San Sebastian, Spain – an intense and sometimes sunny film festival in San Sebastián has rounded up its latest turn on Friday with great production announcements from the Spanish world, and a balance between stars – Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence, Colin Farrell – Première and industrial platforms, such as the director of creative investors of CAA, the director of the conference of CAA, Hislados.
Eight take -out dishes and offers of a classic Rébrandinos edition.
Stars
Angelina Jolie spoke of a performance in a way that she has never been heard before, speaking French in the competition player of San Sebastián “Couture”. She also said that she “loves” but “does not recognize” her country of origin, the United States Farrell thought about how past dependence affected her performance “a walk of a little actor”: “I am happy to harm my body and my brain, not my bank account”. A serious and extremely polished series Jennifer Lawrence, a winner of the San Sebastián Donostia Prize, has teased more important questions in “Die My Love” by Lynne Ramsay: “Recently, mothers have been considered human, and enduring a lot of work daily,” she said.
Trade
If he had more hotels and wanted, San Sebastián could hold a powerful formal market, stealing part of the Toronto firepower while he embodies his own market in 2026. As it was, the informal market of San Sebastián found a right momentum. “There were many foreigners, French leaders everywhere, Italians, Germans,” said Antonio will be able to the Latido Films sales agency, which took a team of three members to San Sebastián. “It may not be a formal market, but there is one.” That said, it will take a while for many transactions to be made public. “How many of your films have sold in the United States in Toronto?” Patrick Wachsberger of 193 asked Roeg Sutherland of CAA Media Finance at the Creative Investors’ conference. “They will all do it,” said Sutherland.
Buzz titles
Dolore Fonzi’s “Belén” “Belen” played very well with the crowd – and has just been chosen as the submission of Argentina to the Oscars. The dark Czech comedy “Ungrateful beings” had a lot of noisy laughs and applause during its first. Spanish films, Alauda Ruiz de Azua, “Sunday”, translating the fragility of the family and the vulnerability of adolescents, marked the highest of all the films from anywhere on a pool of local criticism from El Diario Vasco, followed by the world resonance of José Luis Guerin.
Is American domination in the process of declining?
When the Conference of Creative Investors still very successful of San Sebastián was launched in 2023, there was an underlying assumption that Europe could learn from the expertise of the American market and benefit from its distribution muscle. Only two years and a strike in Hollywood later, and the boot seems to move to the other foot. This year’s stellar session has shot the European powers, with the best executives of Fremantle, Mediawan, Studio TF1 and Vuelta present. “The world being focused on American films has disappeared,” said Roeg Sutherland of Ca Media Finance, saying that he quoted Vincent Maraval from Goodfellas and asked Wachsberger from 193 where he was shooting his next film. Symptomatically, 193 has just started production on the French language film by Lazlo Nemes “Moulin” with Gilles Lelouche as a hero of French resistance.
Rub distribution: US
Why is the importance to us down? “We have a little problem in the United States in that it is very difficult to obtain the tax credit,” said Sutherland. “Louisiana is difficult, in New York impossible. And that is associated with the fact that making a film there is much more expensive.” Another Bugbear: the biggest American distributors now rarely pre-purchase films, withdrawing them from the film’s financing equation. This is also a good reason why, as Rodolphe Buet of Studio TF1 noted, it is “difficult to finance European films at $ 20 million at 25 to 50 million dollars”. A new American cavalry can however go up to sight: four new American distributors, noted Sutherland. One, line K ent., Did one of the big things in Toronto, buying the restart of the “Cliffhanger”.
Spain and Latin America have an influence
Since the Diego Galán festivals and Manuel Pérez Estremera from the 1980s, San Sebastián has become the most important platform for Hispanophone cinema. This has rarely been felt with a force such as in 2025. The five films at the top of the Spanish criticism survey in El Diario Vasco are in Spanish language: “sundays”, “Happy Valley Stories”, “Maspalomas”, “The Currents” and “Los Tigres”. Many of the first worlds – “She walks in the dark”, “Karmele”, “Belén”, “27 nights” and “clean” – come from Spain and Latin America.
And why….
Why is another question. Mainly, the most ambitious films in terms of industry in the two territories are increasingly motivated by SVOD operators, directed this year by Movistar Plus + behind “Sundays” and “Los Tigres”, and Netflix, which produced “She Walks in Darkness”, “27 nights” and “clean”; “Belen” is a production of Amazon MGM Studios. The three operators are aimed at an impact on the local market. A big victory of Cannes can do wonders for the public at home, of course: think “sirât” by Movistar Plus +. But the three streaming services retain some of their most important Spanish language oscillations for San Sebastián, the most impactful film event on the local market.
Palestine
Pedro Almodóvar, Javier Bardem, Alex de la Iglesia, the director of the San Sebastián Festival José Luis Rebordinos and the Minister of Spanish Culture Ernest Urtasun joined thousands of other Gaza demonstrators on Wednesday after a projection of “La Voix de Rajab Hinda Gaza. “Another mass demonstration took place on Saturday. Spanish films and the creators of” Sunday “and” Romería “traveled the red carpet bearing badges” Genocide Stop “in Basque:” Genozidioa Stop “. Already, in the festival period, the management committee of San Sebastián had published an open letter denouncing the” genocide ” By the military forces of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The offers
Here is a score around San Sebastián, announced by Variety::
* Wagner Maura, the best actor in Cannes for “The Secret Agent”, has embarked as an executive producer Sandra Delgado “The Outsider” on the activist-artist Claudia Andujar. Maria Farinha’s films in rapid explosion produce.
* Daniel Burman is shooting a series of dramats of well-being “ so far, “with Benjamín Vicuña and co-produced by Flow and the Mediappo studio.
* “The Spanish director of House on Fire, Dani de la Orden, is about to lead” Director El “, based on the non-fiction book of David Jiménez cover. Beta fiction Spain produced and distributed in Spain.
* Loli Espósito, Esteban Lamothe and Marcelo Suubiotto should play in the “Glaxo” of Benjamín Naishta, produced by RT features and Rei pictures.
* More news from Rodrigo Teixieira, Brazilian, RT’s features: Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Sarsgaard and Andrea Riseborough must play in the “Zero K” by Michael Almereyda, RT features and keep your head.
* “The House of Spirits”, the author Isabel Allende Variety that the main video adaptation will be published in 2026.
* Toasting 25 years in the biz, Spain Atrescine announced a multi -year agreement with the photos of Bowfinger int’l of Santiago Segura.
* The Catalan public broadcaster Go-Getting 3Cat, Minoría Absolta and Fishcorb have put “genesi”, a ferran adrià organic on the chef who transformed El Bulli into the most famous restaurant in the world. David Pujol directs. Netflix has acquired rights to Spain and Latin America.
* Film Factory is mounted aboard “Pray for Us” by director Daniel Monzón, from the producer of “Dreams” Dreams “Arcadia Motion Pictures.
* Paul Branco produces “Aqui”, based on the “Jesus” trilogy of JM Coetzee and with Manolo Solo and Patricia López Arnaiz.
* Bitters End has acquired the sales rights to the main competitor of competition from San Sebastian “Sai: Disaster”, also playing in Busan.
* The star of “Emilia Pérez”, Adriana Paz and “Society of the Snow”, Agustín Pardella must lead “My life with him (Che)”, about Hilda Gadea, the first wife of the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
* Filmax announced in San Sebastián the acquisition of both Basque historical epic “Karmele”, produced by Aier Altuna, and the series “Mouths of Sky”, a granular slice of black Basque by Kold Almandoz. The two ARs produced by Txintxua Films (“Intimacy”)
* Amore Cine d’Espagne joined the Macina of Chile on “Dæmon” by Valeria Hofmann, the winner of Spendnce de Short “Alien0089”.
* The culture of Sambaqui of Brazil has embarked “the sky we are painting”, from the media of Chile, while the country strikes above its weight in San Sebastián.
* The beautiful task of Argentina that you joined the editor -in -chief of “Las Acacias”, María Astrauskas, the beginnings, “Patrime”.
* Hoishly courted, the head of “Gloria” Paulina García will overcome the drama of Panama “Victoria in the Clouds” and the thriller of Argentine domestic abuse “La Ilusión de a Paraíso”, which caused a good mouth to San Sebastián.
* Buzzy Busan, the title of San Sebastián ‘Shape of Momo’ was embarked by Celluloid Dreams.
* Maboroshi won sales as San Sebastián “Before The Bright Day”.
* Italy is the open coil tried the Brazilian drama “Dolores” in the perspective of the festival.
Guy Lodge and Callum McLennan contributed to this article.
