San Sebastian Film Festival Planning

We've told you that there's always something going on here in San Sebastian, and this week is one of the biggies -- the 65th San Sebastian Film Festival. Here is the Kursaal (San Sebastian's primary cultural center) advertising the event:

Although we've lived in cities with film festivals before, we've never had the time to truly indulge in the film scene like this. Just planning what we wanted to see was quite the ordeal. So many choices! We truly needed an Excel spreadsheet to figure out what to see and when and where we would be seeing it. It took 2 laptops, plus the film festival program to figure it out. We settled on 9 movies in 9 days. Considering that we didn't see more than 3 movies in the theater in 2 years in Seattle, you can imagine how excited we are. Our first movie was last night at midnight, yes, midnight! Why midnight? Well, that was the only time available for this particular film ("Call Me By Your Name").  And we have 2 more today (Saturday), "Michelin Stars - Tales From The Kitchen" and "Catch Every Wave" (a Laird Hamilton biography).  We'll update you soon!

Quick shout out to a future director we hope to see one day at the SS film festival -- Hannah H!