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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2026

San Sebastian Film Festival 2026

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In addition to the features below, there are a number of shorts in the programme

Programme

14 films · 2 reviews

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La Belle Année

Review preview for La Belle Année

Ruffier has an instinct for atmosphere. The documentary is undeniably visually appealing, attentive to texture, light, and the expressive clutter of a family interior.

Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
Revisiting a teenage crush on a teacher, Angelica Ruffier embarks on a delicate journey of memory and desire.

(Country: Sweden, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Angelica Ruffier; Writer: Angelica Ruffier; Stars: Angelica Ruffier, Tom Ruffier, Henrik Ruffier, Sylvie Bresson)

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Cine Vivo: Un Artefacto

Experimental film.

(Country: Argentina, Chile Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Albertina Carri)

Out of competition

Dust (Weichen)

The 11th film in the Walker series follows the Walker through San Sebastián.

(Country: Taiwan, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Stars: Lee Kang-sheng)

Far From The Trees

Adela, a Mexican sound artist and heir to her family's Catalan exile, embarks on a journey through Peru to record endangered languages. As altitude and distance awaken visions of the past, she must reconcile love, memory and belonging before the legacy she pursues vanishes.

(Country: Spain, Peru, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Meritxell Colell Aparicio; Writer: Meritxell Colell Aparicio; Stars: Angélica Castelló, Jose Luis López Cama, Teresita Sánchez, Caterina Ramirez Guallar)

Flamenco Sketches (Jaleos)

Using archive material and employing a fragmented, polyphonic structure, the film presents a history of flamenco that links it to modernity, popular culture and politics.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Isaki Lacuesta)

Section closing film

Fourteen Nights (Hamalau Gau)

“Night will fall fourteen times in this film. We will count them.” So begins this nocturnal, musical journey—a voyage that drifts through the artistic vision of the Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, and which is dominated, above all, by an “Interior, Night” setting: the Basilica of Arantzazu.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Oskar Alegria; Stars: Iñar Sastre Lopetegi)

The Loneliest Man In Town

Al Cook lives surrounded by memories. His apartment is packed with books, video tapes and vinyl records: remnants of a life that he once lived to the full. Here time seems to have stopped, while outside the world carries on without him. When his home is slated for demolition by a ruthless estate agency, they strip him of his refuge. As Al is forced to part with his treasures one by one, he asks himself a painful question: how do you move forward when memories are all you have left?

(Country: Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel; Writer: Tizza Covi; Stars: Alois Koch, Brigitte Meduna, Alfred Blechinger, Flurina Schneider, Sarah Morrissette, Natascha Hiermann, Ingrid Schaffernack)

Pedro in the Land (Pedro en el país)

The son of Alicia Eguren, and adopted by John William Cooke, Pedro Catella lived a remarkable life, touching on every crucial Latin American historical episode in the second half of the 20th century.

(Country: Argentina, Mexico, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat)

Section opening film

The Phantom (El Fantasma)

Two young women producers are tasked with making a documentary about an elusive and mysterious figure of the Argentinian vanguard in the 60s. The project also demands the participation of David Lamelas, a successful leading light of conceptual art and the artist's former travelling companion. What begins as a clear-cut, defined work set around interviews and archives starts to raise a worrying question: How can you lend visibility to a person who chose to disappear?

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: David Lamelas, Ignacio Masllorens; Writer: Agustín Mendilaharzu, Walter Jakob; Stars: David Lamelas, Constanza Feldman, Victoria Baldomir, Carmen Iriondo, Manuel Atwell, Luis Felipe Noé, Marta Minujín, Leopoldo Maler)

Possible Love (Ga-neung-han sa-rang)

A story of two married couples - a laid-off worker and his spouse, and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse - crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.

(Country: South Korea, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lee Chang-dong; Writer: Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi; Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jo Yu-ri)

Red Rocks (Les roches rouges)

On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in their favourite game: jumping off the red cliffs of the Mediterranean. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart become a source of tension.

(Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Bruno Dumont; Writer: Bruno Dumont; Stars: Kaylon Lancel, Kelsie Verdeilles, Louise Podolski, Mohamed Coly, Alessandro Piquera, Meryl Pires)

Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion

Drama cenring on a tourist in Madrid and a chance meeting.

(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: María Aparicio; Writer: María Aparicio; Stars: Eva Bianco, Roger Koza)

Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma

Review preview for Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma

Anderson and Einbinder are a terrific pairing.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald, Quintessa Swindell, Jack Haven, Jess McLeod, Louise Weard)

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Tristan Forever

For 30 years, a doctor from Paris has maintained a friendship with a fisherman on Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated inhabited island in the world. Now he travels back one more time, with the plan to stay there for good.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Tobias Nölle)