Monica Bellucci and Agnès Varda will get the Donostia Award

Three Donostia Awards will be given at the 65th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. As well as acclaimed Argentine actor Ricardo Darín, the Festival will acknowledge the careers of the Italian actress Monica Bellucci and the French filmmaker, Agnès Varda.

Over her more than 25 years as an actress, Bellucci has worked with several benchmark moviemakers in both Europe and the USA, including Francis Ford Coppola, Gaspar Noé, the Wachowski sisters, Mel Gibson, Terry Gilliam, Spike Lee, Paolo Virzì, Philippe Garrel, Sam Mendes and Emir Kusturika.

 For her part, Agnès Varda is a legend of European cinema, whose career has earned her recognition with the top awards at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and from the French Film Academy.

Her most recent work, Visages, Villages (Faces, Places), co-directed with the artist JR, was presented out of competition at the Official Selection of the Cannes Festival in 2017 and will have its Spanish premiere at this edition of the San Sebastian Festival.

In November, the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will give her an Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award.