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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 Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, named honorary member of the Argentine Film Academy
The director of the Cannes Festival and the future artistic director of the Berlinale to participate in a seminar organised by the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and the San Sebastian Festival
The programme will open on Tuesday December 18 and will be attended by Thierry Frémaux, Vincent Maraval, Carlo Chatrian, Javier Martín and Xabier Paya
Raven Jackson, Martina Juncadella, Alberto Martín, Aitziber Olaskoaga and Michael Wahrmann will develop their projects in the fifth edition of Ikusmira Berriak
Five projects from Argentina, Spain, United States, Brazil and Switzerland have been selected out of the 174 offerings, the highest figure since the residencies programme started
Films in Progress 35 is opening its registration period
The next Films in Progress will be held on the 28t and 29th of March 2019 within the framework of Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
Deadline for registering a film: 19th of January 2019
Claire Denis will collect the Fipresci Award for High Life
The prize will be given tomorrow at 10:00 am in Kursaal’s press club
The San Sebastian Film Festival and Ventana Sur expand their collaboration with a new activity
The San Sebastian Festival selection committee will have an equal distribution of men and women in 2019
Chris Hemsworth will attend the closing film night of the Festival’s 66th edition, together with "Bad Times at the El Royale" filmmaker Drew Goddard
The San Sebastian Festival will have a “Euskadi Basque Country” space to promote quality, locally-sourced Basque produce
The San Sebastian Festival embraces humour at the opening gala of its 66th edition
Borja Cobeaga, Diego San José and Borja Echevarría are responsible for writing and directing the ceremony
The club room in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre to host the Horizontes Breakfasts and the TCM Meetings
The San Sebastian International Film Festival will sign the Charter for Parity and Inclusion of Women in Cinema in the framework of its 66th edition
The signing ceremony will take place on Sunday in Kursaal
The American actor and filmmaker Bradley Cooper will attend the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival to present his first work as a movie director, "A Star is Born"
The Romanian filmmaker Constantin Popescu completes the Official Jury of the San Sebastian Festival’s 66th edition
Programmer Juliette Duret closes the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award Jury
The San Sebastian Film Festival will host a European Film Forum conference on international funds
The Cooperación Española award goes to the Ibero-American film making the greatest contribution to development
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The screening schedule of all the films in all sections, will be available on Thursday September 13 both on the Festival website and in the App
The San Sebastian Festival, Tecnalia and Petronor address the influence of new technologies on the audiovisual sector
Fourteen short films to compete in Nest Film Students, which has seen its submissions rise by 48% in a year
The 17th edition of the Meeting, to take place from 24-28 September at Tabakalera, will host the masterclasses given by Alexander Payne, Peter Strickland, Jaime Rosales, Albertina Carri and Virgil Vernier, who will also preside over the jury
The City Council consolidates its backing of the San Sebastian Festival
As well as the Donostia Award winners at the 66th edition, Judi Dench, Danny DeVito and Hirokazu Koreeda, Juliette Binoche, Laetitia Casta, Timothée Chalamet, Ricardo Darín, Lily-Rose Depp, Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Mercedes Morán, Robert Pattinson and John C. Reilly, among many others, have confirmed their presence in San Sebastian
Filmmakers Jacques Audiard, Alfonso Cuarón, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Louis Garrel, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mamoru Hosoda, Kim Jee-Woon, Naomi Kawase, Nadine Labaki, Brillante Mendoza, Peter Strickland and Felix Van Groeningen will present their films in San Sebastian
Sale of tickets for the San Sebastian Festival
The Festival's programme and the Film Guide will be available on Thursday 13
The European premier of “Bad Times at the El Royale” to close the Official Selection of the Festival’s 66th edition
The second film directed by Drew Goddard (“The Cabin in the Woods”) stars Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm and Dakota Johnson, among others
"A Walk Through Film" at the Velodrome: Cinema music by the Basque National Orchestra, The SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastian Film Festival
Soundtracks in concert and film-scene screening
EQZE promotes its research output with the launch of four new projects
New approaches to feminist cinema, the conservation of film archives and Basque cinema are added to the research projects devoted to Andrei Tarkovsky and the San Sebastian Film Festival
The screening of ''Ladri di biciclette / Bycicle Thieves'' opens Klasikoa, a yearly rendezvous with a restored classic at the San Sebastian Festival
Thierry Frémaux will present this collaboration between the Festival and Lyon’s Lumière Festival
Twenty Basque productions to be presented at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Fifteen feature films, world premieres at the Festival, will compete for the Irizar Award
Zinemira will open with 'Mudar la piel' and close with 'Black is Beltza'
Ramón Agirre will collect the Zinemira Award at the Basque Film Gala, to include the screening of 'Jainkoak ez dit barkatzen'
The actress Isabelle Huppert features on the official poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 66th edition
Seven productions from Argentina, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Singapore on the menu of Culinary Zinema’s eighth edition
The San Sebastian Festival section associating gastronomy and cinema is jointly organised with the Basque Culinary Center and in collaboration with the Berlin Festival
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum dedicates its Focus on to the Baltic States
A delegation of fifteen producers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to San Sebastian to discover the Festival first hand, participate in the Co-Production Forum and in the other Industry activities
One of the Donostia Awards at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will pay tribute to the career of legendary actress Judi Dench
''Phantom Thread'', FIPRESCI 2018 Grand Prix for Best Film of the Year
Paul Thomas Anderson will receive the distinction for the third time in San Sebastian
''The context of Ikusmira Berriak is ideal for concentrating on a single project''
The five filmmakers from the programme's fourth edition began their six-week residencies this week
''Les météorites / Meteorites'' and ''Qing Feng De Wei Dao / Breeze'' complete the New Directors competition
Fifteen productions will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award
Eleven films to make up the Made in Spain programme
The Festival will present the documentary ''Querido Fotogramas''
Bi Gan, Hadzihalilovic and Vernier, among others, to compete for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
The FICX and the San Sebastian Festival create the CROSSROADS - Zinemaldia | FICX cycle
This new space will permit spectators at the 56th FICX to enjoy five gems of international cinema in 2018, selected in collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival
One of the 66th San Sebastian Festival Donostia Awards will recognise the career of the actor, director and producer Danny DeVito
Louis Garrel, Liu Jie, Brillante Mendoza, Tuva Novotny, Peter Strickland and Felix Van Groeningen join the runners for the Golden Shell
Films in Progress 34 to present five first works and one second film
The industry activity, to take place on September 24, 25 and 26, will screen productions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay
The latest works by Jacques Audiard, Damien Chazelle, Alfonso Cuarón, Mamoru Hosoda, Nadine Labaki, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke to compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award
The first work by Bradley Cooper will screen out of competition
The second edition of Glocal in Progress presents three films shot in Greek, Lithuanian and Turkish
Two films from the first edition of the industry activity for European productions in non-hegemonic languages will premiere at the Festival: ‘Dantza’ in the Official Selection, and ‘Un om la locul lui / A Decent Man’, in New Directors
Brechner, Hernández Cordón, Katz, Martinessi, Reygadas and Seigner, among others, to compete for the Horizontes Award
Three films from the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum and four from Films in Progress to figure in the Horizontes Latinos selection
Seventeen projects from twelve countries to be presented at the VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which has seen its submissions rise by 34% in a single year
The Forum, to run from September 23-26, will include projects from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Switzerland, nine of which are first or second films
'Las herederas' by the director Marcelo Martinessi will receive the 6th Sebastiane Latino Award at the 66th San Sebastian Festival
The Velodrome will host the screenings of 'Arde Madrid', 'Dilili à Paris', 'Ni distintos ni diferentes: Campeones' and 'Smallfoot'
The Muriel Box retrospective will offer all her feature films at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival
The Argentine film 'El amor menos pensado / An Unexpected Love' to open the San Sebastian Festival
The film debut by Juan Vera, producer of Pablo Trapero and Lucrecia Martel, stars Ricardo Darín and Mercedes Morán
Five films to compete for the VI Sebastiane Latino Award
The award given by Gehitu will recognise the film that best represents sexual and gender diversity
Icíar Bollaín, Isaki Lacuesta, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Carlos Vermut to compete for the Golden Shell at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
'Gigantes', the series directed by Enrique Urbizu and Jorge Dorado, will participate out of competition, and the special screenings of 'Tiempo después', by José Luis Cuerda, and 'Dantza', by Telmo Esnal, will complete the participation of Spanish cinema in the Official Selection
Claire Denis, Kim Jee-woon, Naomi Kawase and Valeria Sarmiento, among others, will be competing for the Golden Shell at the 66th San Sebastian Festival
The second films by Simon Jaquemet and Markus Schleinzer and the third film by Benjamín Naishtat will also form part of the Official Section
Thirteen filmmakers from Argentina, Denmark, Spain, Japan, Kosovo, Mexico, Rumania, Russia, Switzerland and Vietnam will be competing for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola will open its doors to its first intake of students on September 19
The 45 places on offer for the 2018-2019 academic year were filled after a selection process involving 113 candidates from around the world
The Ikusmira Berriak programme has changed model and become a dual-period residency
The call for the fifth edition with the new formula opens next Monday, 9 July
The Donostia Award will recognise the career of Hirokazu Kore-eda at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The presentation ceremony, to take place at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, will include the screening of the film "Manbiki kazoku / Shoplifters", Golden Palm at Cannes 2018
''Un día más con vida / Another Day of Life'', ''Asako I&II'', ''Cold War'' and ''Three Faces'', among others, to compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award
A series by Bruno Dumont, the first work from Hu Bo and the latest films by Jean-Luc Godard and Albertina Carri, selected for Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
Nest Film Students, the San Sebastian Festival short film competition, opens its submission period
The XVII edition of the international film students meeting will run from Monday 24th to Friday 28th September 2018
The fourth edition of Ikusmira Berriak selects projects from Manuel Abramovich, Grigory Kolomytsev, Elena López Riera, Arantza Santesteban, and Nele Wohlatz
The inclusion of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola as a residency programme partner allows the number of offerings selected to increase from four to five
Call for entries for the 14th Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum
The deadline for the registration of projects is July, 13th
San Sebastian Festival presents its new graphic identity
The image, created by the San Sebastian studio TGA, combines visibility and modernity
A living archive, open to the public will be the star project of the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th anniversary
Research work, curated in collaboration with the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Tabakalera and Basque Film Archive will guarantee its conservation and access to the Festival’s documentary resources
The San Sebastian Festival opens its call for submissions for Films in Progress 34
The submission deadline is 30 June
The San Sebastian Festival opens the call for submissions for Glocal in Progress
The deadline for submissions for this professional activity aimed at European films in non-hegemonic languages is 30 June
The San Sebastian Festival opens its call for the VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
The submission deadline is 15 June
Ikusmira Berriak has received 155 projects from 31 countries
The expert committee, formed by Savina Neirotti, Sergio Oksman and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, will carry out a pre-selection from among the proposals received
The San Sebastián International Film Festival will be a subject at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Curating students wil attend the process of preparing a festival and will debate the different models for festivals
Films in Progress 33 presents six films from Brazil, Chile and Mexico
The 33rd edition will take place on 22 and 23 March in the framework of Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
The 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and Filmoteca Española will dedicate a retrospective to the British director and screenwriter Muriel Box
‘Handia’ (Giant), which had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Festival, bags 10 Goya awards
Nine films presented at the 65th edition land 21 awards
The Ikusmira Berriak programme of residences opens its call for the submission of projects for its fourth edition
San Sebastián Internacional Film Festival acclaimed as the 4th most remarkable cultural institution in Spain
Films can now be submitted online for participation in the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
Wendy Mitchell and Roberto Cueto, new San Sebastian Festival delegates in the Nordic countries and South Korea respectively
The San Sebastian Festival will change its image in 2018
There will be no poster contest this year
Elías Querejeta Zine-Eskola has opened today the admission period for its three postgraduate courses
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