Overview

• Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar presented García with the Donostia Award, the first time the honor has gone to someone who is neither director nor actor.
• The gala remembered Marisa Paredes with a performance by Izaro, remarks from Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo, and a poster dedicated to the late actress as her family watched.
• Calls to halt the violence in Gaza punctuated the ceremony as Pedro Almodóvar shouted “Viva Palestina libre” and Juliette Binoche and García voiced similar appeals.
• Hosts Silvia Abril, Toni Acosta and Itziar Ituño led the opening, followed by the screening of Daniel Hendler’s Argentine film 27 noches to inaugurate the edition.
• Festival activity ramps up today with high-profile arrivals at the Hotel María Cristina and Hotel Londres, after a star-packed Vanity Fair–Armani Beauty dinner at Tabakalera, as Fipresci named Walter Salles’s Aún estoy aquí its 2025 Grand Prix.