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The international contemporary culture centre Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastian will hold from February 23rd to 27th ''LABO'', experimental shortfilm screenings from Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, one of the most important short film festivals in the world.

Around 42 short films from 20 different countries like United Kingdom, Brazil, India, Australia, Taiwan, Czech Republic among others will be screened at 20:00. Entrance is free.

Tabakalera is name of one of the biggest buildings of Donostia-San Sebastian. Located in the Egia district, next to the North railway station and the Cristina Enea park, it takes up one of the biggest plots (13.277m2) of the urban area.

For 90 years (1913-2003), Tabakalera was the tobacco factory of Donostia-San Sebastian. It was one of the biggest and most of the workers were women. The building took the name of the enterprise that managed the tobacco production in Spain until the privatisation process that converted Tabacalera in Altadis.

In 2003 the factory was closed[1] by Altadis. A year later, in 2004, the Donostia-San Sebastian City Council, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the Basque Government bought the building in order to transform it into an international contemporary culture centre. "Contemporary art, television, video and cinema, design and sound will converge in a same space. A singular space of exhibitions and audio-visual programmes. And, above all, a place to work, to produce, to create. An image factory".