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The San Sebastian Film Festival will fete Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg with its prestigious Donostia Award at the 70th edition, running 16-24 September. The filmmaker will receive the career achievement prize on September 21 at a ceremony in the festival's main Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed…

Beneath the briny, where Davy Jones' Locker is home to the bodies of thousands of dead sailors who lost their lives on the high seas, there be treasure. Frank Wild (Stanley Tucci) has never let go of his boyhood dreams of roaming the world turning up buried jewels and ships' figureheads and letting pieces of eight run…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first look at Slovenian-language thriller-comedy Inventory, which had its world premiere this week in San Sebastian Film Festival's New Directors program. Directed by Darko Sinko as his debut fiction feature, the pic follows a man who one night is surprisingly shot at through his window. As he…

Long ago, Javier Bardem told me he could never play a romantic hero. "Look at this face!," he said in what then was halting English. "This is the face of a bad boy!" Of course, he was so wrong: Bardem's face turned out to be almost infinitely adaptable. In Fernando Leon de Aranoa's The Good Boss (El Buen Patron)…

“Detail is important,” says the disembodied voice of a young boy as a woman is dragged by her feet across the floor of a damp, dingy forest. A voice that could be hers replies as the two voices pool their memories of a day something dreadful happened. “Am I screaming?” asks the woman's voice. “Yes,” says the boy. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish indie production powerhouse Mediapro is at San Sebastian Film Festival this year screening two of the buzziest local features in the program: the Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Oscar Martinez-starring Official Competition, which arrives from Venice, and the Javier Bardem-fronted The Good Boss…

Looking at a map of Spain, the Basque region seems to be tucked neatly into one corner, cozy as can be. On the ground, of course, it's a different matter: the Pais Vasco has its own language, culture, food and politics, plus its own history of violence. ETA, the region's equivalent to the IRA, assassinated more than…

A superfan dates his idol in Claire Simon's I Want To Talk About Duras (Vous Ne Désirez Que Moi), premiering in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Official Competition before screening at the New York Film Festival. Based on the transcript of an audio interview, the French language drama stars Swann Arlaud as Yann…

Spain’s primary film event, the San Sebastian Film Festival, was one of the few major international fests to host a physical edition last year as the pandemic raged around the world. Flash forward 12 months and Covid is far from behind us, but festivals are pushing on in this strange new world. After a summer where…

Busan Planning Physical Edition South Korea's Busan International Film Festival is eyeing a physical edition this year, the event has confirmed to Deadline. Despite worsening Covid cases in many Asian nations, including Korea where authorities are reportedly eyeing increased restrictions, organizers of Busan said it…

Johnny Depp is to receive the San Sebastian Film Festival’s (Sept 17-25) Donostia Award, its highest accolade. The festival today described Depp as “one of contemporary cinema's most talented and versatile actors”. The ceremony feting the U.S. star will take place on September 22 at the festival’s Kursaal…

The 69th San Sebastian Film Festival has confirmed its first crop of Competition titles, including Terence Davies' Benediction starring Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi. The movie chronicles different moments in the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier and anti-war poet who survived the First World War. This will be…