69th Valladolid International Film Festival

69th Valladolid International Film Festival
	Official poster of the 69th Seminci
Opening film	They Will Be Dust
Location	Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain
Directors	José Luis Cienfuegos
Festival date	18–26 October 2024
Valladolid International Film Festival
	68th

The 69th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) will place from 18 to 26 October 2024, in Valladolid, Spain.^[1] They Will Be Dust will open the festival.^[2]

Background

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]

Official Section Feature Films

Competition

The following films were selected to compete for the Golden Spike:^[6]^[7]^[8]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
Armand		Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel	Norway Netherlands Sweden Germany
Becoming Ana	La mitad de Ana	Marta Nieto	Spain
Black Dog	狗阵	Guan Hu	China
Bob Trevino Likes It		Tracie Laymon	United States
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point		Tyler Taormina	United States
La cocina		Alonso Ruizpalacios	Mexico United States
Close to the Sultan	En la alcoba del sultán	Javier Rebollo [es]	Spain France
Grand Tour		Miguel Gomes	Portugal Italy France
Harvest		Athina Rachel Tsangari	United Kingdom Germany Greece France United States
Misericordia		Alain Guiraudie	France Spain Portugal
The Most Precious of Cargoes	La Plus Précieuse des marchandises	Michel Hazanavicius	France Belgium
My Favourite Cake	کیک محبوب من	Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha	Iran France Sweden Germany
The Party's Over	Fin de fiesta	Elena Manrique	Spain Belgium
Salve Maria	Salve María	Mar Coll	Spain
September Says		Ariane Labed	France Greece Ireland Germany United Kingdom
Sex		Dag Johan Haugerud	Norway
Stranger Eyes	默視錄	Yeo Siew Hua	Singapore Taiwan France United States
Suspended Time	Hors du temps	Olivier Assayas	France
They Will Be Dust	Polvo serán	Carlos Marques-Marcet	Spain Switzerland Italy
Three Kilometres to the End of the World	Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii	Emanuel Pârvu	Romania
Vermiglio		Maura Delpero	Italy France Belgium
Wild Diamond	Diamant brut	Agathe Riedinger	France

Out of competition

English title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
Rita	Paz Vega	Spain
RTVE Galas
Verano en diciembre	Carolina África	Spain

Meeting Point (Punto de Encuentro)

The following films were selected for the 'Meeting Point' section:

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
To Our Friends	A nuestros amigos	Adrián Orr Serrano	Spain Portugal
A Real Pain		Jesse Eisenberg	United States Poland
Blue Sun Palace		Constance Tsang	United States
Eephus		Carson Lund	United States France

Alchemies (Alquimias)

The following films were selected for the Alquimias section:

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
Cyborg Generation		Miguel Morillo Vega	Spain
The Rim	La parra	Alberto Gracia [es]	Spain
The Human Hibernation [de]		Anna Cornudella Castro	Spain
Invention		Courtney Stephens	United States

Time of History (Tiempo de historia)

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
Resistance Box	Caja de resistencia	Alejandro Alvarado, Concha Barquero, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar, Concha Barquero Artés	Spain Portugal
The Marseillaise of the Drunkards	La marsellesa de los borrachos	Pablo Gil Rituerto	Spain France Italy
My Brother Ali	Mi hermano Ali	Paula Palacios	Spain Portugal
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	Spain Mexico

Memory & Utopia (Memoria y Utopía)

The following films were selected for the 'Memory & Utopia' section:

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
Portabella Constellation	Constel·lació Portabella	Claudio Zulian	Spain

International Short Film Official Section

English title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
400 Cassettes	Thelyia Petraki	Greece Germany
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	Germany France
Le Loup	Theodore Ushev	Canada
Lluna de Sal	Mariona Martínez	Spain
Marion	Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine	United Kingdom France
My Senses Are All I Have to Offer	Isadora Neves Marques	Portugal
Nens	Anna Martí Domingo	Spain
O	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Iceland Sweden
On the Way	Samir Karahoda	Kosovo
Pacific Vein	Ulu Braun	Germany
Percebes	Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves	Portugal France
Punter	Jason Adam Maselle	South Africa United States
Vegan Mayo	Luca Tóth	Hungary
Vox Humana	Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan	Philippines United States Singapur
White Cloud	Emmanuel Van der Auwera	Belgium

Spanish Short Films Official Section

English title	Director(s)	Production countrie(s)
At Night We Walk Alone	Rafa Alberola	Spain
Berta	Lucía Forner Segarra	Spain
Futuro	Amanda Cots, Ángel Suárez Ávila	Spain Cuba
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	Spain France

References

^ "Seminci anuncia 18 películas españolas en su 69 edición, entre ellas el debut de Paz Vega en la dirección". ABC. 26 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b "'Polvo serán', dirigida por Carlos Marqués-Marcet y participada por RTVE, inaugurará la 69ª Seminci". rtve.es. 21 August 2024.
^ "Seminci remoza su icónica imagen con una nueva identidad". El Día Soria. 20 June 2024.
^ Niño, Victoria M. (20 June 2024). "La 69ª Seminci estrenará labios e imagen". El Norte de Castilla. Grupo Vocento.
^ "RTVE viaja a la 69ª Seminci con nueve títulos participados". rtve.es. 26 August 2024.
^ Felipe, Santiago (26 August 2024). "Seminci anuncia 18 películas españolas en su 69 edición, con el regreso de Mar Coll o Javier Rebollo a Valladolid y el debut tras la cámara de Paz Vega". La Razón.
^ "La Seminci mantiene su apuesta por el cine independiente estadounidense". Diario de Valladolid. 3 September 2024.
^ Santisteban, Olaia (11 September 2024). "Valladolid se prepara para una edición "icónica" de la Seminci con novedades y Alemania como país invitado". Castilla y León – via El Español.

External links

Official website

[1] "Seminci anuncia 18 películas españolas en su 69 edición, entre ellas el debut de Paz Vega en la dirección". ABC. 26 August 2024.

[rtve-2] "'Polvo serán', dirigida por Carlos Marqués-Marcet y participada por RTVE, inaugurará la 69ª Seminci". rtve.es. 21 August 2024.

[3] "Seminci remoza su icónica imagen con una nueva identidad". El Día Soria. 20 June 2024.

[4] Niño, Victoria M. (20 June 2024). "La 69ª Seminci estrenará labios e imagen". El Norte de Castilla. Grupo Vocento.

[5] "RTVE viaja a la 69ª Seminci con nueve títulos participados". rtve.es. 26 August 2024.

[felipe-6] Felipe, Santiago (26 August 2024). "Seminci anuncia 18 películas españolas en su 69 edición, con el regreso de Mar Coll o Javier Rebollo a Valladolid y el debut tras la cámara de Paz Vega". La Razón.

[7] "La Seminci mantiene su apuesta por el cine independiente estadounidense". Diario de Valladolid. 3 September 2024.

[8] Santisteban, Olaia (11 September 2024). "Valladolid se prepara para una edición "icónica" de la Seminci con novedades y Alemania como país invitado". Castilla y León – via El Español.

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