Donostia pays tribute to one of the most brilliant and versatile directors in cinema history with a comprehensive year-long retrospective. 🎬✨

The 2026 Nosferatu cycle, organized by Donostia Kultura and the Basque Film Archive (Filmoteca Vasca) with Tabakalera and the Institut Valencià de Cultura – La Filmoteca, focuses entirely on Billy Wilder.

🎬 NOSFERATU PROGRAMME: BILLY WILDER

📅 January 14 to December 31, 2026

🕐 Schedule according to programme (consult specific screening times in the official programme)

📍 Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Admission not indicated

📖 A comprehensive journey through Billy Wilder's filmography

The season opens on January 14 with the masterpiece Sunset Boulevard (1950) and follows Wilder's extensive career. The programme traces his early work as a screenwriter in 1930s Germany, his directorial debut in France with Mauvaise graine (1933), and his scripts in the United States for masters like Ernst Lubitsch, Mitchell Leisen, and Howard Hawks.

Beginning with his Hollywood directorial debut, The Major and the Minor (1942), the retrospective showcases key works across multiple genres: film noir with Double Indemnity, comedy with Some Like It Hot, war drama with A Foreign Affair, romance with Love in the Afternoon, mystery with The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, courtroom drama with Witness for the Prosecution, journalism with The Front Page, and human stories like The Apartment.

📚 Accompanying Nosferatu publications

Alongside the screenings, the book Billy Wilder. Anatomía de un genio, coordinated by Luis Alegre as volume 22 of the Nosferatu Collection, will be launched in January, featuring interviews with Fernando Trueba and Joseph McBride. In autumn 2026, volume 14 of Nosferatu Bilduma will also be published in Basque.

✨ A singular opportunity to rediscover Billy Wilder's timeless film legacy on the big screen.