For the second edition running, the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo collaborates with the San Sebastian Festival. This backing, framed within the objective of constructing a global citizenry committed to human rights and the promotion of cultural diversity, materialises in presentation of the Cooperación Española Award, the organisation of a round table on co-productions between Europe and Latin America in the framework of the Co-production Forum and the session on “Cinema, development and sustainability”, where an endeavour will be made, with the presentation of three projects, to demonstrate the potential of film as a catalyst of social transformation and awareness. “Mujeres de cine” is a collective book, coordinated by Eugenio Fontaneda and published by AECID and Notorius, portraying the influence of the big Hollywood productions of the 20s and 30s on Spain, and more specifically on the Spanish women of the period. The book has the texts of David Felipe Arranz, Guillermo Balmori, Jesús Cano, Inmaculada Corcho, Matilde Eiroa, Eugenio Fontaneda and Moisés Rodríguez, with a preface by Isabel Coixet. It is illustrated with a collection (belonging to José Romero Sampedro) of original stills, close-ups of the most famous Hollywood actresses of the time, with images from the ABC Museum archives, the Enrique Alegrete collection and the Archivo General de la Administración, among other collections. “Nómadas” is a documentary directed by Jorge Martínez, where the voice and the words of the writer Martín Caparrós and the images of the photographer Samuel Aranda come together to reflect on the life of a community of nomad herdsmen who receive the backing of the Spanish non-governmental development organisation RESCATE, in an inhospitable corner of Mali. There, somewhere in the Sahel, Caparrós, Aranda and Martínez are the exceptional witnesses of a way of life dating back thousands of years, and endangered. The documentary is one of the results of the Agreement signed between the AECID and RESCATE to improve the conditions of life of the herding communities of the Sahel. “El cine y las 5 P”: With the backing of the AECID, the producer and director Manuel Serrano has prepared an audiovisual presentation on how film can help to achieve the 2030 Agenda, on the Development Goals agreed to by the international community (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs). The 2030 Agenda revolves around five core issues: PLANET, PEOPLE, PROSPERITY, PEACE AND PARTNERSHIPS – known in English as the 5 P. The talk is built on the basis of five sequences from films related to the 5 P, and shifts from the spirit of criticism to positive suggestion: the film language communicates values, asks questions and transmits behaviours; at the end of the day, it can invite the spectator to join the challenges demanded by a development that is sustainable and based on human rights. Participants in the session will include Jorge Martínez, Martín Caparrós, Samuel Aranda, Eugenio Fontaneda and Manuel Serrano.

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Kursaal Press Club September 19th 19:00

Gas Natural Fenosa merges film with energy efficiency for the third year running under its Cinergía project. An initiative with the objective to raise awareness on the need for energy savings and efficiency, giving, film-form, tips on how to save energy and simple things you can do to reduce its consumption. This edition not only brings new directors and actors, but a different and innovative format: a feature film entitled “En tu Cabeza” consisting of four shorts tied in with one another and written by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. The short films of this new edition are directed by Kike Maíllo, Borja Cobeaga, winner of the “Talnto Cinergía” Award, Alberto Ruiz Rojo and Sánchez Arévalo himself and star Michelle Jenner and Hugo Silva. Also participating are a wide range of top actors in our country’s film industry, such as Adrián Lastra, Daniel Guzmán, Fernando Tejero, Rossy de Palma, Maxi Iglesias, Concha Cuentas, Luis Varela, Ana Morgade and Natalia de Molina, among others. En tu Cabeza Andrea lives in the year 2052 and travels to the past by getting into our heads to raise our awareness on the importance of energy efficiency for environmental conservation. The aim of these trips is to change the world’s future, although Andrea also plans to transform her own future by stopping herself from making the mistakes she now regrets. The first instalment of “En tu Cabeza”, directed by Kike Maíllo, “Cabra y oveja”, will be presented on September 16th at the San Sebastian Festival, of which Gas Natural Fenosa is the main sponsor. The production can be seen free of charge at Gas Natural Fenosa’s Efficient Home in the Boulevard (facing the Music Stand), from 16th-24th September. Those participating in the actions at this space will also have the opportunity to win prizes during the Festival.

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Gas Natural Fenosa Efficient Home in the Boulevard (facing the Music Stand) From September 16th-24th Admission free

Movistar+ is on tour this summer, making its way round the Peninsula in 13 movie stages offering open-air screenings with free admission until all places have been taken. The next event will take place in the Plaza de Cataluña on September 17th and 18th as part of the San Sebastian Festival. Along with the portable screening room are four sets from the series in which spectators can have photographs of themselves taken: Dragon set from the “Game of Thrones” series Iron Throne set from the “Game of Thrones” series Cell set from the “Orange is the new black” series Set from the “Penny Dreadful” series

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Plaza de Cataluña September 17th 12:00 Zootropolis 19:00 La vida secreta de los niños 20:00 Mr. Robot* 21:30 Spanish film candidate for 2017 Oscars September 18th 12:00 Hotel Transylvania 19:00 Occupied * 20:00 Happy Valley* 21:30 Embarazados *Occupied is suitable for over-18s, Mr. Robot for over-16s and Happy Valley for over-12s.

JLC and Aladina join hands to support Aladina’s current project, entitled “Achuchón” (the colloquial Spanish term for “hug”), created with the aim of raising funds to restructure the ICU at Madrid’s Niño Jesus Sick Kids' Hospital. As part of the project, we will invite celebrities to visit our lounge and take pictures for uploading to the Aladina Microsite, thereby helping JLC to raise donations for the project. On September 17th JLC Executive Director, Laurent Vinay, Carolina Herrera and Paco Arango (the founder of Aladina) will present the collaboration and explain how the brand supports the Aladina project. Carolina Herrera is a well known socialite who, besides being designer Carolina Herrera’s daughter, is connected to the film world. At the press conference we will explain the project in which JLC is involved and screen a short video of Barretstown camp, a project in which JLC has been collaborating in recent years.

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María Cristina Hotel (Elcano Lounge) September 17th

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite communications operator, leader in the distribution of contents in Spanish and Portuguese, promotes the second edition of its Hispasat 4K International Festival, one of the first events in the world completely dedicated to short films filmed and post-produced in 4K. This year, the Hispasat 4K International Festival has become a sponsor of the San Sebastian Festival, and its awards ceremony will therefore take place during this major film event, at which the winning shorts will also be screened. The Hispasat 4K International Festival is open to works of any nationality and genre, with a maximum runtime of 25 minutes, filmed and post-produced in 4K format. The following categories and awards are established: - CINE365 FILM AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR: Feature-length film director. - HISPASAT AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM: €3,000 + a Samsung SUHD television set - SAMSUNG SUHD JURY AWARD: €1,000 + a Samsung SUHD television set. - DOLBY AWARD FOR BEST SOUND: €1,000 + Dolby Atmos sound mastering, with the collaboration of Ad Hoc Studios. - RTVE AWARD FOR BEST FILM SCHOOL SHORT: €1,000 + broadcast of the short in its “Versión española” programme. - FUJIFILM/SGO AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: €1,000 + professional Fujifilm photography camera.

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Tabakalera (Room 1) September 20th 19:30

The actor Richard Gere will travel to present a special screening of Time Out of Mind, accompanied by the director Oren Moverman, whose film Rampart competed in the Official Selection in 2011. The film, in which Gere plays a homeless man, shows how someone can become invisible. Screening of the film belongs to a more extensive programme, including a press conference with the participation of Gere himself, the patroness of RAIS Foundation, Alejandra Silva, Jordi Albareda from RAIS Basque Country, an organization dedicated to homeless people, and the Mayor of San Sebastian, Eneko Goia. SINOPSIS George is a desperate man. With faltering health and nowhere to turn, he finds himself thrust onto New York City’s unforgiving streets. After exhausting all other avenues of temporary housing, he seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan’s largest intake centre for homeless men. It too proves a harsh and difficult-to-navigate environment, crowded as it is with similarly marginalized souls. But when George befriends a seasoned shelter-dweller named Dixon, he begins to harbour hope of repairing his relationship with his estranged daughter.

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KURSAAL 2 September 24th 16:00

The year 2015 marked the 100th anniversary since the production of the first Spanish animated work: “El apache de Londres”, a short film of which there are unfortunately no remaining copies. Since then, Spanish animation has produced hugely relevant feature-length movies, animated series and short films, also on many occasions leading the way in technological innovations in the world of animation. A centenary packed with interesting works, with unique directors and high artistic standards at international level, as can be seen from the almost 200 carefully selected works presented in a large-format book with the most representative of the centenary of Spanish animation, coordinated by Canva Ma and written by Pilar Yébenes, Rodrigo Mesonero, José Antonio Rodríguez and Samuel Viñolo. With this selection the intention is to highlight both the artistic and technical aspects of Spanish animation, a sector with a great deal to offer given its artistic quality and potential for creating jobs.

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Keler Space September 20th 19:00

Juanma Bajo Ulloa became the youngest winner of the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival with his first feature film “Alas de mariposa” (“Butterfly Wings”, 1991). From his claustrophobic, harsh and moving stories, to his outbursts of radical humour and frantic mise-en-scène and his works related to music, Bajo Ulloa has created a heterodox and heterogeneous filmography over a period of more than thirty years. Radically independent, his cinema is non-negotiable, critical and recognisable. Now, the Filmoteca Vasca turns him into the leading figure of the latest book in its collection on Basque filmmakers: “Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Cine en las entrañas”, written by specialists Antonio Santamarina and Jesús Angulo, who set about dissecting his films in more than 350 pages.

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Kursaal Press Club September 20th 12:00

The directors and producers of the film “Non” will celebrate a work in progress at the Dabadaba club. Following the screening of a 20-minute excerpt, a discussion will open with the filmmakers. “Non” is a project with three associated structures to create a singular cinematic project: the Basque cooperative ALDUDARRAK BIDEO, the company Le Petit Théâtre de Pain and the art centre Derrière Le Hublot. The whole town of Capdenac-Gare, with its 5,000 inhabitants, have had a hand in the “Non” project. With a tiny shoestring budget, each shot of the film has been magicked out of nothing, drawing on the joy of telling a story and the certainty of being on the right path. SYNOPSIS Jeansé, Bruno, Christine and Pierre meet to “celebrate” their severance pay on losing their jobs. On returning home, Bruno refuses to pass a police control. Exasperated, he ends up hitting a policeman. The hunt is on for the fugitive in a vicious circle tending towards the absurd. The group of friends and their family members are broken apart by the vengeance of the officer wounded by Bruno.

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Dabadaba Calle Mundaiz, 8 September 23rd 12:00

Meeting with the press to present the film project “El guardián invisible”. A ten-minute excerpt of the film will be screened. Afterwards, the members of the team will take the floor, followed by an invitation for questions from the journalists. Fernando González Molina (director), Luiso Berdejo (screenwriter), Dolores Redondo (writer) and actresses Marta Etura, Elvira Mínguez, Patricia López and Itziar Aizpuru will attend the event. “El guardián invisible” is the film adaptation of the work of the same name, first instalment of the literary phenomenon, the Trilogía del Baztán (Ediciones Destino), by the author Dolores Redondo which has a million readers in Spain and was recently published in the United States.

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Principe cinemas September 18th 10:30

The Basque National Orchestra, the SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastian Festival present the film music concert given by the Basque National Orchestra as part of the Festival programme. This hugely popular coming together between cinema and its soundtracks, performed live, will see the said orchestra take to the stage together with the Orféon Donostiarra choir, both conducted by David Hernando Rico. The concert will also have an added visual element: the music will be set to the showing, on the 400 m2 screen, of a montage of scenes from films, specifically created for this concert by Carlos Rodríguez de Morgan Crea. Several of the composers will take their place on the Velodrome stage.

September 17th Velodrome 12:00 Admission free

Exclusive first screening of a fragment of the documentary “Omega”. Few recordings in the history of Spanish music currently enjoy the prestige of “Omega”. Published by El Europeo Música in 1996, the project brought singer Enrique Morente together with the group from Granada, Lagartija Nick, returning to the path of flamenco-rock fusion experimented by Camarón de la Isla years earlier with “La Leyenda del Tiempo” (1979). José Sánchez-Montes and Gervasio Iglesias, screenwriter and producer respectively of the film, direct with four hands the documentary "Omega", filmed to commemorate the record’s twentieth anniversary, and which will accompany its re-release by Universal this autumn. From the early lack of understanding, to its proclamation as a cult work, the track record of “Omega” is told in a film maintaining the sound and audio file of the day, looking at its pre-production, production and execution, and including numerous numbers and documents never seen or heard to date. The film includes the testimonies of characters including Estrella Morente (whose enthusiasm was essential in convincing her father, who died in 2010, to accept the proposal of Lagartija Nick), Antonio Arias (the group frontman), Tomatito, Vicente Amigo and Alberto Manzana, the poet, journalist and writer behind the meeting between Morente and Leonard Cohen. “Omega” is not only a flamenco-rock record, it also adapts numbers by the Canadian singer-songwriter and poems by Federico García Lorca. Laura García Lorca, niece of the poet and president of his foundation, is another of the voices that can be heard in the documentary. “Omega” will be presented by the film team.

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Principe Cinemas September 19th 17:00

Eighty years have gone by since the poet from Granada was murdered, and still nothing has been filmed about his work or his person from the angle of his sentimental depth, sexual freedom, endless imagination, gender perspective, emotional empathy… This is the approach of LORCA(S): 8 takes on the author and/or his work by 8 filmmakers related to his world, of different Ibero-American nationalities and different generations, bringing us a kaleidoscopic view, full of admiration and gratitude.

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Keler Space Wednesday, September 21st 18:30

On 21st July 1958, British director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, landed at Biarritz Airport. The reason for his visit was the premiere of his film 'Vertigo' at the sixth edition of the San Sebastian Festival. During their four days in the Basque Country, they visited Biarritz, Hendaye, San Sebastian, San Juan (Pasaia), Bayonne and Lourdes. The visit was widely captured in photographs, and the exhibition ‘Welcome Mr. Hitchcock’ is based on this material. A tour of the Basque Country open to visits until October 14th in the Espacio 2016, which has been remodelled to house the exhibition. Curated by the photographer Pedro Usabiaga, organized by Donostia-San Sebastián 2016, European Capital of Cultura and in which the San Sebastian Festival also collaborates, the exhibition reconstructs the movements of the moviemaker and his wife on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th July 1958. Coinciding with the San Sebastian Festival, the exhibition will have special opening times: Monday to Sunday throughout the day from 10:30 to 20:00.

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2016 Space. European Capital of Culture Hub. Calle Easo, 43 Until October 14th

Selection of audiovisual works made in 2015/2016 at the Larrotxene Cultural Centre.

Thursday September 22nd Trueba Cinemas, Screen 2 20:30

The fair is a gathering between craftspeople, an occasion to show and sell the work made in their workshops. The products they offer are practical or decorative objects combining design, creativity, craftwork and art. Far from intending to evoke the ways of the past, the idea is to combine that earlier knowledge with modern-day techniques to obtain contemporary articles with personality and the touch that can only be found in hand-made objects. The selection of participating artists was made by Lur kolektiboa, giving priority to workshops registered in the Gipuzkoa directory of craftspeople. The fair will have thirty stands of artisans representing different art disciplines. The setting of the fair will take its inspiration from the themed retrospective The Act of Killing. Cinema and global violence, organised by the Film Festival for this year’s edition. The support will be the actual fair structure, which will include an installation by the interior decorator Koro Albisu consisting of four panels made in printed vinyl and folded, laminated squares.

From September 22nd-28th (Opening: September 22nd at 16:30) Plaza Gipuzkoa. San Sebastian. From 10:30 to 14:00 and from 16:30 to 20:30.

After three editions of the Film Festival which enjoyed the presence of fashion thanks to famous trendsetters including Victorio & Lucchino, Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada and Custo Barcelona and their catwalks, “Cut Off” recycling events and other avant-garde disciplines, in this edition, with a nod to San Sebastian as cultural capital, the City Street Festival will cut across the worlds of clothes and gastronomy in historic mode by means of Cook & Fashion, travelling back in time to show us the way things were in both fields in the era of the 20s. In addition, an exceedingly cutting-edge event will take to the streets with a macro-exhibition of graphic artists which will occupy one of the city’s most emblematic spots until the first week in December.

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1. Macro-exhibition of artists outside La Bretxa Date: from September 17th until November 30th An exhibition by graphic designers Amaya Quiroga, Raúl Compadre, Jaime Bueno, Diego Besné, Juan Sebastián Cárdenas, Nia Moore King, Miguel Ángel Cazo, Amaia Arrazola and Merche Pérez will decorate the exterior walls of La Bretxa with motifs related to the city of San Sebastian and to culture. 2. Historic Cook & Fashion September 24th 14:00 Plaza de La Bretxa. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kresala Film Club, with its collaboration and that of the City Council, a meal will be served with dishes and cocktails from the era, related to the clothes worn at the time. A cinematographic award related to the Festival will also be presented. 3. Exhibition of period costumes From September 25th to October 31st Boulevard – La Bretxa “Cube”

Film Shopping is an event organised by San Sebastián Shops Donostia with the aim of linking shops to the San Sebastian Festival, promoting interaction of the sector with events in the city and improving the positioning of shops as agents of the cultural celebration. Four of the city’s shops will be customised to make them look like scenes from films we all know, presenting the city as part of a movie set. Participating in this pilot project, with a clear-cut intention of remaining in place in years to come, is the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC), which was given the task of creating the sets. In addition, this year San Sebastián Shops Donostia will also have a marquee, in the Calle Txurruka, containing an information point and space for activities. The marquee, which will open from Friday 17th to Saturday 24th September, will contain a Permanent Exhibition on the process of customising the shops. The marquee will officially open on September 17th at 18:30 and will organise different events until the 24th related to the cinema and brought to you by the shops of San Sebastian: film-related hairdressing, a Shop Fiesta, characterisation of film characters, makeup, etc. A photocall will be installed alongside the marquee, created by the ESCAC. Similarly, throughout the Festival, almost 90 shops pertaining to the campaign, recognisable for their red carpets and movie-related shop windows, will display their exclusive articles in street market mode. The shops will surprise visitors with an exciting activity agenda: tastings of food & drink or workshops running throughout the Festival.

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In a marquee set up in the Calle Txurruka and 90 shops throughout the city From September 17th-24th

Workshop for children in the shape of a homage rendered by Tolosa’s TOPIC Puppet Centre to the great naturalist Jacques Cousteau, whose life is the focus of the Festival’s closing film. At the workshop, puppets will be used to recreate and teach children about the marvellous underwater world that he brought to all of us. We will represent the bottom of the sea using the black light technique, in which fish and creatures built at the workshop will magically swim.

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Kutxa Kultur (Tabakalera) September 24th 11:00 - 13:30

Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture presents Yto Barrada’s first solo exhibition in Spain. Barrada (Paris, 1971), who lives and works between Tangiers and New York, has developed a large part of her work reflecting on her place of origin and portraying the area around the African coast as an enclave with its eyes set on Europe. Yto Barrada relates the colonial inheritance of Morocco to her own identity, including playful, humoristic strategies in her work, and depicts people she extols like heroes and whose gestures become forms of resistance. In this exhibition the artist presents a series of videos, photographs and sculptures from her new project on palaeontology and fossils, in addition to a number of earlier pieces addressing questions related to history, geography, the invention of tradition and the meaning of “modern”. We highlight the cinematic practice of the artist, co-founder and president of the Tangiers Cinémathèque, and whose latest film “Faux Départ” (2015), present in the exhibition, received an award for Best Short Film at the Rotterdam film festival in 2016.

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Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1 Until October 9th Tuesday to Thursday: 12:00 - 20:00 Friday: 12:00-21:00 | Saturday 10:00-21:00 | Sunday: 10:00-20:00