Every autumn the Spanish city of Valladolid proudly host its now legendary Seminci - International Film Week, which this year celebrates its 67th anniversary. Led by the journalist and filmmaker Javier Angulo, his team chooses a long list of titles of all genres and formats that never fails to disappoint the many audiences that flock to the cinemas around the city. The film L'immensità [+lire aussi :
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interview : Emanuele Crialese
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In its official section, fighting for the coveted Spoke of Honour, the top award, the following feature films will be screened: the Spanish (in co-production with Belgium) Staring at Strangers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Colm Bairéad
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Also in the official section is the film Belgian Felix van Groeningen co-directed with actress Charlotte Vandermeersch, The Eight Mountains [+lire aussi :
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interview : Felix van Groeningen & Cha…
fiche film]. In addition, French director Mikhaël Hers will compete with The Passengers of the Night [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mikhaël Hers
fiche film], selected at the Berlinale, alongside Return to Dust, by Chinese director Li Ruijun, which is also selected. The co-production between Portugal, France and Belgium Alma Viva [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cristèle Alves Meira
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interview : Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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The main section is completed with EO [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
interview : Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
fiche film], by the Ukrainian Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk; and Boy from Heaven [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tarik Saleh
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fiche film], from Irish director Martin McDonagh, for which Colin Farrell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor in Venice.

Among its many sections is the retrospective Mungiu by Mungiu, dedicated to the Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, whose six works will be screened (including his latest to date, R.M.N. [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cristian Mungiu
interview : Judith State
fiche film]), as well as other films that have influenced him. He will also give a master class in the Miguel Delibes room at the Calderón Theatre, the venue for this festival.

There will also be special screenings of documentaries that give an overview of the careers of Spanish actress Julieta Serrano, the French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, the pioneer Val del Omar, the comedy craftsman Fernando Colomo and the incomparable actor José Luis López Vázquez.

New for this year is the non-competitive section Seminci Series, featuring the fictional series The Chosen, by Dallas Jenkins (USA), and The Dark Heart, by Gustav Möller (Denmark/Sweden), and the Spanish docuseries Pacto de silencio. Santiago Corella ‘El Nani’ y la mafia policial, by Ángela Gallardo and César Vallejo, and PornoXplotación, by Mabel Lozano.

The programme for the 67th Seminci can be found on its website.