With its queues of masked people at the foot of the Kursaal Palace pretending nothing had happened, the San Sebastian International Film Festival is a survivor.
At the heart of a global pandemic which is still raging, even which is rebounding dangerously, especially in Spain, the demonstration opened on Friday September 18 and ended on Saturday September 26.
After the Venice Film Festival and the Deauville American Film Festival, which have managed to maintain a physical edition, San Sebastian is taking up the torch of the resilience of an art and an industry strongly impacted by the coronavirus.
For this, the Spanish festival, proud as a matador who has managed not to put one knee to the ground despite the repeated assaults of the bull in the arena, had to strengthen the sanitary measures: wearing of the compulsory mask, duly certificate of good health. initialed, gauge reduced by half, red carpet behind closed doors ...
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