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Carlos Rosado Cobián, director of Spain's Film Commission, cut a figure of intense pride as he stepped on stage in a small conference room this afternoon at the San Sebastian Film Festival.  That energy was matched by the audience of Spanish industry figures inside the room as Cobián introduced what…

Some people are just better off dead. That's the ultimate conclusion of the prolific French film-maker François Ozon's new domestic drama, receiving its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival this week, but delivered with such sly delicacy, such slippery grace — no, actually, such sweetness…

Today was Cate Blanchett day at the San Sebastian Film Festival as the two-time Oscar winner cruised into town to receive the Spanish festival's Donostia Award for career achievement.  The excitement in San Sebastian was strong. The festival even sent an email updating delegates that Blanchett's…

It’s a surprise to find out that director Audrey Diwan had never seen the original Emmanuelle — a gauzy soft-porn feature that got la toute France hot and bothered when it was allowed to be shown in normal cinemas in 1974 — before she was approached to do this remake, which opens the San Sebastian Film Fes…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Bel Powley (The King of Staten Island) and Nick Robinson (Love, Simon) in rom-com sci-fi Turn Me On, which will get its world premiere at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival. Directed by Michael Tyburski (The Sound of Silence), the film is set in a world where…

José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian Film Festival, has just over a week until opening night when he sits down for an interview with Deadline, and he is still plagued by one niggling organizational issue.  "It's always so difficult to close the jury," Rebordinos explains as he rushes…

For more than 70 years the San Sebastian International Film Festival has been considered the premiere hub for connecting Europe's film industry to Latin American cinema and filmmaking talent. The festival has long supported the early works of famed Latin American filmmakers ranging from Brazilian…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first-footage of Paris-set chef drama Grande Maison Paris, the standalone feature spinoff from the world of Japanese hit series La Grande Maison: Tokyo. Set in the high stakes world of Parisian culinary excellence, the film is led by Japanese star Takuya Kimura (Blade of the Immortal…

San Sebastian Creative Investors' Conference The San Sebastian Festival will host its third annual Creative Investors' Conference on September 24 and 25 in collaboration with CAA Media Finance. Execs set for the conference include Bobby Allen of MUBI, Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films, Axel…

EXCLUSIVE: London and Paris-based production and sales company Film Constellation has unveiled a first teaser trailer for Charlie Chaplin doc Chaplin: Spirit Of The Tramp, directed by his granddaughter, Carmen Chaplin. The film, an intimate portrait of the comic icon from inside the family circle…

The San Sebastian Film Festival has said it will host a day of action in support of Argentinian cinema during this year's 72nd edition, which runs September 20-28.  The Spanish festival has teamed with the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences and producer Gabriel Hochbaum along with…

Eleven filmmakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA will show their first and second films in the San Sebastian Festival's (Sep 20-28) New Directors section. Among them are new projects featuring Nick Robinson and Bel Powley, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Denis…