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Beginning won the Golden Shell
The 2020 edition of the festival ran from September 18 to 26, with a 30 per cent reduction in screenings and a portion of the festival being held online. The festival's Official Selection will open with Woody Allen's romantic comedy Rifkin's Festival - which is set against a backdrop of the event itself. The Golden Shell was won by Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning.
View Films by Strand:
- Culinary Zinema
- Donostia Award Screening
- Horizontes Latinos
- Made In Spain
- New Directors
- Official Selection
- Pearls
- RTVE Screenings
- Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
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