Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s RUMOURS teaser trailer has been released. It will be released in cinemas in US/Canada on 18 October. The film will screen this month at San Sebastián International Film Festival and New York Film Festival. Prior to the screening at San Sebastián, Cate Blanchett will be presented with the Donostia Award on 21 September, 19:15 CEST. At the NYFF, Cate will join Maddin, Johnson brothers, and Denis Menochet on 28 September, 21:30 EST.

The actress Marta Etura will present the gala at which Cate Blanchett will receive her Donostia Award (Saturday 21, 19:15). The presentation will be followed by the screening of Rumours, which premiered at the last Festival de Cannes. In the movie directed by Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, Blanchett plays a German chancellor responsible for hosting a G7 summit in the midst of a global crisis.

The Donostia Awards going to Cate Blanchett and Pedro Almodóvar will go out on ETB4, eitb.eus, La 2 and RTVE Play (at 19:15 on Saturday 21st and at 18:00 on Thursday 26, respectively).

Tickets are also now available for the two Donostia Award galas, at a price of 50 euros.

Zinemaldia Plus+, the San Sebastian Festival’s annual spotlight on the Tabakalera shared screen, will run two sessions in September in tribute to the two Donostia Award-winners at the 72^nd edition. To celebrate the career of Australian actress Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006), in which Blanchett stars alongside another Donostia Award-winner, Judi Dench, will screen on Saturday 7^th.

The showings will take place at 19:00 and tickets can now by purchased from the Tabakalera website.

San Sebastián tickets will go on sale tomorrow, 3 September. NYFF tickets will be on sale 17 September here.