22/11/2023 - The latest from filmmakers such as Joachim Lafosse, Jessica Hausner, Michel Gondry, Catherine Breillat and Matteo Garrone, among other great names, can be enjoyed from 23-29 November

The Official Section of the 20th Seville Film Festival (23-29 November) is once again filled with great European filmmakers, such as France's Michel Gondry, who presents the comedy The Book of Solutions [+see also:
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interview: Gustav Lindh
interview: May el-Toukhy
film profile] (2020); and the Italian helmer Matteo Garrone beautifully portrays African emigration in Me Captain [+see also:
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Vietnam’s Trần Anh Hùng won the Best Director award at the last Cannes Film Festival for The Taste of Things [+see also:
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interview: Léa Fehner
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interview: Timm Kröger
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interview: Selman Nacar
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Spanish directors Víctor Iriarte, Javier Macipe and Pablo Berger will also form part of the official section of Seville 2023. The newcomer from Bilbao, after winning the award for Best Director at the Cinespaña Festival in Toulouse with Foremost by Night [+see also:
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interview: Víctor Iriarte
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interview: Javier Macipe
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They are joined in the festival's main section by Jacqueline van Vugt and her border drama Crossing [+see also:
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interview: Joachim Lafosse
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interview: Jessica Hausner
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interview: Patric Chiha
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interview: Bertrand Bonello
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The official section is completed with several premieres: Federico Schmukler's feature debut, Felipe [+see also:
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interview: Kamal Lazraq
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View details of all of the festival’s sections here.

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)