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
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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
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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...
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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
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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-...
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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
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The Velodrome will house the screening of the sci-fi thriller by Denis Villeneuve
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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...
