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Off the track in San Sebastian: Festival de Cine Fantástico y de Terror |
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Page 1 of 2 Waves, pintxos, beaches, bikinis, nightlife, and restaurants, that is what San Sebastian in Northern Spain is known for. But the city bears more, especially cinematic pleasures. For over fifty years now, San Sebastian celebrates its yearly International Film Festival that, in its best years, was a European counterpoint to other festivals of this sort, situated mostly in the USA.
Cannes beat San Sebastian, and, correspondingly, the festival lost much of its glamour. Surprisingly, for nearly twenty years now a counterpoint to San Sebastian has been getting established. At the same time, the San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Festival competes with LA’s Screamfest and the Horror Film Festivals of Chicago and New York City.
In first place, its strengths are to be seen in the preference for European films as well as for both short and feature films. Every year in October, during the Halloween week, the festival decorates parts of the whole city, like the theatre and the boulevard, in a scary fashion. Additionally, in the festival itself you find a classics corner, a children’s cinema section and the every year’s retrospective dedication to an important person of the fantasy and horror film genre.
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