The Festival’s 59th edition presents a cycle jointly organised with the 4+1 Festival and an activity specially designed for children

The San Sebastian International Film Festival will collaborate from this year on with the MAPFRE Foundation on two activities to take place at the event: the “Contemporary Mexican Cinema” cycle and the “MAPFRE FOUNDATION Small Film Studio”.

The “Contemporary Mexican Cinema” cycle is programmed in collaboration with the MAPFRE Foundation’s 4+1 Festival, which has created a circuit of five cities for screening auteur movies to have participated at international festivals but not yet released in commercial cinemas. Its venues are: the Mexican Cineteca Nacional, the Cinemateca Distrital and Cine Colombia in Bogotá, the MALBA in Buenos Aires, the Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, and the Golem cinemas in Madrid.

At this edition, the 4+1 cycle will be dedicated to Mexico, the city housing the central HQ for the second edition of the 4+1 Festival from October 26th-30th, an event enjoying the inestimable collaboration of the Mexican Film Institute, IMCINE. The cycle will present nine films recently produced by key names on today’s Mexican film scene, an eclectic exhibit of the most daring and suggestive works produced by a cinematography boasting a series of internationally renowned moviemakers.

Further, the MAPFRE FOUNDATION and the San Sebastian Festival also present the «MAPFRE FOUNDATION Small Film Studio» Kids’ Tent. During the days when San Sebastian becomes, like every year, the world capital of film, the Tent (in the Plaza Okendo) will offer, from 12th-24th September, a wide selection of activities designed to attract children to the world of film and, above all, to ensure that they have fun with the emotions and experiences offered by the Seventh Art. The Tent programme includes permanent activities and workshops, all for the 3-12 year-olds. In these, among other film aspects, children will learn about and have fun with screenplays, film professions, tricks and special effects, dubbing, animation, optical illusions, make-up, wardrobe…

The activities programmed in the mornings from Monday to Friday are intended for schools, while the rest of the time they will be open to families. The space will be perfectly adapted for access by all children, with no obstacles of any kind.

Both initiatives were presented today in San Sebastian at an event attended by José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastian Festival; Daniel Restrepo, Assistant Director of the MAPFRE FOUNDATION Culture Institute; and Garbiñe Ortega, Programmer at the MAPFRE FOUNDATION 4+1 Festival.