Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián
The International Film Festival of San Sebastián ( English : San Sebastian International Film Festival , abbreviated SSIFF ; Spanish : Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián ; official name: Donostia Zinemaldia - Festival de San Sebastián ) is a week-long international film festival . The venue for the festival is the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain .
background
The San Sebastián Festival first took place on September 21, 1953. It has been classified as a so-called A festival by the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films (FIAPF) . In addition to the official competition, which among other things helps the festival to be classified as an A festival, there are the following sections:
- Zabaltegi (a kind of "best of" competitions at other festivals)
- Horizontes Latinos (a retrospective of Latin American filmmaking)
- Historical retrospective
- Contemporary retrospective
- Culinary Zinema
- New Directors
In 1953 and 1954, only Spanish films were eligible for the competition.
The main prize of the jury is the golden shell ( Concha de Oro ), derived from the name of the characteristic bay “La Concha”, which is the symbol of San Sebastián. In addition, the “Silver Shell for Best Director” ( Concha de Plata al Mejor Director ) will be awarded. Since 1986, the Donostia Prize ( Premio Donostia , Basque Donostia Saria ) has been awarded annually to key people from the film industry whose life's work is to be recognized.
Since 1999, the international film critics association FIPRESCI has been awarding its Grand Prix de la FIPRESCI , a critics award for the film of the year (see FIPRESCI award for winners ) on the occasion of the San Sebastián International Film Festival .
In the past few years, the festival has felt the effects of the subprime crisis and, as a result, of the euro crisis , which particularly affected Spain. Festival director Jose Luis Rebordinos explained the relatively low presence of film stars for an A festival in 2013 with limited financial possibilities: “Unfortunately, we now have a certain uncertainty about how much money we will have at the end. That can mean that agreements with Hollywood stars do not come about because the travel costs are very high. "
Golden Shell Winner
Winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director
The Silver Shell for “Best Director” ( Spanish : Concha de Plata al Mejor Director ; Basque : Zuzendari Onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra ) is one of the most important awards at the film festival.
Donostia Award winner
- 1986: Gregory Peck and Gene Tierney
- 1987: Glenn Ford
- 1988: Vittorio Gassman
- 1989: Bette Davis
- 1990: Claudette Colbert
- 1991: Anthony Perkins
- 1992: Lauren Bacall
- 1993: Robert Mitchum
- 1994: Lana Turner
- 1995: Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve
- 1996: Al Pacino
- 1997: Michael Douglas , Jeremy Irons and Jeanne Moreau
- 1998: Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich
- 1999: Fernando Fernán Gómez , Vanessa Redgrave and Anjelica Huston
- 2000: Michael Caine and Robert De Niro
- 2001: Francisco Rabal , Warren Beatty and Julie Andrews
- 2002: Jessica Lange , Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper
- 2003: Isabelle Huppert , Sean Penn and Robert Duvall
- 2004: Woody Allen , Annette Bening and Jeff Bridges
- 2005: Willem Dafoe and Ben Gazzara
- 2006: Max von Sydow and Matt Dillon
- 2007: Liv Ullmann and Richard Gere
- 2008: Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas
- 2009: Ian McKellen
- 2010: Julia Roberts
- 2011: Glenn Close
- 2012: Oliver Stone , Ewan McGregor , Tommy Lee Jones , John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman
- 2013: Carmen Maura , Hugh Jackman
- 2014: Denzel Washington , Benicio del Toro
- 2015: Emily Watson
- 2016: Ethan Hawke , Sigourney Weaver
- 2017: Monica Bellucci , Ricardo Darín , Agnès Varda
- 2018: Hirokazu Koreeda , Danny DeVito , Judi Dench
- 2019: Costa-Gavras , Donald Sutherland , Penélope Cruz
- 2020: Viggo Mortensen
Web links
- San Sebastián International Film Festival in the Internet Movie Database
- Official website of the film festival (Spanish / Basque / English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Katzenberger: "Worry of care" , At: Süddeutsche.de , October 2, 2013
- ^ Film festival in San Sebastián: "Golden Shell" for Xiaogang Feng , tagesschau.de from September 25, 2016
- ^ San Sebastian Film Festival: Honorary Award for Mortensen. In: ORF.at . June 22, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .