San Sebastian

The director of the San Sebastián Film Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, is pleased with the good health of Basque cinema, which is not a matter of a day, and stresses that the presence of Basque audiovisual in world cinema is guaranteed in the coming years.

Now the critic brings us two other tapes from the Official Section, both from the Argentine "Bethlehem" (Dolores Fonzi) and "Las Corrientes" (Milagros Mumenthaler). These are stories of two women, but they show two very different realities.

The directors who opened the way to the Basque language have received a well-deserved tribute at the Basque Film Gala, within the framework of the San Sebastian Film Festival, where the actors Iban Garate and Ramon Agirre have been awarded the award.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested on charges of being the perpetrator of the sexual assault suffered last Friday by a woman who reported in police custody that the man, in addition to sexually assaulting her, controlled what he was doing and who he was with, and prohibited him from seeing his friends.

According to the mayor of Donostia-San Sebastián, "the forecast that was made at the time was that many of the buses that use this facility at the moment, with Vitoria or Bilbao as their destination of origin, should tend to disappear because when the service of the Basque high-speed train 'Y' is launched it is" more competitive, but that is "delaying a lot."

The filmmaker Irati Gorostidi talks in his first feature film about the community Arco Iris, based in the Ultzama Valley (Navarre) in the 1980s. The "New Age" will be premiered in the New Directors section of the 2025 San Sebastian Film Festival.

"Karmele", a member of EITB, has had a unique atmosphere on the red carpet of the Victoria Eugenia theatre. The work has been presented in the Official Section, out of competition, with the presence of Asier Altuna and a large team.

more than 350 actors (such as Itziar Atienza), producers and film workers have called on Donostina to attend Wednesday's demonstration against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Victoria Eugenia theatre with the screening of the film "The Voice of Hind Rajab", which tells the story of the six-year-old girl murdered by Israel in Gaza.

With the participation of EITB, director Asier Altuna has brought to the Official Section of the Festival the life of Karmele Urresti, based on the novel by Kirmen Uribe. Jone Laspiur and Eneko Sagardoy, with whom we have spoken.

The EITB Gala has been held for the first time at the Velodromo de San Sebastián and the documentary programme "Euskal Herrian Hegan" has been pre-released. In this first chapter, "Gipuzkoa Hegan" has been able to tour the most spectacular landscapes of the Guipuzcoana coast on a giant screen, accompanied by melodies composed by Fernando Velázquez.

In addition to the three films that have entered the Official Section on the third day of the Festival, the ORAIN critic has also mentioned "Karmele" (Asier Altuna).

The American actress and producer, who has traveled in the rain from the Hotel Maria Cristina to the Kursaal, but has reserved a little space to greet her fans, has come to the Festival to present Alice Winocour's film "Couture" in the Official Section.

The American actress is one of the stars of the 2025 Film Festival and has come to San Sebastian to present the film "Couture" by director Alice Winocour in the Official Section.

The latest film of the Moriarti productions, "Maspalomas", competes in the Official Section of the Festival, starring Vicente (José Ramón Soroiz), a 76-year-old homosexual man who must be put back in the closet.

Positive views have been heard among those who have emerged from the screening of the Official Section film "Maspalomas", which some have described as "necessary" the film by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi.

The Basque film directed by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi is starring the homosexual Vicente, who has to return to the closet of San Sebastian and has done all the credit to be among the winners of the Official Section.

The two demonstrators have cut off traffic on the bridge for more than an hour, both for vehicles and for pedestrians. The two activists have already been brought down from the bridge and normalcy has been restored on the bridge near the Kursaal.

The ORAIN film critic has analyzed three other films from the Official Section: "Los Tigres" (Alberto Rodriguez), "Deux pianos" (Arnaud Desplechin) and "Le Cri des Gardes" (Claire Denis).