The San Sebastian Film Festival is coming with strength this year. To begin with, the new work of Audrey Diwan, Emmanuelle, based on the homonymous novel, will be projected at the inaugural gala of the Official Section, where director Diwan won the Golden Lion of Venice. In addition, the latest work by Francis Ford and Gia Coppola will be in San Sebastian, Joshua Oppenheimer and his latest work The End has a very good look; and, above all: Jacques Audiard and Sean Baker, among others.

Cate Blanchett and Pedro Almodóvar will receive the two Donostia Awards this year and Javier Bardem will also be in Donostia-San Sebastián collecting the award that has been due to him last year. Another of the award winners will be the actress Elena Irureta, who will receive the Zinemira Prize, an award that hosts the Basque productions and is presented this year.

This year the Zinemira section will project nine works, of which three will be entirely in Basque: The Replica of Pello Gutierrez, from the Zortziko to the infinity of Naia Laka and the O.O.R. by Amaia Merino and Ander Iriarte. The Basque will be heard in these three new works, but also in the Last Romantics of David Pérez, which will compete in the New Directors section.

But there are many more Basque productions: for example, Soy Nevenka, by Iciar Bollain, will compete in the Official Section. Bollaín’s film narrates real facts – converted into fictions – about the sexual harassment suffered by the councillor of a Galician municipality, Nevenka Fernández, an emblematic case in Spain in 2000. In addition, the Intenerie, by Alauda Ruiz de Azua, of Movistar, will be screened out of competition in the Official Section. This issue also has as its main theme machista violence: After 30 years of marriage, a woman will denounce her husband for a permanent violation, which tells her about the influence she has on her family.

Moreover, the film Nina, by director Andrea Jaurrieta, will compete in the Made in Spain section of the Zinebi section. Patricia López Arnaiz embodies the protagonist, who returns to her native town to take revenge on the people of the past.

Among the most outstanding are the last work of the Moriarti: Marco The film, which tells Enric Marco's misleading story, closes the pearl section of the San Sebastian Film Festival. This week we told the details of the film at ARGIA and interviewed the director Jon Garaño.

Tickets: from Sunday

As usual at the San Sebastian Film Festival, tickets must be collected by days. That is, this Sunday, from 9:00 hours, you will be able to purchase tickets for the first three days of the Zinemaldia; on 20, 21 and 22 September. Monday morning, 23, 24 and 25 September. Finally, on Tuesday morning, 26, 27 and 28 September. They are available on the website of the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Once the San Sebastian Film Festival is launched, all the tickets that have been left free will be available.

Programming

See the programming here, by section.

Check the schedule here, day by day.