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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Michel Gondry
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intervista: Gustav Lindh
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Léa Fehner
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intervista: Timm Kröger
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intervista: 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Javier Macipe
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They are joined in the festival's main section by Jacqueline van Vugt and her border drama Crossing [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jessica Hausner
scheda film]. Her compatriot Patric Chiha and the French Bertrand Bonello both adapt Henry James' The Beast in the Jungle: the former, in The Beast in the Jungle [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Patric Chiha
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intervista: Bertrand Bonello
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The official section is completed with several premieres: Federico Schmukler's feature debut, Felipe [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kamal Lazraq
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View details of all of the festival’s sections here.