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2282 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 02/02/2026.

Paco Cabezas  • Director of Adiós

Interview: Paco Cabezas • Director of Adiós

“I’ve had a lot of experience of working in Hollywood”

Although unable to make it to San Sebastián in person, Seville-born director Paco Cabezas was happy to chat about his fifth film, Adiós, which is being screened as part of the RTVE Gala  

30/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo  • Director of Seventeen

Interview: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo • Director of Seventeen

“Animals make us better people”

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s road movie Seventeen is the first Spanish Netflix film to take part in the Official Section of the San Sebastián Film Festival and sees the director return to his roots  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Out of Competition

Review: Adiós

Review: Adiós

Following a successful career in the USA, Paco Cabezas returns to his native Seville with a suspenseful thriller about warring neighbours, family dramas, police corruption and the Andalusian mob  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Review: A Thief's Daughter

Review: A Thief's Daughter

Belén Funes ensnares the audience with her raw approach to the daily life of a young mother, forced to grapple with loneliness, her troublesome father and a lack of affection  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Review: Seventeen

Review: Seventeen

Spain’s Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo delivers a simple, likeable and heart-warming road movie, homing in on two brothers who struggle to understand one another  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Out of Competition

Belén Funes  • Director of A Thief’s Daughter

Interview: Belén Funes • Director of A Thief’s Daughter

"Making a film is about improvising"

Feature film newcomer Belén Funes battled it out for the Golden Shell in San Sebastián with A Thief’s Daughter, a drama focused on a young mother faced with a serious family conflict  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Review: Window to the Sea

Review: Window to the Sea

Emma Suárez leads the cast in this drama directed by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, focusing on the final days of a woman who travels to a Greek island and finally finds freedom  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Miguel Ángel Jiménez  • Director of Window to the Sea

Interview: Miguel Ángel Jiménez • Director of Window to the Sea

“Fiction can be a salve, and it can bring us back to ourselves”

Spanish filmmaker Miguel Ángel Jiménez gives us the backstory to his new film, Window to the Sea — a co-production between Spain and Greece starring Emma Suárez and set on a Mediterranean island  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Review: Heroic Losers

Review: Heroic Losers

The Daríns are co-producing and starring in the adaptation of Eduardo Sacheri’s Argentine novel La noche de la Usina, directed by Sebastián Borensztein with mixed results  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Special Screenings

Maider Fernández Iriarte  • Director of Jordi's Letters

Interview: Maider Fernández Iriarte • Director of Jordi's Letters

“When you make a film about people with disabilities, it can cause a certain discomfort”

Maider Fernández Iriarte presents her brave and moving debut, Jordi's Letters, in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián International Film Festival  

25/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

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