The Seville Festival brings together the best of European cinema For nine days the spectators be able to attend more than four hundred projections with two international premieres and more than one hundred and twenty national premieres. The tenth third edition of the Festival of European cinema in Seville (SEFF, by its acronym in Seville European Film Festival) starts this Friday with the screening of a total of 215 films (27 world premieres). During nine days them spectators may attend to more than cuatrocientas projections with two premi res international and more than hundred twenty premieres national.
In parallel, the festival has prepared a full agenda in which will participate professionals, creators, public and programmers that engage in numerous tables round, presentations and classes master.
The Spanish production will be very present in the SEFF attended by sixty-seven films, thirty-three of them Andalusian.
Official section
The Canadian Xavier Dolan presents French-Canadian co-production Only the end of the world, a family drama starring Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard and L a Seydoux that the acclaimed director has achieved the Grand Prize of the jury at Cannes. The French Philippe Grandrieux, presents in the SEFF Malgr la Nuit, a trance phantasmagoric and pop, sensual and disturbing to parties equal, test of that we are before one of them filmmakers more fascinating of the panorama contemporary. His compatriot Bruno Dumont will present Ma loute, a crazy comedy located in the years twenty presented in the section official of Cannes and starring by Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Another French, Alain Guiraudie, winner of the weather vane of gold in 2013 with The Lake unknown, returns to explore the complexity of the human being in Staying upright, with which also competed in the section official of Cannes. In the Franco-Belgian Une Vie converge two narrators exceptional: its director, St phane Briz ()Mademoiselle Chambon, the law of market) and Guy de Maupassant, whose first novel set in the 19TH-century Normandy adapted this elliptical, and suggestive film that was awarded the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival past.
Also will compete this year in Seville the winner of the Oscar Andrea Arnold with American Honeythat he has chalked up his second award of the jury at Cannes with this road movie, electrifying a wave of sensations, populated by characters anti-system posed the first foray by the British filmmaker in American cinema with Shia LaBeouf as the protagonist. The Bulgarian Ralitza Petrova with Godless, thriller that is took the Leopard of gold in Locarno, an opera prima of pulse firm and vision stark of the inheritance of the old regime political present even today in the Bulgaria contemporary. He Hungarian Szabolcs Hajdu dissects with audacity to the institution family (included it his own, because he same and its woman e son in it life real interpret to one of them marriages protagonists) in It completo Not the Time of My Life, highest award in Karlovy Vary, the main festival of the East.
The Icelandic Gu mundur Arnar Gu mundsson addresses in Heartstone the loss of innocence in a little tolerant environment demonstrating an exquisitely sensitive and credible look at adolescence, while Polands Tomasz Wasilewski, winner of the silver bear for best screenplay in Berlin, explores in United States of Love the lives of four women trying to deal with sexual repression and unhappy love.
The aforementioned will compete against other titles such as Mr. universe of Tizza Covi, that formed part of the official jury at the last edition of the festival, and Rainer Frimmel, Mention special of the jury at the last Festival of Locarno. Oliver Laxe, young and already consolidated talent from the film Spanish that presents in the SEFF his second film Mimosas, Great prize of the week of the critical in Cannes. Meanwhile, Whit Stillman adapts the novel of Jane Austen Lady Susan in Love and friendship, supported in a cast with familiar faces Chlo Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale at the top.
For the third time in the official section of the SEFF, the Austrian Ulrich Seidl will compete in Seville with Safari, in which poses its look provocative and incisive on hunting tourism of animals wild in Africa. The unmistakable seal of Eug ne Green will be present with Le fils de Joseph, a comedy released in the last festival of Berlin that raises the paternity of way singular, with winks to the story Bible and surprising situations.
Kristen Stewart repeats with Olivier Assayas in Personal Shopper, also in competition, a RAID in the horror psychological that you reported to Assayas the prize to the best Director in Cannes.
Tributes
Sevilla will pay tribute in this edition to the actress and Director French Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, sister of Carla Bruni and who has participated in titles like Saint Laurent (2014) de Bertrand Bonello (winner of the C sar Awards), Munich (2005) of Spielberg or The balia (1999) of Marco Bellocchio. As Director he debuted in 2003 with It is easier for a camel...Since then he has made two feature films and a documentary and a film for television. It will present its last long in Seville Une Jeune Fille de 90 ans., en un programa doble en el que se estrenar mundialmente su cortometraje Les Larmes Am res D ' une Actrice.
Tambi n ser homenajeado el dise ador Paco Delgado. El lanzarote o ha estado dos veces nominado al Oscar por The Danish girl (2015) y Les miserables (2012), y cuenta con dos premios Goya, consecutivos, por Snow White (2012) y The witches of Zugarramurdi (2013).Diecis is pel culas competir n por el Giraldillo de Oro, y cinco m s participar n fuera de concurso, en la Secci n Oficial. Siguiendo la trayectoria marcada y las se as de identidad que lo definen, la Secci n Oficial del SEFF muestra las obras clave
