The feature film Los domingos / Sundays (Spain-France), directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, carried off the Golden Shell at the 73rd edition of the San Sebastián Festival, whose official jury has given the Silver Shell exaequo for Best Leading Performance to Jose Ramon Soroiz, for his role in Maspalomas (Spain), and to Zhao Xiaohong, for Jianyu laide mama / Her Heart Beats in Its Cage (China). Besides these, Camila Plaate landed the Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance...
The feature film Los domingos / Sundays (Spain–France), directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, has won the Golden Shell at the 73rd edition of the San Sebastián Festival.
The story of this teenage girl, who announces that she wants to become a nun and retreat to a cloistered convent, deeply resonated with both critics and audiences at the Festival. The latest film by t...
Premio Nest The Mediapro Award 2025
Ako počúvať fontány / How to Listen to Fountains
Short film
Eva Sajanová (Slovakia)
Country(ies) of production: Slovakia
Academy of Music and Performing Arts (FTF VSMU) (Slovakia)
This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. In this film, the fountains come to life, they become living beings, each one has its ...
Organised by the San Sebastián Festival and the Basque Government, the competition seeks to raise awareness of and support local products
Hatsa, directed by Josu Ozaita Azpiroz, and Gatz Harana, by Saioa Miguel, are the respective winners of the first and second prize in the third edition of the Eusko Label micro short film competition. The San Sebastián Festival and the Basque Government, through HAZI, a public company attached to the Basque Government Department of Food, Rural...
Angelina Jolie’s visit to the San Sebastián Film Festival was as unexpected as it was intense. Announced barely a day before the start of the event, the actress and director became the main attraction at the premiere of Couture, a film competing for the Golden Shell, on a day marked by relentless rain and an atmosphere of anticipation that extended far beyond the cinema halls.
With no prior photocalls or interviews beyond the press conference, Jolie’s w...
The extensive programme of conversations in the Film Talks section of San Sebastián Festival’s 73rd edition will elaborate on the creative processes of filmmakers including Jaume Claret Muxart, Gia Coppola, Claire Denis, Harris Dickinson and Archie Pearch, Joachim Trier, Jonás Trueba and José Luis Guerin, as well as enabling a get-together between the m...
Tomorrow we dive into the festival whirlwind. The 73rd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival will be held from September 19 to 27.
This morning we woke up to the great news that actress Angelina Jolie will be joining Louis Garrel and Garance Marillie for the presentation of COUTURE this Sunday. These are the latest names to join the long list of already confi...
The Official Selection Jury at the 73rd edition of the San Sebastián Festival will be presided over by the Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona, who was previously selected for the Official Selection with Lo imposible / The Impossible and Un monstruo viene a verme / A Monster Calls. Bayona also won the City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award in 2023 with La sociedad de la nieve / Society of the Snow. The director of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will...
The Tabakalera cinema hosted the presentation of the San Sebastian Film Festival's 73rd edition, to offer a total of 254 titles from 56 countries. At the start of the event, the Festival director, José Luis Rebordinos, and the Head of Communications, Ruth Pérez de Anucita, read a statement on the Gaza genocide before revealing the list of personalities who will visit the city from September 19 to 27.
A long list of filmmakers, actors, producers and screenwriters ha...
Jennifer Lawrence awarded in San Sebastian
The San Sebastián Festival will dedicate one of the Donostia Awards at its 73rd edition to recognising the talent of Jennifer Lawrence, one of the most influential actresses of our time.
The Academy-Award winning actress will receive the honorary accolade at a gala to take place on Friday 26th September in the Kursaal Auditorium, followed by a screening of her latest film, Die My Love, in which she de...
After taking some time away from the computer, I’m back with news from the San Sebastián International Film Festival, which in its 73rd edition (73SSIFF) will be held from September 19 to 27.
This year, festival news has been slow to arrive, but after the poster presentations at the end of June, daily updates are now coming in. Let’s see...
Laura Baumeister, Alvaro Brechner, Ana Endara, Ignacio Juricic, Valeria Pivato and Pablo Stoll, amongst others, to present their projects at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum
Eleven of the fifteen projects hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Romania, Spain and Uruguay are first or second films
The Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will run from 22-24 September in the framework of the Industry activities of the San S...
Ten technology projects, five Spanish and five European, will compete in the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the competition for recently created startups and entrepreneurial teams with technology developments applicable to the audiovisual sector.
The Zinemaldia Startup Challenge is the central initiative of Zinemaldia & Technology, to run on Thursday, 25 September. The event will include presentation of the ten selected projects and a round table on the ethical implications ...
The San Sebastian Festival will provide for the seventh consecutive year the Puxika Gorria playroom with a view to fostering work-life balance of accredited guests
Set up in San Telmo Museum, the service is for children from the age of six months to twelve years
Yet another year, the San Sebastian Festival, the San Telmo Museum, ICAA (Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts), the Red Balloon Alliance association and CIMA (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Medi...
The San Sebastián Festival presented its official poster of the 73rd edition that will pay tribute to the actress Marisa Paredes, one of the Festival’s best loved stars since her first visit in 1977 and until her passing last year.
For the eighth year running, a prominent figure from today’s cinema features on a poster which, since 2018, has rendered the portraits of Isabelle Huppert, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Sigourney Weaver, Juliette Binoche, Javier Barde...
Last year, at its 72nd edition, the San Sebastian Festival generated an economic impact of 47.9 million euros, according to the data of the study commissioned from Ikertalde, the consultancy group also responsible for drawing up the previous report for the 2012 edition.
As well as a meeting place for movie buffs, the specialised press and the industry, the San Sebastian Festival is so much more than a cultural get-together, added to the fact that it is an important economic motor for the city...
The North American writer worked with William Wyler, Arthur Penn, William Dieterle and George Roy Hill,
among other filmmakers
The screenwriter Lillian Hellman, a key name of the classical Hollywood scene who worked alongside moviemakers such as William Wyler, Arthur Penn, William Dieterle and George Roy Hill, will be the focus of the retrospective at the San Sebastian Festival’s 73rd edition. Organised by the Festival and the Filmoteca Vasca, in collaboration with Film...
The report on the 2024 Festival
A total of 172,301 spectators flocked to the 676 screenings of the 252 films from 53 countries at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival, translating into a rise in audience figures of 8.9% compared to the 158,194 recorded in 2023.
For the third year in a row, the Festival has surpassed its record of accredited guests, whose figures passed the 5,000 mark for the first time last year and stood at 5,314 this year, i.e. a rise of 5.8%. Almost half of ...
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...
