AUDIENCE AWARD
The Salt of the Earth
Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (France)
This latest documentary by Wim Wenders won the Un Certain Regard Special Prize at the Cannes Festival. For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international c...
The Jury of the 13rd International Film Students Meeting, consisting of students from centres in Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Israel, Litguania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom; chaired by the Laurent Cantet has decided to grant the following awards:
Panavision Award, FREAK Independent Film Agency Award, the BioBio Cine – DuocUC Award and an invitation to participate in the SHORT FILM CORNER at ...
MAGALLANES
SALVADOR DEL SOLAR (PERU - ARGENTINA - COLOMBIA)
Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.
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III Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Egeda best project award
“AGOSTO”directed by Armando Capó and produced by La Feria Producciones (Costa Rica - Cuba).
Sponsored by EGEDA, (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association).
Special mention
“WALLS” directed by Pablo Iraburu and Migueltxo Molina and produced by Arena Comunicación (Spain).
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Director Naomi Kawase who had to present her film Futatsume no mado / Still the Water at San Sebastian had to cancel her visit to San Sebastian. She couldn’t be on time in twon because of the strike of airline Air France.
Naomi Kawasi apologizes to the San Sebastian audience and festival’s organizers and regrets not being able to attend one “of her favourite festivals in the world” in her own words.
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The actor is the Executive Producer of the film, which will have its world premiere in the Savage Cinema section
Actor Orlando Bloom has confirmed his attendance at the San Sebastian Festival to present the world premiere of one of the films in the Savage Cinema section, The Greasy Hands Preachers, directed by Arthur De Kersauson and Clément Beauvais, on 26 September at 24:00 in the Chamber Hall of the Kursaal (K2). The actor is Executive Producer of the film.
Bloom will roll...
For the third year running the San Sebastian Festival will subtitle its galas live in three languages thanks to its collaboration with the Royal Board on Disability
The initiative is possible yet again this year thanks to the Festival's collaboration with the Royal Board on Disability, through the Spanish Centre of Subtitling and Audiodescription.
This edition also has the support of the Carlos III University in Madrid, which provides the Festival with the UC3Mti...
Movistar TV has developed the official application offering complete up-to-date news on events as they happen at the Festival
Completing the sponsorship is the organisation of a round table on The false border between cinema and television series and an action tied to football in solidarity with the Cris Foundation for Cancer Research
Madrid, 16 September 2014. Movistar TV is, for the second year running, official sponsor of the 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festiva...
The new acoustics will permit screenings with better sound
The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, and the Manager of the Kursaal Auditorium, Iker Goikoetxea, presented the reforms made to the Kursaal Auditorium with a view to the improved sound of screenings at the 62nd edition.
A rock and textile cladding has been fitted to several parts of the auditorium: rear wall, the wall separating the amphitheatres and side entrance ramps; and a textile claddi...
Actor Karra Elejalde and the presenter Edurne Ormazabal were the masters of ceremonies of the 62nd San Sebastian Festival opening gala, on 19 September at 21:00 in the Kursaal Auditorium.
To present the contents of this edition, they were accompanied by other big names from Spanish cinema: Maribel Verdú, Unax Ugalde, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Mireia Gabilondo, Eduard Fernández and Imanol Arias.
During the gala, Denzel Washington received the Don...
Denzel Washington received the Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement recognition, during the opening gala of the 62ng San Sebastian Film Fest.
The Equalizer, a film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, was the film out-of-competition chosen to open the San Sebastian Festival. Actor and director were presenting the film in the Kursaal Auditorium.
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Jaeger- LeCoultre and Fundacion Aladina started up a new campaign to raise funds for the children with cancer during the 62 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Time to Smile, there is no time to waste but lives to save
Several Spanish artists such as Belén Rueda, Eduard Fernández, Imanol Arias, Manuela Vellés, Juana Acosta and Miguel Angel Muñoz donated some photographies that will be shown in an exhibition set at the Hotel Maria Cristina during the Festival....
Seven important personalities from the film scene will sit on the Official Jury at the San Sebastian Festival
Alongside them will be an eighth member: the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, arrested on 10 May of this year by the Federal Security State of the Russian Federation (FSB) and today in a Moscow prison for having backed the Euromaidan protests in Kiev and his opposition to the annexation of Crimea by Russia.
To defe...
Richard Linklater's “Boyhood” to receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2014 – Best Film of the Year
Richard Linklater's 12-year project Boyhood was chosen the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI.
The poll for the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2014 – Best Film of the Year gathered votes from 553 members throughout the world. In a first phase, participants nominated any feature-length films that had had...
Other names to have confirmed their attendance alongside Denzel Washington and Benicio del Toro, are: Antonio Banderas, John Malkovich, Pedro Almodóvar, Viggo Mortensen, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessica Chastain, Josh Hutcherson, Omar Sy, Ricardo Darín, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Leonardo Sbaraglia, and many more
This morning, the latest edition of the San Sebastian Festival was presented in the María Cristina Hotel. Jose Luis Rebordinos, the Festival Director and Management Com...
Bruce Brown, forefather of the narrated lifestyle documentaries, confirms its exceptional presence for the “On Any Sunday – The Next Chapter” world premiere
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Once again, SAVAGE CINEMA will leap out from the screens and into the host city, San Sebastian. A diverse range of directors, athletes and talents will support our 2nd edition with their presence during the week, while a host of extracurricular activities will take place bringing ...
Festival 2014: Professional Agenda
Numerous industry activities are scheduled for the 62nd San Sebastian Festival. Said activities are detailed in the Professional Agenda and will be updated on the Festival website whenever changes occur. Updates will also be included in the daily News Flash sent out to accredited industry guests.
Throughout the Festival, and particularly on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th, to coincide with...
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Today Orona Fundazioa announced a new collaboration with the San Sebastian Festival, thereby uniting important, strategic cultural activity with a cooperative company which bases its strategy on technological innovation, internationalisation, its human capital (Orona) and commitment to the environment.
Orona Fundazioa will collaborate with the XIII International Film Students Meeting by giving an award of €5,000 to the most innovative ...
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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 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival are:
10.000 Km (Long Distance)
Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spain)
Winning film of four awards at the Málaga Festival, including Best Film. Alexandra and Sergi are a couple from Barcelona who are ...
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Yet another year the San Sebastian Festival will showcase the best Latin American productions of the year. The programme of the Horizontes Latinos section at the 62nd edition includes fourteen productions from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. Films that have competed or been presented at important international festivals, but which have not yet been seen at a Spanish festival or commercially released in our country.
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This year, the 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will present six feature films in the Zinemira section for cinema produced in the Basque Country. The selection consists of two premieres and four titles from this year's production.
Both premieres will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award alongside all other productions with a minimum Basque production of 20% presented as world premieres in any of the Festival sections. The...
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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 13th Meeting saw the participation of 169 short films from 79 schools in 29 countries: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Rep...
"Tigers" by Danis Tanovic will round off the official competition
"The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" enters the Pearls section
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The 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will include, in its Zabaltegi section, a varied selection of some of the most interesting proposals from this year's film scene: feature films, documentaries, short films and a television series.
The section will include the Spanish premieres of the l...
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The film Samba by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano will have its European premiere at the San Sebastian Festival as closing film of its 62nd edition on September 27. A Contracorriente Films will release in our country one of the most eagerly awaited French productions of the year.
Samba is the first film from the directors of Intouchables (Untouchable) since it became a worldwide phenomenon: more than 19 million spectators in France, more ...
