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San Sebastián 2024


82 articles available in total starting from 07/05/2024. Last article published on 03/04/2025.

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Querer

Interview: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Querer

“Fear is powerful and invisible”

The Basque filmmaker presents her first series, which once again investigates the ins and outs of family, along with its complexities, private moments, doubts and grey areas  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: The Last Romantics

Review: The Last Romantics

David Pérez Sañudo takes on a commission, making a big-screen adaptation of Txani Rodríguez’s novel of the same name, a movie steeped in a sad atmosphere where only fantasy allows for any joy  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: Ramón y Ramón

Review: Ramón y Ramón

Peruvian director Salvador del Solar sensitively and honestly explores a friendship between two men and the power of family ties  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastian 2024 | Horizontes Latinos

Review: The End

Review: The End

With his feature fiction debut, Joshua Oppenheimer presents a haunting post-apocalyptic allegorical operetta that sinks its teeth into the true devastations of modernity  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Sandra Romero • Director of As Silence Passes By

Interview: Sandra Romero • Director of As Silence Passes By

“I’m interested in family ties and the filmmakers who analyse them”

Although she has already co-directed the series The New Years with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the director is competing with her feature debut, focusing on a return home, which she filmed in her home town  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Series review: Querer

Series review: Querer

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa proves not only that her sense of narrative has evolved, but also that she can offer an even more terrifying vision of the sacrosanct institution of the heteropatriarchal family  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: As Silence Passes By

Review: As Silence Passes By

Sandra Romero resorts to emotions within the family and quasi-documentary authenticity in her feature debut, as her character returns to his roots amidst conflicts and feelings of guilt  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: Hard Truths

Review: Hard Truths

British maestro Mike Leigh is back with a family drama that features all the best hallmarks of his brand of cinema, and which is directly connected to the emotional state of the modern world  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser trailer for San Sebastián entry As Silence Passes By

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser trailer for San Sebastián entry As Silence Passes By

The first film by Spanish director Sandra Romero is competing in the Basque festival's New Directors section  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

Interview: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

“The horror genre is a very interesting vehicle in which you can use this kind of tale to tell a much deeper story”

The duo explains the creative process behind their film as well as their way of understanding and utilising the horror genre  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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