The Berlin International Film Festival and the San Sebastian International Film Festival, accompanied by the Basque Culinary Center, announced that San Sebastian Festival’s will have a new section this year, “CULINARY ZINEMA“. The three organizations signed a collaboration agreement, by which different worlds come together.
San Sebastian Festival’s new section adopts the name of the Berlinale’s prestigious “CULINARY CINEMA” section, swapping the C for a Z in a wink of the eye to the Basque translation of the word ‘CINEMA': ZINEMA.
San Sebastian and its surroundings boast the world’s highest concentration of Michelin stars per square meter, all held by Basque chefs enormously well known and appreciated around the planet.
San Sebastian also has a competitive film festival listed in its top category by the FIAPF, meaning that the Festival was virtually obliged to create a section dedicated to cinema and gastronomy. The collaboration will include an exchange of information on cinema and cuisine and explore a variety of food-related activities in education, science and agriculture.
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September 21-29