The Local counts down ten essential facts about the most important film festival in the Spanish speaking world, as it gets underway in the Basque seaside city.
Got any plans on October 24th? The celebrated film director, Isabel Coixet, wants people across Spain to contribute to a documentary that will capture one day of life in Spain.
British director Rufus Norris' serial killer musical, "London Road" will close Spain's San Sebastian film festival this year, organisers said on Thursday.
Dozens of hopefuls camped out overnight in an attempt to be chosen as an extra when scenes of the hit series Game of Throne are filmed in Girona in September.
One of Spain's most famous film directors, best known for the awarding winning 1991 movie Amantes, starring Victoria Abril, died on Tuesday morning in Madrid.
Spanish acting royalty and real life husband and wife, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz will star in a new biopic of Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.
Francis Ford Coppola has won Spain's top arts prize, for a career making classics such as "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now". The Local looks at which other famous faces have won Spain's most prestigious award.
A new study has revealed that in Spain almost 88 percent of all online cultural content is pirated, making the country one of the worst in Europe for internet piracy.
Javier Bardem has been confirmed as the latest addition to the fifth outing of Pirates of the Caribbean. The Local takes a look at five essential films to reacquaint you with one of the most acclaimed Spanish actors of all time.
Catalan director Isabel Coixet is set to open the prestigious Berlinale next month with her new film, Nobody Wants the Night, organizers announced on Friday.
Spanish director Carlos Vermut's film "Magical Girl", about a father who tries to fulfill the last wish of his ailing daughter, won the prize for best movie at this year's San Sebastian film festival.
A romantic comedy film set in Spain's politically sensitive Basque region has become the country's biggest ever home-grown box office hit, its distributor said on Monday.
Film director Carlos Saura is one of several high-profile figures who think it's a "mistake" for foreign films and series not to be shown in their original language and instead to be dubbed into Spanish.
Three Spanish video journalists have seen their amazing film "Calcio Storico", which looks at an early form of football dating back to Florence in the 1500s, awarded third best "short feature" at the prestigious World Press Photo Awards.
A young Spanish director has presented the first ever feature film shot entirely with an iPhone – a horror movie about two young Americans whose sex-fuelled trip to Barcelona takes an unexpected turn.
The family of Paul Naschy, a Spanish weightlifting champion who went on to star in countless Hollywood horror movies, has won a case against the doctor who refused to give the "Wolf Man" what could've been a life-saving biopsy.
To celebrate the San Sebastian Film Festival currently being held in the north of Spain, The Local has put together a picture gallery of ten of the country's most beautiful actresses.
