What: San Sebastian Festival
Where: Tabakalera, Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea, Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1, 2ª planta, San Sebastian, Spain
When: 25 September 2018
The British actress Judi Dench will receive the prestigious Donostia Award at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival next month. The Festival’s highest honorary award will be presented on Tuesday, September 25th, prior to the screening of Trevor Nunn’s “Red Joan“, in which Dench plays a woman whose tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she’s arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia.
This will be Dench’s first visit to San Sebastian.
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| Judi Dench as M in “Skyfall” (2012) Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
Judi Dench played a role of M, the head of MI6, starting from “GoldenEye” (1995). She appeared in all four Pierce Brosnan‘s Bond movies and three Daniel Craig‘s 007 films from “Casino Royale” (2006) to “Skyfall” (2012). She was also briefly visible in “SPECTRE” (2015).