San Sebastian Film Festival Articles

Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds (above), about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early ’70s, won the Golden Shell for Best Film at the 2010 edition of Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival, which came to a close this past weekend. As the sensitive teen-turned-gangbanger, newcomer Conor McCarron was given the Silver Shell for Best Actor. [List of San Sebastian Film Festival [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]