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The submission of films for the 23rd Human Rights Film Festival is open

17.11.25

Submissions for the 23rd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival can be made from 17 November to 15 January. Feature films can only be submitted using the Movibeta platform and shorts via Shortfilmdepot. Rules and inscription: Human Rights Film Festival...

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11,575 participants at 22nd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival

16.04.25

The 22nd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, organised by the Human Rights Area of the City Council and Donostia Kultura, took place between 4 and 11 April, with a wonderful response from the public and a prominent role for Basque cinema. The event opened with the première in Basque Country of Pheasant ...

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"The Story of Souleymane", Audience Award at the 22nd Human Rights Film Festival

11.04.25

The film The Story of Souleymane (France, 2024), directed by Boris Lojkine, claimed the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 22nd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, which draws to a close tonight at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre. Tratado de invisibilidad (México, 2024), by Luciana Kaplan, received the...

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Helena Taberna will receive the 2025 Human Rights Film Festival Award

10.04.25

The filmmaker Helena Taberna will receive this year the 22nd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival Award. The prize ceremony will be at the Victoria Eugenia Theater on Friday 11 at 20:00, at the Closing Night of the Festival. Helena Taberna is a scriptwriter, director and film producer. With seven cinematic feat...

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The exhibition "21st edition of Art and Human Rights by children and youths" is open

04.04.25

The exhibition 21st edition of Art and Human Rights by children and youths, from the program of the 22nd Human Rights Film Festival, will be open between April 4th and 13th at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre (Okendo square). Exhibition of drawings and murals by children and youngsters aged between 6 and 18 for the 21s...

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The exhibition "California Dreamin'" is open at Aiete Kultur Etxea

03.04.25

Donostia Kultura and the Human Rights Film Festival, in collaboration with the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council and the Montehermoso Cultural Center, present the exhibition California Dreamin' by photographer Darcy Padilla, which will be open at Aiete Kultur Etxea from April 3 to June 8. "More than half the homele...

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