‘Los Domingos’ Wins Best Film At San Sebastián

Spanish filmmaker Alauda Ruiz de Azúa‘s Los domingos (Sundays) won big at the San Sebastián Film Festival, held in Spain’s Basque Country from Sept. 19 through 27, clinching the Golden Shell for Best Film, in addition to four other prizes. The Voice of Hind Rajab, which won the Grand Jury Prize earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, claimed two awards, including the fest’s Audience Award.

Other repeat winners include Special Jury Prize winner Historias del buen valle (Good Valley Stories), a Spanish-French co-production helmed by José Luis Guerin, who previously won the same accolade with 2001’s En construcción (Work in Progress). That film also took home three additional honors.

Society of the Snow director J.A. Bayona presided over the Official Jury tasked with drawing up the list of winners along with the Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira, last year’s Special Jury Prize winner Gia Coppola (for The Last Showgirl), actress Zhou Dongyu; Argentinian singer-performer Lali Espósito, actor Mark Strong and French producer Anne-Dominique Toussaint.

Itsaso Arana and Óscar Lasarte presented tonight’s closing ceremony in the Kursaal auditorium, where the awards announcement was followed by a screening of the film closing the edition, The Winter of the Crow.

Scroll further to see the complete list of honorees at the 73rd edition of the fest:

Golden Shell for Best Film
Los Domingos (Sundays) — Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Spain, France

Special Jury Prize
Historias del buen valle (Good Valley Stories) — José Luis Guerin
Spain, France

Silver Shell for Best Director
Joachim Lafosse — Six jours, ce printemps-là (Six Days in Spring)
Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance (ex aequo — in a tie)
Jose Ramon Soroiz — Maspalomas
Spain

Zhao Xiaohong — Jianyu Laide Mama (Her Heart Beats in its Cage)
China

Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Camila Plaate — Belén
Argentina

Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
Joachim Lafosse, Chloé Duponchelle, Paul Ismaël — Six jours, ce printemps-là (Six Days in Spring)
Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Pau Esteve — Los Tigres
Spain, France

Kutxabank New Directors Award
Emilie Thalund — Vaegtloes (Weightless)
Denmark

(Special mention — Alum of the 2022 Ikusmira Berriak residency program)
Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe — Aro Berria (New era)
Spain

Horizontes Make & Mark Award
Un poeta (A Poet) — Simón Mesa Soto
Colombia, Germany, Sweden

(Special mention — Alum of the 2022 Ikusmira Berriak residency program)
Hiedra (The Ivy) — Ana Cristina Barragán
Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain

(Special mention — Alum of WIP Latam 2024, Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2023)
Un cabo suelto (A Loose End) — Daniel Hendler
Uruguay, Argentina, Spain

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) — Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France, Germany

Coup de Coeur
Duas Vezes João Liberada (Two Times João Liberada) — Paula Tomás Marques
Portugal

(Special mention)
Blue Heron — Sophy Romvari
Canada, Hungary

Nest the Mediapro Studio Award
Ako Počúvať Fontány (How to Listen to Fountains) — Eva Sajanová
Slovakia

(Special mention)
The Old Bull Knows, Or Once Knew — Milan Kumar
India

Movistar Plus+ Award for Best Short Film
A solidão dos lagartos (The Loneliness of Lizards) — Nês Nunes
Spain, Portugal

Tabakalera Award
So ist das Leben und nicht anders (Life is Like That and Not Otherwise) — Lenia Friedrich
Germany

Culinary Zinema Award
Mam — Nan Feix
France

Eusko Label Awards
(First Award)
Josu Ozaita Azpiroz — Hatsa (Soul)
Spain

(Second Award)
Saioa Miguel — Gatz Harana (Salt Valley)
Spain

Loterías Awards
(First Award)
Maruja — Álvaro G. Company
Spain

(Second Award)
Medusas (Jellyfish) — Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta
Spain

Irizar Basque Film Award
Los Domingos (Sundays) — Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Spain, France

(Special mention)
El último arrebato (The Last Rapture) — Marta Medina, Enrique López Lavigne
Spain

City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award
The Voice of Hind Rajab — Kaouther Ben Hania
Tunisia, France

City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award for Best European Film
Amélie et la Métaphysique des tubes (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) — Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
France

Dama Youth Award
La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo) — Diego Céspedes
Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium

WIP LATAM AWARDS
WIP LATAM Industry Award
Moscas (Flies) — Fernando Eimbcke
Mexico
Egeda Platino Industria Award for the Best WIP LATAM
A la hora de poner la mesa ya no éramos cinco (We Were No Longer Five) — Esteban Hoyos García, Juan Miguel Gelacio Ramírez
Colombia, U.S.

WIP EUROPA AWARDS
WIP Europa Industry Award
Sieben Tage Februar (February, Seven Days) — Tatjana Moutchnik
Germany, Austria
WIP Europa Award
Sieben Tage Februar (February, Seven Days) — Tatjana Moutchnik
Germany, Austria

XIV EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARDS
XIV Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Best Project Award
No me dejen morir solo (Do Not Let Me Die Alone) — Francisco Rodríguez Teare
Chile, Belgium
DALE! Award (Development Latin America-Europe)
Lo que sigue es mi muerte (What Follows is My Death) — Laura Baumeister
Mexico, Spain
Artekino International Prize
La piel del león — Alvaro Brechner
Uruguay, Brazil
Casa Wabi-ESCINE Award
No me dejen morir solo (Do Not Let Me Die Alone) — Francisco Rodríguez Teare
Chile, Belgium
QCinema Award
Lo que sigue es mi muerte (What Follows is My Death) — Laura Baumeister
Mexico, Spain

IKUSMIRA BERRIAK AWARD
Sideral Award
La koreana, un poema ferromagnético de luz y memoria — Joana Moya Blanco
Spain

ZINEMALDIA STARTUP CHALLENGE AWARD
Best European Project
Novel Fire Masks Engineered with 3D Technology — Raoul Peltier
U.K.
Best Spanish Project
Quickets — Felipe Ortiz
Spain
Special Mention to Entrepreneurship
Quickets — Felipe Ortiz
Spain

XXI LAU HAIZETARA DOCUMENTARY CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARDS
Music Library & SFX Award
Mariana X BHP — Renan Flumian
Brazil, Chile
Euroregional Documentary Award
Altxaliliak — Maia Iribarne Olhagarai
Spain, France
EPE-IBAIA-ELKARGI Award
La increíble historia de una película que no hemos visto — Claudia Chávez Levano, Christine Mladic Janney
U.S.

RTVE — Another Look Award
Las Corrientes (The Currents) — Milagros Mumenthaler
Switzerland, Argentina

(Special mention)
Belén — Dolores Fonzi
Argentina

Cooperación Española Award
Historias del buen valle (Good Valley Stories) — José Luis Guerin
Spain, France

Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award
The Voice of Hind Rajab — Kaouther Ben Hania
Tunisia, France

Dunia Ayaso Award
Los Tortuga (The Exiles) — Belén Funes
Spain, Chile

(Special mention)
Mi amiga Eva (My Friend Eva) — Cesc Gay
Spain

HONORARY AWARDS
Donostia Awards
Esther García, Jennifer Lawrence
Zinemira Award
Asier Altuna, Telmo Esnal

Fipresci Award
Los Domingos (Sundays) — Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Spain, France

Feroz Zinemaldia 2025 Award
Los Domingos (Sundays) — Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Spain, France

GIDOI + SGAE Award for the Best Screenwriter in the Basque Country 2025
Borja Cobeaga — Los aitas (Breaking Walls)
Spain, Belgium

Sebastiane 2025 Award
Maspalomas — Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi
Spain

Lurra — Greenpeace Award
Historias del buen valle (Good Valley Stories) — José Luis Guerin
Spain, France

Signis Award
Los Domingos (Sundays) — Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Spain, France

ATENEO GUIPUZCOANO AWARD
Nuremberg — James Vanderbilt
U.S.