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 Binoche and Javier Bardem precede Blanchett as the official image, this year created by the graphic designer from San Sebastian, José Luis Lanzagorta, based on a portrait by the photographer Gustavo Papaleo.

Lanzagorta has also created the poster for the other sections. Joining photographer José Luis López de Zubiria, the pair have decided to combine illustration and photography. Thus, a moviemaker’s megaphone churns out paper ideas for New Directors; an ocean liner lets off cactus-shaped steam for Horizontes Latinos; a boxer fights an incandescent bulb filament for Zabaltegi-Tabakalera; a female swimmer dives for mother-of-pearl treasures in Perlak; a retro camera screens soap bubbles for Nest; a strawberry morphs into an adventure island for Culinary Zinema; and a lightening-root pays homage to the Basque artist Vicente Ameztoy for Zinemira. In addition, this year the poster of the Made in Spain section joins the others, coloured in indigo blue and featuring an astronaut who explores the planet in the shape of a carnation, a flower tying in with the Spanish cinema universe. 

These posters are added to the three previously presented to illustrate the Klasikoak initiative, organised by the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Basque Film Archive, which brings together three existing proposals under the same brand: the spring cycle of the Basque Film Archive, the retrospective of the Festival (dedicated this year to Italian poliziesco) and the Klasikoak section.