The 25th anniversary of the Sebastiane award at the San Sebastian Festival will include the special screening of the film ‘120 Beats Per Minute’, winner of the Sebastiane Award in 2017, on Sunday 22nd at the Príncipe Cinemas (18:15), attended by its director, Robin Campillo, and its leading actor, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.
Throughout its history, the award has recognized the portayal of sexual freedom in countries such as Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Algeria and Belgium, with filmmakers taking their first steps, Past winners include Nadine Labaki (Caramel, 2007), the second movies by Manuel Martín Cuenca (Malas temporadas, 2005), Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga (80 egunean / For 80 Days, 2010), plus long-standing directors such as Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog, 2021).
This year, fourteen movies compete for the Sebastiane Award 2024: two in New Directors: Bagger Drama and Por donde pasa el silencio / As Silence Passes By; five in Horizontes Latinos (Cidade; Campo; El Jockey / Kill the Jockey; Los domingos mueren más personas / Most People Die on Sundays; Ramón y Ramón and Reas); three in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera (I Saw The TV Glow, Sombra grande / Big Shadow and Boku No Ohisama / My Sunshine); one in Perlak (Emilia Pérez); and three in Made in Spain (Norberta; Orgullo Vieja; Reír, cantar, tal vez llorar / To Laugh, To Sing , Perhaps To Cry). The jury will be made up of members of Gehitu together with actors Eneko Sagardoy and Anna Castillo, and the awards will be announced in the Bidassoa Taproom on Friday 27th at 19:00.
As part of the collaboration between the San Sebastian Festival and Gehitu is the 10th anniversary of the Meeting of LGBTIQA+ Festivals. Tthis year the topic will be a conversation on the inclusion of transmasculine realities in Ibero-American films.
In addition, the 24 festivals from 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay) will reflect on The construction of diverse festivals: from the programming to the prejudices. They will also answer the question: Diverse culture? 25 years of LGBTIQA+ audiovisual festivals at a gathering with the participation of representatives of bodies collaborating with the meeting: the Ministry of Equality, the Basque Agency for Cooperation and Solidarity, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the NGO Mugen Gainetik.
Industry professionals, the LGBTIQA+ community attending the Festival and the general public can participate in other activities organized in this framework. Among others, the analysis of LGBTIQA+ diversity in Spanish production with the ODA (Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media); presentation of the short films from the project Shameless Memories: Reclaiming our queer memory, with the collaboration of the Tabakalera audiovisual laboratory, the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and the Filmoteca Vasca and a meeting with three professionals from the field of production selected from the LGBTIQA+ lab network, made up of the Mosta FIRE!! in Barcelona, the Zinegoak Festival in Bilbao and the Fundación Triángulo’s Queercinelab.
The poster designed for this special edition pays tribute to the diverse public who has accompanied the award over its 25 years at the Festival and is the work of local designer Rubén B. Caballero.
San Sebastián Film Festival takes place September 20 – 28
