Yesterday, José Luis Cienfuegos, director for the second year of Seminci, Valladolid International Film Festival, which will be held from 18 to 26 October, presented at the Film Academy in Madrid the bulk of the programme for its 69th edition. This now completes that previously announced with an outstanding Spanish presence at the event (read more).

Major European filmmakers will compete for the Golden Spike, the highest award of the festival, which in its Official Section will feature the latest works by the French Olivier Assayas (Suspended Time [+leggi anche:
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In addition to these names, there are the eagerly awaited works by Norwegian Dag Johan Haugerud (Sex [+leggi anche:
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Completing the official competition section are other notable international directors, such as the Chinese Guan Hu (with Black Dog, best film in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes), the Iranians Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha (with My Favourite Cake [+leggi anche:
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Out of competition, the French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius will present his animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes [+leggi anche:
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Meanwhile, the parallel section Meeting Point, described as an urgent cartography of contemporary cinema and our world, will screen striking European works such as Toxic [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Louise Courvoisier
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Germany will be the guest country this year, with films from the New German Cinema (with works by Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, but also by lesser-known but equally stimulating female directors such as Elfi Mikesch, Helma Sanders-Brahms and Sohrab Shahid Saless) and titles from the last twenty years such as Ghosts by Christian Petzold; Western [+leggi anche:
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Finally, the fourth edition of the Independent Film Market (MERCI Valladolid), an initiative co-organised by the festival and the Association of Independent Film Distributors (ADICINE), made up of fifteen of Spain's leading distribution companies, will take place from 23 to 25 October. The initiative aims to promote independent and auteur films, bringing their titles to exhibitors, television channels and platforms in order to encourage the public to see these films, as well as enabling and promoting relations between distribution and exhibition professionals.