![]() Official poster of the 69th Seminci | |
Opening film | They Will Be Dust |
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Closing film | Sing Sing |
Location | Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain |
Awards | Golden Spike: Misericordia |
Directors | José Luis Cienfuegos |
Festival date | 18–26 October 2024 |
The 69th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) took place from 18 to 26 October 2024, in Valladolid, Spain. [1] They Will Be Dust opened the festival. [2]
In June 2024, the festival announced the update of its branding image since 1984, the iconic lips by Leonese painter Manuel Sierra, with a revamped version developed by PobrelaVaca Studio's Félix Rodríguez and Ana María Hernández, [3] [4] which was included in the festival's poster for the 69th edition. On 21 August 2024, Carlos Marques-Marcet's They Will Be Dust was announced as the festival's opening picture. [2] Later in August, the festival announced an early tranche of Spanish-produced and co-produced films to be part of different festivals sections. [5] [6]
On 15 October 2024, director Sofia Exarchou, actress Aida Folch, film critic Devika Girish, director Luis López Carrasco, and producer Ingmar Frost were announced as the members of the main competition jury. [7]
The following films were selected to compete for the Golden Spike: [8] [9] [10] [11]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel |
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Becoming Ana | La mitad de Ana | Marta Nieto | Spain |
Black Dog | 狗阵 | Guan Hu | China |
The Brutalist | Brady Corbet |
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Bob Trevino Likes It | Tracie Laymon | United States | |
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point | Tyler Taormina | United States | |
La cocina | Alonso Ruizpalacios |
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Close to the Sultan | En la alcoba del sultán | Javier Rebollo |
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Grand Tour | Miguel Gomes |
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Harvest | Athina Rachel Tsangari |
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Misericordia | Alain Guiraudie |
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The Most Precious of Cargoes | La Plus Précieuse des marchandises | Michel Hazanavicius |
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My Favourite Cake | کیک محبوب من | Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha |
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The Party's Over | Fin de fiesta | Elena Manrique |
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Salve Maria | Salve María | Mar Coll | Spain |
September Says | Ariane Labed |
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Sex | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway | |
Stranger Eyes | 默視錄 | Yeo Siew Hua |
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Suspended Time | Hors du temps | Olivier Assayas | France |
They Will Be Dust | Polvo serán | Carlos Marques-Marcet |
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Three Kilometres to the End of the World | Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii | Emanuel Pârvu | Romania |
Vermiglio | Maura Delpero |
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Wild Diamond | Diamant brut | Agathe Riedinger | France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Rita | Paz Vega | Spain | |
Sing Sing | Greg Kwedar | United States | |
RTVE Galas | |||
Verano en diciembre | Carolina África | Spain |
The festival's special screenings include: [12] [13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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The New Years (TV series) | Los años nuevos | Sandra Romero, David Martín de los Santos, Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain |
The Wailing | El llanto | Pedro Martín-Calero |
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Always+Positivo | Siempre+Positivo | Nacho Solana | Spain |
Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | United Kingdom | |
Colita sin filtros | Hortensia Vélez, Elisabeth Anglarill | Spain | |
Domar la luz | Oihan | Spain | |
The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés | La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés | Antón Álvarez | Spain |
State of Silence | Estado de Silencio | Santiago Maza | Mexico |
The following films were selected for the 'Meeting Point' section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Blue Sun Palace | Constance Tsang | United States | |
Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Lin Jianjie |
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Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 | Jia Zhangke | China |
Edge of Night | Gecenin Kıyısı | Türker Süer |
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Eephus | Carson Lund |
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The Fable | Raam Reddy |
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Familiar Touch | Sarah Friedland | United States | |
Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet |
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In His Own Image | À son image | Thierry de Peretti | France |
Holy Cow | Vingt dieux | Louise Courvoisier | France |
Ivo | Eva Trobisch | Germany | |
Moon | Mond | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria |
To Our Friends | A nuestros amigos | Adrián Orr Serrano |
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A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg |
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Scorched Earth | Verbrannte Erde | Thomas Arslan | Germany |
Toxic | Akiplėša | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |
Universal Language | Une langue universelle | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
Việt and Nam | Minh Quý Trương |
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The following films were selected for the Alquimias section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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The Adamant Girl | Kottukkaali | PS Vinothraj | India |
Agora | Ala Eddine Slim |
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Bluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky | Austria | |
Cyborg Generation | Miguel Morillo Vega | Spain | |
The Great Yawn of History | Khamyazeye bozorg | Iran | |
The Human Hibernation | Anna Cornudella Castro | Spain | |
Invention | Courtney Stephens | United States | |
The Rim | La parra | Alberto Gracia | Spain |
An Unfinished Film | 一部未完成的电影 | Lou Ye |
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Resistance Box | Caja de resistencia | Alejandro Alvarado, Concha Barquero, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar, Concha Barquero Artés |
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The Marseillaise of the Drunkards | La marsellesa de los borrachos | Pablo Gil Rituerto |
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My Brother Ali | Mi hermano Ali | Paula Palacios |
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Turismo de guerra | Kikol Grau | Spain | |
Waldo(out of competition) | Carlos Arnaiz Escalpés, Alberto Ortega Ahumada | Spain | |
Hija del volcán(out of competition) | Jenifer de la Rosa Martín |
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The following films were selected for the 'Memory & Utopia' section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Portabella Constellation | Constel·lació Portabella | Claudio Zulian | Spain |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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400 Cassettes | Thelyia Petraki |
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Bad For a Moment | Daniel Soares | Portugal | |
Baldilocks | Marthe Peters | Belgium | |
El cambio de rueda | Begoña Arostegui | Spain | |
El cuento de una noche de verano | María Herrera | Spain | |
Immaculata | Kim Lêa Sakkal |
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Le Loup | Theodore Ushev | Canada | |
Lluna de Sal | Mariona Martínez | Spain | |
Marion | Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine |
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My Senses Are All I Have to Offer | Isadora Neves Marques | Portugal | |
Nens | Anna Martí Domingo | Spain | |
O | Rúnar Rúnarsson |
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On the Way | Samir Karahoda | Kosovo | |
Pacific Vein | Ulu Braun | Germany | |
Percebes | Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves |
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Punter | Jason Adam Maselle |
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Vegan Mayo | Luca Tóth | Hungary | |
Vox Humana | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan |
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White Cloud | Emmanuel Van der Auwera | Belgium |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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At Night We Walk Alone | Rafa Alberola | Spain | |
Berta | Lucía Forner Segarra | Spain | |
Futuro | Amanda Cots, Ángel Suárez Ávila |
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Made of sugar | Clàudia Cedó | Spain | |
Mater Benefacta | Marc Riba, Anna Solanas | Spain | |
The Other | Eduard Fernández | Spain | |
The Prince | Àlex Sardà | Spain | |
They Send Word | Mariano Schoendorff | Spain | |
Una cabeza en la pared | Manuel Manrique | Spain | |
You were Paris | Claudia Barral Magaz |
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The Castilla y León feature films and Castilla y León short films programmes include the following films: [14]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Castilla y León feature films | |||
Devil Dog Road | Lo carga el diablo | Guillermo Polo | Spain |
Pastoris | Pablo Moreno | Spain | |
Castilla y León short films | |||
Arenillas | Marta Martín | Spain | |
DxTequiero | Sergio López, Mariola Aygües, Macarena Peri | Spain | |
In Between | Lo que paso entre medias (de estudiar cine) | Dacio de las Heras | Spain |
Only the Dead Remain | Sólo los muertos se quedan | Alejandro Renedo | Spain |
Panorama | Margo García | Spain | |
Seeds from Kivu | Semillas de Kivu | Néstor López, Carlos Valle | Spain |
A list of awards is listed as follows: [15] [16]
Official Section — Feature Films
Other awards