The 73rd San Sebastian Film Festival´s official poster pays tribute to Marisa Paredes

The San Sebastián Festival presented its official poster of the 73rd edition that will pay tribute to the actress Marisa Paredes, one of the Festival’s best loved stars since her first visit in 1977 and until her passing last year.

For the eighth year running, a prominent figure from today’s cinema features on a poster which, since 2018, has rendered the portraits of Isabelle Huppert, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Sigourney Weaver, Juliette Binoche, Javier Bardem and Cate Blanchett. This year’s poster comes with an image of Marisa Paredes, designed by the San Sebastián studio Wallijai based on a shot taken by the photographer Manuel Outumuro in Madrid in 2000.  

Wallijai has also created the posters for the other sections in keeping with the trend of combining photography and illustration, this time around playing with the idea that all of us have a variety of films tucked away inside us. Each poster also comes with more or less direct references to different genres: drama (New Directors), war films (Horizontes Latinos), love stories and musicals (Zabaltegi-Tabakalera), sci-fi (Perlak), anime (Nest), horror (Culinary Zinema), adventure yarns (Zinemira) and westerns (Made in Spain).  

These posters will soon be joined by those put together for Klasikoak, an initiative which, since 2024, encompasses three proposals under the same umbrella heading: the Klasikoak retrospective, dedicated this year to the North American screenwriter Lillian Hellman; the Festival’s Klasikoak section, and the Filmoteca Vasca cycle running from October to December in Bilbao, Donostia, Pamplona, Saint Jean de Luz and Vitoria.

Click to watch the making off  https://youtu.be/QQq397uUGYY?si=Vj2SWGd5BMLmXqym