San Sebastian Film Festival

73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025

73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025

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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).

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EQZE

Artxiboa

Ikusmira Berriak

Nest

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(07/01/2025 - 09/01/2025)

Film Library

(07/14/2025 - 09/15/2025)

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(08/01/2025 - 08/11/2025)

Film submission - General sections

(01/17/2025 - 06/17/2025)

Film submission - Culinary Zinema

(01/17/2025 - 06/17/2025)

Film submission - Klasikoak

(01/17/2025 - 06/17/2025)

Loterías Short Films

(05/19/2025 - 06/17/2025)

Nest - Film School registration

(06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025)

Nest - Short Film submission

(06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025)

Film Library

(07/14/2025 - 09/15/2025)

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WIP Latam - Entry Form

(06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025)

WIP Europa - Entry Form

(06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025)

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Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum - Entry Form

(04/16/2025 - 06/16/2025)

Zinemaldia Startup Challenge - Entry Form

(04/15/2025 - 06/02/2025)

Ikusmira Berriak - Entry Form

(07/01/2025 - 09/01/2025)

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Ikusmira Beriak - Entry Form

(07/01/2025 - 09/01/2025)

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(08/01/2025 - 08/11/2025)

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2019. 67th Edition

Home Awards and Jury Members

City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award

Awards
Audience Award

2024. 72nd Edition

En fanfare

Emmanuel Courcol (France)

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST EUROPEAN FILM

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof (Germany - France - Iran )

2023. 71st Edition

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD

La sociedad de la nieve

J.A. Bayona (Spain )

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD AWARD FOR BEST EUROPEAN FILM

Io Capitano

Matteo Garrone (Italy)

2022. 70th Edition

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD

Argentina, 1985

Santiago Mitre (Argentina - USA)

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD AWARD FOR BEST EUROPEAN FILM

As bestas

Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain - France)

2021. 69th Edition

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD

Petite maman

Céline Sciamma (France)

CITY OF DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN AUDIENCE AWARD AWARD FOR BEST EUROPEAN FILM

Ouistreham

Emmanuel Carrère (France)

2020. 68th Edition

The Father

Florian Zeller (UK)

Best European Film

El agente topo

Maite Alberdi (Chile - USA - Germany - Netherlands - Spain)

2019. 67th Edition

Hors normes

Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano (France)

Best European Film

Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach (UK - France - Germany)

2018. 66th Edition

Un día más con vida / Another Day of Life

Raúl De la Fuente, Damian Nenow (Spain - Poland - Belgium- Germany)

City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award. Best European Film

Girl

Lukas Dhont (Belgium - Netherlands)

2017. 65th Edition

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Martin McDonagh (UK)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Jusqu'à la garde / Custody

Xavier Legrand (France)

2016. 64th Edition

I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach (UK - France - Belgium)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Ma vie de courgette / My Life as a Courgette

Claude Barras (Switzerland - France)

2015. 63rd Edition

Umimachi Diary / Our Little Sister

Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Shan He Gu Ren / Mountains May Depart

Jia Zhang-ke (China - France - Japan)

2014. 62nd Edition

The Salt of the Earth

Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (France)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Relatos salvajes

Damián Szifrón (Argentina - Spain)

2013. 61st Edition

Soshite chichi ni naru / Like Father, Like Son

Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

About Time

Richard Curtis (UK)

2012. 60th Edition

THE SESSIONS

Ben Lewin (USA)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

THE ANGELS' SHARE

Ken Loach (UK-FRANCE-BELGIUM-ITALY)

2011. 59th Edition

The Artist

Michel Hazanavicius (France)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Et maintenant on va où?

Nadine Labaki (France-Lebanon-Italy-Egypt)

2010. 58th Edition

Barney’s Version

Richard J. Lewis (Canada-Italy)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

Norberto López Amado, Carlos Carcas (UK-Spain)

2009. 57th Edition

Precious

Lee Daniels (USA)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Desert Flower

Sherry Hormann (Germany)

2008. 56th Edition

Burn After Reading

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (AEB)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Lemon Tree

Eran Riklis (Israel-France-Germany)

2007. 55th Edition

Caramel

Nadine Labaki (Lebanon - France)

AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM

Le scaphandre et le papillon

Julian Schnabel (France)

2006. 54th Edition

Little Miss Sunshine

Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (USA)

2005. 53rd Edition

Holy Lola

Bertrand Tavernier (France)

2004. 52nd Edition

Diarios de motocicleta

Walter Salles (USA-France-Argentina-UK)

2003. 51st Edition

Bom, yeoreum, gaeul, gyeowool, geurigo, bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring)

Kim Ki-duk (South Korea - Germany)

2002. 50th Edition

Bowling for Columbine

Michael Moore (Germany - Canada - USA)

2001. 49th Edition

Ničija zemlja / No Man's Land

Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina - France - Slovenia - Italy - UK - Belgium)

Compete for the prize:

Seberg

7.07

Ema

6.53

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu / Portrait of a Lady on Fire

7.92

Les Misérables

8.79

The Lighthouse

6.63

Tenki no ko / Weathering With You

8.06

The Laundromat

6.60

La vérité / The Truth

7.70

Gisaengchung / Parasite

8.48

Di jiu tian chang / So Long, My Son

8.31

Alice et le maire / Alice and the Mayor

7.20

O que arde - Lo que arde / Fire Will Come

8.08

Sorry We Missed You

8.89

Hors normes / The Specials

9.19

Waiting for the Barbarians

7.31

Amazing Grace

8.38

Beanpole

6.75

Light of My Life

6.98

City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award

Hors normes / The Specials

Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano (France)

Best European Film

Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach (UK - France - Germany)

All films in the Perlak Section will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award, which will be decided by the spectators who attend the first public screening of each film in the said section.

The City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award is made up of two different awards: a 1st Award for Best Film, carrying €50,000 euros, and a 2nd Award for Best European Film carrying €20,000.

The City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award goes to the distributor of the film in Spain.

Perlak Section: A selection of the best films of the year not yet released in Spain to have received critical acclaim and/or awards at other international festivals.