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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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‘Soy Nevenka / I Am Nevenka’ wins the Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award
Antonio Chavarrías, Andrea Jaurrieta, Sonia Méndez, Pilar Palomero, Celia Rico and Chema Rodríguez, finalists for the Dunia Ayaso 2024 Award
The accolade recognises the gender perspective in film and comes with 5,000 euros
Seven films to compete for the 18th RTVE-Otra Mirada Award at the San Sebastian Festival
The jury is made up of former RTVE president Elena Sánchez Caballero, director Juana Macías and producer and programmer Paz Lázaro
John Crowley to close the Official Selection at San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition with ‘We Live in Time’
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in this romantic drama programmed out of competition
‘Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness’, directed by Johnny Depp, to participate out of competition in the Official Selection while ‘Lumière!, l'aventure continue’, by Thierry Frémaux, joins the Special Screenings
The second movie by Piet Baumgartner and the debut from Sylvia Le Fanu complete the New Directors section at the San Sebastian Festival
Maite Alberdi, Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer and François Ozon to compete in the Official Selection alongside first-timers Laura Carreira and Xin Huo
Their films join the Audrey Diwan film opening the competition and the four Spanish-produced titles competing for the Golden Shell, directed by Iciar Bollain, Pedro Martín-Calero, Pilar Palomero and Albert Serra
Iciar Bollain, Pilar Palomero, Albert Serra and the debut of Pedro Martín-Calero to compete for the Golden Shell at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s series ‘Querer’ will participate in the Official Selection out of competition
‘Yo, adicto’ by Javier Giner and Aitor Gabilondo and ‘La virgen roja’ by Paula Ortiz will show in the Official Selection Special Screenings
Antón Álvarez will open the New Directors section, for which the movies by duo Cecilia Atán-Valeria Pivato, David Pérez Sañudo and Sandra Romero have also been selected
Audrey Diwan’s 'Emmanuelle' will make its world premiere as the Opening Film in Competition at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival, following in the footsteps of 2023’s publicly and critically acclaimed international hit 'The Boy and the Heron'
Tickets for the opening, closing and Donostia Award presentation galas go on sale today
The galas will be directed by Mireia Gabilondo with scripts by Bob Pop, and will be presented by Eva Hache, Loreto Mauleón and Gorka Otxoa
Bertha Gaztelumendi and Rosa Zufía, Isabel Herguera, Josu Martinez and Fermin Muguruza to compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award
19 Basque films make up the Basque participation in the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Actor Paco Sagarzazu, an indispensable figure on Basque screens and stages, will receive the Zinemira Award in recognition of his career
Isabella Eklöf, Kitty Green, Kei Chika-Ura, Xavier Legrand, Christos Nikou, Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang will also compete for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastian Festival
‘Un métier sérieux (A Real Job)', by Thomas Lilti, will show as a special screening at the San Sebastian Festival
James Marsh to close the Official Selection of the 71st San Sebastian Festival with ‘Dance First’
The helmer of ‘The Theory of Everything’ directs Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire in this movie about all the lives of writer Samuel Beckett
Hayao Miyazaki to open the 71st San Sebastian Festival with ‘Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka / The Boy and the Heron’
The movie will screen in the Kursaal Auditorium on Friday, 22 September, after the opening gala
Jaione Camborda, Isabel Coixet and Isabel Herguera to compete for the Golden Shell in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition
The series 'La Mesías', by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, will screen in the Official Selection out of competition, while 'They Shot the Piano Player', by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, will have a Special Screening, also as part of the Official Selection
'La estrella azul', the second film by Javier Macipe, has been selected for New Directors
The films by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Raven Jackson, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman, among others, will be competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival
The American newcomer Raven Jackson will be forming part of the Official Selection with a film developed in the Ikusmira Berriak programme
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