Cate Blanchett in San Sebastian
The Australian actress and producer Cate Blanchett received the first Donostia Award of the San Sebastian Festival's 72nd edition this evening at the gala in the Kursaal Centre, where she considered it an "honour" to receive the event's highest accolade and gave an impassioned defence of the "desire to know".
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, for whom Blanchett has just worked on the miniseries Disclaimer, presente...
The director Pedro Almodóvar received the second Donostia Award of the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition from Tilda Swinton in the Kursaal Auditorium, where 44 years after his debut in the New Filmmakers section, he made a passionate defence of freedom, in fiction and in reality. The ceremony was followed by the screening of The Room Next Door, winning movie of the Golden Lion at the Venice Mostra....
Soy Nevenka / I Am Nevenka, directed by Iciar Bollain, has carried off the Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award given, for the third year running, by the Basque Government in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival, to the film that best reflects the values of sustainability and solidarity as the key flagships of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The award comes with 20,000 euros for the majority producer of the winning feature film.
The jur...
The feature film Tardes de soledad (Spain-France-Portugal), directed by Albert Serra, has bagged the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival's 72nd edition, whose official jury gave the Silver Shell for Best Director ex aequo to debutants Laura Carreira and Pedro Martín Calero for their respective work in On Falling (UK-Portugal) and El llanto / The Wailing (Spain-Argentina-France).
The Silver Shell for Best Leading Perf...
The film Afternoons of Solitude by Albert Serra has won the 2024 Feroz Zinemaldia Award.
The award was received at the Kursaal in San Sebastián by the film’s director himself and its producers, Pedro Palacios and Luis Ferrón. This award recognizes the best film in competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, as decided by the members of the Association of Cinematographic Informers of Spain (AICE).
Afternoons of Solitude is an intimate and subli...
The jury of the Official Selection of the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will be chaired by the winner of the Golden Shell last year, the director Jaione Camborda, who was the first Spanish female filmmaker to win it. The author of O Corno / The Rye Horn will be accompanied in the deliberations by Argentine writer and journalist Leila Guerriero, who has published this year the...
A long list of prestigious filmmakers, actors, screenwriters and producers have confirmed their presence in San Sebastian for the Festival’s 72nd edition. As well as Donostia Award-winners Pedro Almodóvar, Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem – the latter of whom was recognised at the last edition but has been unable to collect his tribute until now – the following will come to San Sebastian to present their movies: Pamela Anderson, Monica Bellucci, Jamie Campbell Bower, &Ua...
Arnold, Audiard, Baker, Coppola, Courcol, Elliot, Fargeat, Kapadia, Rasoulof, Salles, Sangsoo, Schrader and Sorrentino to compete in San Sebastian Festival’s Perlak section
‘Marco’, by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, will close the section, also to show ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Maria Callas: Letters and Memories’ out of competition
https://youtu.be/NV9mhQyiSnc?s...
Klasikoak to programme ‘The Piano’ by Jane Campion; ‘Sha Fu’, by Tseng Chuang-Hsiang; ‘Tatuaje’, by Bigas Luna; ‘Surcos’, by José Antonio Nieves Conde, and ‘Un rêve plus long que la nuit’, by Niki de Saint Phalle
Trailer: https://youtu.be/PkDfVmVCIkw?si=kgS-W-OvC9Uj7uxR
The restored copy of ‘Tasio’, by Montxo Armendáriz, will open the section on Saturday 21st in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
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Animales del desierto, by Santiago Loza; Crocodilla / She, Crocodile, by Gabriela Amaral Almeida; El espíritu de la ley / The Spirit of Law, by Natalia Meta; La escuela pesada / Hard-Boiled School, by Hernán Rosselli; La levedad de ella / Her Lightness, by Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo; La mujer extraña / The Strange Woman, by Martín...
The latest films by José Luis Torres Leiva and Celina Murga will respectively open and close Horizontes Latinos, the selection of the year’s features, not yet screened in Spain, from among all those produced totally or partially in Latin America, directed by filmmakers of Latin origin or which take Latin communities in the rest of the world as their backdrop or subject matter. Four of the fourteen feature films competing for the Horizontes Award were screened in WIP Latam (includi...
The latest features from Maite Alberdi, Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer and François Ozon will compete for the Golden Shell alongside the debuts from Laura Carreira and Xin Huo, also included in the Official Selection of San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition, to run from 20-28 September.
Maite Alberdi (Santiago de Chile, 1983) will make her first time bid for the Golden Shell with her directorial debut in...
Cate Blanchett, one of contemporary cinema’s leading actors, will receive a Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition as well as featuring on the official poster of. The image of the poster is the work of graphic designer José Luis Lanzagorta based on a photograph by Gustavo Papaleo.
Over a career spanning more than three decades, Blanchett has racked up more than 200 acknowledgements and accolades, including two Academy Awards (and another six nominations...
Cate Blanchett, one of contemporary cinema’s leading actors, will receive a Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition as well as featuring on the official poster of. The image of the poster is the work of graphic designer José Luis Lanzagorta based on a photograph by Gustavo Papaleo.
In 2018 the Festival revamped its posters to feature a figure from contemporary cinema. Isabelle Huppert, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Sigourney Weaver, Juliette Binoch...
Photo gallery: https://youtu.be/x8cw9a4gN6o
It has been an intense week, with a lot of cinema, great weather, and more than interesting press conferences.
My impressions have been varied, just like the movies I have seen. There has been quite a bit of European cinema on my list, and not much from across the pond, but more Japanese cinema than usual. I have been able to enter the theater about 30 times during these days, and it has always been a challenge. That's what I l...
'O corno / The Rye Horn' lands the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition
The feature film O corno / The Rye Horn (Spain-Portugal-Belgium), directed by Jaione Camborda from San Sebastian, carried off the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition. In addition, the official jury decided to give the Silver Shell for Best Director to Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang for Chun xing / A Journey in Spring (Taiwan), while the Best Scre...
On the stage at the Vitoria Eugenia theatre where fifty years ago he received the Golden Shell for his first film El Espíritu de la colmena, Victor Erice picked up the Donostia Award last night. The actress Ana Torrent, who as a child starred in the very same film, had the honour of presenting the director with the statuette, and said that it was enormously moving to give Erice the award “50 years after coming together in the same place to present El espíritu de l...
For the ninth consecutive year, AECID, together with the San Sebastian Festival, is promoting the accolade which recognises the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights
The Award is part of the alliance between the AECID and the Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry
Five films programmed at San Sebastian Festival's 71th edition will compete this year for...
Actresses Greta Fernández and Loreto Mauleón make up the jury alongside the Basque Government Director of Social Innovation, Asier Aranbarri
Six films from the official programme of the 71st San Sebastian Festival compete for the Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country Award, recognising the film that best reflects the values of sustainability and solidarity as the core emblems of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda.
Two of the competi...
The City Council and the Festival have distributed 1,000 free tickets among the unemployed
Seventeen films selected for Perlak will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award, sponsored by the San Sebastian City Council for eight years in a row. This initiative is a tribute from the City Council to its citizens, who decide the award.
The Perlak section, sponsored by Armani Beauty, is made up of titles to have been awarded or acclaimed at other international f...
Spanish Screenings on Tour presents its second edition at the San Sebastian Festival, with a wide variety of genres and formats combining emerging and consolidated talent and demonstrating the excellent health of today's Spanish audiovisual sector
The event will take place at the MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo from 9 to 13 October with the title 'Spanish Audiovisual: Talent and Future'
Spanish Screenings on Tour is one of the initiatives of Spanish Screenings XXL...
Zinemadia Startup Challenge falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, promote by the Basque Governement through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment and SPRI
The competition for Spanish startups is part of “Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech”, one of the axes of Spanish Screenings XXL.
The Basque Government, through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, promotes the Zinemaldia Startup...
The helmer of ‘The Theory of Everything’ directs Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire in this movie about all the lives of writer Samuel Beckett
Dance First, the film from the British moviemaker James Marsh on the subject of Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film winding up the Official Selection out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne and Sandrine Bonnaire.
Marsh (Truro, UK. 1963) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for M...
‘Chinas’, by Arantxa Echevarría, will have its preview on 27 September at the Kursaal 2
The Gala of ‘La Ternura’, by Vicente Villanueva, will take place on the 28th at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
RTVE will come to the Festival with three films in the Official Selection plus another three titles, including ‘Cerrar los ojos / Close Your Eyes’, by the Donostia Award-winner, Víctor Erice
RTVE will hold two film Galas at the 71st San Seb...
