But as we like getting in trouble, we have become the total reference in surf culture in Europe and the most ambitious surf film festival in the world!!

And all this thanks to the support from all you talented film makers and artists that have made it to Donostia, and of course to the help of all our sponsors and media partners who have blindly believed in our project, and last but not least, big ups to all you guys, THE PUBLIC  who flood all the projections and activities!! THANKS!!

We got some new stuff going on: The Surf Film Contest is back! Big bucks for the best feature of the year (we still don´t know how many million rupies... we´re fine tuning our budget), a new short film under 20 minute category, and a change in the dates for te ONLINE 5 minutes max. shorts. We will open the ONLINE site on June 1st to receive your new masterpieces until August 31 st...

Last year Patrick Trefz came over to do the world premiere of his awesome Idiosyncrasies, the irish team of Mickey Smith, Fergal Smith and Tom Lowe presented another crazy piece of pure Irish surf, Chris Malloy and Jeff Jonhson did the European Premiere of the breathtaking 180ºSouth, Michael Oblowitz blew everything off winning the best feature with Sea of Darkness, Taylor Steele brought under his arm a visually outstanding Castles in the Sky, and of course all our local guys with every year taking the genre a notch up!

One more year we expect the best film makers of the world bringing us their state of the art surf culture vision, we expect any underground, obscure film makers to bring us their indy vision of their corner of the world: A big emphasis on europe and our scene, but please send us your stuff from Australia, Indo, Asia, Africa, amigos sudamericanos!, USA, Island, Kazajistan, Txikitistan, Akinostan and any other mysto spots from the world! Ongi etorriak! Welcome!!

Our dates for the Donostia event:  friday  and saturday June 3rd and 4th, and from wednesday 8th to sunday June 12th: projections, environmental activities, exhibitions, our music festival, and big surprises as inusual...

Key dates for The Surf Film Contest!

1. Deadline to submit feature films + shorts for the official program of Surfilmfestibal: April 15th!!

2. Dates for the ONLINE 5 min. max Surf Short Films: From June 1st to August 31st....