Starting today, the online platform will display a selection of films from the competitive sections: The New Waves and Endless Revolutions
This agreement adds to the collaboration between the Seville European Film Festival and Filmin for the virtual exhibition of two non-competitive cycles
Seventeen films from the Seville European Film Festival will have their virtual premiere on Filmin, after having been screened in theatres in the framework of the SEFF from November 6th to 14th. The platform will allow users to watch, during 24 hours and throughout these nine days, a series of titles included in two of the most emblematic sections of the festival: The New Waves, which promotes the innovative and most contemporary voices of European Cinema; and Permanent Revolutions, offering a collection of cinematic delicacies with surprising shapes and unique visions.
Each day two films from the Seville European Film Festival will be premiered at Filmin - except for the last day, Saturday 14th, when only one will be shown - they will be available from 8pm until the same time the following day.
Friday, November 6th
Honey Cigar is a reflection on the heritage and identity with autobiographical notes and Zoé Adjani as the protagonist, that inaugurated the Venice Days of the Venice Film Festival. Walden takes a poetic look at two moments in a woman's life, as a teenager before the fall of the Wall and 30 years later, when she returns to Lithuania after her exile.
Saturday, November 7
Exile, Kosovo's Oscar contender, focuses on the story of an immigrant who believes he is suffering from bullying and racism at work, though he doubts whether it is all the result of his own paranoia. Conference, was highly critically acclaimed in Venice and revolves around the consequences of the traumatic attack that a group of Chechen terrorists perpetrated in Moscow's Dubrovka Theatre in 2002.
Sunday, November 8
Seven Small Coincidences, marks the return to cinemas of Péter Gothár - awarded in Cannes, Venice and Karlovy Vary - who presents the encounter of a married couple and their son with a young woman whose arrival will disrupt their peaceful existence. Tal día hace un año is a powerful debut film in the Sierra Morena landscape and in an atmosphere that combines the summer lethargy with an emotional tension.
Monday, November 9th
Fucking with Nobody is a rogue and self-fictional satire where a filmmaker tackles a professional project that could alter her conviction of being single: creating a false romantic relationship on Instagram. In An unusual summer, a surveillance camera draws the neighborhood choreography of the Palestinian ghetto in the city of Ramla, in central Israel, the hot spot for conflict.
Tuesday, November 10th
Awarded in Toronto, Night of the Kings turns its protagonist into a kind of Sherezade, after being incarcerated in the giant prison of MACA, one of the largest in Africa. Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus is an existential and dystopian policeman reminiscent of the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick, as well as Robbe-Grillet's narrative mazes and the films of Tarkovsky and Cronenberg.
Wednesday, November 11th
Rascal mixes thriller and social cinema to portray a relationship far from any kind of romantic concept, between two characters (Pierre Deladonchamps from The Stranger by the Lake and Ophélie Bau from Mektoub My Love) who live on the fringes of the system. In Las cuatro esquinas y Madrid, Kikol Grau tells the story of punk through YouTube and mainstream culture, along with what the transition swept under the rug.
Thursday, November 12th
Apples is a tragicomedy with the minimalism and black humor of the New Greek Wave. A pandemic that generates memory loss forces the protagonist to attend a rehabilitation program to create new memories. Kill It and Leave This Town is a therapeutic exercise in lo-fi animation, awarded in Annecy, which takes place in a surreal, raw and comic universe, bordering on Roland Topor's.
Friday 13th of November
Awarded the Europa Cinemas Label in Venice, Oasis leads us to a real institution for people with intellectual disabilities in Tito's Yugoslavia, where a naturalistic love triangle takes place. Um fio de baba escarlate is a post-modern giallo that tells the story of a meeting between a serial killer and a woman who has just jumped off a building and asks for a last kiss before dying.
Saturday 14th November
Ghosts, winner of Critics' Week in Venice, turns the sub-genre of crossed lives upside down and places the action in an imminent future marked by repression, becoming a vigorous cry of rage against submission.
Other non-competitive sections in Filmin
This agreement adds to the already announced collaborations between the Seville Festival and Filmin with two new non-competitive sections for online releases. One of them is presented under the title Instructions For The World in Flames, a proposal that will complement the official program with seven titles that approach war, political or social events of the past, present and future with the human factor as the central axis in the story.
In addition, thanks to the collaboration between the Seville European Film Festival and the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), a free film channel has been opened in Filmin for the academic community, bringing together ten European films. The programming is exclusively aimed at young audiences, and allows schools to work on subjects such as history, natural sciences, languages and art, with the help of a series of educational guides for each of the films published by the festival in Spanish and English or French.
