Audi Future Stories comes to San Sebastián with El triplete, the short film starring Karra Elejalde and Kandido Uranga, winner of the sixth edition of the competition for short film screenplays. Written and directed by Rodrigo Olmendo and the producer and director Kike Maíllo. 

Príncipe zinema-aretoak / Cines Príncipe / Príncipe Cinemas

(10. aretoa / sala 10 / theatre 10)

25/09/2026 10:30

The Donostilandia magazine and the Photographic Society of Gipuzkoa exhibit a selection of photographs by Concha de la Orsa, made during her career as a still photographer on Spanish films and series, together with several pieces from her personal collection of street photographs, with their pronounced cinematic aesthetic and starting point for her later work as a unit production photographer.

Photographic Society of Gipuzkoa

Calle San Juan, 27

17/09/2026 - 15/10/2026

Screening of the four productions nominated in the Best Short Film category at the 20th edition of the Sur Awards, presented by the Argentine Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:

- Tu cuerpo en mi habitación / Your Body in My Room (Axel Cheb Terrab)

- Compraventa 

- Las panteritas / The Little Panthers (Alejandro Gallo Bermúdez)

- R12 (Facundo Aybar)

Trueba cinemas

(Theatre 1)

22/09/2026 18:45

The Basque Government Department of Housing and Urban Agenda and the Festival launch a cycle of four films on the subject of housing, inequality and life projects. 

- Cinco metros cuadrados / Five Square Metres (Max Lemcke).

Trueba cinemas (theatre 1) 22/09/2026 9:00

Príncipe cinemas (theatre 10) 24/09/2026 16:00

- El pisito / The Little Apartment (Marco Ferreri, Isidoro Martínez-Vela Ferry). Príncipe cinemas (theatre 10) 23/09/2026 16:15

- Gisaengchung / Parasite (Bong Joon-ho). Príncipe cinemas (theatre 10) 25/09/2026 16:00

- Nomadland (Chloé Zhao). Príncipe cinemas (theatre 10) 26/09/2026 18:00

A respected actor returns to the character who triggered his vocation: Cyrano. As the work triumphs on stage, the role confronts him with his own fears and an intimate appraisal of his profession.

Trueba cinemas

(Theatre 1)

22/09/2026 21:00

An exhibition remembering El desencanto / The Disenchantment, the film withdrawn from the Festival in 1976 in protest over the death of demonstrator Josu Zabala. Fifty years later, the Klasikoak section will screen a restored copy of the film as a token of reparation.

Tabakalera (1st floor, beside the information desk)

Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1 

02/09/2026 - 27/09/2026  10:00 - 21:00

In the eighties, a young Ferran Adrià landed at elBulli by chance. What started out as an unexpected opportunity turned into a full-blown gastronomic revolution that would forever change contemporary cuisine. 

Victoria Eugenia Theatre

21 September 19:15

Google and Kinótico organise two round tables dedicated to the impact of AI on the audiovisual industry, its capacity to improve the efficiency of the processes and protect creative talent. The event will be followed by a cocktail party at which to meet professionals, exchange points of view and celebrate the talent of digital creators who enhance the audiovisual ecosystem. Entry with Industry pass.

María Cristina Hotel (Google-Kinótico Space) 

21 September 11:00 - 15:00 

Installation designed for the Reina Sofía Museum by filmmaker Oliver Laxe to show in Tabakalera with a new spatial layout. The project is connected to the creative process of the film Sirāt (Grand Prix in Cannes; six Goyas and two Academy Award nominations).

Tabakalera

Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1

17/07/2026 - 12/10/2026 11:00-20:00

The exhibition by Carla Cañellas and Eugenio Tardón was born parallel to their film Kotodama, el camino del espejo / Kotodama, the Way of the Mirror, presented at the Festival. Through drawings, photographs, videos, animations and Japanese calligraphy, the show follows the path of Inari Kūko, between the Camino de Santiago and the Shikoku Henro. The path constitutes the origin of the artistic process; walking, looking, learning, repeating and making mistakes.

Chillida Leku Museum (Pilar Gallery)

Jauregi Bailara, 66 (Hernani)

18/09/2026 - 26/09/2026

10.00 - 19.00 (except Tuesday)

*Guided visit attended by the authors and curator, information: Chillida Leku website

The exhibition, recently presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum as part of the PhotoEspaña programme, features a selection of some fifty collages made by hand and with digital techniques by the filmmaker and screenwriter Isabel Coixet. 

San Telmo Museum

11/09/2026 – 01/11/2026

10:00 am – 8:00 pm (Tuesday to Sunday)

Intimate portrait of a filmmaker who chooses doubt, fragility and nuance in times of polarisation and absolute truths. A journey to the place from which she looks at the world, through the universe of collages that she has spent fifteen years creating in silence.

Trueba cinemas

(theatre 1)

21/09/2026 22:00

Hispanic America, 18th century. Deep in the tropical jungle beside the Iguazú waterfalls, a Jesuit missionary, father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons), follows the example of a crucified Jesuit priest, with no other weapons than his faith and an oboe.

Victoria Eugenia Theatre

18/09/2026 16:00

Príncipe cinemas

18/09/2026 19:30

Antiguo Berri

(Theatre 6)

19/09/2026 16:30

A radical theatre stage transforms into a film: a work that occupies the middle ground where the camera reinvents the scene and reveals new truths of the drama. 

Trueba cinemas

(theatre 1)

23/09/2026 16:30

Ricardo Darín plays a pragmatic psychoanalyst who loses faith in conventional therapy methods and starts pushing boundaries with his patients. Everything seems to work - until a writer with a creative block walks into his office.

Príncipe cinemas

(Theatre 9)

22/09/2026 19:45

An exhibition made up of three audiovisual pieces especially created for Tabakalera by the filmmaker from Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang. Started in 2012, the Walker series is made up of 12 works filmed in 10 cities. Dust, shot in San Sebastián, will screen in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera. 

Tabakalera (Gallery 3)  

Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1

18/09/2026 - 06/12/2026 11:00 - 13:00 / 16:00-20:00 

Exhibition of audiovisual works made during the 2025/2026 year at the Larrotxene cultural centre. 

- Intxaurdok (Intxaurrondo Hegoa LH5-LH6 ikasleak)

- Pepa (Unai Guerra)

- Nadar sin agua (Kike Saratsa)

- Animando lo que nos rodea (Laura Ibáñez)

- Jon eta Ane (Iñaki Uria)

- Bailarinas rojas (Javier Montes)

Trueba cinemas

(Theatre 1)

24/09/2026 18:45

Screening of the short films El tiro de Rap, Baño and Por definir, developed by students in a vulnerable situation from the Zinekin project at the Zaragüeta Zulaica Foundation, sponsored by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa.

Trueba cinemas

(Theatre 1)

19/09/2026 17:00