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63 San Sebastian International Film Festival Award-Winners

Golden Shell for Best Film

Sparrows

Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland - Denmark - Croatia)

Special Jury Prize

Evolution

Lucile Hadzihalilovic (France - Belgium - Spain)

Silver Shell for Best Director

JOACHIM LAFOSSE

Les Chevaliers Blancs / The White Knights

Joachim Lafosse (Belgium - France)

Silver Shell for Best Actress

YORDANKA ARIOSA

El rey de La Habana (The King of Havana)

Agustí Villaronga (Spain - Dominican Rep.)

Silver Shell for Best Actor

EX AEQUO

RICARDO DARIN

Truman

Cesc Gay (Spain - Argentina)

EX AEQUO

JAVIER CÁMARA

Truman

Cesc Gay (Spain - Argentina)

Jury Prize for Best Cinematography

MANU DACOSSE

Evolution

Lucile Hadzihalilovic (France - Belgium - Spain)

Jury Prize for Best Screenplay

ARNAUD LARRIEU, JEAN-MARIE LARRIEU

21 nuits avec Pattie / 21 Nights with Pattie

Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu (France)

Jury Special Mention

El Apóstata ( The Apostate)

Federico Veiroj (Spain - Uruguay - France)

Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Le Nouveau / The New Kid

Rudi Rosenberg (France)

SPECIAL MENTION

Tjuvheder / Drifters

Peter Grönlund (Sweden)

SPECIAL MENTION

Vida sexual de las plantas (Sex Life of Plants)

Sebastián Brahm (Chile)

Video Homage to Emily Watson

Emily Watson received the Donostia Award in recognition of her prestigious film career. Born in Islington (UK), Emily Watson trained as an actress at the prestigious London Drama Studio after completing her university studies. She began her professional career in theatre, with works including Lilian Hellmann’s The Children’s Hour, Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, and, in ...

Video Highlights of San Sebastian 2015 Ambiance

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Sparrows (Golden Shell for Best Film) and White Knights Silver Shell for Best Director from TIFF to San Sebastian...

SPARROWS by Rúnar Rúnarsson A coming-of-age story about 16-year old Ari, who, after living with his mother in Reykjavik, is sent back to the far-flung Westfjords region to live with his father, Gunnar. There, he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father as he finds that his childhood friends have changed. In these hopeless, desperate surroundings, Ari has to sharpen up and find his way. Photocall Press conference Information, synopsis, and San Sebastia...

21 nights with Pattie in San Sebastian Jury Prize for Best Screenplay - Press Conference

OFFICIAL SELECTION SUNDAY 20 – 21 NUITS AVEC PATTIE by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu SYNOPSIS In high summer, Caroline, a Parisian wife and mother, arrives in a small village in southern France. There, she has to organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer whom she hardly knew. She is greeted by Pattie, who likes nothing better than telling anyone who will listen about her sexual adventures with the local men. As the whole valley is preparing for the much-awaited 15 August ...

EVOLUTION Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian and Jury Prize for Best Cinematography - Press conference

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OFFICIAL SELECTION SATURDAY 19 – EVOLUTION by Lucile Hadžihalilović, Press conference: Saturday 19 – 17:45h SCREENINGS Saturday 19 – 12:00 h – Trueba 1 – PRESS SCREENING Saturday 19 – 16:00 h - Kursaal 1 – OFFICIAL + PRESS SC. Sábado 19 - 18:30 h - Antiguo Berri Sunday 20 – 16:00 h – Antiguo Berri Monday 21 – 22:45 h – Antiguo Berri SYNOPSIS 10-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother o...

Lumière festival will run from Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October 2015 in Lyon and Award Martin Scorsese

Lumière festival 7th edition will run from Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October 2015 in Lyon and offer the Lumiere Award to Martin Scorsese. © Brigitte Lacombe Awarded by the Institut Lumière, the Lumière Award will be presented to Martin Scorsese for entire filmography, for his generous love of film, for his tireless fight for the preservation of the cinema of yesteryear, for his feature films, for his documentaries, for his love of music, for his kind...

First Awards in San Sebastian

EZAE Youth Award Paulina Santiago Mitre (Argentina - Brazil - France) ...

Creative Europe MEDIA, San Sebastian 2016 and the Film Festival will collaborate to develop new audiences

Creative Europe MEDIA, San Sebastian 2016 and the Film Festival will collaborate on a programme of activities on Developing New Audiences Share on Facebook Share on Twitter During 2016 Creative Europe Media will start collaborati...

Europe Latin America co-production Forum Award 2015 Best Project

EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARD 2015 FOR THE BEST PROJECT LA OMISIÓN / THE OMISSION directed by Sebastián Schjaer and produced by Trapecio Cine (Argentina – Germany – France) SPECIAL MENTION TO THE PROYECT MEMORIAS DEL CALABOZO directed by Álvaro Brechner and Tornasol Films (Spain - Uruguay) ...

Films in Progress 28 Awards in San Sebastian

FILMS IN PROGRESS 28 INDUSTRY AWARD ...

Europe-latin american coproduction forum award

KARMELE SOLER, Zinemira Award

Makeup artist Karmele Soler received this year’s Zinemira Award, given by the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the EPE/APV and IBAIA producers’ associations to the career of an outstanding personality in the world of Basque film. The Zinemira Award wasKar presented at the Basque Film Gala on September 22 at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, with premiere of Lara Izagirre’s film, Un otoño sin Berlín. The Basque Film Party, sponsored by Eroki, will t...

Mad Max Fury Fipresci Award in San Sebastian

Video Fast Forward San Sebastian opening

PROA (Catalan Audiovisual Production Companies Federation) presence at the 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival

PROA AT THE 63rd SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL PROA, the audiovisual production companies federation from Catalonia, integrated by the following associations: PRO-FICCIÓ, PRO-DOCS, PRO-TV and PRO-ANIMATS, and which represents a hundred of catalan production companies, will be at the 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival with the following films from its member: OFICIAL SELECTION (COMPETITION) “Un dia perfecte per a vola...

NOMA – MY PERFECT STORM will be screening in the Culinary Zinema section

The Feature documentary NOMA – MY PERFECT STORM, a unique journey into the mind of René Redzepi, founder of NOMA will be screening in the Culinary Zinema section at this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film was produced in UK by Documentree Films. NOMA – MY PERFECT STORM Screening schedule Tuesday 22nd // 18:15 // Príncipe Cinemas 3 Wednesday 23rd // 16:15 // Príncipe Cinemas 3 Thursday 24th&n...

Cartagena International Film Festival present at 63º San Sebastián Film Festival

CARTAGENA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL -FICCI- is present at San Sebastián from September 18-26, 2015. Executives attending: Hernán Guillermo Piñeres President Board of Directors FICCI presidencia@ficcifestival.com Lina Rodríguez General Director direcciongenera...

Canadian films in San Sebastian

Canada @ 63. San Sebastián International Film Festival Opening Film REGRESSION Alejandro AmenÁbar Production Mod Producciones (Spain / Espagne) First Generation Films (Canada) Sales/Ventes The Weinstein Company (U.S. / États-Unis) Official Section - Competition ...

PARA MINHA AMADA MORTA (To My Beloved) in Competition in San Sebastián

PARA MINHA AMADA MORTA (To My Beloved) by Aly Muritiba will celebrate its European premiere in the Horizontes Latinos Section at the 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 24th. The film is thus nominated for the Horizontes Award. PARA MINHA AMADA MORTA (To My Beloved) is Aly Muritiba's first feature film and has just been awarded with the Silver Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film at World Film Festival in Montreal. P...

Fortissimo Films acquires rights to Paula Ortiz’s (DE TU VENTANA A LA MÍA) epic tragedy LA NOVIA (THE BRIDE)

THE FILM WILL DEBUT IN THE ZABALTEGI SECTION OF THE 63RD SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Fortissimo Films announced today its acquisition of International sales rights to Paula Ortiz’s (DE TU VENTANA A LA MÍA) epic tragedy LA NOVIA (THE BRIDE). The film, which will receive its World Premiere in the Zabaltegi Section of the 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival, is based on the acclaimed play “Bodas de Sangre” (Blood Wedding) from intern...

The People's Choice Award 2015

Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience. This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees for the awards ceremony ...

Opening Gala presenters at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival

Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo, Mireia Gabilondo, Edurne Ormazabal and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón will be the gala presenters at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival The journalist and presenter Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo and the actress Mireia Gabilondo will conduct the opening gala of the 63rd San Sebastian Festival on September 18 at 21:00 in the Kursaal Auditorium. To present the contents of the edition, they will be accompanied by Itziar Ituño, Dafne Fer...

British actress Emily Watson will receive the Donostia Award in recognition of her prestigious film career

At the coming San Sebastian Festival, British actress Emily Watson will receive the Donostia Award in recognition of her prestigious film career. Watson will collect the Award at a gala on September 25 in the Kursaal Auditorium. Born in Islington (UK), Emily Watson trained as an actress at the prestigious London Drama Studio after completing her university studies. She began her professional career in theatre, with works including Lilian Hellmann’s T...

59 000 festival tickets sold in one single day, a record!

On the first day of the festival the box office record (58.987) was hit, with 3 553 more than last year at same date. Congrats to the ccommunication team at the festival. ...

Paprika Steen president of the jury

Paprika Steen is one of Scandinavia’s greatest actresses. She masters both comedy and drama and can mould herself into any character imaginable. She has received numerous awards and nominations. In the 1990s Steen contributed hugely to the Dogme Movement and starred in the first three Dogme films: Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration (1998), Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots (1998), and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s Mifune (1999). Steen won...

EZAE sponsors the Youth Award at the San Sebastian Festival

EZAE, the association of cinemas in the Basque Country, will sponsor the Youth Award at this year’s San Sebastian Festival. The decision stems from the association’s commitment to cinematic culture and to the entire film industry. And, above all, from the conviction that far greater effort must be made to find formulas which permit the younger population to frequent cinemas, the perfect setting to enjoy any audiovisual production. Films in the New Directors section and those i...

‘DESDE ALLA’ from Venice to San Sebastian

Winners in Venezia72 to be seen at 63SIFF The Venezia 72 Jury, chaired by Alfonso Cuarón, named the Golden Lion for Best Film to: DESDE ALLÁ (FROM AFAR) by Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico). This film took part at the Film in Progress selection in San Sebastian and now finished and awarded returns to Horizontes Latinos at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival beginning on Friday 18th. Other films participating in San Sebastian straight...

Cooperación Española Award, a new accolade at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival

The award will go to the Ibero-American film that best contributes to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights The 63rd San Sebastian Festival will award, for the first time, the new Cooperación Española Award to the producer of the Latin American Film that best c...

Eleven Spanish films make up the Made in Spain section of the San Sebastian Festival

The San Sebastian Festival will present in its Made in Spain section some of the best Spanish productions of the year. The titles programmed for the 63nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival are: ...

Professional Agenda at San Sebastian

Numerous industry activities are scheduled for the 63rd San Sebastian Festival. Said activities are detailed in the Professional Agenda and will be updated daily on the Festival website. Updates will also be included in the daily News Flash sent out to accredited industry guests. Throughout the Festival, and particularly on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd, to coincide with the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum and Films in Progress, San Sebastian will become a meeting place between member...

SAVAGE CINEMA has confirmed the directors and athletes who will be representing their films at the San Sebastián Fikm Fest

Xavier De Le Rue and Rafa Ortiz, together with seven of the directors, will be attending the premieres of their films at some of the city’s best venues, among them Teatro Victoria Eugenia and the Kursaal “Savage Cinema” is back for its third year at the Festival and will launch on Friday 18th with the screening of Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans at Teatro Victoria Eugenia. The film is to be...

''Hotel Transylvania 2'' will be screened at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival

The screening will take place at the Antonio Elorza Velodrome with the presence of the actors in the Spanish version Hotel Transylvania 2, the new film from Sony Pictures Animation, will be screened at the coming San Sebastian Festival, as part of the Velodrome Section, on S...

The FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2015 for best film of the year goes to ''Mad Max: Fury Road'' by George Miller

The film will collect the accolade at the San Sebastian Festival Mad Max: Fury Road has been voted best film by the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The vote for the FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2015 saw the participation of 493 Federation members around the world, who made their choice from among films to have premiered after 1 July 2014. The first round ended in a last vote to be made among the f...

Eight feature films will be presented in the Zinemira section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival

The Zinemira Award 2015 will go to Karmele Soler The 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival will present eight feature films in the Zinemira section, dedicated to films produced in the Basque Country. Four world premieres and another four titles from this year’s production make up the selection. All of the premieres compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award, alongside the remaining productions with a minimum of 20% Basque production presented as a world premiere in any of the ...

Presentation of the 63rd San Sebastian Festival

Today saw the presentation of the 63rd San Sebastian Festival, to take place from September 18 to 26. Its Director, José Luis Rebordinos, and two members of the Management Committee, Maialen Beloki and Joxean Fernández, announced its contents, the composition of certain juries and the names of those who will attend this new edition. The actress Emily Watson will receive the Donostia Award in recognition of her career on September 25. Other outstanding actors will also ...

Emily Watson, Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival

British actress Emily Watson will receive the Donostia Award in recognition of her prestigious film career. Watson will collect the Award at a gala on September 25 in the Kursaal Auditorium. Born in Islington (UK), Emily Watson trained as an actress at the prestigious London Drama Studio after completing her university studies. S...

Eight films will be presented in the Zinemira section- 63SSIFF

The 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival will present eight feature films in the Zinemira section, dedicated to films produced in the Basque Country. Four world premieres and another four titles from this year’s production make up the selection. All of the premieres compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award, alongside the remaining productions with a minimum of 20% Basque production presented as a world premiere in any of the Festival sections. The Irizar Award is decide...

''Mad Max: Fury Road'', FIPRESCI Award at San Sebastian Film Festival

Mad Max: Fury Road has been voted best film by the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The vote for the FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2015 saw the participation of 493 Federation members around the world, who made their choice from among films to have premiered after 1 July 2014. The first round ended in a last v...

Short films and Schools Selected at The 14th International Film Students Meeting

The 14th International Film Students Meeting will take place on 22nd-25th September at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival and is going to have Tabakalera-Contemporary Culture International Centre as new headquarters Yet another year the San Sebastian Festival and Tabakalera 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 1...

European Film Forum event on “Audiences in motion” planned for San Sebastian Fest

The San Sebastian International Film Festival and Creative Europe MEDIA organise a European Film Forum event on “Audiences in motion” in the framework of this year’s edition Donostia - San Sebastian. San Telmo Museum. Sunday, September 20 DEVELOPING AUDIENCES - Audiences in Motion The European Film Forum is a platform facilitated by the European Commission for a structured dialogue between policy makers and stakeholders in the audio-visual sector. The aim is to develop a s...

The programme of aid to Latin American cinema, Films in Progress 28, lines up 6 films

Six films by Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Eliane Caffé, Daniel Hendler, Marialy Rivas, Pepa San Martín and Rober Calzadilla to be presented at Films in Progress 28 Films in Progress 28 will take place on September 21, 22 and 23 The Films in Progress 28 call for submissions received 113 films from 20 countries. The final selection includes the following titles: Aquí no ha pasado nada (Much Ado About Nothing) ...

Retrospective to directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack in San Sebastian Film Fest

The 63rd San Sebastian Festival will dedicate a retrospective to directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973) and Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893-1979) were, in the golden age of Hollywood, one of the strangest and most exciting creative twosomes ever to come out of Hollywood. The coming edition of the San Sebastian Festival will recover their work in a cycle dedicated to th...

35 films lined up in the ''Japanese Independent Cinema 2000-2015'' retrospective

The 63rd San Sebastian Festival will dedicate a cycle to new Japanese independent cinema produced in Japan over the last fifteen years. Beyond the bounds of the films produced by the big studios, the phenomenon of independent cinema in Japan has generated an important source of cinematic creativity expressed in a series of films produced outside the industry. This category includes not only the first work...

The latest works by Liu Hao, Joachim Lafosse and Peter Sollett join the San Sebastian Festival Official Selection

The latest works by Liu Hao, Joachim Lafosse and Peter Sollett join the Official Selection in competition at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival Peter Grönlund’s film ''Tjuvheder / Thieves Honour'' closes the New Directors selection Three new competing titles join those previously announced for the Official Selection at the coming San Sebastian Festival: the Chinese director Liu Hao returns to San Sebastian with Xiang bei fang / Back to the North, five years af...

Fourteen titles compete in Horizontes Latinos at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival

"El club", by Pablo Larraín, will open the section The San Sebastian Festival will once again present, in its 63rd edition, some of the most outstanding Latin American films of the year. The Horizontes Latinos programme includes fourteen productions from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Films that have competed or premiered at important international festivals, but which have not yet been screened at a Spanish festival or had th...

Best of Fests to screenat the Pearls section at the San Sebastian Festival

A selection of important titles presented at other international festivals will screen in the Pearls section at the San Sebastian Festival Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson ...

24 titles to be presented in the Zabaltegi section of the San Sebastian Festival

Yet another year, the Zabaltegi section will become a privileged space at the San Sebastian Festival as it reveals some of the most difficult to classify and suggestive proposals in today’s movie scene. The Zabaltegi programme at the 63rd edition showcases the Spanish premieres of the latest works by reputed filmmakers (Laurie Anderson, Jem Cohen, Anca Damian, Andrés Di Tella, Eric Khoo, Corneliu Porumboiu, Walter Salles, Alexander Sokurov) alongside films selected for intern...

''Regression'', by Alejandro Amenábar, will open the 63rd San Sebastian Festival

Alejandro Amenábar’s latest film, Regression, will open the coming edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The world premiere of the film, presented in the Official Selection out of competition, will take place on September 18 in the Kursaal Auditorium. Regression has an international cast headlining Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis and David Dencik. In his sixth feature fi...

"London Road" a musical to close San Sebastian fest

The film ''London Road'', by Rufus Norris, will close the San Sebastian Festival The 63rd San Sebastian Festival will come to a close on September 26 with the out of competition screening of the British film London Road, fresh from the Toronto Festival. Produced by BBC Films, the British Film Institute and the National Theatre and directed by Rufus Norris with a screenplay by Alecky Blythe and music by Adam Cork, the film is a big-screen adaptation of the musical of the sam...

The greatest directors in the Pearls section at San Sebastian fest

A selection of important titles presented at other international festivals will screen in the Pearls section at the San Sebastian Festival The 63rd San Sebastian Festival will offer, as part of its Pearls section, the Spanish premiere of some of the most important films presented during the year at different international festivals. Among the films selected are the Golden Bear-winner at the Berlin Festival, Taxi Teheran by Jafar Pahani; Me and Earl and the Dying Gi...

Savage Cinema films announced

Savage Cinema presents its largest and most diverse selection of titles to date. In this year’s line-up, the section announces six movies and two shorts, including the first Spanish production in the section and state of the art films about sports such as kayaking, car racing and climbing....

Presentation of the fifth edition of ''Culinary Zinema: Film and gastronomy''

The Basque Culinary Center, the San Sebastian Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival presented the programme of the “Culinary Zinema” section. The press conference was attended by Thomas Struck, Head of the “Culinary Cinema” section at the Berlin Festival, Joxe Mari Aizega, Director of the Basque Culinary Center, and José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastian Film Festival. The five years of collaboration between the San Sebastian Festiva...

Official Selection at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival

Terence Davies, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mamoru Hosoda, Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu, Philippe Lesage, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Levan Tutberidze and Ben Wheatley to compete in the Official Selection at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival Terence Davies, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mamoru Hosoda, Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu, Philippe Lesage, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Levan Tutberidze and Ben Wheatley to compete in the Official Selection at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian ...

16 projects in development from 17 countries will be presented at the IV Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum

The Forum will run on September 21, 22 and 23 at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival Fifteen projects, the majority as yet unseen at international co-production gatherings, have been selected from among the total of 173 projects submitted from 21 countries. Furthermore, in the framework of the Festival’s collaboration with the Ibermedia Programme, one project, selected at the Workshop to develop film projects from Central America and the Caribbean, will participate in...

The film ''Un otoño sin Berlín'' will be presented at the Basque Film Gala

The film directed by Lara Izagirre Un otoño sin Berlín will have its premiere during the San Sebastian Festival, in the framework of the Basque Film Gala on 21 September in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre. Un otoño sin Berlín is programmed as part of the Festival’s Zinemira section and competes for the Irizar Basque Film Award, which goes to the best Basque film presented as a world premiere. The film stars Irene Escolar, Tamar Novas, Ram&...

San Sebastian reveals the films in selection

Today a presentation was held in the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas headquarters of the films produced in Spain to be screened at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival, opening on September 18. José Luis Rebordinos, the Festival Director, and Maialen Beloki, member of the Management Committee announced the titles to be presented in the different sections. Some of the big-name Spanish filmmakers will compete with their latest works for the Golden S...

Best beer sponsor at The San Sebastian Festival

Yesterday the sponsorship agreement was signed between the Keler beer brand and the San Sebastian International Festival. José Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastian Festival, and Daniel Idigoras, Head of Keler, renewed the agreement for the coming five editions under which Keler will remain in place as a Festival sponsor and its official beer. As in previous years, on the Kursaal Auditorium terrace, Keler will install its “Keler Moments” tent, a ...

The jury for the short film competition “Euskaraz bizi nahi dut” 2015

The fourth edition of the “Euskaraz bizi nahi dut” short film competition organised by Kontseilua with the collaboration of the San Sebastian Festival now has its jury. In this edition, the director, screenwriter and producer Jon Garaño joins Maialen Beloki, member of the San Sebastian Festival management committee, and Paul Bilbao, Secretary General of Kontseilua. Jon Garaño studied Journalism and Advertising at the University of the Basque Country and Film at Sarob...

San Sebastian´s New Director´s Award line up revealed

Today the selection of films in the New Directors section was announced. The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, together with Ander Aizpurua Kutxabank´s Wholesale Banking Director, revealed the titles of the thirteen films to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, decided b...

Spanish films at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival

Call for Entries for this year’s Savage Cinema

Submit your 2015 action sports and adventure films until July 16th More than three years ago, Savage Cinema was born to bring adventure and action sports movies to the San Sebastian Film Festival. This edition marks a turning point in its trajectory: the section no longer is a new project – it evolved to an entity in its own right, outstanding for its efforts to bring the latest action sports and adventure productions to the general public – in cinemas and in the streets. In its ...

Gas Natural Fenosa is renewing its agreement as Official Sponsor of the Festival

Gas Natural Fenosa is renewing its agreement as Official Sponsor of the Festival and is presenting the shorts that form part of Cinergy in its second year. Images in high resolution Today the company presented this unique film project for the second year running, in which the directors, Isabel Coixet, Santiago Segura and Paco León have taken part with stories that raise awareness about energy efficiency through humour. During the presentation of the proj...

The San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua present the 4th edition of the short film competition "euskaraz bizi nahi dut"

The San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua have presented a new edition of the short film competition “euskaraz bizi nahi dut” (I want to live in Basque). This year will yet again include a section for professionals and another for amateurs with a total of more than 5,000 euros in prizes. The best works will be screened at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival. This morning the San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua presented a new edition of the short film competition &ldq...

Ikusmira Berriak presents its project selection

The four projects to take part in the 2015 residencies programme have now been selected. Oskar Alegría, Marianne Slot and Paz Lázaro made up the committee of experts. The programme will incorporate a new feature: the REC Post-production Award. In February this year we presented the IKUSMIRA BERRIAK project, organised in collaboration by Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture, the San Sebastian Festival and the San Sebastian European Capital of Culture...

The Spanish Cooperation Award, new accolade at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival

The award will go to the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights The 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will for the first time present the new Spanish Cooperation Award to the producer of the Latin American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights. All of the Ibero-American films selected for the O...

The 14th International Film Students Meeting will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th September 2015

The 14th International Film Students Meeting will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th September 2015 as part of the 63rd San Sebastian Festival. The 14th International Film Students Meeting, co-organized by the San Sebastian Festival and Tabakalera-International Contemporary Culture Centre of San Sebastian, proposes an exchange of audiovisual experiences and knowledge at one of the most important movie events in the world. The Meeting has the backing of San Sebastian Europea...

The San Sebastian Festival has unveiled the image of its 63rd edition.

The design of the official poster represents the stimulation of the senses prompted in spectators by cinema. The Festival will run from Friday, 18 until Saturday, 26 September. Images in high resolution POSTERS The new image for the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival was unveiled at an event in the Newton Auditorium of San Sebastian’s Eureka! Zientzia Museoa. An announcement was also made at the gathering as to the winning proposals of the poster competition calle...

The 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will dedicate a cycle to new Japanese independent cinema

Images in high resolution New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015 is the thematic retrospective programmed by the San Sebastian Festival for its 63rd edition, to take place from September 18-26. Beyond the bounds of the films produced by the big studios, the phenomenon of independent cinema in Japan has generated an important source of cinematic creativity expressed in a series of films produced outside the industry. This category includes not only the first works by ...

Ikusmira Berriak is born, an interinstitutional programme of support to new audiovisual projects

IKUSMIRA BERRIAK is a new programme of support to audiovisual projects committed to innovation and experimentation in areas of both cinematic language and means of production. The initiative is the result of collaboration between Tabakalera – International Contemporary Culture Centre, Donostia Zinemaldia / San Sebastian Festival, San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016, Donostia Kultura and the Filmoteca Vasca Foundation. Its main objective is to promote audiovisual creation. ...

28.09.2015 | SanSebastian's blog

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