74th San Sebastian Festival - 18/26 September 2026
74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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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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Provisional list of this section’s films announced as per today.
Opening Film
Albert Serra
France - Spain
85 min.
Ingrid Caven looks back at sixteen moments in her life through the songs of a unique concert at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris.
Closing Film
Vanesa Benítez
Spain - France - Mexico
95 min.
Through cassette recordings of his voice and the super8 films of his travels, film shoots and festivals he would attend despite his political engagement as a screen idol of the Franco era, Paco Rabal (Best Actor Award at the first Festival in 1953 and Donostia Award in 2001) looks back at his life, regrets and contradictions. An impressive list of films recalling the time of his death in Bordeaux, like Goya, the man he played several times. In San Sebastián, he enjoyed success alongside Rafael Gil, Lucas Demare, León Klimovsky, Pedro Olea and Jaime de Armiñán.
Victor García León
Spain - Uruguay
101 min.
Alicia and Gonzalo, a middle-class couple, have the chance to enrol their son Fer in an elite secular school. For the parents, it means a glimpse into the upper class, new friendships, higher incomes, countless advantages. They say they’re doing it for their son. In this wonderful contradiction between their fears and moral principles, the couple's high aspirations will show how far they are prepared to go to climb the class ladder.
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
112 min.
Bitter Christmas alternates the stories of Elsa, an advertising director, during a long weekend in December 2004, and Raúl, who in 2026 is writing a script that we soon discover is the story of Elsa. The film narrates the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life, addressing the debate on the limits of autofiction.
Ángel Santos Touza
Spain
119 min.
Pablo is a sculptor. His work focuses on making pieces with ceramic cast-offs. Disillusioned, looking for a change of direction, he sets up his studio in a remote rural area on the Galician coast. Gradually, almost without noticing, he withdraws from his previous life, isolating himself and cutting all contact with friends and family. Yet the peninsula's marshy landscape, dotted with the chimney stacks of former tile manufacturing companies and out-of-season campsites, holds a powerful attraction for him.
Fernando Trullols
Spain
116 min.
On 30th December, 2000, a group of friends sets out to climb the Balandrau mountain. Sun accompanies the mountaineers until, in a matter of minutes, everything takes a dramatic turn. A fierce blizzard known as a torb unleashes the worst storm in the history of the Pyrenees.
Laura García Alonso
Spain
96 min.
Cris, an elite runner, suffers a psychotic episode that forces her to step away from high-level competition. Not everyone around her will be able, or know how, to help, but Natalia, her sister, will become her safe space as she learns to accept her condition and redefine the pace of her life.
Cristina Diz, Stefan Butzmühlen
Germany - Spain
90 min.
West Germany, 1973. Iria and Hajo are in love. When Iria’s mother has a severe accident at the car factory where she works, Iria resolves to bring her back to the little village in the Galician mountains they both left many years ago. Hajo, eager to prove his solidarity, offers to drive. A road trip that begins as an act of hope soon begins to expose the rifts between the young couple. A film about power dynamics that connect the living with the dead, women with witches, and the past with the present.
Chema Rodriguez
Spain
84 min.
Can a fish learn to hug? Why are deafblind people happy underwater? El abrazo de los Peces (The Embrace of the Fish) is a sensory journey into the depths of deafblindness. The Santa Ángela de la Cruz Centre is the only residential centre for deafblind people existing in Spain, and one of the few in the world. There, on that bubble planet, live Juande, Victoria, Cristian, Clara, Jose Luis... whose singular feature is that they are deafblind people.
Juan Luis Zavala Aizpurua, Javier Morales Perez
Spain
80 min.
In 1995 Chiquito de la Calzada was an indisputable idol. His humour and language caught on in Spanish society, causing furor in an entire generation. One night, Spain's most popular TV show presented Lucas Grijander, a disturbingly similar character. This was the start of a nightmare for Gregorio Esteban who felt that his identity had been usurped, giving rise to an unusual dispute: Chiquito vs Lucas Grijander. A struggle for ownership of a cultural phenomenon and for one man's survival.
Afioco Gnecco, Carolina Yuste
Spain
86 min.
United by an unbreakable friendship, Rafael and Carolina embark on an emotional and geographical journey in search of reconciliation and acceptance. Along the way, we follow Rafael through the early years of his gender transition: an intimate process, full of challenges, discoveries, and small victories that bring him closer to that square meter of peace he so deeply longs for. A light-filled story in which friendship becomes a refuge and the personal expands until it becomes universal.
Ian de la Rosa
Spain - Germany - Belgium
103 min.
In a greenhouse in southern Spain, Iván falls in love with his newly hired co-worker, Hadoum. But his long-awaited promotion interferes with their relationship, forcing Iván to decide what kind of person he wants to be.
Eugenio Tardón, Carla Cañellas
Spain
76 min.
lnari sets out on a journey to discover the meaning of Kotodama, delving into Japanese art and calligraphy, while following the routes of the Camino de Santiago, in Spain, and the Shikoku Henro, in Japan. On his way, the action of walking and the calligraphic line reveal themselves to be the expressions of a same idea: the way as a process. Pilgrims, monks, artisans and calligraphers become the voices of a universal history, creating a bridge between the past and the present, East and West.
Júlia de Paz
Spain - Belgium
103 min.
After her parents’ separation, Carmela and her mother move into her grandmother’s home. As she struggles to adjust to her new reality, Carmela longs to spend more time at her father’s house. He is a visual artist whom she admires and idolizes. His lingering presence will lead the three generations of women in the family to decide the future they deserve.
Joan Porcel
Spain
83 min.
Lluís Garau, a young dancer, creates a performance inspired by a platform that randomly connects strangers through video calls. But when his online life and his real life begin to intertwine, the boundaries between the virtual and the tangible blur, leaving an irreversible mark on his final work: La carn.
Maite Vitoria Daneris
Spain
92 min.
"I met Xavier by chance, while travelling together. That encounter opened the door to a largely unknown European memory: the epic of the 'pasiegos', who went on to become one of the most influential communities in the world of French ice-cream. From Cantabria's Pasiego valleys, where life revolved around cattle and milk, thousands of men and women set out on a journey in the quest for an uncertain future, putting their fate in the hands of destiny. Some built huge empires and went as far as to sponsor the Tour de France; others left a legacy of such value that it enabled their children to enjoy a better life. Through Xavier, and as his father comes to the end of his life, I set out on a journey to find the memory of those families. A journey ending with the return of hundreds of descendants to the land of their ancestors, where for the first time in more than a century, the families of ice-cream makers will meet as never before, in search of a shared homeland". (Maite Vitoria Daneris)
Berta García Lacht
Spain
93 min.
In 2026, the Verdi Cinemas, Barcelona's oldest working cinema, will celebrate their centenary. With humour and through the eyes of two young girls, the film explores the history of the cinema and the people who have brought it to life. It paints a portrait of a cinema whose influence extends throughout Gràcia, the city of Barcelona, and several generations of movie-lovers. The Verdi is, today as it was then, a place of meeting and passion for cinema.
Jorge Alberto Lara, Fernando Pérez
Spain
90 min.
Nine members of a citizens' jury deliberate in isolation over a controversial corruption case. The evidence is irrefutable, public opinion is loud and clear, and no one seems to have any doubts… until they receive a secret offer: each juror will carry off a million euros if they change their vote from guilty to innocent. But if they want to play the game, they must reach unanimity, bringing to light the true burdens hanging over each of the jury members.
Bàrbara Farré
Spain
94 min.
Atenea lives in a boarding school, clinging to the idea of never growing up. When a couple decides to take her in, the possibility of a home opens up before her, one she is unwilling to lose. But soon, the fear of being replaced awakens in Athena an instinct that will drive her to do the unthinkable.
Marta Díaz De Lope Díaz
Spain - Portugal
106 min.
In the Spain of the early 70s, with Franco's regime still firmly entrenched, a group of very young and denigrated girl aces with the ball and an idealistic sports promoter join forces to break through the barriers and lay the foundations of the history of women's football in our country.
Carlo Padial
Spain
88 min.
In the midst of professional and personal crisis, tired of her job as a cultural journalist, Thais convinces Alan, her husband, to give up everything and start a business. But not just any business. Thais wants to open a themed pizzería dedicated to Hollywood movies, her great passion. The concept is simple: Pizza and movies. A pizzeria where each pizza pays homage to a classic film or a movie star.
Isabel Coixet
Italy - Spain
120 min.
After what seemed like a trivial argument, Marta and Antonio split up. He, a rising chef, immerses himself in his work; she, in her silence, starts to feel something more than sadness: she has lost her appetite. When she discovers that the cause is a health problem, everything suddenly changes: food tastes better, she enjoys music like never before and desire sparks her enthusiasm to live without fear.
Aina Clotet
Spain
113 min.
Having survived breast cancer, Nora is back in action with a burning urgency that drives her to take on professional challenges beyond her means and dynamite her future plans of creating a family with her lifelong partner, Tom, plunging headlong into an affair with Max, much younger and free-thinking than herself. When Max travels abroad, Nora launches into a mad race to avoid her greatest dread: being left on her own to confront her fear of death, the deap-seated angst that fuels her thirst for life.
Marta Matute
Spain - Belgium
94 min.
At 18, Claudia doesn’t want to be the family heroine. Her mother’s illness erupts in their home like a silent storm. But Claudia only wants to live like any girl her age. Torn between family duty and the desire to enjoy her youth, Claudia will have to choose how to love without giving up on her own self.
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