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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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The selected works will compete for the Nest Award
Filmmakers such as Diego Céspedes, Raven Jackson, Léa Mysius, and Jaume Claret Muxart got their start in this section, which will take place this year from September 21 to 25
Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s competitive section for short films by film students, invites submissions from Tuesday, June 2. The twenty-fifth edition of the meeting will run from 21 to 25 September and will have the goal of presenting the works of students from film schools all over the world. More than 60 students will gather in San Sebastian, where they can participate in the screenings of the short films and in Film Talks, the festival section created to encourage discussion on the cinema from the focus of training, creation and the industry.
At last year’s edition, fourteen shorts competed in Nest, having received 473 submissions from 220 schools in 57 countries.
Each film school can submit up to three shorts made in the 12 months prior to the Festival dates, from which approximately fifteen are selected for participation in Nest.
All of these works will be appraised by a purpose-created jury of students from the selected film schools, with a professional from the film world as its president, who will choose the recipient of the Nest Award coming with 10,000 euros for the director of the winning short film.
Shorts can be submitted online from Tuesday, June 2. The rules and regulations and other information related to Nest can be found on the official Festival website. The deadline for submitting projects is July 2.
To access the Terms & Conditions and submit a project, click here.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 2
Making of the Nest 2025 edition, directed by Daniel Alegrete, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola alumni, and Emilia Martín.
Nest is one of the San Sebastian Festival’s foremost sections in its strategy to promote new talent. Since its creation in 2002, the initiative has welcomed more than 1,000 young filmmakers, with 90 masterclasses and talks featuring industry professionals including Claire Denis, Gia Coppola, Jonás Trueba, Jose Luis Guerin, Céline Sciamma, Albertina Carri, Alexander Payne and Ruth Beckermann. Considered to be the place where it all begins, Nest has shown the work of filmmakers such as Jaume Claret Muxart, Diego Céspedes, Raven Jackson, Leonardo van Dijl, Jerónimo Quevedo, Kiro Russo, Oren Gerner, Isabel Lamberti, Léa Mysius, Laura Wandel and Grigory Kolomytsev, all of whom have gone on to show their later works both at the San Sebastian Festival and at other competitions in the international circuit, such as Cannes, Sundance and Venice.
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