Politics has been in the limelight throughout the fall festival season so far and, as the San Sebastián International Film Festival readies itself for its 73rd edition later this week, the progressive event has no plans to shy away from the conversation.

In fact, Spain’s most prominent film event has gone one step further than its predecessors this year by issuing an open letter on September 5 – just two weeks before the festival kicks off – where San Sebastián called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. In a unique move for any film festival, the institution publicly stated its “rejection of the genocide [and] of the unimaginable massacres to which the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu is subjecting the Palestinian people since Hamas perpetrated the terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, wh

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