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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.

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).

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.

The exhibition Beyond Mauthausen. Francesc Boix photographer, from the program of the 22nd Human Rights Film Festival, will be open between March 27th and May 31th at Okendo Kultur Etxea.

The situation of migrants on the River Bidasoa border, the struggle for civil rights in the USA and social mobilisation in Argentina, the rights of deaf people and delivery riders, and the perspective of cleaning workers in Mexico City are among the topics covered by the films and discussions at the festival.

The San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival features the première of the show Interview: Urez eta hondarrez, by the Tentazioa company, based on the short film De agua y arena, directed by Telmo Irureta. The performance, in the Basque language, will take place on Wednesday, 2 April, at 7:30 p.m. at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre (Klub Aretoa).

The Basque production Pheasant Island (2025), directed by Asier Urbieta, will have the honour on 4 April at the Victoria Eugenia theatre of opening the 22nd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, organised by the Human Rights Area of the City Council and Donostia Kultura.

As every year, the festival will address a range of topics and stories, including the struggle for civil rights in the USA through the figure of Harry Belafonte, the frenetic life of Souleymane, a Guinean migrant who works delivering food on the streets of Paris, and the story of the women who spend every day cleaning the public spaces of Mexico City. It will also present the struggle of a group of people to protect their homes in Lagos, Nigeria, the second most populous city in Africa, and open a window onto the past, to recount stories set in the final days of the Ceauşescu regime and the Prague Spring of 1968.

The 22nd San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival will take place between 4 and 11 April at the Victoria Eugenia, the main setting for the event, and the Teatro Principal, as well as other venues around the city. This year Tabakalera will again be featuring the Film and Memory series, made up of three films analysing the power of images and their importance in recounting History: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, Henry Fonda for President and Riefenstahl.

On 8 March, at 8:00 p.m., the Main Theatre will be the venue for the charity concert Singing Through the Wall: Songs for the Western Sahara. Tickets will be on sale via the regular Donostia Kultura channels (box office and website) from 11:30 a.m. on 14 February, for a price of €10.