Helena Taberna will receive the 2025 Human Rights Film Festival Award
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 feature film releases behind her, Helena Taberna's career has been defined by consistency in her choice of projects, and a highly personal cinematographic style. Her filmography has received the acclaim of both audiences and critics, having won numerous international prizes since her early days. The major social themes chosen as the background to her films strike and move audiences, eliciting complicity and prompting reflection among viewers from different countries and cultures.
She began making films in the mid-1990s, writing, directing and producing numerous shorts, both drama and documentary, including 87 cartas de amor (1992), Alsasua 1936 (1994) and Nerabe (1996). Her first feature film, Yoyes (2000), about the Basque conflict and starring Ana Torrent, made a major impact on critics, festival juries and at the box office.
Helena then released Extranjeras (2003), with the phenomenon of migration as its setting; La buena nueva (2008) is about historical memory and the Spanish Civil War; Nagore (2010) offers a reflection on gender violence; The Cliff (2016) explores the world of sects; Stranded (2019), the current situation of refugees; and Nosotros (2025) is a reflection on romantic love, based on Isaac Rosa's novel Feliz final.
