San Sebastian 2023

San Sebastian 2023: The Verdict

Oct 2, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023, Spotlight

This year’s San Sebastian was a sunny festival filled with discoveries.

San Sebastian: The Awards

Oct 1, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023

Jaione Camborda’s delicate drama of a midwife, ‘The Rye Horn’, won the Golden Shell.

Gamma Rays

Sep 29, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2023

Canadian director Henry Bernadet paints a sunny patchwork portrait of multicultural Montreal in his collaborative teen-driven docu-drama ‘Gamma Rays’.

Toll

Sep 29, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023

Lively characters get involved in a farcical church course designed to rewire gays in the otherwise staid ‘Toll’ (‘Pedagio’), a story about coping with poverty and ignorance in remote Brazil.

CineVerdict: Víctor Erice

Sep 29, 2023 | Featured, Cine Verdict, Interviews & Profiles, San Sebastian 2023

Víctor Erice maestro del cine español recibe el Premio Donostia en el SSIFF.

Red Island

Sep 28, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023

In equal parts fiercely amusing and roundly desolating, Robin Campillo’s ‘Red Island’, an offbeat look at the end of French colonialism in Madagascar, is a crowd-pleaser in San Sebastian’s Official Selection.

We Are the Hollow Men

Sep 28, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023, Verdict Shorts

Rati Oneli’s phlegmatic drama, We Are the Hollow Men, depicts the difficult relationship between an estranged father and son when the latter returns home after his mother’s death.

Ex-Husbands

Sep 28, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, San Sebastian 2023

Griffin Dunne, James Norton and Miles Heizer co-star in Noah Pritzker’s underpowered but charming ensemble drama ‘Ex-Husbands’. which pays fond homage to a lost analogue era of bittersweet New York comedies.

Víctor Erice, Spanish Master

Sep 28, 2023 | Festivals, Interviews & Profiles, San Sebastian 2023, Spotlight

Revered Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice receives the Donostia Award at SSIFF.

The Royal Hotel

Sep 27, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2023

Australian writer-director Kitty Green takes a hellish holiday in the badlands of toxic masculinity with her punchy feminist Outback thriller ‘The Royal Hotel’.

Awards Corner

San Sebastian 2023