David Cronenberg will receive the dignity of his life at the San Sebastian Festival

Canadian horror maestro David Cronenberg will receive the Donostia Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.

Cronenberg will receive the award at a gala on September 21 at the Victoria Eugenia Theater in San Sebastián, followed by the screening of her latest film. crimes of the future.

The dystopian drama, starring Viggo Mortensen, Leah Seidou and Kristen Stewart, opened in Cannes last month, where it was a viewer favorite. Critics hailed it as a return to form for Cronenberg, considered a pioneer in body horror and art science fiction. Since its first creations, st shivering (1975), Irritated (1977) and brod (1979), a Canadian director took down horror tropes from B-movies to tell frightening stories of psychological distress in later films, including scanners (1981), videodrome (1983), dead rings (1988), naked lunch (1991) and there is a z (1999), use the science fiction genre to provide an entertaining critique of modern technology-oriented society.

Cronenberg’s last career was in collaboration with Mortensen, with whom he made four films, including history of violence (2005) and dangerous method (2011) and Robert Pattinson, who participated cosmopolis (2012) and star maps (2014).

This will be Cronenberg’s second visit to San Sebastian, after his London gangster drama. oriental promisesWith the participation of Mortensen, the Spanish Festival was inaugurated in 2007.

The Canadian filmmaker joins the list of distinguished Donostia Award winners, which includes Francis Ford Coppola, Agnes Varda, Hirokazu Coreda and Costa Gavra, among others.

The 70th San Sebastian Film Festival will be held September 16-24, 2022.