10/10/2007

The Seville European Film Festival (November 2-10), which has received an organisational re-launch in the past two years under the direction of Manuel Grosso, is featuring a number of German (co)productions in its various sections.

Jan Bonny’s Counterparts [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
interview: Klaus Maeck
film profile], Volker Schloendorff’s Ulzhan [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Sam Garbarski’s Irina Palm [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sam Garbarski
interview: Sébastien Delloye
film profile], It's a Free World… [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Ken Loach, Dror Shaul’s Sweet Mud, The Man From London [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Bela Tarr and Roy Andersson’s You, the Living [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pernilla Sandström
interview: Roy Andersson
film profile] will all screen in the festival's Official Section.

Europa, Europa will be presenting Robert Thalheim’s And Along Come Tourists [+see also:
trailer
interview: Alexander Fehling
film profile], Tom Zenker’s Der blinde Fleck, Sonja Heiss’ Hotel Very Welcome, Yella [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Christian Petzold, as well as the co-productions Eduart [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Angeliki Antoniou and When Darkness Falls by Anders Nilsson.

In addition, the films Madonnas by Maria Speth, Hope by Stanislaw Mucha, I Am From Titov Veles [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska
film profile] by Teona Strugar Mitevska, The Trap [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Srdjan Golubovic and Opium: Diary of a Madwoman by János Szász will be screened in the Eurimages sidebar.

Europa Joven – dedicated to films for young audiences – will feature The Unpolished [+see also:
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film profile] by Pia Marais and the German-international co-production Thief Lord by Richard Claus.

Eurodoc will be presenting The Big Sellout by Florian Opitz and André Schaefer’s Here's Looking at You, Boy. Short Matters! will screen Amin by Ognjen Svilicic. The programme is rounded out with the restored print from 1921 of Hamlet by Sven Gade and Heinz Schall, which will be presented in Clasicos Recuperados.

A prize of €60,000 will go to the Spanish distributor of the festival's top winner.