RTVE has maintained a very close relationship with the cinema since its origins. As well as broadcasting it, RTVE backs cinema by financing films, documentaries and TV movies. The productions delivered by what’s known as the dream factory have always had their space on the small screen, on which its big brother has always prolonged the life of its feature films. In keeping with this special relationship, RTVE participates in the San Sebastian Festival, a cinematic event enjoying national and international prestige of which it has been the official sponsor since 2005 and to which it gives widespread coverage. The opening and closing galas, the Donostia Awards and everything that happens at the Festival is profusely reported in its TV and radio channels, as well as in its digital space. Furthermore, RTVE takes series and films of its own or shared production to the Festival and presents them at a special gala, for which an entire day is set aside. It completes its participation in the San Sebastian Festival with presentation of the “Otra Mirada” Award, created by RTVE to encourage films on themes related to the world of women. RTVE and cinema, ALWAYS hand in hand.

Movistar+ is the leading platform for entertainment of the Telefonica group. Its offer includes the best premium contents on sports, cinema, serial, documentary and programs that users can enjoy where, when and how they want.

Since September 2017, Movistar+ has set up an strategy on original serial production, releasing a fiction each month (‘Velvet Colección’, ‘Vergüenza’, ‘La Zona’, ‘La Peste’, ‘Mira lo que has hecho’, ‘Félix’, ‘Matar al padre’, ‘El día de mañana’, ‘Virtual Hero’, ‘SKAM España’, ‘Gigantes’,  ‘Arde Madrid’, ‘El Embarcadero’, ‘Justo antes de Cristo’, ‘Instinto’,  ‘Hierro’). Furthermore, in 2018 Movistar+ starts a new production line focused on cinema with the film ‘Mientras dure la guerra’ directed by Alejandro Amenabar.

In addition, Movistar+ is an Official Sponsor of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, establishing a close collaboration with the filming event in which Movistar+ has premiered  ‘La Peste’, ‘Vergüenza’, ‘Gigantes’ , ‘Arde Madrid’,  ‘Vida Perfecta’, ‘Antidisturbios’ and ‘Dime quién soy’, as the film ‘Mientras dure la guerra’.

With more than 120 years’ experience under its belt, today Audi is a world reference as a manufacturer of high-end vehicles. With the motto ‘At the vanguard of technique’, the brand of the four-ring emblem is famous not only for being a model to keep an eye on for its technology, but also for the high quality, elegance and sporting comfort of its models. 

This DNA now provides the basis for the new era of electrification in which Audi is immersed. In Spain the brand is already commercialising two 100% electric models (e-tron quattro and e-trono Sportback), and recently launched an offensive of plug-in hybrids, called TFSIe, carrying the Zero environmental sticker (A6, A7, A8, Q5 and Q7). This offer completes a range with a variety of options for their bodywork and propulsion (with petrol, diesel and GNC engines), adapting to any need. 

Audi’s promise to provide quality to its customers is firm, as is the brand’s connection with culture. This is visible for instance in its collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival, where Audi is Official Collaborator and Official Vehicle since 2011, having organised the Audi Innovative Thinking, a space for reflection and discussion with personalities from the Spanish film industry, since 2014.

Kutxabank is the biggest financial institution in the Basque Country, a bank committed to people and to the economic and social development of the territories in which it goes about its activities.

It emerged in 2012 as a result of the merger between the three Basque savings banks, the Group’s only shareholders. Kutxabank is a benchmark institution. In fact, it is one of the most solid banks in Europe. 

With an intense agenda of sponsoring cultural and sports activities, the institution has had a strong links with Zinemaldia for decades.

Thanks to this support, Kutxabank can offer its clients numerous advantages.

Alba Emission Free Energy, the Petronor subsidiary encompassing all energy transition and decarbonisation activities, from hydrogen to local energy communities, collaborates with the San Sebastian Festival in promoting the Green Challenge. 

This is a pioneer initiative under which both organisations commit to promoting energy transition, given their shared responsibility to foster measures to help reduce climate change. 

The San Sebastian Festival is the best showcase of an industry that generates jobs, develops technology and has the purpose of making people enjoy themselves and think, and where energy efficiency and sustainability also have their own space.

The Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) is a research centre of international vocation, whose main objective is to generate innovative knowledge in physics and similar disciplines. It is a Basque Government Centre of Excellence. The DIPC is firmly committed to spreading scientific knowledge and culture. It therefore develops powerful scientific communication programmes, often in collaboration with other cultural agents. DIPC started its collaboration with the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2019.

The DIARIO VASCO newspaper is the doyen of press publications in Gipuzkoa and a model of modern and deep-rooted journalism.

Event sponsorship is one of the areas taken greatest care of by the DV with a view to building a brand image associated to its close links with the interests of Gipuzkoan society in all its areas. 

It therefore develops widespread initiatives in support of numerous events, outstanding among which is the San Sebastian International Film Festival for being one of the world-famous gatherings on the cultural calendar of Gipuzkoa, with which it has maintained connections for more than two decades.

The SGAE (Spanish General Society of Authors and Publishers) Foundation maintains a collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival which involves participation in either the Festival or its own initiatives: providing support to the Made in Spain season, the holding of Authors’ Meetings, accolades such as the SGAE Julio Alejandro Screenplay Award, the Best Basque Screenplay Award and the Dunia Ayaso Award rewarding the focus on gender and co-organisation of the Film Music concerts. These are some of the initiatives for which the SGAE Foundation is grateful for the Festival’s commitment to the architects of cultural creation.

Irizar is a business group with international presence which concentrates its activity in the passenger transport, e-mobility, electronics, electric motors and generators, connectivity and energy sectors.

Made up of seven brands who carry out their production activity in 13 plants, Irizar has its own R&D centre and maintains a strong pledge to the brand, technology and sustainability.  

Thanks to our engagement with the Zinemaldia, in recent years our path has run parallel to that of Basque films; creating, imagining and producing stories that deserve to be told to the world. As a reflection of that engagement, since 2013 Irizar has been promoting the Irizar Basque Film Award, going to the best Basque film at the Festival

Beer from Donostia since 1890. The spirit and love of Basque gastronomy can be tasted in every gulp of KELER beer.

The KELER flavour is recognised all over the world and stands out at the leading international beer fests. It has bagged more than 25 prizes in the last decade alone.

Sponsor of the San Sebastian Festival since 2015, KELER maintains its engagement not only with culture, but with the city too.

Sponsor of the Zinemaldia 70 archiving project

Mar de Frades is a pioneering, avant-garde and innovative winery. Brave by definition and always unique, it represents the most deeply rooted winemaking tradition of the Salnés Valley, the historic capital of Albariño. It is here where the legent of this variety began and where the most sophisticated and suggestive white wines are produced. A brand with Atlantic spirit, unconquerable, daring, and trendsetter, which makes the link with the world of glamor and cinema its main flag, thus becoming the most desired white of Spain.

Sponsor of the San Sebastian Film Festival since 2018, Mar de Frades will become, once again, the star of the Opening of the Festival, one of the most emblematic moments of the event.

Nespresso is a pioneer and world reference in the finest high-quality portioned coffee market. The company works with more than 100,000 coffee growers in 13 countries through its AAA Sustainable Quality™ Programme for applying sustainable practices to plantations and their environment. The Programme, launched in 2003 in collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance, helps to improve production and harvest quality, guaranteeing a sustainable supply of high-quality coffee as well as better living conditions for its coffee growers and their communities.

Nespresso’s connections to the San Sebastian Festival began more than ten years ago. As well as being the Official Festival Coffee, since 2015 Nespresso has been the Sponsor of the Culinary Zinema section, combining cinema, gastronomy and food-related activities in the fields of education, science and agriculture. Furthermore, since 2019, it's also the Sponsor of the Nespresso VIP space in the Kursaal, a meeting point reserved for Festival guests, among whom are the lead characters of films in the Official Selection and winners of the Donostia Award. 

In 2020 Nespresso started sponsoring “Kafea. Un Nespresso con…”, a space for interviews with film teams form different sections of the Festival.

TCM is a pay-TV network which offers a selection of the greatest movies of all time. It is available on the leading pay-TV platforms. TCM also produces documentaries on film-related themes which have won numerous international awards, such as Nostromo: David Lean’s Impossible Dream and El último adiós de Bette Davis / When Bette Davis Bid Farewell. With ties to the San Sebastian Festival for more than two decades, TCM formerly sponsored the Audience Award and the Zinemaldia Get-togethers. TCM sponsors the TCM Youth Award since 2019.

TCM is a brand belonging to the WarnerMedia group.

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Its mission is to inspire and enrich the lives of people, offering them a space for creative expression and a genuine, joyful and positive experience.  

Its alliance with the San Sebastian Festival, the most important film festival in Spain and one of the biggest in the international circuit, strengthens TikTok’s commitment to support and foster culture and entertainment, both on and off the platform.

TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Antiguo Berri is a family business founded in 1986 with the original activity of housing developer, builder and land developer in the province of Gipuzkoa. Since then its activity has been uninterrupted: more than 35 years of commitment to people and the sustainability of our planet.

Since the beginning of its activity, it has maintained an ascending line, reaching a consolidated position within the sector. In more than 35 years of continuous permanence, Antiguo Berri has developed more than 60 new-build real estate developments, always being unique projects at the time and in the area where they were developed.

Since 2022, Antiguo Berri has also sponsored the Surprise Movie at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

“Iberian Hams of Spain. Ambassadors of Europe in the World” is an emotional and original campaign with which ASICI seeks to encourage the whole world to awaken its “Iberian Sense”. An exceedingly lively concept inviting people to taste, to discover, and which marks a new positioning for the sector.  

 “With campaigns of this size, ASICI strengthens the positioning of an emblematic European gastronomy product, such as Iberian Ham, in some of the biggest international markets”, says the president of ASICI, Antonio Prieto.

The Interprofessional Association of the Iberian Pig (ASICI), Sponsor of the Film Festival since 2015, is a non-profit Interprofessional Agri-food Organisation (IAO) which equally represents more than 95% of the organisations in the production line (farmers) and more than 95% of the transformation line (industrial) of Iberian pork. Created in 1992, it was recognised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) in 1999 as the Interprofessional Agri-Food Organisation for the Iberian Pork Industry.

La Perla Thalassotherapy Centre is one of the remaining symbols of San Sebastian’s Belle Époque period. More than a century ago, Queen María Cristina decides to spend her summers in the city. Here she enjoys bathing in the sea in a privileged setting, La Concha bay. 

Today this is one of Europe’s biggest urban spa centres, centrally located in the middle of La Concha bay. A place where water is the medium for obtaining the very best of soothing therapy and fitness treatments. An integral wellness centre offering physical-sports, therapeutic, relaxing, health and beauty programmes, all with excellent and lasting effects. 

La Perla is an experience not to be missed by all those wishing to discover the reality and benefits of the city of San Sebastian.  

La Perla starts its collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival in 2020. 

Ramiro Mata was born inheriting the vision of Francisco Mata, founder of one of Spain’s first hairdressing academies in 1970. Today, almost 50 years later, Ramiro Mata is a reference in the fashion and trends of the hairdressing world, collaborating in film festivals such as San Sebastian (since 2013), the Goya and Feroz awards, fashion catwalks, television and cinema. Ramiro Mata enjoys international prestige as a school of hairdressing; the artistic team produces shows, presentations and masterclasses all over the world.

Vichy Catalan is a leading brand in the mineral water market.

Ever since Dr Modest Furest Roca discovered in 1881 the healthy properties of the waters flowing from the Vichy Catalan spring (at a temperature of 60ºC and with its own gas) in Caldes de Malavella (Gerona), Vichy Catalan has positioned itself year after year as one of the world’s best sparkling waters.

Vichy Catalan Genuina is unique for its organoleptic properties, for its taste and for its health benefits. It is a water with connections to gastronomy, art and culture. Throughout its history, the brand has adapted to the different consumer trends by increasing its range of products, always based on high quality and on offering healthy beverages 

Vichy Catalan becomes San Sebastian Festival’s Official Water in 2022.