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REPORT: San Sebastián 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival live with reviews, interviews and market reports...

REPORT: San Sebastián 2025

46 articles available in total starting from 23/07/2025. Last article published on 25/09/2025.

Review: Ungrateful Beings

Review: Ungrateful Beings

In his fifth film, Czech director Olmo Omerzu starts from an interesting premise that gets warped to the point of prompting disinterest and rejection towards his protagonists and their fates  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Milagros Mumenthaler • Director of The Currents

Interview: Milagros Mumenthaler • Director of The Currents

“I liked that contradiction of water as this comforting place that she somehow couldn't leave”

The Swiss-Argentinian director shares the secrets behind her third feature, which beautifully engages with themes of depression, motherhood and the ungraspable  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Review: Weightless

Review: Weightless

Emilie Thalund’s debut feature shines a light on self-acceptance, friendship, desire and growing up, as it follows a teenager at a health camp  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

Interview: John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

“I was around eight at the time, and these little stories have haunted me ever since”

The Swedish director breaks down his story of a farm worker who spends a fair share of the latter half of his life fortifying his house during the Cold War  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Claire Denis • Director of The Fence

Interview: Claire Denis • Director of The Fence

"The colonisation we’re seeing today is another kind called capitalism"

The French director discusses the origins of her new film and the most significant topics she’s covered during her considerable career  

23/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Review: Sundays

Review: Sundays

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa establishes herself as a filmmaker with this chronicle of a family crisis, which questions the very solid foundations of the sacrosanct institution and its limited tolerance  

23/09 | San Sebastian 2025 | Competition

The Spanish film industry looks to the future at San Sebastián

The Spanish film industry looks to the future at San Sebastián

Professionals have gathered at the festival to assess the progress of the Spanish government’s Spain Audiovisual Hub programme and to highlight the developments necessary for the sector  

23/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | San Sebastián Industry

Global solidarity with Palestine grows at San Sebastián

Global solidarity with Palestine grows at San Sebastián

After the impressive display of support promoted by Venice4Palestine during the last Venice Film Festival, the Basque gathering has also demonstrated its solidarity  

23/09 | San Sebastián 2025

Review: The Son and the Sea

Review: The Son and the Sea

British helmer Stroma Cairns’s feature debut takes us by the hand as we follow two charismatic, endearing friends on a journey steeped in genuine emotion  

23/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Review: Maspalomas

Review: Maspalomas

The protagonist of Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga’s melodrama leaves the titular queer paradise to return not only to his city, but also to the closet it was so hard to come out of  

23/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

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