San Sebastian Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
2009 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 18-26, 2009
Official Selection
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH by LU CHUAN (China)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE REFUGE by FRANÇOIS OZON (France)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR
JAVIER REBOLLO for LA MUJER SIN PIANO (Spain-France)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR
PABLO PINEDA for YO, TAMBIÉN (Spain)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS
LOLA DUEÑAS for YO, TAMBIÉN (Spain)
JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY
ANDREW BOVELL, MELISSA REEVES, PATRICIA CORNELIUS and CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS for BLESSED (Australia)
JURY PRIZE FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
CAO YU for CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (China)
Official Competition Jury: LAURENT CANTET (France) (President), BONG JOON-HO (Korea), DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO (Spain), JOHN MADDEN (United Kingdom), LEONOR SILVEIRA (Portugal), PILAR LÓPEZ DE AYALA (Spain), SAMIRA MAKHMALBAF (Iran)
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by Pierre Philipe | September 27, 2009
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Tags: Blessed, City of Life and Death, Film Awards, Film Festivals, François Ozon, Javier Rebollo, La Mujer sin piano, Le Refuge, Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda, San Sebastian Film Festival
San Sebastian Film Festival Awards 2006
2006 San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
2006 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 21-30, 2006
Photos: Iñaki Pardo
At a awards ceremony yesterday, Sept. 30, the 54th Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival’s Golden Shell was given to two films: Niwemang / Half Moon (Iran-Iraq-Austria-France), which also took the International Film Critics’ FIPRESCI Award, and Mon fils à moi / My Son (France).
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi, Half Moon follows an old Kurdish-Iranian musician on his way to a performance in Iraq’s Kurdistan. Martial Fougeron’s Mon fils à moi is a coming-of-age story revolving around a dysfunctional mother-son relationship. As the doting mother, veteran Nathalie Baye (who earlier this year won the French Academy’s Best Actress César for Le Petit lieutenant) won the Silver Shell for Best [...]
by Andre Soares | September 30, 2006
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Tags: Film Awards, Film Festivals, San Sebastian Film Festival
San Sebastián 2006: Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective
One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective.
Besides the obligatory titles, such as the witty 1939 comedy of bright lights and Communism, Ninotchka, and the delightful 1934 version of The Merry Widow, the retrospective is also showcasing a large number of Lubitsch rarities (including a few fragments of mostly lost films), ranging from his earliest work in Germany — among them several Pola Negri vehicles and the gender-bending 1918 comedy Ich möchte kein Mann sein / I Don’t Want to Be a Man, starring the German Mary Pickford, Ossi Oswalda — to some of his little seen Hollywood films, such as the 1931 psychological drama Broken Lullaby / [...]
by Andre Soares | September 26, 2006
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Tags: Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Film Festivals, Mary Pickford, Ossi Oswalda, Pola Negri, Pre-Code Hollywood, San Sebastian Film Festival, Silent Films, The Patriot
2004 San Sebastián Film Festival Award Winners
Shot a mere month after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly won the Golden Shell at the 52nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival.
According to Reuters, Peruvian author and chairman of the jury Mario Vargas Llosa stated that although the decision was not unanimous, Turtles Can Fly had "moved us all, not only because of the terrible conditions in which it was filmed, but also because … despite the tragedy which it recounts, it is filled with humanity, poetry and even humor."
Set in Iraq’s Kurdistan right before the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion of that country, Turtles Can Fly tells the story of several Iraqi villagers who struggle to set up a [...]
by Andre Soares | September 30, 2004
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Tags: Bahman Ghobadi, Brothers, Connie Nielsen, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Mario Vargas Llosa, San Sebastian Film Festival, Turtles Can Fly, Ulrich Thomsen
San Sebastián Film Festival 2004
This year, the San Sebastián Film Festival will present a retrospective dedicated to Woody Allen, whose Melinda and Melinda (above, with Will Ferrell and Radha Mitchell) will have its world premiere on opening night. American actors Jeff Bridges and Annette Bening, for their part, will be honored with lifetime achievement awards.
The festival, which takes place on Spain’s Basque coast, is currently being used as a launching pad for movies made in Latin America via its fifteen-film sidebar Horizontes Latinos.
The 52nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival kicks off on September 17; nine days later, a jury headed by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will give out the Golden Shell to one [...]
by Andre Soares | September 11, 2004
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Tags: Annette Bening, Film Festivals, Jeff Bridges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Melinda and Melinda, Omagh, Radha Mitchell, San Sebastian Film Festival, Will Ferrell, Woody Allen
