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Seville shines spotlight on European film

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The 9th Seville Film Festival (November 6-14), one of the most important events dedicated to European cinema, is underway .

This celebration of European film includes a large number of presentations, events, homages and announcements (such as Saturday’s unveiling of the nominees for the European Film Awards). However, the main attraction is the Official Competition, composed of 16 titles selected from the best of European production from the last two years.

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The selection highlights the diversity of European cinema, from Danis Tanovic’s war recollections in Triage [+see also:
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to Andrea Arnold’s harsh portrait of a British teenager in Fish Tank [+see also:
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, taking in along the way Keren Yedaya’s French/Israeli/German film Jaffa [+see also:
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, Eva Dahr’s Spanish/Norwegian co-production The Orange Girl [+see also:
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, Catherine Corsini’s French title Leaving [+see also:
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, and Pipilotti Rist’s Swiss/Austrian co-production Pepperminta [+see also:
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One of the most striking aspects of the Seville selection is the abundance of co-productions, both between European countries and with states from other continents, which shows the European film industry’s flexibility and ability to co-operate. In fact, half of the works in competition are co-productions.

UK director Nicolas Roeg will preside the Official Selection jury, which will also include author Juan Cobos Wilkins, screenwriter Manuel Hidalgo, German producer Gabriele Röthemeyer and Edinburgh Film Festival’s artistic director Hannah McGill.

Besides the main competition, the festival will host four other competitive sections: EFA (nominees for the European Film Awards, competing for the Audience Award), Eurimages (for works co-financed by the organisation), Eurodoc (devoted to documentaries) and Short Matters! 09 (for short films).

These sections will screen films including Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric [+see also:
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, Yorgos LanthimosDogtooth [+see also:
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, Henrik Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy [+see also:
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, Erik Van Looy’s Loft [+see also:
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, Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg’s Max Manus [+see also:
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, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
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(France), Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon [+see also:
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, Manoel de Oliveira’s Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl [+see also:
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, and Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere [+see also:
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The festival will host a wealth of presentations and peripheral events, as well as various homages and special prizes, including tributes to the UK’s Amanda Nevill (director of the BFI), Oscar-winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba, UK actors John Hurt and Ben Kingsley, and Swedish producer Sören Staermose (who was behind the film adaptation of the Millennium saga). There will also be a special look back at the collaboration between late Spanish screenwriter Rafael Azcona and Italian director Maurizio Scaparro on the film The Last Pulcinella [+see also:
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, to be screened at the festival.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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