The San Sebastian International Film Festival is a film competition of the highest category (A) accredited by the FIAPF. It is held annually at the end of September and celebrates its 70th edition. It is the most important of those born in Spain cinema and in all Spanish-speaking countries, as well as one of the longest-running and prestigious in Europe.
This year's edition has around 200 films selected in six competitive sections: Official Section, New Directors, Horizontes Latinos, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Perlak and Nest; and in seven non-competitive ones: Culinary Zinema, Made in Spain, Zinemira, Velodrome, Children's Cinema, Retrospective and Klasikoak.
In addition to selecting and showing films to an audience of spectators, specialized media and film industry professionals, the Festival promotes projects in development and films in the post-production phase ("works in progress") aimed more specifically at film industry professionals. Cinema industry.
In this edition AC/E supports, through the PICE, the participation of international programmers as relevant as Savina Neirotti, Florian Weghorn, Mercedes Fernández, Michelle Satter, Pablo Moretti, Luciano Monteagudo, Vanja Kaludjercic, Sung Moon, Zsuki Bánkuti y Marina Stavenhagen Vargas.