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The film Theater of Life has landed the Tokyo Gohan Award 2016. The San Sebastian Festival’s Culinary Zinema section accolade comes with prize money of €10,000 for the international distributor of the film or, failing this picture, for the producer. A jury appointed by the Japanese companies STYLEJAM and Pictures dept. co. ltd. chose the film directed by Peter Svatek, explaining the Refettorio Ambrosiano experience. Ch...
The Jury of the 15th International Film Students Meeting, consisting of students from centres in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and United Kingdom; chaired by the João Pedro Rodrigues has decided to grant the following awards: Panavision Award The 2016 Panavision award goes to a flm with cheek. It has a strong take on human desir...
V EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM BEST PROJECT AWARD 7:35 AM directed by Javier Van de Couter and produced by Varsovia Films (Argentina) SPECIAL MENTION TO THE PROYECT HOGAR directed by Maura Delpero and produced by dispàrte (Italy - Argentina) EFADs-CACI EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION GRANT ...
FILMS IN PROGRESS 30 INDUSTRY AWARD La educación del Rey (Rey's education) Santiago Esteves (Argentina) Escaping from his criminal baptism, Reynaldo Galíndez, alias &ldqu...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Two outstanding professionals from the film scene will join the juries of the 64th San Sebastian Film Festival. The producers Nadia Turincev and Corinne Castel will make up the Official Jury and the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera’s jury, respectively. The Official Selection Jury is chaired by the Danish moviemaker Bille August. The author of Pelle erob...
Travis Rice, Peter Hamblin, Takuji Masuda, Craig Stecyk, Patrick Trefz and Art Brewer will join various others in San Sebastian to present the titles in the Savage Cinema section The 2016 edition of Savage Cinema has lined up a selection of mind-blowing surf and snowboard titles, which will bring both fresh and iconic personalities and filmmakers to the city ...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution The San Sebastian Festival and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation Development (AECID), the latter under the aegis of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation will, for the second year running, give the Cooperación Española Award to the producer of the...
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will continue until October 28th in five double showings including the combined screening of one short and one feature film From September 15th, the installation by Andrés Di Tella will be open for visit in Tabakalera Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section will not end on 24th September. From September 30t...
In addition to Donostia Award-winners Sigourney Weaver and Ethan Hawke and winner of the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award, Gael García Bernal, a long list of actors have confirmed their presence in San Sebastian: Monica Bellucci, Fan Bingbing, Jennifer Connelly, Javier Bardem, Richard Gere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hugh Grant, Isabelle Huppert, Ewan McGregor, Cynthia Nixon, Ken Watanabe, Lambert Wilson, Shailene Woodley and Lee Yoo-young Others who will attend the event to accompan...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Numerous industry activities are scheduled for the 64th San Sebastian Festival. Said activities are detailed in the Professional Agenda and it will be updated on the Festival website. Updates will also be included in the daily Newsflash sent out to registered industry members. Throughout the Festival, and particularly on the 19th, 20th and 21st, t...
Filmmakers Bertrand Bonello, Jean-Gabriel Périot and Ivan I. Tverdovsky will give masterclasses as part of the XV International Film Students Meeting at the San Sebastian Festival. Bonello (Nice, France, 1968), who will compete in this year’s Official Section with Nocturama and in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera with the short film Sarah Winchester, opéra fantôme, will present a free-spirited dissertation at the Meeting to students from film schools in Argentina, Be...
The ''biggest film theatre in the world'' as it was dubbed by Oliver Stone, will turn thirty in 2016 Kalebegiak Koldo Almandoz, Asier Altuna, Luiso Berdejo, Daniel Calparsoro...
Six documentaries and a fiction feature will compete for the Tokyo Gohan Award in the San Sebastian Festival section combining cinema and gastronomy Tickets for the screening-dinner combo will be available for purchase from Monday, September 5th Culinary Zinema, the section combining film and gastronomy, turns six this year. Created in collaboration with the Berlin Festival and organised jointly with the Basque Culinary Center, this edition it brin...
Audiences in Motion: Listening to the User Donostia - San Sebastian - San Telmo Museum September 18 - 9:30 am Audiences in motion will celebrate its second edition during the 64th San Sebastian Festival. The event will continue to study the central position held by the audience in the production, distribution and exhibition of audiovisual contents in the digital era. This year’s event is entitled Audiences in Motion: Listening to the User. The conference, jointly org...
The Japanese animated film ''Kimi no Na wa / Your name'', the living will of Bigas Luna ''Bigas x Bigas'' and ''Colossal'', the latest production by Nacho Vigalondo, complete the Official Selection Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution The Official Selection will include fou...
The section will include seventeen films produced in the Basque Country, eight of which will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award Ramón Barea will receive the Zinemira Award at the Basque Film and ETB Gala, setting for the premieres of ''Igelak (Frogs)'' and ''Agirre Lehendakaria'' The Zinemira section will include more Basque productions than ever at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Seventeen productions will compose the overview...
Leo Calice The residencies running for the second edition of Ikusmira Berriak, a programme providing support to audiovisual projects organised by San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016, Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary culture and the San Sebastian Festival, with the collaboration of Donostia Kultura and the Filmoteca Vasca, began on August 15th. During the residencies, lasting for six weeks, filmmakers Leo Calice, Mikel Gurrea, Aitor and Amaia Merino and Kiro Rus...
The first works by Bartosz M. Kowalski and Emiliano Torres round off the competitive Official Selection Eiðurinn / The Oath Baltasar Kormákur (Iceland) Finnur is a successful heart surgeon and father of t...
Sixteen filmmakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award Two new titles complete the New Directors section uniting sixteen first or second works by filmmakers from all over the globe. Martijn Maria Smits (Breda, Netherlands, 1980) will present her second feature, Waldstille, whose lead character returns to his hometown after serving prison for causing his girlfriend’s death in an accident. The town is also home to his in-...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution The four-time Academy Award nominee will receive the Lifetime Achievement award honouring his illustrious career the evening of Saturday, September 17th followed by a screening of his latest film The magnificent seven. On September 17th, Ethan Hawke will be honoured with a Donostia Award at ...
Emmanuelle Bercot directs this Golden Shell contender starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Benoît Magimel The European premiere of La fille de Brest / 150 Milligrams will open the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The fifth feature by French director Emmanuelle Bercot, a contender for the Golden Shell, stars the Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) and the French actor Benoît Magimel (La Haine). La fille de Brest / 150 Milligrams is based on novel &ldqu...
The FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2016 for Best Film of the year goes to ''Toni Erdmann'' by Maren Ade, who will collect the award at the San Sebastian Festival Share on Facebook Share on Twitter I...
The Velodrome will house the screening of the sci-fi thriller by Denis Villeneuve Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Arrival, latest m...
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will present the last works of Ade, Barras, Dudok de Wit, Frears, Hansen-Løve, Koreeda, Kusturica, Lafosse, Larraín, Loach, Ozon, Puiu, Rosi, Sachs and Verhoeven The discriminations and inequalities of the contemporary world, the family and the different forms of love and hate can be found in the storyline of some of the year’s most important films, the “recommendations” of the best fests on th...
Juan Andrés Arango, Daniel Burman, Amat Escalante, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Carlos Lechuga and Christopher Murray, among the competitors for the Horizontes Award Five former participants in last year’s Films in Progress will this year feature in the selection of the best in Latin American cinema The Horizontes Latino selection, consisting of feature films not yet screened in Spain, produced totally or partially in Latin America, is made up of thirteen films,...
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016 present a season of films reflecting on some of contemporary society’s great conflicts Joshua Oppenheimer, whose film "The Act of Killing" lends the season its name, will be present at the San Sebastian Festival. The Act of Killing. Cinema and global violence is the title of the thematic retrospecti...
Two outstanding first films from Latin America and the short films by Bertrand Bonello and Jia Zhang-ke figure in the section’s first competitive edition The section showcasing the year’s most eye-opening movies, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will comprise 24 titles at the 64th San Sebastian Festival. In its first competitive edition, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera adds to the titles announced in July the works of Pablo Álvarez, Bertrand Bonello, Aaron Brookner, Paz Encina, Chema Gar...
The early days of surf in Gipuzkoa, the iconic journey of snowboarder Travis Rice, the psychedelia of the 60s and the awaited story of Bunker Spreckels are among the highlights of the selection Savage Cinema, San Sebastian Festival’s non-competitive section for adventure and action sports films created in the collaboration with Red Bull Media House, will present in its fourth edition five titles reflecting the cycle’s intention to exhibit works in different genres and subj...
The Conference of Ibero-American Cinematographic Authorities (CACI) and the association of the European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) have agreed to launch a jointly funded grant for the development of a project presented at the V Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum of the 64th San Sebastian Film Festival. The aim of the EFADs-CACI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Grant is to build a structured partnership between Europe and Latin-America...
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will come to a close with the world premiere screening of L’Odyssée / The Odyssey, a film on the life of Jacques Cousteau, written and directed by Jérôme Salle. The film looks at the adventures of Cousteau, pioneer of underwater exploration and filming, and his son Philippe, a personal journey which seriously dented their relationship due to the progenitor’s impossible dreams. The screenplay is based on...
Isabel Herguera and Izibene Oñederra have created the backdrops for the Pearls and the Basque Film gala presentations Last year the San Sebastian Festival began working with Basque artists in an initiative hoped to develop into a collection. In 2015 Isabel Herguera was commissioned to design the Victoria Eugenia Theatre stage backdrop for the Basque Film gala. This year Izibene Oñederra is the artist chosen to create the image of the Pearls section presentations. Both b...
The retrospective of Jacques Becker will include all his feature films in the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival French director’s son, the filmmaker Jean Becker, will attend the presentation Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Jacques Becker, who was born and died in Paris (1906-1960), only made thirteen fe...
The Forum will run on September 19th, 20th and 21st in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival’s 64th edition Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Sixteen projects, most of them never seen before at international co-production forums, have been selected from a total of 194 projects submitted from 28 countries. Additionally, in the framework of the Festival’s collaboration with t...
Three debutants: North America’s Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm and Britain’s William Oldroyd will also compete for the Golden Shell The competition for the Golden Shell at the latest edition of the San Sebastian Festival, running from September 16th to 24th, will have as its protagonists some of the most eye-catching moviemakers on the international panorama. Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama), Fernando Guzzoni (Jesus), Johannes Nyholm (Jätt...
The San Sebastian Festival will host the European premier of American Pastoral, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor. The Scottish actor, Donostia Award Winner in 2012, will compete in the Official Selection with his directorial debut. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philip Roth novel, American Pastoral follows an all American family across several decades, as their idyll...
The San Sebastian Festival and Jaeger-LeCoultre promote a new award to acknowledge the career of prominent figures in the world of Latin cinema Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud to sponsor the San Sebastian Festival for the fifth year running. This year, La Grande Maison consolidates its presence at the event by giving the “Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award” to a prominent figure in the Latin cinema world. In this first edition the award will go to the film actor, d...
The 15th International Film Students Meeting will take place on 20th-23rd September during the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and will be held in Tabakalera Yet another year the San Sebastian Festival and Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture present the International Film Students Meeting, an event seeking to shed light on the work of students from film schools across the world. The pre-selection of works for this fifteenth, Meeting sa...
J.A. Bayona will present “A Monster Calls”, out of competition, and the latest works by Diego Galán and Jo Sol will enjoy special screenings in the framework of the Official Selection Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Nine titles with Spanish production will form part of the New Directors, Horizonte...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the se...
Sigourney Weaver, star of ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'', Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival The European premiere of J.A. Bayona’s ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'' will be presented in the Official Selection out of competition The Official Selection of the 64th San Sebastian Festival will include the European premiere of the latest movie by J.A. Bayona, A Monster Calls...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the section embodying one of a film festival's core missions: to discover new filmmakers, or in other words, new ways of thinking, understanding and making cinema. The Director of the San Seb...
"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high re...
San Sebastian Festival’s ''open zone'' will also present the works of Terence Davies, Lav Diaz and Jim Jarmusch, among others Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the San Sebastian Festival section open to the most varied and surprising movies of the year, where there are no formal rul...
The four projects that will make up part of the 2016 programme are Loba (She-wolf) by Kiro Russo (Bolivia), Calipatria by Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice (Austria), Fantasía (Fantasy) by Aitor Merino and Amaia (Spain) and Suro by Mikel Gurrea (Spain). For the second year running, IKUSMIRA BERRIAK has received a Post-production Award: the REC award. IKUSMIRA BERRIAK, a support program for audiovisual projects that are committed to innovation and experimentation, has selected four projects...
A poster portraying the San Sebastian Festival as a meeting point is the image of the 64th edition Its author is San Sebastian designer Jorge Elósegui, from Estudio Primo The Newton Auditorium at the Eureka! Zientzia Museoa was the setting for presentation of the new image for the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. For the first time, ten prestigious studios were invited to create the Official Sele...
The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will dedicate a retrospective to the French director Jacques Becker Jacques Becker, who was born and died in Paris (1906-1960), only made thirteen feature films in a relatively short period of time, between 1942 and 1960. However this baggage small in number but prolific in important titles such as Casque d’Or (Golden Helmet, 1952), Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot, 1954) and Le Tr...
Ruth Pérez de Anucita - Head of Communication The San Sebastian Festival adds a new member to its team. Journalist Ruth Pérez de Anucita is the Festival’s Head of Communication, a position vacant for several years now, which encompasses the areas of Spanish and foreign press coordinated respectively by Koro Santesteban and Gemma Beltrán. The Festival announced the position in November of last year, receiving 118 applicatio...
Yet another year the committee of experts will have the presence of Paz Lázaro, alongside Sergio Oksman and Ada Solomon The call for the development of projects remains open until April 1st. In February was opened the call for the second edition of IKUSMIRA BERRIAK, an interinstitutional programme of support for new audiovisual projects committed to innovation and experimentation, or dedicated to new film language or new product...
' Yesterday, l’Acadèmia del Cinema Català celebrated the 8th edition of the Gaudi Awards. Two films competing in the Official Selection at the last Festival, Cesc Gay’s Truman, and Agustí Villaronga’s El Rey de la Habana (The King of Havana) were the big winners of the edition. Truman, acclaimed at the Festival’s 63rd edition with the Best Actor Award ex...
The Spanish Association of Cinematographic Informers (AICE) presented its Feroz Awards to the best Spanish films of 2015. The two films that gathered the most awards were presented at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival. La novia (The Bride) , the film by Paula Ortiz that had its world première at the Zabaltegi section, has been the big winner with six awards: best film (drama), b...
The image of the 64th edition will be chosen from among all participants Yet another year the San Sebastian Festival calls an online poster competition for selection of the images to represent 5 of its major sections at the coming edition: New Directors, Horizonte...
