Rifkin’s Festival centres on a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there. A comedy-romance that resolves itself in a funny but romantic way.
More than forty-five titles make up the career of Woody Allen (New York, 1935) as a screenwriter, director and actor. His first screenplay was for What’s New Pussycat? (1965) and his first title as a director was Take the Money and Run (1969). He has clocked up sixteen Best Screenplay Oscar nominations and has won the award three times, for Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Midnight in Paris (2011). He also has another seven Best Director nominations under his belt, having won the award for Annie Hall, which also bagged Best Film and Best Actress and landed him his only Best Actor nomination. The San Sebastian Festival presented him with its Donostia Award in 2004, an edition which opened with Melinda and Melinda and ran a retrospective of his work. Rifkin’s Festival was filmed during the summer of 2019 in San Sebastian.