San Sebastian International Film Festival

The San Sebastián International Film Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián; Basque: Donostiako Zinemaldia) is an annual film festival which originated in 1953 and is held in the Spanish city of San Sebastián (officially Donostia-San Sebastián).
Although the festival was originally intended to honour Spanish language films, films of other languages became eligible for consideration in the late 1950s.
The majority of awards are determined by a jury, but an audience award is also given for the most popular film. The main awards are the Golden Shell and Silver Shell. Every year the festival honours one, two or three actors with the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The festival presents following sections: Official Selection, New Directors, Horizontes Latinos, Pearls, Irizar Basque Film Award, and these programs focusing on film support: Films in Progress 28, Films in Progress 28 Industry Award, Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, EGEDA best project award (Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum), Film Students Meeting.