Alejandro Amenábar

Alejandro Amenábar debuted in feature films with Tesis (1996), winner of seven Goya awards, including Best Film. His second film, Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes, 1997) was released internationally and had an American remake, Vanilla Sky (2001). The Others (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, was his first film in English. Selected for the Venice Festival, it enjoyed widespread international success. Mar adentro (The Sea Inside, 2004) won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award and 14 Goya awards, as well as another 60 awards worldwide. In 2009 he released Agora, selected by the Cannes Festival, and in 2015 opened the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition, with Regression.

Festival de San Sebastián