San Sebastian Film Festival

12-30-2021

The Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre is organising the ‘Filmakers’ dialogue’ course for cinema fans and film students given by film professionals

Icíar Bollaín, Lara Izagirre, Carla Simón, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Jonás Trueba will be taking part in this course organised with the Z365 area, the all-year-round festival of the San Sebastian Festival, and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

12-17-2021

70 years of San Sebastian Festival in the Tabakalera cinema

The new 'Zinemaldia 70' Nosferatu season will take a look at the Festival's history on its 70th anniversary, screening 40 films to have featured on its programme since 1953

The Zinemaldia + Plus seasons, the fifth edition of 'Cinema and Science' and the season dedicated to the German moviemaker Christian Petzold will kick off the programme for the year in January

The movie voucher and individual tickets for the 2022 screenings will be available for purchase from December 22 on the Tabakalera website and from the centre's Information Point

12-16-2021

San Sebastian Festival, Kutxa Fundazioa and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola look back at the changes experienced by the Festival during the Spanish Transition

Kutxa Kultur Plaza will host, until 20 February 2022, an exhibition including 30 photographs portraying a decade marked by experimentation and the shift to democracy, but also by profound instability

The show ‘Festival in transition: the San Sebastian International Film Festival in times of change (1976-1985)’ is curated by the team of the research project ‘Zinemaldia 70. All possible stories”

12-15-2021

More than 96,000 people attended the screenings, round tables and masterclasses at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

12-13-2021

Ana Cristina Barragán, Jaume Claret, Meritxell Colell, Irati Gorostidi, Joâo Paulo Miranda and Maximiliano Schonfeld to develop their latest film projects at Ikusmira Berriak

A total of 281 projects have been submitted for the programme’s eighth edition, which increases the number of residents from five to six

11-29-2021

The third public programme of 'Zinemaldia 70. All possible stories' analyses the mechanisms to represent and conceal women in the Festival’s early decades

Tabakalera will host, on December 4, the event ‘Another way of telling: presences, absences and representations of women at San Sebastian Festival (1953-1978)’, including a number of talks and a film screening

The research team at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola has analysed the competition’s visual history through the photographs kept in the Festival archive and in the Kutxateka collection

11-25-2021

Feminist video practices and their relationship with Basque political activism: objects of analysis in the second issue of ‘ZINE: Film Research Series’

‘ZINE’ focuses on three works carried out in 1975 by the Les Insoumuses and Vidéa feminist video groups and explores how these groups became involved in Basque political activism following the last executions ordered by Franco’s regime in 1975

The online magazine published by Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), the Basque Film Archive and the San Sebastián Festival offers a fresh look at current research into the Arteleku video collection

The publication will be presented at Tabakalera on the 26th of this month

11-23-2021

The San Sebastián Festival and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola are bringing together the Venice, Berlin and Vienna Festivals, and the Cannes Fortnight at Mugak

The event, which will take place on Thursday the 25th in the Institute of Architecture of the Basque Country, will analyse the spatial dimension of film festivals and its relationship with the cities they are held in

11-11-2021

Proyecta 2021 will host the presentation of 16 projects in search of co-production

Organised by Ventana Sur, Marché du Film and San Sebastian Festival, the activity will run from November 29 to December 3

10-06-2021

Zinemaldia + Plus to screen ten shorts selected from among the almost 300 to have participated in the 20 years of Nest’s history

Tabakalera’s shared screen will host a showing of five titles on October 9th and of another five on November 6th

09-25-2021

The Romanian production 'Crai nou / Blue Moon' carries off the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

09-24-2021

The first workshop on gender equality organised by the (H)emen association and the San Sebastian Festival closes with the will and the commitment to work together

09-23-2021

‘Spencer’, by Pablo Larraín, is the surprise film at the Festival’s 69th edition

09-23-2021

The French project Kinetix wins the 2021 Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

09-23-2021

The festivals of Venice, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Zurich, Seville, Gijón, Huelva and Vilnius endorse the support statement of the San Sebastian Festival, Basque Film Archive a and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola for the Cinemateca Brasileira.

09-22-2021

Johnny Depp: ''People are the only reason why I am here''

The North American actor receives the Donostia Award for lifetime achievement

Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat will give a master class on Tuesday 21st within the framework of the San Sebastian Festival

09-17-2021

Marion Cotillard: ''Thanks to the San Sebastian Festival for accompanying me in this new phase of my cinematographic journey''

09-17-2021

San Sebastian Festival’s red carpet will have a second life

The red carpet used at San Sebastian Festival will be 100% recyclable and will set out on a new life following the event as clothing

09-16-2021

The Spanish Cooperation Award will recognise the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to development

For the seventh consecutive year, AECID, together with the San Sebastian Festival, is promoting the accolade which recognises the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights

Eight films compete for the accolade, which es part of the alliance between the AECID and the San Sebastian Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry

09-16-2021

European Film Forum | The transformation of the European audiovisual ecosystem: towards a more sustainable and digital industry

The upcoming edition of San Sebastian Festival’s European Film Forum will take place physically in the San Telmo Museum Function Hall on Monday, September 20, at 16:30, and can be followed on the Festival website.

09-15-2021

Hugs and the Donostia Award going to Marion Cotillard play the lead parts in the Festival opening gala

Jon Maya will once again direct the galas with the collaboration of screenwriters Harkaitz Cano and Ane García and the musician Luis Mari Moreno Urretavizcaya, aka ‘Pirata’

09-15-2021

The Festival backs sustainable fashion through 22 Basque companies

The presenters, actors, dancers and directors of the galas will wear fashion made in Gipuzkoa and the Basque Country thanks to an initiative promoted by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa’s Departments of the Environment and Culture, the Film Festival, the San Sebastian City Council and the Basque Government

09-14-2021

The City Council will sponsor the San Sebastian Festival Audience Award

One more year, free tickets will be distributed among people with economic difficulties

09-14-2021

Alba Emission Free Energy and San Sebastian Festival sign a 2-year agreement to promote the Green Challenge

This is a pioneer initiative under which both bodies commit to promoting the energy transition

The two bodies therefore take a step forward in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, and particularly Goal 13: Climate action

The signing took place today at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, attended by Emiliano López Atxurra, President of Alba Emission Free Energy, and José Luis Rebordinos, the Festival Director

Alba Emission Free Energy is the Petronor subsidiary created to promote energy transition and decarbonisation

09-14-2021

The SGAE Foundation announces the finalists of the V Dunia Ayaso Award 2021 at the San Sebastian Festival

Icíar Bollaín, Daniel Monzón, Javier Marco and Ainhoa Rodríguez compete for this award going to the gender perspective in the seventh art

The winner will be announced on September 24 at the 69th San Sebastian International Film Festival

09-13-2021

Eleven films to compete for the RTVE-Otra Mirada Award at San Sebastian Festival

The competitors include four titles from the Official Selection, one from New Directors, one from Horizontes Latinos, two from Zabaltegi-Tabakalera and three from Perlak

The jury members are Concepción Cascajosa, President of the RTVE Equality Observatory; the actress Anna Castillo, and the journalist Rosa Zufia

The award goes to a film on subjects close to the world of women and will be presented on Saturday 25 at the Festival closing gala

09-12-2021

09-10-2021

Tickets for San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition go on sale this Sunday

On the 12th, tickets can be purchased online for the first three days of the event

09-10-2021

Amenabar to sponsor a special open air screening in Cristina Enea Park

The screening of 'La Croisade / The Crusade', a film with an environmental message, will take place in one of the city's main green lungs and will be carried out according to sustainable criteria

09-08-2021

Movistar+ and the San Sebastian Festival present the Zinemaldia Movistar+ Virtual Cinema as part of their new divulgatory partnership

The new divulgatory alliance between Movistar+ and the San Sebastian Festival is born to reinforce the Spanish audiovisual industry and bring the festival experience to the widest audience possible

For the first time a television platform will host a cinema for a major A-category festival with a selection of titles from five sections

09-07-2021

Follow all events at the Festival on our Website, App and Social Media

The screening schedule of all the films in all sections, will be available on Wednesday September 8 both on the Festival website and in the App

09-07-2021

The meetings with James Mockoski, Céline Sciamma and Laura Wandel and the debates on equality and gender identities, among the conversations at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

09-06-2021

Paolo Sorrentino to host a master class at the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival

09-03-2021

Javier Bardem, Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Emmanuelle Devos, Dolores Fonzi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon, Noémie Merlant, Clarke Peters, Raphael, Simon Rex, Stanley Tucci and María Valverde have confirmed their presence at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

Visiting the city to present their films are moviemakers Sean Baker, Laurent Cantet, Julia Ducournau, Xavier Giannoli, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Radu Jude, Kira Kovalenko, Joachim Lafosse, Gaspar Noé, Todd Haynes, Carlos Saura, Céline Sciamma and Claire Simon, among many others

09-02-2021

‘Las huellas de elBulli’ to open Culinary Zinema

Four of the five programmed feature films will be world premieres, while the fiction film ‘Délicieux / Delicious’ will have its premiere in Spain

Basque Culinary Center to host five themed dinners related to the screenings

09-01-2021

The 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will include a surprise film in its programme, sponsored by the Amenabar company

The film will be screened on Saturday 25th, at 16:00, at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre

09-01-2021

Industria Online is open

08-31-2021

The Zinemaldia + Plus focus will offer two screenings with films starring Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp, recipients of the Donostia Award at the 69th edition

Tabakalera’s shared screen will programme ‘Deux jours, une nuit’, by the Dardenne brothers, on September 4, and ‘Dead Man’, by Jim Jarmusch, on September 9

08-31-2021

Industria dedicates its 'Focus on' to Georgia

08-31-2021

A publication, a podcast, a commemorative video, masterclasses and Zinemaldia + Plus screenings to celebrate Nest’s 20th anniversary

Filmmakers Céline Sciamma, Laura Wandel, Mina Fitzpatrick, Inês de Lima, Kiro Russo and Óscar Vincentelli will participate in the activities, as will the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola alumni Noemí Cuetos and Marcela Hinojosa

08-30-2021

Made in Spain will recover, among other films, 'El ventre del mar', 'Ama', 'Destello bravío' and 'El año del descubrimiento'

Of the eight Spanish productions selected for the section, half are first films, such as the debuts of Ezekiel Montes and Javier Tolentino

08-27-2021

'Raphaelismo', an original Movistar+ documentary series, will be presented at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

The Movistar+ Gala will take place on Sunday 19 at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre with the presence of Raphael and the exclusive preview of a single episode

08-26-2021

Asier Altuna, Icíar Bollaín, Iñaki Alforja and Iban Toledo, Javier Corcuera, Iker Elorrieta, Xabier Erkizia, Maider Oleaga, Maru Solores and Hernán Zin to compete for the Irizar Basque Cinema Award at San Sebastian Festival

Seventeen Basque productions make up the programme of the 69th edition

The Kimuak programme will receive the Zinemira award for its work

08-25-2021

San Sebastian Festival takes steps to reduce its environmental impact

The Festival presents its environmental diagnosis, result of an external audit to study the source of its environmental footprint and what to do about it

08-25-2021

Belodromoa ikastetxeetan immerses itself in archaeology with the DIPC, the Filmoteca Vasca and the San Sebastian Festival

Thousands of schoolchildren from Gipuzkoa will enjoy the film ‘Tadeo Jones 2: Midas erregearen sekretua (Tadeo Jones 2: The Secret of King Midas)’, to be presented by the underwater archaeologist, Maria Intxaustegi

08-24-2021

Marion Cotillard to receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

The French actress will collect the honorary award on September 17 during the opening ceremony

08-24-2021

Wes Anderson and Jane Campion to compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award

‘The French Dispatch’ and ‘The Power of the Dog’ complete the Perlak selection

08-23-2021

Klasikoak will celebrate García Berlanga´s and Fernán-Gómez's centenaries with the screening of 'Esa pareja feliz', 'La muerte y el leñador' and 'Manicomio'

The section also includes restored versions of Coppola’s ‘The Rain People’ and ‘The Outsiders: The Complete Novel’, and the screening of ‘Ça commence aujourd'hui (It All Starts Today)’ in homage to Tavernier

The retrospective ‘Flowers in hell. The golden age of Korean cinema’ substitutes three of the titles previously programmed

08-23-2021

San Sebastian Festival and (H)emen, the Basque association of professional women in audiovisual media and the performing arts, to organise a workshop

The space for reflection and discussion by cinema and social stakeholders seeks to discuss ideas and proposals on the inclusion of women professionals in the industry and on film festival codes of ethics, while also endeavouring to reach agreements

08-23-2021

Puxika Gorria / El Globo Rojo goes back to being on-site to foster work-life balance during the Festival

Installed in San Telmo Museum, the play area offering a creative activities service to accredited guests also opens to staff working for the Festival organisation

This year the age limit has been increased so that children between the ages of six months and twelve years can be enrolled

08-20-2021

Zhang Yimou to open the competition at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' and 'Enquête sur un Scandale d'Etat / Undercover' complete the list of competing titles in the Official Selection

08-19-2021

Joanna Hogg, Radu Jude, Gaspar Noé, Kiro Russo, Laura Wandel and Jean-Gabriel Périot, among other filmmakers, to compete for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award

The Festival’s all-ecompassing competitive section will include titles to have been awarded or programmed at Venice, Cannes and Berlin, among other festivals, and two world premieres

A total of 18 titles will participate: thirteen features, one medium-length film and four shorts

08-18-2021

‘Nomadland’, by Chloé Zhao, will receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2021 for Best Film of the Year

08-16-2021

‘Mediterráneo’ and ‘Érase una vez en Euskadi’ will star in the RTVE galas at San Sebastian Festival

‘Mediterráneo’ will have its premiere at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre on Thursday, September 23

‘Érase una vez en Euskadi’ will have its presentation on Wednesday 22 at the Kursaal 2

08-13-2021

Let’s talk about ethics

San Sebastian Festival's statement

08-12-2021

The latest projects from Juan Andrés Arango, Agustín Banchero, Inés Barrionuevo, Paula Hernández, Francisco Marise and Romina Paula, among others, to participate in the tenth Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum

The fourteen selected projects come from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay, and seven are first or second works

The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will run on September 20, 21 and 22, in hybrid format (the pandemic permitting), with the possibility of organising online meetings with professionals unable to travel to San Sebastian

08-11-2021

Fourteen feature films to compete in the 20th edition of Nest

08-10-2021

Six productions from Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Russia, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine to participate in WIP Europa

Five of the selected films are first or second works

WIP Europa will take place on September 20, 21 and 22

08-09-2021

Johnny Depp to receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

The North American actor will collect the Festival’s highest honorary award in recognition of his career on September 22

08-06-2021

WIP Latam will present six films by Manuel Abramovich, Fabián Hernández, Ana Cristina Barragán, Juan Pablo González, Carlos Lechuga and Laura Baumeister

WIP Latam will run on September 20, 21 and 22 in the framework of San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

08-05-2021

Sean Baker, Julia Ducournau, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Todd Haynes, Joachim Lafosse, François Ozon, Céline Sciamma and Paul Verhoeven, among the names to participate in Perlak

The section will open with ‘Competencia oficial’, by Duprat and Cohn, and close with ‘The Velvet Underground’ by Haynes

There will be two screenings out of competition ‘Titane’, by Ducournau, and ‘Drive My Car’, by Hamaguchi

The section will also screen the debuts of Shipei Wen and Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as the second feature directed by the writer Emmanuel Carrère

08-04-2021

Ten Latin American films to compete for the Horizontes Award

Half of the films come from the Festival's Latin American 'work in progress' initiative

The selection includes three first films and the return to the section of directors Paz Fábrega, Alonso Ruizpalacios and Lorenzo Vigas

08-03-2021

Five projects based on artificial intelligence, AWS web services, haptic technology, VFX/SFX and mobile applications to compete in the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

The selected projects, coming from Denmark, France and Spain, will compete for a prize of 10,000 euros, free access to an incubation space for the first year at one of the BICs belonging to the Basque Technology Park Network and funding of up to 500,000 euros

Zinemaldia & Technology will take place on Thursday September 23 in Tabakalera and will include the pitches of the five finalists and a masterclass

07-30-2021

Iciar Bollaín, Fernando León de Aranoa, Paco Plaza and Jonás Trueba to compete in San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection

'Las leyes de la frontera', by Daniel Monzón, the Festival closing film; 'La hija', by Manuel Martín Cuenca; Alejandro Amenábar’s series 'La Fortuna' and the short film 'Rosa Rosae. La Guerra Civil' by Carlos Saura will participate out of competition

07-28-2021

Thirteen first and second films to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Among the selected works are five films from the Festival’s works in progress initiatives and from the Co-Production Forum

07-22-2021

Transilvania Film Festival screens a selection of ten Spanish films curated by San Sebastian

The 20th edition of the Romanian event, which starts tomorrow, will show films screened in recent years at the San Sebastian Festival

07-21-2021

TCM sponsors the “TCM Youth Award” at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition

For the third consecutive year, TCM promotes this award going to promising up-and-coming youngsters in the New Directors and Horizontes Latinos sections

07-19-2021

Laurent Cantet, Terence Davies, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Claudia Llosa and Claire Simon to compete in San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection

The fourth feature film by Inés Barrionuevo and the debuts from Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg will also contend for the Golden Shell and other official awards at the 69th edition

07-15-2021

The Festival Film Library invites the submission of films

07-01-2021

Ikusmira Berriak opens the eighth call for its residencies

From this edition, the programme will increase the number of residencies from five to six

The programme registration deadline is September 1

06-22-2021

Sigourney Weaver will feature on the 69th San Sebastián Festival official poster

The image is by Eva Villar from San Sebastián, based on a photograph by Matthew Brookes

From this year on, the acting awards will be gender-neutral without making any distinction between men and women

06-18-2021

The 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and the Filmoteca Española will dedicate a retrospective to the golden age of Korean cinema

‘Flowers in Hell. The Golden Age of Korean Cinema’ includes ten titles produced in the 50s and 60s

06-09-2021

The San Sebastian Film Festival & Tabakalera join together to analyse the influence of new technologies in the audiovisual sector

The '2deo, Zinemaldia & Technology' sessions, a meeting place for filmmakers, technologists and professionals from the film industry, will be held on Wednesday 16 June and Thursday 17 June

The attendees will learn about the new technological advances that are being incorporated into the cinema and different tools such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the use of drones.

06-01-2021

The San Sebastian Festival is now receiving submissions for WIP Latam

The deadline for submissions is July 1

06-01-2021

The San Sebastian Festival is now receiving submissions for WIP Europa

The deadline for submissions is July 1

06-01-2021

Nest opens tomorrow its call for submissions

The international short film competition for film students will celebrate its twentieth anniversary during the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival

The deadline for submissions is July 1

The section will have a prize of 10,000 euros for the director of the winning film

05-24-2021

Transilvania Film Festival partners with San Sebastian for its 20th edition

The Romanian festival will screen ten Spanish films curated at San Sebastian in recent years

05-18-2021

Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020 Golden Shell winner, carries out an artist residency at Tabakalera

The Georgian director will be in San Sebastian until 7 June to develop her next feature film

This invitation from Tabakalera, the San Sebastian Film Festival, and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola falls within the framework of these three institutions' shared strategic programme to support talent, a year-round Festival (Z365), and film methods

The filmmaker, whose film also won awards for Best Direction, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay, will present her full-length feature film 'Dasatskisi / Beginning' in the cinema, and will hold a talk about her creative process

05-12-2021

The Zinemaldia + Plus focus will screen 'Le redoutable' and 'Les sorcières de l'Orient'

The movies chosen by Vincent Maraval and Vanja Kaludjercic have been scheduled respectively for May 14 and June 11 on Tabakalera’s shared screen

04-19-2021

The San Sebastian Festival opens the call for submissions for the third edition of the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

The competition is open to European entrepreneurs and startups proposing new business projects based on introducing new technologies to the audiovisual field

The deadline for submissions is June 1

04-15-2021

The San Sebastian Festival opens its call for submissions for the tenth edition of the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum

The deadline for submitting projects is June 15

03-31-2021

The Elías Querejeta Film School, the Basque Film Library and the San Sebastián International Film Festival publish the first issue of 'ZINE: Film Research Series'

This biannual online publication will explore the connections between film culture and other disciplines from both the sciences and the humanities, with particular emphasis on Basque cinema

The first issue analyses the cinematographic work of Nestor Basterretxea from the point of view of constructivism, and presents the work of María Jesús 'Tatus' Fombellida.

03-30-2021

Zinemaldia + Plus hosts the screening of short films by the residents of the Ikusmira Berriak programme

The monthly spotlight of Tabakalera’s shared screen will focus, this Friday, on the works of Eduardo Crespo, Mina Fitzpatrick, Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Magdalena Orellana and Marina Palacio

Saturday will see their participation in the recording of Víctor Iriarte’s podcast, ‘El futuro’, where they will talk about their coming projects

03-07-2021

Eight films presented at the San Sebastian Festival bag eighteen Goya Awards

'Akelarre', which competed in the Official Selection, won five awards and 'Ane', selected in New Directors, landed Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Leading Actress and Best Female Newcomer

03-05-2021

Lau Haizetara announces the open call for its XVII Documentary Co-Production forum

The deadline for the registration of projects is June 18

02-26-2021

The San Sebastian Festival analyses the involvement of female directors, producers, scriptwriters, editors, cinematographers and composers in the films of the 68th edition

The gender identity report detects a higher presence of female professionals in the selected films than in the total number of films viewed, but the percentage never exceeds 40%

02-24-2021

San Sebastian Festival, Kutxa Fundazioa and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola reveal “other approaches” to the Festival’s early years

The exhibition in the Kutxa Kultur Plaza consists of thirty photographs from the period falling between 1953 and 1970

The show is curated by the team of Zinemaldia 70: all possible stories, the research project sponsored by the Spanish lottery organisation, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado