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Ricardo Darín (Buenos Aires, 1957), one of the most prestigious actors in the Latin American and global film worlds, will receive a Donostia Award on September 26 at the 65th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, in the framework of presentation of the film La cordillera (The Summit). The Festival's most important honorary award acknowledges the career of the Argentine actor, who has worked with filmmakers including Adolfo Aristarain, Juan José Campanella, Fabián Bielinsky, Fernando Trueba, Pablo Trapero, Cesc Gay and Santiago Mitre.

La cordillera (The Summit), written and directed by Santiago Mitre, is a coproduction between K&S Films and La Union de los Rios (Argentina), MOD Producciones (Spain) and Maneki Films (France), set at a Latin American presidential summit in Chile. Alongside Ricardo Darín on the cast are Dolores Fonzi, Érica Rivas, Elena Anaya, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Alfredo Castro, Paulina García and Christian Slater. Premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival, the film will be screened on Tuesday 26 at the Kursaal Auditorium. Warner Bros Pictures will release the film in Spanish cinemas on September 29.

Darín, winner of the Silver Shell in 2015 for Truman where he embodied an actor diagnosed with terminal cancer in Truman (2015). His filmography is completed with essential Latin American and Spanish titles like El hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride, 2001, nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award) and El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes, 2009, Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award), both directed by Juan José Campanella.