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San Sebastian 2025 / New Directors

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16 articles available in total starting from 23/07/2025. Last article published on 29/09/2025.

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Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's Sundays wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's Sundays wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián

The Basque director tops a list of winners with a strong Spanish presence, which also includes Good Valley Stories , Maspalomas and Los Tigres  

29/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Awards

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

Interview: Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

“Other than being conscious of Jonah’s growing up without a father, we are both interested in the sort of lost boys of today”

The British filmmakers talk to us about their movie, which is both a reflection on young men today and an intimate, deeply personal family story  

29/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

Interview: Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

“I really wanted to take this young girl seriously, and to actually make her a complex person, like all of us are”

The Danish filmmaker chatted to us about her first feature film, a coming-of-age story about a girl who spends her first summer away from home at a health summer camp  

26/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

José Alayón • Director of Dance of the Living

Interview: José Alayón • Director of Dance of the Living

“In Canarian wrestling, I saw a metaphor for life, resilience and the personal conflicts we all live through”

The director talks about the origins, challenges and metaphors of his second feature, built around the traditional sport of the Canary Islands  

26/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Review: Aro berria

Review: Aro berria

Irati Gorostidi's debut feature is a fascinating, bracing exploration of the alternative movement that was born within the Basque labour struggle of the 1970s  

25/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Review: If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light up the Night

Review: If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light up the Night

Costa Rican filmmaker Kim Torres’ debut feature is a slow-burning yet stimulating coming-of-age story that serves as a powerful calling card  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

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

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: Dance of the Living

Review: Dance of the Living

In his second feature, José Alayón paints a simultaneously delicate and devastating portrait of a father-daughter relationship, set against the backdrop of Canarian wrestling  

23/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

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