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...
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.
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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, 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...
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...
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...
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:
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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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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. S...
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 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...
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...
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...
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) ...
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...
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 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...
"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...
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 ...
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...
