San Sebastián Awards Ceremony Gets Under Way (Updating Live)
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Guy LodgeSeptember 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The closing night awards ceremony is under way at the San Sebastián Film Festival, with Kaouther Ben Hania’s Venice winner “The Voice of Hind Rajab” taking the Audience Award, and “Couture,” “The Ballad of a Small Player” and “The Fence” among the films in the running for the coveted Golden Shell.
Full list of award winners below, as they are announced:
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Jury Prize for Best Screenplay: “Six Days in Spring,” Joachim Lafosse, Chloé Duponchelle, Paul Ismaël
New Directors Award: “Weightless,” Emilie ThalundSpecial Mention: “Aro Berria,” Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe
Horizontes Latinos Award: “A Poet,” Simón Mesa SotoSpecial Mention: “The Ivy,” Ana Cristina Barragán; “A Loose End,” Daniel Hendler
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award: “The Ice Tower,” Lucile HadžihalilovićSpecial Mention: “Two Times João Liberada,” Paula Tomás Marques; “Blue Heron,” Sophy Romvari
Audience Award for Best Film: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kaouther Ben Hania
Audience Award for Best European Film: “Little Amélie,” Maïlys Valladeania
Irizar Basque Film Award: “Sundays,” Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Culinary Zinema Award: “Mam,” Nan Feix
RTVE Another Look Award: “The Currents,” Milagros MumenthalerSpecial Mention: “Belén,” Dolores Fonzi
Spanish Cooperation Award: “Good Valley Stories,” José Luis Guerin
Nest the Mediapro Studio Award: “How to Listen to Fountains,” Eva SajanováSpecial Mention: “The Old Bull Knows, or Once Knew,” Milan Kumar
Movistar Plus+ Award for Best Short Film: “The Loneliness of Lizards,” Inês Nunes
Tabakalera Short Film Award: “Life is Like That and Not Otherwise,” Lenia Friedrich
Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kaouther Ben Hania
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Best Spanish Project: Quickets, Felipe Ortiz
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Best European Project: Novel Fire Masks Engineered With 3D Technology, Raoul Peltier
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Special Mention for Entrepreneurship: Quickets, Felipe Ortiz
WIP Latam Industry Award: “Flies,” Fernando Eimbcke
Egeda Platino Industria Award For The Best WIP Latam: “We Were No Longer Five,” Esteban Hoyos Garcia, Juan Miguel Gelacio Ramirez
WIP Europa Industry Award: “February, Seven Days,” Tatjana Moutchnik
WIP Europa Award: “February, Seven Days,” Tatjana Moutchnik
XIII Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Best Project Award: “Do Not Let Me Die Alone,” Francisco Rodriguez Teare
DALE! Award: “What Follows Is My Death,” Laura Baumeister
Artekino International Award: “La Piel del Léon,” Alvaro Brechner
Ikusmira Berriak Award: “La Koreana, Un Poema Ferromagnética de Luz y Memoria,” Joana Moya Blanco
Casa Wabi-ESCINE Award: “Do Not Let Me Die Alone,” Francisco Rodriguez Teare
QCinema Award: “What Follows Is My Death,” Laura Baumeister
Music Library & SFX Award: “Mariana X BHP,” Renan Flumian
Euroregional Documentary Award: “Altxaliliak,” Maia Iribarne Olhagarai
Epe-Ibaia-Elkargi Award: “La Increíble Historia de Una Película Que No Hemos VistoBarrabas,” Claudia Chávez Levano, Christine Mladic Janney
Eusko Label Micro Short Film Award: “Hatsa,” Josu Ozaita AzpirozRunner-up: “Gatz Harana,” Saioa Miguel
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