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72 articles available in total starting from 17/02/2025. Last article published on 09/04/2026.

Laura Baumeister • Director of What Follows Is My Death

Interview: Laura Baumeister • Director of What Follows Is My Death

“We could say that talking about the ‘female gaze’ of women auteurs is another kind of narrative restraint”

We talked to the Nicaraguan director, a two-time winner of the DALE! (Latin America-Europe Development) Award at the Co-Production Forum, about her new project  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | San Sebastián Industry

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

Interview: José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

“I can only conceive of filming out of affection”

The filmmaker returns to the festival where he previously triumphed and talks about young directors, the human diversity that populates his new film and how much he hates drones  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Review: Good Valley Stories

Review: Good Valley Stories

José Luis Guerín returns with another humanist non-fiction film, populated by real people – multicultural residents of a district on the outskirts of Barcelona  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

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  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Series review: The Anatomy of a Moment

Series review: The Anatomy of a Moment

Alberto Rodríguez revisits the challenges Spain's fledgling democracy faced, through the three key figures of the time who directly witnessed the 1981 coup d'état  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastian 2025 | Out of Competition

Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture

Interview: Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture

“The film is really about this immediate connection you can have with someone coming from another world”

The director and actor share their understanding of the movie’s intricate themes of body politics, sexuality and finding connections in seemingly different lived experiences  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

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  

26/09/2025 | 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  

26/09/2025 | 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  

26/09/2025 | 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  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

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