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Lady Macbeth won the FIPRESCI award
The 64th edition of the festival ran from September 16 to 24 and partially celebrated San Sebastian being the European Capital of Culture.
The Thematic Retrospective was dedicated to The Act Of Killing: Cinema and Global Violence. The Classic Retrospective focused on work by French post-war director Jacques Becker (1906-1960), including Golden Helmet.
Sigourney Weaver - whose A Monster Calls screened out of competition - and Ethan Hawke (The Magnificent Seven) received Donostia Awards.
View Films by Strand:
- Culinary Zinema
- Horizontes Latinos
- Jacques Becker Retrospective
- Made In Spain
- New Directors
- Official Selection
- Pearls
- Savage Cinema
- The Act Of Killing
- TVE Screenings
- Velodrome
- Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
- Zinemera
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