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Álex de la Iglesia featured in official 2024 Horror Film Festival poster

2024.07.22

Álex de la Iglesia, one of the major names in global fantasy film-making of the last 30 years, is the star of the poster for the 35th Fantasy and Horror Film Festival, to be held between 25 October and 1 November. In the centenary year of Franz Kafka's death, the Festival aims to pay tribute to the Czech author an...

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Okendo and Aiete to host the Stéphane Levallois exhibition “Hellboy – Goya”

2024.07.22

The San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival presents the exhibition Goya – Hellboy: An iconography of monsters by Stéphane Levallois. An exhibition by Afundación – Obra Social ABANCA, curated by Asier Mensuro, to be shown at two separate venues, Okendo Kultur Etxea and Aiete Kultur Etxea, between 19 Septem...

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The Horror Festival will publish the book “Kafka, lo kafkiano y el cine fantástico”

2024.07.22

The centenary of Franz Kafka will be represented during the Horror Festival through the book Kafka, lo kafkiano y el cine fantástico, written by Jonathan Allen and Jesús Palacios and co-produced with Isla Calavera – Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival, City of La Laguna (8-17 November). The work will be publishe...

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The submission of films for the 35th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival is open

2024.06.12

The submission of feature films and short films for the 35th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (October 25 – November 1) is open from today, June 12th, and until August 19th. Rules and submission: Horror and Fantasy Film Festival...

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Horror Film Festival partners Japanese Film Festival Online

2024.05.24

The Japan Foundation of Madrid, a regular partner of the Festival for some years now, is between 5 June and 3 July staging the 3rd edition of the Japanese Film Festival Online (JFFO), giving viewers the chance to enjoy a selection of the finest Japanese cinema free of charge from their homes. This year the JFFO wil...

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Eneko Muruzabal, winner of the third edition of Oihua! with the project “Planetagatik”

2024.03.04

Eneko Muruzabal is the winner of the third edition of Oihua! with the short film project Planetagatik. Oihua! was born in 2019, organized by Donostia Kultura, San Sebastian Municipal Basque Department and San Sebastian-Gipuzkoa Film Commission. In this third edition, the director Igor Legarreta will be the supervis...

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17.918 participants at the 34th Horror & Fantasy Film Festival

2023.11.10

Last Friday, 3 November, saw the end of the movie screenings at the 34th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, which leitmotiv this year was witchcraft. The number of people who flocked to the movie screenings at the Principal and Victoria Eugenia theatres and TBK stood at 10,171 spectators, and several o...

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The period for submitting works for the 3rd edition of the Oihua! competition for short film projects is now open

2023.11.03

Oihua! was born to promote the creation of screenplays in Basque for fantastic and horror short films. The winner project will be produced advised by Larrotxene Bideo. The film will be premiered at the 35th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (2024). Oihua! was born in 2019, organized by Donostia Kultura...

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"The Coffee Table" and "When Evil Rurks", Audience Award ex aequo at the 34th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival

2023.11.03

The films The Coffee Table (Caye Casas, 2022) and When Evil Lurks (Demian Rugna, 2023) have won the Audience Award to the Best Feature Film ex aequo at the 34th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, that finishes tonight at Main Theatre with the screening of River (2023). AWARDS Audience Audience Awar...

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"Pantxineta Endemoniata" is the winner of the 2023 Fanzine War

2023.11.03

Pantxineta Endemoniata is the winner of the 34th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival's Fanzine War. 4 fanzines have edited this year special numbers at the Fanzine War: Sorgiña Piruliña, Spooky Magazine, Pantxineta Endemoniata and La Valla. Here you can read them....

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