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20.542 participants at the 36th Horror & Fantasy Film Festival

2025.11.12

Last Friday, 7 November, saw the end of the movie screenings at the 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. The number of people who flocked to the movie screenings at the Principal and Victoria Eugenia theatres and TBK stood at 11,845 spectators, and several of the screenings were sold out. Participan...

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'Deathstalker', Audience Award at the 36th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival

2025.11.07

The film Deathstalker (Steve Kostanski, 2025) has won the Audience Award to the Best Feature Film at the 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, that finishes tonight at Main Theatre with the screening of Primate (2025). AWARDS Audience Audience Award to the Best Feature Film Deathstalker (...

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'Pantxineta Endemoniata' is the winner of the 2025 Fanzine War

2025.11.07

Pantxineta Endemoniata is the winner of the 36th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival's Fanzine War. Four fanzines have edited this year special numbers at the Fanzine War: Pantxineta Endemoniata, La Valla, Sangre y Lentejuelas and Generación 5Z. Here you can read them....

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The period for submitting works for the 4th edition of the Oihua! competition for short film projects is now open

2025.11.06

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 37th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (2026). Oihua! was born in 2019, organized by Donostia Kultura...

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The exhibition "María Jiménez & Letucse: Manga and illustration" is open

2025.11.03

The exhibition Euskadi Fantastikoa 21: María Jiménez & Letucse: Manga and illustration, from the program of the 36th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, will be open between October 31st and November 22nd at the Central Library (Alderdi Eder). María Jiménez (Irun, 1990) studied nursing at the UPV and is a sel...

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The exhibition "Fernando Vicente: Horror film legends" is open

2025.11.02

The exhibition Fernando Vicente: Horror film legends, from the program of the 36th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, will be open between October 31st and November 16th at the Municipal Library Activities Hall (San Jeronimo). This exhibition takes in some of the most iconic films of the horror genre, which from the...

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Noviembre Fantasma marks six years exploring the boundaries of the genre with new activities

2025.10.24

The San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, Fancine, TerrorMolins and Isla Calavera première previously unseen content available free of charge via the channel from November onwards. Autumn once again opens the gateway into the world of fantasy with a new season of Noviembre Fantasma, the collabo...

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36th Horror Festival to take place between 31 October and 7 November

2025.10.22

On Friday, 31 October, the Basque production Gaua (2025), directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo, will raise the curtain on the 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival at the Kursaal. The US film Primate (2025), by Johannes Roberts, will draw the event to a close at the Teatro Principal on 7 November. Between th...

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Second edición of "Animedon. San Sebastian Anime Fair"

2025.10.17

The 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival has, as part of its Animedon. San Sebastian Anime Fair, organised a series of activities for fans of Japanese animation, between 31 October and 8 November. On this occasion, the section's programme will include three feature film premières, a tribute to the a...

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Urban art exhibition “Mexicráneos” arrives in San Sebastián

2025.10.01

From today, 1 October, up until 2 November, San Sebastián is hosting one of the world's largest exhibitions of urban art: Mexicráneos. Promoted by Grupo Albia, a leading nationwide company in the funeral services sector, in partnership with Donostia Kultura and the Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, the travelling...

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