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SEVILLE 2012

The best of European film next week in Sevilla

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- Designed by the event’s new artistic director Luis Cienfuegos, the programme reflects the many nuances in European film production

For its 11th edition, the Sevilla European Film Festival has reinvented itself under the guidance of its new artistic director José Luis Cienfuegos, who had directed the prestigious Gijón Film Festival for the last 16 years. The festival is to focus on more independent, young, and risky European productions, besides the favourites at the European Film Academy (EFA) awards and the most notable co-productions funded by Eurimages.

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This year’s edition of the Sevilla-based film festival, to be celebrated from November 2 to 10, will include no less than five different competitions: the Official Section (17 features), New Waves (16 works by new European talents), Eurodoc Non Fiction (10 documentaries), Europa Junior (13 films for a younger audience), and the European Film Academy Selection (11 films vying for the academy’s awards).

The main section, the Official Section, includes some of today’s more notable productions like Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
interview: Nikolaj Arcel
film profile
]
and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Thomas Vinterberg
interview: Thomas Vinterberg
film profile
]
from Denmark, Italian director Matteo Garrone’s Reality [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Matteo Garrone
film profile
]
, Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ulrich Seidl
film profile
]
, Belgian director Joachim Lafosse’s Our Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile
]
, Ursula Meier‘s Franco-Swiss co-production Sister [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile
]
, as well as more independent works like Greek director Ektoras Lygizos’s controversial Boy Eating the Bird's Food [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Swedish director Mikael Marcimain’s Call Girl [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Paul Negoescu’s A Month in Thailand [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Paul Negoescu
film profile
]
from Romania, Gabriela Picher’s Eat Sleep Die [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: China Ahlander
interview: Gabriela Pichler
interview: Nermina Lukac
film profile
]
from Sweden, Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s Good Vibrations [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
from Northern Island, and Pablo Llorca’s Recoletos (arriba y abajo) from Spain.

Alongside the different competitions, non-competitive sections (Europa Focus: Greece, an Andalusian Panorama, Short Matters!, and Special Screenings) and retrospectives (dedicated to French artist Agnès Varda, the versatile Gonzalo García Pelayo on whose story Winning Streak [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
is based, and Portuguese film festivals) make up a flamboyant programme that reflects the many nuances in European film production. To see the complete programme, see the festival’s official website.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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