcast, a commemorative video, masterclasses and Zinemaldia + Plus screenings to celebrate Nest’s 20th anniversary 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 Nest, San Sebastian Festival's competitive section for short films by film school students world...
The documentary series 'Raphaelismo', a Movistar+ original, will be presented at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition 6y402d
The Movistar+ Gala will take place on Sunday 19 at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre with the presence of Raphael and the exclusive preview of one episode The documentary series Raphaelismo, a Movistar+ original, will be presented at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition, to run from September 17-25. Its release on the platform is scheduled for 2022. The series brings an intimate portrait of the artist’s successes, secrets, fears and dreams, including unseen audiovisual footage, m...
Nomadland by Chloé Zhao will receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2021 for the Best Film of the Year 5o1v4l
Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, has obtained the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2021 after having been voted best film of the year 2021 by the of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. Participating in the vote were 593 critics from all over the world, who have chosen this North American production from all of the films released after 1st July 2020. The other four finalists were Another Round (Druk) by Thomas Vinterberg, winner of the ...
The San Sebastien Fest gender identity report on the 68th edition selection and submissions 303k1m
The San Sebastian Festival analyses the involvement of female directors, producers, scriptwriters, editors, cinematographers and composers in the films of the 68th edition 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 San Sebastian Festival publishes its second gender identity report on the people who work – in the categories of directing, production, ...
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