Overview

• A sizable group staged a cacerolada and chanted pro-Palestine slogans along the route from the Teatro Victoria Eugenia to the Kursaal before the opening gala.
• Police maintained a large deployment around the red carpet area and no incidents were reported at the time of publication.
• Festival director José Luis Rebordinos said he understood people using the event as a platform and emphasized his respect for peaceful demonstrators.
• Producer Esther García, set to receive the Donostia award, labeled the situation a genocide and joined Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar and others in wearing “Genocidio Stop” pins.
• The action followed a call by the Comité de Solidaridad Palestina–Euskal Herria, coordinated with the festival screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab.