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unusual facts about San Sebastian International Film Festival


Lali Gonzalez

The film, directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori, won the Films in Progress award in the 2011 San Sebastián International Film Festival; it was also nominated in the Discovery category of 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.


Catrano Catrani

In 1963, he directed La fusilación or El último montonero, co-written with Félix Luna and with music by Ariel Ramírez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Hana Makhmalbaf

Her first feature film, Buddha Collapsed out of Shame won an award at Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Canada in 2007, as well as two awards from San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain, and the Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film by the Generation Kplus Children’s Jury at the Berlinale Film Festival 2008.

Mark Childress

The film Crazy in Alabama was an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals in 1999.

Oliver Haden

The film also picked up the Fipresci Prize for Best Film at the 2005 Miami International Film Festival, and a special commendation Signis Award at the 2004 San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The Waltz of the Toreadors

Wolf Mankowitz was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Screenplay and Sellers was named Best Actor at the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival.


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