These are the main operational changes at this edition:
#Audience
General home tickets for all cinemas and screenings
You can now either print your tickets at home or download them onto your mobile phone and use them to enter the cinema, with no need to collect them from the ticket office.
The International Students meeting is now open to the public
Both screenings and masterclasses are now open to the public. Tickets for the different showings can be acquired through the usual San Sebastian Festival ticketing channels and a limited number of spectators will also be able to join the masterclasses (submissions at www.tabakalera.eu)
#Passholders
APP flashes
This year we’ll send 65th edition flashes to all users of our official app. Download the official app, enable it to accept news flashes and, using your accredited guest account, log-in to “My Festival” where you’ll receive the messages specifically intended for accredited guests.
Pink pass
Given the limited seating in some venues, mainly the Principal and Trueba cinemas, we are issuing a new pass which will give certain press and industry members preferential admission to these cinemas.
Collection of tickets from a single ticket desk
Passholders can collect all tickets to which their pass gives them the right from the passholders ticket desks in the Kursaal Centre.
Control of admission to cinemas
From now on, your pass will be read on entering the cinemas for the purposes of recording and measuring data.
#IndustryClub
An extra day at the Forum
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will have an extra day this year for the pitching session, on Sunday 24th.
Ikusmira Berriak meetings and own space
The Residencies Programmes, Ikusmira Berriak, will have the same outline as the Co-Production Forum projects: a pitching session, online access to meetings and a specific space for one-to-one meetings at the San Telmo Museum.
New Industry publication
The projects and films selected for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, Films in Progress and Glocal in Progress, will all be listed in a single publication alongside the Ikusmira Berriak projects.
Industry Awards presentation
This year the Industry Awards Announcement Ceremony will have a press conference format, taking place on Wednesday 27, followed by a photocall and the possibility of interviewing the winners.
Meet Them!
New section in the Professional Area of the Festival website showing the groups of professionals coming to the Festival under agreements between The Industry Club and Film Institutes and professional associations.
Glocal in Progress
New activity for European feature films at the post-production stage in non-hegemonic languages. The initiative, for industry professionals, will take place from September 25 to 27.
#16EIECINE
The International Film Students Meeting has an extra day
The International Film Students Meeting, to take place this year from September 25-29 at Tabakalera, will have an extra day.
Screenings open to the public
The short film screenings will be open to the public. Tickets for the different showings can be acquired through the usual San Sebastian Festival ticketing channels.
Masterclasses
One of the major attractions at this edition will be the masterclasses. The Meeting will host the visit of leading film industry professionals who will present their films in San Sebastian, such as Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret, José Luis Torres Leiva, Marine Francen and Nobuhiro Suwa, who will screen their works for the students. Both the students and a limited number of spectators will also be able to talk to the film teams.