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Alfonso Rivera


2177 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Seville succumbs to the oddball humour of Bruno Dumont

Seville succumbs to the oddball humour of Bruno Dumont

Slack Bay scooped the top prize at the European Film Festival in the Andalusian capital, which will also host the presentation ceremony for the EFA awards in 2018  

14/11/2016 | Seville 2016 | Awards

Días color naranja: Surprising diversions

Días color naranja: Surprising diversions

Pablo Llorca returns with a film shot on public transport and following a group of young, romantically-inclined travellers as they happily allow life to carry them off in unexpected directions  

13/11/2016 | Seville 2016

La película de nuestra vida: Summer hours

La película de nuestra vida: Summer hours

Enrique Baró Ubach’s first film, presented in the New Waves section of the Seville European Film Festival, is an exercise in nostalgia that exudes love for the cinema and that playful summer spirit  

13/11/2016 | Seville 2016

The Substance: Inside a parallel universe

The Substance: Inside a parallel universe

Original and clone blur into one in this second full-length feature from Lluís Galter, which centres around a Chinese tourist attraction created in the mirror image of a Spanish town  

10/11/2016 | Seville 2016

Los mutantes: The chiaroscuros of the learning process

Los mutantes: The chiaroscuros of the learning process

Gabriel Azorín brings us a black-and-white reflection on whether it is possible to learn the art of film, accompanying Madrilenian pupils as they study something that is elusive at best  

08/11/2016 | Seville 2016

Sleeping Beauty: Dancing with the fairies

Sleeping Beauty: Dancing with the fairies

Ado Arrietta, without relinquishing one ounce of his customary audacity, lyricism and emotion, plunges us into a modern-day fairytale world that will delight the inner child deep down in every viewer  

08/11/2016 | Seville 2016

Ado Arrietta  • Director

Interview: Ado Arrietta • Director

"Real life doesn't appeal to me at all"

World-premiering in the 13th Seville European Film Festival, Spanish director Ado Arrietta’s latest escapade Sleeping Beauty is a poetic, dreamlike and up-to-date reimagining of the fairytale  

07/11/2016

Albert Serra  • Director

Interview: Albert Serra • Director

“I’d have liked to have done something a bit crazier”

Screening out of competition at Seville, Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra presents his latest film, Last Days of Louis XIV, a chamber piece about the final days of the despotic French king  

07/11/2016

José Luis Cienfuegos  • Director, Seville European Film Festival

Interview: José Luis Cienfuegos • Director, Seville European Film Festival

“We’re interested in reaping the harvest of this different kind of cinema”

We chatted to José Luis Cienfuegos, head of the Seville European Film Festival, in the run-up to its 13th edition, the fourth under his auspices  

02/11/2016

Seville pulls out all the stops for its 13th European Film Festival

Seville pulls out all the stops for its 13th European Film Festival

Tributes to actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and costume designer Paco Delgado, plus a slew of world premieres, are just some of the attractions at this year’s edition, which kicks off on Friday  

02/11/2016 | Seville 2016

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