Cineuropa returns once again this November to the screens of Compostela to celebrate cinema as a space for encounter, reflection, and freedom. Its 39th edition will take place from November 7 to 23 and will open on Friday the 7th with the screening of the Iraqi film Mamlaket Al-Qasab (The President’s Cake), winner of the Caméra d’Or for Best First Feature at the Cannes Film Festival. This film marks the beginning of an edition that will bring together more than 140 films from around the world, along with a wide range of debates, meetings, film cycles, and parallel activities.
Among the major highlights of the international calendar, Cineuropa 39 will screen the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Bear from Berlin, the Golden Leopard from Locarno, and the Cannes Grand Jury Prize, as well as many other titles from those festivals and others such as San Sebastián, Buenos Aires, and Sitges, combining new voices with established filmmakers and perspectives. The program will feature works by Paolo Sorrentino, François Ozon, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Joachim Trier, Radu Jude, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Pietro Marcello, André Téchiné, Lucrecia Martel, Hafsia Herzi, Dag Johan Haugerud, László Nemes, Alice Winocour, and Pedro Pinho, among others.
In this edition, the Palestinian genocide and the memory of 20th-century dictatorships are key themes throughout many of the stories, with a special focus on filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, who will also be one of the three recipients of the Cineuropa 2025 Awards. He will be joined by Jonás Trueba, a leading figure in Spanish independent cinema and heir to the best European humanist tradition, and Jaione Camborda, the Donostia-born and Compostela-based director who made history by winning the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival with O corno, representing the strength of the New Galician Cinema movement.
The international jury will be composed of Eulàlia Iglesias, lecturer at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, member of the programming committees of SEMINCI and D’A – Barcelona International Auteur Film Festival, as well as contributor to numerous publications; Ramón Lluís Bande, a prominent non-fiction filmmaker whose work focuses on historical memory, territory, and the Asturian antifascist resistance; and Florencia de Mugica, producer, graduate in Dramatic Arts, founder of Bomba Cine, and responsible for multiple award-winning productions at international festivals.
The Teatro Principal, Salón Teatro, Auditorio de Galicia, NUMAX, and Zona C will host the 39th edition of Cineuropa.
