Now, 72 Donostia arrives. Zinemaldia: tickets from Sunday
- The San Sebastian Film Festival will be held from 20 to 28 September. This Sunday the ticket box office for the performances of the first three days of the festival opens.
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.
Bound in Heaven
Address: Xin Huo
Country: China
Duration: 109 minutes
Premiere: Not implemented
Run away from death, forward. The man who suffers a terminal illness will do so, along with his lover, friend and travel partner. A hard but positive film, with good image... [+]
The ninth and final day, at a special festival that will remember me with great affection. Leaving two films risky for the last day, I'm writing this first chronicle with the music of a bar, because I didn't like the movie I saw before.
I've seen Ulysses in the program of the... [+]
And that was Saturday and not Sunday. It was hard for him to clear up the day, because there were far fewer people on the street and there was no hurry. Some soon approached Kursaal and Victoria Eugenia Theatre, where they projected the closing movie of the night, We Live in... [+]
The Gasteiztarra Patricia López de Arnaiz has been made with the Goya the best lead actor at the 72 San Sebastian Festival. In the Zinemaldia, for his work in the film 'The Flashes', directed by Pilar Palomero.
The film is based on the first narrative of Eider Rodríguez's book... [+]
I never cry with movies. I've seen hard films, sad stories, full of death, showing the worst of the human being, without asking for forgiveness. I've seen beautiful, elegant, monumental movies that talk about miracles, deep. And yet, I don't cry with movies. Those of us who... [+]
Although outside the Concha de Oro competition and other awards, other – usually good – works are premiered in the Official Section. In particular, there are sixteen competing films and 22 films – twenty films and two telescopes – are in projection.
One of the series... [+]
When I made the Festival calendar, the first film I chose was Parthenope. Not knowing what it was, before I read the synopsis, I knew I had to see it, because it was from director Paolo Sorrentino. My roommate and roommate always tells me that I’m an “excited” with that... [+]
On Wednesday, the Greek Costa-Gavras was at Donostia-San Sebastian, at 91, presenting his new work and giving him the level with Le dernier souffle; and on Thursday the British Mike Leigh, with an elegant black cane and an 81 year old luggage.
New old ones? No. And I'm not... [+]
Family dynamics that have been worsening for too long tend to become chronic and cannot be easily cured. In the feature film written and directed by Sandra Romero, where the silence passes (The place that passes the silence), Antonio (Antonio Araque) returns to Ecija (Andalusia)... [+]
There is sometimes a feeling that everything is tied. It will be possible to see everything, even in the Official Section, always under a framework. We have seen some touches of humor, weeping dramas, suspenses, documentaries, even a horror film – which we will analyze at the... [+]
On June 28 of this year, Casa in Flames (Etxea Sutan), a dramatic comedy directed by Dani de la Orden, premiered. I told him I thought I would see him a month before the festival, when I was talking to a friend, and he recommended it to me. Although we do not always agree, the... [+]
Always within a framework, but we are seeing everything in the Official Section of the Festival. And that, to tell the truth, is appreciated. There’s a big difference between the dozens of “smell your eggs” in this bullfighter’s movie and the infinite silences of On... [+]