The Festival

A total of 16 feature films will be shown in the Pearls section and all but Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's "Juste une illusion" will compete for the San Sebastian City Public Award.

Works by Jesse Eisenberg and Fred Cavaye, among others, will be added to the ten previously announced titles in the Official Film Festival Section.

The German director, screenwriter, producer and actor will be awarded one of the Festival's most prestigious honorary awards, which Herzog will receive at the opening ceremony and present his latest film, Bucking Fastard.

Baracaldo director Javier Giner presents his first film, This Loneliness, in this section of the Festival.

The new feature films of these filmmakers will compete for the Golden Shell of the San Sebastian Festival alongside the latest works by Nicole Garcia, Maha Harada, Hans Petter Moland and Benjamin Naishtat.

The film "Ander eta Yul" (1988), by Navarre director Ana Diez, has been restored by the Basque Film Library and EITB, analyzed and manually repaired in the laboratories L'immagine Ritrovata, dependent on the Cinemateca de Bologna, as previously done, among others, with the film "Tasio".

Actor, producer and director Ricardo Darín will star in the official poster of the 74 edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, which will be held from 18 to 26 September 2026.

The posters have been designed by the Wallijai Donostiarra studio. In the case of the poster starring Darin, they have created a collage from a portrait taken in 2024. 

Along with theofficial poster, posters from the other sections have also been released,wishing to pay tribute to the film trades. Thus, the poster with the image of Darin sends us to the performance, while the rest has to do with script (New Directors), sound (Latin Horizons), direction (Zabaltegi-Tabakalera), montage (Pearls), art direction (Nest), makeup (Culinary Cinema), special effects (Zinemira) and production (Made in Spain).

These posters will soon be joined by the threeClassics , which this year will pay tribute to the French filmmaker, novelist and screenwriter Jose Giovanni.

José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastián Film Festival, and Maialen Beloki, who will take his place from January, have taken the floor to present the poster of the next edition, which will begin on September 18. 

Jose Luis Rebordinos, the director who will give the witness this year, and filmmakers Koldo Almandoz and Lara Izagirre tell us about Beloki's appointment as head of the Festival.

The French filmmaker and novelist directed fifteen films and worked with Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville and Jacques Deray.

The platform's spokesman, Iñigo Rodriguez, has expressed his support for these people and recalled that some of them have been fined and others will be tried for participating in the protests at the last Return to Spain and the San Sebastian Film Festival.

After the success of the San Sebastian Film Festival, Alauda Ruiz de Azua's latest work opens in cinemas tomorrow.

Donostiako Zinemaldiak jaialdian erakutsi dituzten filmetako batzuk proiektatuko ditu Bizkaiko eta Nafarroako hiriburuetako Golem zinema aretoetan; besteak beste, “Karmele” eta “Los domingos” Urrezko Maskorraren irabazlea ikusi ahalko dira. 

José Luis Rebordinos, director of the festival, has been pleased to announce that the films have been applauded as never before.