SEMINCI – 58TH Valladolid International Film Festival
The 58th SEMINCI opens tomorrow in Valladolid with Spanish director Mar Coll, Todos queremos lo major para ello and will be closed on October 26th with a documentary (out of competition) directed by Andrzei Wajda about the labor leader Lech Walesa.
Javier Angulo, Valladolid International Film Festival Director on his opening letter: Lovers of independent and auteur cinema are going to really need such unique showcases as film festivals like SEMINCI can today provide. Since we always were —and continue to be— Spain’s auteur film festival par excellence, we emphatically defend in front of you film lovers (and also before the Spanish cultural officials) the role we play, while we also call for the strong and sincere support of everyone involved.
Morocco is the country invited this year and there will be a retrospective showing the reality of the country during the past 15 years.
Director Jose Luis Guerín and Goya Award winner (2013) actor José Sacristán will be in charge of two Master Class with students and cinephiles. Sacristán will also receive the Honor Golden Spike along with French director Jacques Audiard, American Paul Schrader and Honor Goya Award 2013, Concha Velasco.
Nabil Ayouch,Ginger Corbett,Thomas Bidegain,Nuria Vidal,Raoul Peck,Ana Torrent are members of the International Jury who will give the prices: “Spikes”, they can be gold or silver, are the awards given to the best competing films in the Official Section.
Offical Selection
Tots Volem el Millor per a ella, Mar Coll - Inauguration
Presentimientos, Santiago Tabernero
La por (El miedo), Jordi Cadena
Tokyo Kazoku (Una familia de Tokio), Yoji Yamada
Marina, Stijn Coninx
Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt
Au bout du conte, Agnes Jaoui
Metro Manila, Sean Ellis
Papusza, Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze
La reconstrucción, Juan Taratuto
Omar, Hany Abu-Assad
Zéro, Nour-Eddine Lakhmari
I’m the Same, I’m an Other, Caroline Strubbe
Short Term 12, Destin Cretton
Run & Jump, Steph Green
Matterhorn, Diederick Ebbinge
Out of competition
The Canyons, Paul Schrader
Centro Histórico, Víctor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Aki Kaurismäki - Closure
