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The 63rd edition of the festival will run from September 18 to 26.
The Thematic Retrospective will be dedicated to New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015 and the Classic Retrospective will focus on work by Merian C Cooper (1893-1973) and Ernest B Schoedsack (1893-1979), including the original King Kong.
The festival opened with Regression and closed with London Road. The Golden Shell was won by Sparrows - read more about the winners here.
View Films by Strand:
- Culinary Zinema - Film and Gastronomy
- Horizontes Latinos
- Made In Spain
- Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack Retrospective
- New Directors
- Official Selection
- Pearls
- Savage Cinema
- Thematic Retrospective: New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015
- Zabaltegi
- Zinemira
View previous years coverage of the San Sebastian Film Festival festival:
SSFF Latest Reviews

Three children decide to leave their homes looking a better life.

A family starts to disintegrate after the mother and father leave the children home alone.

The true story of the Puccio Clan. A family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

Three sisters take their 15-year-old half sister into their home and hearts.

Story of a teenage girl living in the foothills of a volcano, who faces an arranged marriage but is won over by the charms of a plantation worker.

The story of the relationship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists who, decades apart, search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Class war breaks out in a tower block.

A young woman chooses between two men as China is torn between its traditional values and a capitalist future.

A young woman survives a rape and her response confounds everyone around her.

A man returns home after a 17 year absence because his only son is gravely sick.
San Sebastian Film Festival Features
San Sebastian Film Festival News

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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