'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 (2025). Steve Kostanski. Canada-USA

• Audience Award to the Best Short Film

Borbulha (2025). Fernando Alle. Portugal

• Audience Award to the Best Animation Short Film

Lucus (2025). David Fidalgo. Spain

• Audience Award to the Best Spanish Short Film

Pobre Marciano (2024). Alex Rey

Jury

• Jury Award to the Best Short Film
• Premio del Jurado al Mejor Cortometraje

Come Sit With Us / Ära ole uhke (2024). Elis Rumma. Estonia

The Jury of the International Short Film Competition at the 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, made up of Mery Cuesta, Gloria Fernández and Miquel Pastor, has decided to award the Jury Prize for Best Short Film to Come Sit With Us, for its metaphorical potential in representing the submission of women and their generational transcendence, illustrating how genre film serves as the perfect vehicle for social critique and campaigning.

• “Silver Méliès” Award to the Best European Fantastic Short Film

Mater Benefacta (2024). Marc Riba & Anna Solanas. Spain

The Jury of the International Short Film Competition at the 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, made up of Mery Cuesta, Gloria Fernández and Miquel Pastor, has decided to award the "Silver Méliès" for Best European Fantasy Short Film to Mater Benefacta, for its power as a tool in combating neglect, through a skilfully employed aesthetic and language in depicting a vile episode in Spain's history.

• Young Jury Award to the Best Short Film

El fantasma de la Quinta (2025). James A. Castillo. Spain

• Syfy Award to the Best Spanish Short Film

Depredador (2024). Javier Fesser

• EITB Award to the Best Basque Short Film

Olentzerori eskatu nion (2025). Amaia San Sebastián

• Blogos de Oro Award to the Best Feature Film

Silencio (2025). Eduardo Casanova. Spain

The jury of the Blogos de Oro critics' award at the 36th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, made up of Iker Casado (Casado con el Cine), Santi Serrano (Revista Young España), Mikel Peña (RavenHeart), Amaia Egüés (Atemporalia) and Manuel Aguilar (CineDePatio) have given their accolade to Silencio, for using blood as the central strand linking social drama and vampirism, without overlooking the originality and irreverence of its creator, giving the film a fresh and strident voice in the fantasy genre, along with a very direct message about the stigma of AIDS.

• Audience Award to the Best Fanzine (Sponsor: FNAC Donostia)

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