San Sebastian Film Festival has released the poster images for its 66th edition.
Created by the San Sebastian TGA, the festival said it had "chosen to use a conch shell of more synthetic lines and greater visual punch to announce a modern Festival, constantly renovated and adapted to a changing context".
The posters for the individual section, all combine photography and illustration, which the festival says is intended to "lend an overall feeling of harmony and consistency".
Click the posters below for the festival's descriptions of each.
It adds: "Furthermore, each section maintains its identity with a characteristic colour."
The Official Selection poster will be presented at a later date, pending the confirmation of image rights.
At a press conference, festival director José Luis Rebordinos also spoke about the festival's pledge to the industry and new talent and the excellent situation of Basque and Spanish cinema, also mentioning the challenges faced by thefFestival, such as opening of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola - 56-week long academic courses beginning with the next festival, focusing on post-graduate studies in film preservation, curating and filmmaking - and turning the spotlight on women filmmakers.
The full programme will be released in the coming months.
Gallery photographs
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Main poster image for 2018's festival
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Secondary poster image for San Sebastian Film Festival
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New Directors poster 2018. Described by the festival as: "Two impersonal faces, upright and defiant for the section of first and second works by their makers and their new approaches."
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Zabaltegi-Tabakalera poster. Described by the festival as: "Freestyle trampoline and the death-defying triple somersault, the most difficult diving discipline, represent the most open of the festival sections, where there are no rules, no limits of style or running time: shorts, medium-length, full-length, fiction, non-fiction, animations, series, audiovisual installations, new discoveries and contemporary classics."
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Pearls poster. The festival said: "The poster plays with the idea of special pieces, a grid featuring birds on square, triangular or circular pedestals, for a section where the jury is the audience and the films competing for the award already have the backing of critical acclaim and/or accolades at other festivals."
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Nest Film Students poster. The festival said: "The pure enthusiasm of childhood, added to their imagination and talent free from obstacles of the mind, represents the festival's competitive short film section, signed by students from film schools all over the world, this year renamed 'Nest', a word suggesting a phonetical play on the word 'next'."
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The Culinary Cinema poster. The festival said: "In the forefront, two Japanese chefs slice ingredients; in the background, a camera. These are the two angles of Culinary Zinema, a section presenting fiction and non-fiction films looking at gastronomy and food from fields including education, science, agriculture or the restaurant world in general, accompanied by themed dinners."
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Poster for the Muriel Box retrospective. The festival said: "The image of the British director and screenwriter Muriel Box and the characteristic closing of one eye to obtain a clearer view when looking through the camera preside over the poster for the retrospective, which plays with illustration in the part of the cinematographic equipment."
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Horizontes Latinos poster 2018. Described by the festival as: "A palm tree, a dog and a boy looking over a wall to prompt the idea of a double reality or point of view illustrate the section which seeks to reflect Latin American reality without stereotypes by means of feature films totally or partially produced in Latin America, directed by filmmakers of Latin origin or who set their works against the backdrop or subject of Latin communities all over the world."
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