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66 articles available in total starting from 17/02/2025. Last article published on 07/10/2025.

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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

Olmo Omerzu • Director of Ungrateful Beings

Interview: Olmo Omerzu • Director of Ungrateful Beings

“The drama in the film is based around white lies, but then lies become bigger and darker”

The Czech filmmaker challenges the limits of what’s right and wrong in the story of two separated fathers who struggle to save their older teenage daughter’s life  

26/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Review: She Walks in Darkness

Review: She Walks in Darkness

Agustín Díaz Llanes aims high as he returns with a tense, nerve-jangling thriller about a Civil Guard officer who infiltrates the ranks of ETA  

26/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Out of Competition

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

György Pálfi • Director of Hen

Interview: György Pálfi • Director of Hen

“I needed to place this small creature in a grand human tragedy and see what would happen when those two worlds collided”

The Hungarian director tells us about the risky venture of making a highly creative film where the main protagonist is a hen roaming the world of humans  

25/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Review: Ballad of a Small Player

Review: Ballad of a Small Player

The spectacular Asian locations in the new film by the director of Conclave prove more compelling than its intricate yet hollow plot, starring a committed Colin Farrell  

25/09 | San Sebastian 2025 | Competition

San Sebastián’s industry strands hand out their awards

San Sebastián’s industry strands hand out their awards

The festival’s Co-Production Forum and WIP sections have shone the spotlight on upcoming titles by Laura Baumeister, Alvaro Brechner and Fernando Eimbcke, among others  

25/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | San Sebastián Industry

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

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays

Interview: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays

“When conflict arises in our own home, we find it very difficult to be tolerant”

The Basque director discusses her new film, a long-cherished project that explores adolescence, respect, family conflicts and crises of faith  

25/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of Maspalomas

Interview: Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of Maspalomas

“Society has established that it’s preferable to think older people don’t have sex”

The Basque filmmakers admit they learned a great deal from this foray into gay culture, while also broaching topics like sexuality in later life and the regression of society  

25/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

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