San Sebastian announces opening and closing films

Jennifer Lawrence to be honoured at festival

by Amber Wilkinson

San Sebastian opening and closing images for 2025
San Sebastian opening and closing images for 2025 Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

San Sebastian Film Festival has announced the opening and closing films for its 73rd edition, which runs from September 19 to 27.

Jennifer Lawrence will receive Donostia
Jennifer Lawrence will receive Donostia Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

It will open with the world premiere of 27 Nights by Uruguayan filmmaker Daniel Hendler, which will play in competition. Hendler also stars in the fiilm, alongside Marilú Marini ,who plays an 80-year-old millionaire forced into a psychiatric clinic by her daughters.

The festival will close with an out-of-competition screening of Winter of the Crow, by the Polish director Kasia Adamik. The UK/Polish co-production is a Cold War thriller starring Leslie Manville and Tom Burke. It is based on a short story by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018, and recounts the tale of a British professor who arrives in Poland to give a lecture in December 1981, just as martial law is coming into force.

The festival has also announced in the past week that it will present one of its Donostia Awards to Jennifer Lawrence, who at 35 becomes one of the youngest recipients of the lifetime gong. She will collect her award on September 26 and the ceremony will be followed by a screening of her latest film Die My Love.

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