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SEVILLE 2018 Awards

Sergei Loznitsa rounds off a successful Seville European Film Festival with the Golden Giraldillo

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- Donbass has emerged triumphant in the Official Section of the gathering, which also crowned Ray & Liz, M and Ruben Brandt, Collector

Sergei Loznitsa rounds off a successful Seville European Film Festival with the Golden Giraldillo
Sergei Loznitsa talking to the press at the Seville European Film Festival (© Concha de la Rosa/SEFF)

The 15th Seville European Film Festival, which came to a close on 17 November, reserved a special place in its programme for Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, as it organised screenings of all three films that he has released this year: the documentaries The Trial [+see also:
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 and Victory Day [+see also:
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 in the New Waves section, and the fiction Donbass [+see also:
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interview: Sergei Loznitsa
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]
 in the Official Section. And it was the latter that managed to win over the jury, comprising Nerea BarrosRuss B CollinsMarion DöringInés Nofuentes and Jonás Trueba, who awarded it the Golden Giraldillo, because, in their words, it “effectively balances the horrors of violent armed conflict, plus the animus of nationalist posturing, with an affecting and watchable story on a relatable human scale.”

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The rest of the winners’ list was made up of films by less well-established directors, such as British photographer-turned-director Richard Billingham, who took home the Grand Jury Award with his feature debut, Ray & Liz [+see also:
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interview: Richard Billingham
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; France’s Yolande Zauberman, who scooped Best Director for her documentary M [+see also:
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; and Slovenia’s Milorad Krstic, who picked up the Best Screenplay Award (together with Radmila Roczkov) for his first animated feature, Ruben Brandt, Collector [+see also:
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. Non-professional actress Joy Anwulika Alphonsus went home with the Best Actress Award for her performance in Joy [+see also:
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interview: Sudabeh Mortezai
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 by Sudabeh Mortezai, and the lead duo in Christophe Honoré’s Sorry Angel [+see also:
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Q&A: Christophe Honoré
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Vincent Lacoste and Pierre Deladonchamps, split the Best Actor Award. The only trophy in the Official Section that stayed in Spain was Best Cinematography, which was bestowed upon José A Alayón and Víctor Moreno for their work on The Hidden City [+see also:
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, directed by the latter.

The second most important section of the festival, The New Waves, crowned an array of young directors, such as France’s Jean-Bernard Marlin, whose feature debut, Shéhérazade [+see also:
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, received the Best Film Award in the Fiction category, assessed by a youth jury, and Portugal’s Salomé Lamas, who pocketed the equivalent prize for her movie Extinction [+see also:
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 in the Non-Fiction category, decided on by a jury chaired by seasoned German director Ula Stöckl.

Lastly, the overhauled Endless Revolutions section, dedicated to the most alternative titles (be they Spanish or European), saw the victory of the French film A Violent Desire for Joy [+see also:
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 by Clément Schneider, which picked up the prize handed out by the FIPRESCI jury. This was accompanied by a Deluxe Award, consisting of the creation of a DCP master for the next feature by the winning director, a prize that the Spanish company also decided to present to the directors of two groundbreaking Spanish movies, Wandering Star [+see also:
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 by Alberto Gracia and <3 [+see also:
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 by María Antón Cabot.

And so the gathering brought its successful 15th edition to a close, after it served as a prelude to the European Film Awards, which will be held in the Andalusian city on 15 December.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Official Section

Golden Giraldillo
Donbass [+see also:
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interview: Sergei Loznitsa
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 – Sergei Loznitsa (Germany/France/Ukraine/Netherlands/Romania)

Grand Jury Award
Ray & Liz [+see also:
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interview: Richard Billingham
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]
 – Richard Billingham (UK)

Best Director 
Yolande Zauberman – M [+see also:
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]
 (France)

Best Screenplay 
Milorad Krstic, Radmila Roczkov – Ruben Brandt, Collector [+see also:
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]
 (Hungary)

Best Actress 
Joy Anwulika Alphonsus – Joy [+see also:
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interview: Sudabeh Mortezai
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]
 (Austria)

Best Actor
Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps – Sorry Angel [+see also:
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Q&A: Christophe Honoré
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]
 (France)

Best Cinematography 
José A Alayón, Víctor Moreno – The Hidden City [+see also:
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interview: Víctor Moreno
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]
 (Spain/France/Germany)

The New Waves section

Best Film 
Shéhérazade [+see also:
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 – Jean-Bernard Marlin (France)

Special Award 
Samouni Road [+see also:
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interview: Stefano Savona
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]
 – Stefano Savona (Italy/France)

Award for Artistic Contribution to the Cinematographic Language
Rage [+see also:
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 – Sergio Tréfaut (Portugal/France/Brazil)

The News Waves Non-Fiction section

Best Film
Extinction [+see also:
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 – Salomé Lamas (Portugal/Germany)

Other awards

FIPRESCI Prize – Endless Revolutions Best Film Award
A Violent Desire for Joy [+see also:
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 – Clément Schneider (France)

Deluxe Award
Wandering Star [+see also:
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interview: Alberto Gracia
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]
 – Alberto Gracia (Spain)
<3 [+see also:
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]
 – María Antón Cabot (Spain)
Special Mention 
In Memoriam (La derrota conviene olvidarla) [+see also:
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 – Marcos M Merino (Spain)

Junior Europe Award
The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear [+see also:
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 - Amalie Næsby Fick, Jørgen Lerdam, Philip Einstein Lipski (Denmark)

Cinephiles of the Future Award
Funan [+see also:
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interview: Denis Do
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]
 – Denis Do (France/Belgium/Luxembourg/Cambodia)

Grand Audience Award 
Woman at War [+see also:
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interview: Benedikt Erlingsson
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]
 – Benedikt Erlingsson (Iceland/France/Ukraine)

Eurimages Award for Best European Co-production
Sunset [+see also:
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interview: László Nemes
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]
 – László Nemes (Hungary/France)

Rosario Valpuesta Award for Best Andalusian Panorama Short Film 
Todos mis padres – Bernabé Rico (Spain)

Special Rosario Valpuesta Award for Best Direction of an Andalusian Panorama Short Film
Cazatalentos – José Herrera (Spain)

Official Section ASECAN Best Film Award
Ruben Brandt, Collector – Milorad Krstic

CICAE Award for Best First Film in the Official and The New Waves Sections
Ruben Brandt, Collector – Milorad Krstic

Ocaña Award for Freedom 
Sauvage [+see also:
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interview: Camille Vidal-Naquet
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]
 – Camille Vidal-Naquet (France)

Women in Focus Award for Best Film in the Official Section 
Pearl [+see also:
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interview: Elsa Amiel
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]
 – Elsa Amiel (France/Switzerland)

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(Translated from Spanish)

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