Eight classic films directed by Yasuzô Masumura, Liliane de Kermadec, Francesc Betriu, Yasujiro Ozu, Fabián Bielinsky and Arturo Ripstein will screen in the Klasikoak section of the 71st edition of San Sebastian Film Festival.
San Sebastian International Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
SINCE: 1953
WHERE: Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The San Sebastián International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious and important film festivals in the world, held annually in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián.
San Sebastian’s film program consists of some 200 films selected for six competitive sections (Official Selection, New Directors, Horizontes Latinos, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Perlak and Nest) and seven non-competitive sections (Culinary Zinema, Made in Spain, Zinemira, Velodrome, Movies for Kids, Retrospective and Klasikoak).
San Sebastian International Film Festival
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Unseen ‘Socialist Realism’ Among Restored Films in Klasikoak at San Sebastian Film Festival
Socialist Realism (El realismo socialista)
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Fingernails Starring Riz Ahmed Among New Films Added to 71st San Sebastian Festival Golden Shell Competition
Fingernails Films from Isabella Eklöf, Kitty Green, Kei Chika-Ura, Xavier Legrand, Christos Nikou, Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang join the list of Golden Shell competitors at the 71st San Sebastian Festival. In addition, the French film A Real Job (Un métier sérieux), directed by Thomas Lilti, will be part of the special screenings of the Official Selection.
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Films by Jean-Luc Godard, Yui Kiyohara in San Sebastian Festival’s Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Competition
Remembering Every Night Films by Paul B. Preciado, Delphine Girard, Jean-Luc Godard, Yui Kiyohara, Damien Manivel, Rodrigo Moreno, Éléonore Saintagnan and Eduardo Williams will compete at San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera open competition, where everything goes as far as style and runtime are concerned. The section will showcase 25 titles: fifteen features, eight shorts and two medium-length films.
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Aki Kaurismäki ‘Fallen Leaves’ Wins FIPRESCI Grand Prix – Best Film of 2023
Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) directed by Aki Kaurismäki has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix as the best film of 2023 – films released after July 1 , 2022. The FIPRESCI Grand Prix will be presented at the opening gala of San Sebastian Festival where Fallen Leaves will also screen in the Perlak section.
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Close Your Eyes Director Víctor Erice to Receive Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival
Víctor Erice, Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) 50 years after he won the Golden Shell for his first solo feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), filmmaker Víctor Erice will receive a Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The Festival pays tribute to a filmmaker who, with only four feature films to his name, has garnered the Silver Shell for Best Director, Golden Shell for Best Film and the Jury and International Film Critics Prizes at the Festival de Cannes, among many other distinctions.
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James Marsh’s ‘Dance First’ Starring Gabriel Byrne to Close San Sebastian Festival
Dance First Oscar winning director James Marsh’s Dance First, the biopic film on Irish Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Becket, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film closing out the Official Selection in out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, and Fionn O’Shea.
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Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables Bookend Perlak Lineup of San Sebastian Festival
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest will open the Perlak lineup of San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition. This free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Martin Amis, portraying the everyday life of a German family who live beside Auschwitz, earned the British director the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron to Open San Sebastian Festival
The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) will open the 71st edition of San Sebastian Festival – out of competition. Following the premiere at Toronto Film Festival, San Sebastian will host the European premiere of the latest film from the director of Spirited Away.
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Paula Hernández’ A Ravaging Wind Headlines San Sebastian Film Festival’s Horizontes Latinos Lineup
A Ravaging Wind (El viento que arrasa) directed by Paula Hernández A Ravaging Wind (El viento que arrasa), a cinematic adaptation of Selva Almada’s homonymous novel by Argentinian filmmaker Paula Hernández will open the Horizontes Latinos section of the 71st edition of San Sebastian film festival. Alfredo Castro, Sergi López, Almudena González and Joaquín Acebo star in this tale of a preacher and his daughter who’s car breaks down during their latest mission to spread the gospel.
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11 Films to Compete for Kutxabank-New Directors Award at San Sebastian Festival
Gamma Rays (Les Rayons Gamma) directed by Henry Bernadet Eleven films – seven first works and four second films – from nineteen countries will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 71st San Sebastian Festival running from September 22 to 30, 2023.
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Films by Raven Jackson, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu to Compete for Golden Shell at 71st San Sebastián Festival
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt directed by Raven Jackson María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman will present their latest films in the Official Selection of the 71st San Sebastián Festival, which will be held from September 22nd to the 30th, 2023.
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Javier Bardem to Receive Donostia Award + Featured on Official Poster of San Sebastian Festival
Actor Javier Bardem will receive a Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The actor is also featured on the official poster of the festival.