UPDATE (23 July 2025): The festival has added a fourth Spanish film to the Golden Shell competition: Sundays [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
scheda film], by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. The Basque director's follow-up to her awarded first feature Lullaby [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
scheda film] tells the story of a 17-year-old who announces to her family that she feels increasingly closer to God and is considering embracing the life of a cloistered nun.

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This morning, Madrid played host to the announcement of the 22 Spanish-produced titles (17 features, two shorts and three series) set to take part in the various sections of the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival, unspooling from 19-27 September.

Almost 25 years after taking home the Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize from the gathering, thanks to En construcción, José Luis Guerin (selected for Berlin with his 1984 feature debut, Berta’s Motives, for Cannes with his previous titles Innisfree and Train of Shadows, and for Venice with In the City of Sylvia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: José Luis Guerín
scheda film], shot in Vallbona, a neighbourhood in Barcelona with a significant percentage of migrants among its population. Alongside this, Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi will once again be duking it out for the Golden Shell (as they did previously with Flowers [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and the award-winning Giant [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Aitor Arregi e Jon Garaño
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intervista: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño e…
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intervista: Aitor Arregi e José Mari G…
scheda film].

What’s more, Alberto Rodríguez will premiere Los Tigres [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alberto Rodríguez
scheda film], Smoke & Mirrors [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alberto Rodríguez
scheda film] and, out of competition, Prison 77 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and the series The Plague [+leggi anche:
intervista: Alberto Rodríguez e Rafael…
scheda series] and Offworld [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rodrigo Sorogoyen e Isabel…
scheda series]. In addition, at this edition, he will be enjoying a double whammy, as he will present The Anatomy of a Moment [+leggi anche:
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scheda series], a miniseries about the attempted 1981 coup d’état in Spain, out of competition.

For his part, Agustín Díaz Yanes returns to the festival after picking up the Special Jury Prize with Nobody Will Speak of Us When We’re Dead. Also playing out of competition, his She Walks in Darkness [+leggi anche:
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The Special Screenings will include four Spanish titles: the historical drama Karmele, directed by Asier Altuna (Amama (When a Tree Falls) [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Asier Altuna
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scheda film] and Between Two Waters [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isaki Lacuesta
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intervista: Koldo Almandoz
scheda film]), a thriller starring Nagore Aranburu, Josean Bengoetxea and Ramon Agirre, and Fate, helmed by Paco Plaza (The Grandmother [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Paco Plaza
scheda film]) and toplined by Óscar Jaenada, Ricardo Gómez and Pablo Guerrero, about a taxi driver-turned-chauffeur for a bullfighter.

As for the New Directors strand, there will be two Spaniards involved: Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe (who took part in the Cannes Critics’ Week with her short film Contadores) will premiere her feature debut, Aro berria [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], a look at working-class resistance in the Basque Country in the 1970s; and producer, DoP and director José Alayón (Slimane [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]) will present his second feature, Dance of the Living [+leggi anche:
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intervista: José Alayón
scheda film], in which he tells of the relationship between a father and daughter following the passing of their wife and mother.

In the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section, audiences will see three features and a short film with Spanish involvement: A Scary Movie [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sergio Oksman
scheda film]), in which a documentary director and his son stay in an abandoned hotel in Lisbon; The Good Sister [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sarah Miro Fischer e Marie…
scheda film], the feature debut by Sarah Miro Fischer, about a young woman who discovers that her brother has been accused of rape, a movie that premiered in the Berlinale Panorama; The Last Rapture, a non-fiction title helmed by journalist Marta Medina and producer Enrique López Lavigne, focusing on Iván Zulueta, the man behind the cult Spanish film Rapture (1980); and Variations, a short film by Lur Olaizola Lizarralde, a reflection on life and bereavement that is showing out of competition.

Horizontes Latinos will be showing off the queer western The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Diego Céspedes
scheda film], the feature debut by Chile’s Diego Céspedes, which scooped the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes; as well as the road movie The Message [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Iván Fund
scheda film], winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlinale, helmed by Argentina’s Iván Fund.

Among the titles scheduled to unspool in the Velodrome are Rondallas, the new opus by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (DarkBlueAlmostBlack [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], Seventeen [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
scheda film]), about a town in Galicia that resolves to bring the local traditional music group back to life; and the documentary Hasta que me quede sin voz, directed by Mario Forniés and Lucas Nolla, zooming in on musician Leiva.

Lastly, in the Perlak section, viewers can enjoy Sleepless City [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guillermo Galoe
scheda film], with which Guillermo Galoe won the SACD Award in the Cannes Critics’ Week, while the Made in Spain strand will be opened by the feature The Delights of the Garden by Fernando Colomo and the short film Abril, hoy no es invierno by Mabel Lozano.

Here is the Spanish selection announced so far for the main sections:

Competition

Maspalomas [+leggi anche:
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Good Valley Stories [+leggi anche:
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intervista: José Luis Guerín
scheda film] – José Luis Guerín (Spain/France)
Los Tigres [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Alberto Rodríguez (Spain)
Sundays [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
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Out of Competition

She Walks in Darkness [+leggi anche:
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The Anatomy of a Moment [+leggi anche:
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scheda series] – Alberto Rodríguez (Spain/France) (series)

Special Screenings

Mouths of Sky – Koldo Almandoz (Spain) (series)
Karmele – Asier Altuna (Spain)
Flores para Antonio – Isaki Lacuesta, Elena Molina (Spain)
Fate – Paco Plaza, Pablo Guerrero (Spain) (series)

New Directors

Dance of the Living [+leggi anche:
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Aro berria [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Irati Gorostidi Aguirretxe (Spain)

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

The Last Rapture – Marta Medina, Enrique López Lavigne (Spain)
The Good Sister [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sarah Miro Fischer e Marie…
scheda film] – Sarah Miro Fischer (Germany/Spain)
Variations – Lur Olaizola Lizarralde (Spain) (short film)
A Scary Movie [+leggi anche:
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Horizontes Latinos

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Diego Céspedes
scheda film] – Diego Céspedes (Chile/France/Germany/Spain/Belgium)
The Message [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Iván Fund
scheda film] – Iván Fund (Argentina)

Velodrome

Hasta que me quede sin voz – Mario Forniés, Lucas Nolla (Spain)
Rondallas – Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Spain)