The International Film Festival of San Sebastian is considered to be one of the most important festivals of this kind in Europe, as well-known as those of Cannes and Venice. This year, the 55th Festival takes place from September 20th to 29th. The festival attracts famous artists such as Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe und Ben Gazzara. The Kursaal at the Zurriola beach is the main scenario with red carpet as well as premieres of various movies during the entire festival. Some statistics of the past years:

• 186,154 viewers
• 22 theatres
• 211 movies of 45 different countries
• 1,133 journalists of 560 different communication media of 37 different countries, among them 52 TV channels
• 1.755 professionals of different cinematography areas (buyers, sellers, producers, film distributors...) meet at the Sales Office section.