Seville European Film Festival
Seville European Film Festival screens from 5 to 13 November more than 220 titles, including 26 world premieres, and offers 150,000 euros in prizes to the film distribution and exhibition. A complete view of contemporary European auteurist cinema, inspired by the total security that today, more than ever, a film festival can be useful to the public, to films and to filmmakers.
Key filmmakers such as Mia Hansen-Løve, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jacques Audiard, Kenneth Branagh, Andrea Arnold or Jonas Carpignano are some of the top names included in its extraordinary programme. In addition, the festival hosts the nominations ceremony for the European Film Awards on 9 November.
The aim of the Seville Festival is to promote and spread European cinema, establishing itself as an annual meeting place for European film talents, specialised journalists and professionals from the sector. Nine days during which industry, public and critics coexist in the midst of the best European cinema. Spanish premieres of the major films in contemporary auteurist cinema, the presence of a large number of emerging talents, the determined defense of the youngest Spanish cinema, support for Andalusian cinema and, above all, the total security that today, more than ever, a film festival can be useful to the public, to films and to filmmakers.
The main axis of the festival is made up of various competitive sections for feature films, documentaries, short films and non-fiction cinema. The other main axis consists of special screenings, tributes and retrospectives, with the aim of providing a complete view of contemporary European cinema. Also, each year the festival hosts the nominations ceremony for the European Film Academy Awards. In addition, in 2018, Seville was the venue for the European Film Academy Awards gala, an event that took place on 15th December in the Maestranza Theatre.
The Seville Festival has received visits from legends and maestros such as Agnès Varda, Claude Lanzmann, Abel Ferrara, Pere Portabella, Stephen Frears, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Roy Andersson, Milos Forman, Béla Tarr, Leos Carax, Abdellatif Kechiche, Ruben Östlund, Nicolas Roeg, Elia Suleiman, Paolo Taviani, Alexander Kluge, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tonino Guerra, Andrzej Wajda, Nikita Mikhalkov, Peter Greenaway, Vittorio Storaro, Andrzej Żuławski, Mike Newell, Patrice Chéreau o Gianfranco Rosi.
The city and the festival have welcomed important filmmakers such asMatteo Garrone, Bruno Dumont, Olivier Assayas, Alain Guiraudie, Sergei Loznitsa, Teresa Villaverde, Eugène Green, Mia Hansen-Løve, Jessica Hausner, Philippe Grandrieux, Pedro Costa, Robert Guédiguian, Corneliu Porumboiu, Nicolas Philibert, Joanna Hogg, o Whit Stillman…
Also, authors with transformative views, como Pedro Pinho, Joachim Lafosse, Ulrich Seidl, Ado Arrieta, Bertrand Bonello, Nadav Lapid, Valeska Grisebach, Pietro Marcello, Justine Triet, Amos Gitaï, Christophe Honoré, László Nemes, Anna Odell, Albert Serra, With Stillman, Adina Pintilie, F.J. Ossang, Kurdwin Ayub, Mark Cousins, Davide Amante, Jean-Charles Fitoussi…
We have been visited by established Spanish directors, such as Agustín Díaz Yanes, José Luis Guerín, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Juan Sebastián Bollaín, Lluis Miñarro, Josefina Molina, Paco León, Alberto Rodríguez, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ramón Salazar, Miguel Hermoso, Fernando Franco, Manuel Martín Cuenca o Isabel Coixet…
New voices of our cinema, como Oliver Laxe, Carlos Marqués-Marcet, Carlo Padial, Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Eloy Enciso, Pablo Llorca, Rocío Mesa, David Macián, César Velasco Broca, Hernán Zin, Elena López Riera, Carla Subirana, Eva Vila, Samu Fuentes, Anxos Fazáns, Lois Patiño, Oskar Alegria, Lucía Alemany, Adrián Orr…
And also such notable actors as Ben Kingsley, John Hurt, Christopher Lee, Kenneth Branagh, John Turturro, Vincent Lindon, Mathieu Amalric, Valeria Golino, Louis Garrel, Jeanne Balibar, Colin Farrell, María de Medeiros, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Bárbara Lennie, Luis Tosar, Inma Cuesta, Antonio de la Torre, Oona Chaplin, Lola Dueñas, Marta Nieto, Antonio Banderas, Paz Vega, Timothy Spall, Franco Nero, Christopher Lee…
