The first project of Profestivales21, the alliance between the Seville, Malaga, Huelva and Valladolid film festivals, will offer schools around twenty titles aiming to nurture future audiences
A selection of 8 feature films and 14 short films will be featured in collaboration with the Filmin platform from October 23rd to November 23rd
Seville, 29 September 2021- Seville European Film Festival, the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), the Malaga Festival and the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, joining forces under the Profestivales21 brand, are bringing the Cinephile Window programme aimed at young people as part of a common goal: to educate future filmgoers to broaden their social outlook and aesthetic sensitivity through recently produced European and Ibero-American films.
Cinephile Window, to take place this year from October 23rd to November 23rd, is an educational project launched in 2020 by the Seville European Film Festival and the Seminci of Valladolid in collaboration with Filmin, in which primary schools, high schools, and Bachillerato take part. It is worth remembering that in its first edition, this initiative reached more than 70,000 young viewers, a figure that reflects the great success of this programme, where teachers and students work together using the didactic guides, published in Spanish, English and French, specially created for each of the films.
Thus, for this new edition of Cinephile Window, the prestigious online film platform will once again make available to participants a selection of twenty films: eight feature films and fourteen short films. These titles deal, in their storylines, with social issues of great relevance, such as sexual and family diversity, the challenge of migration and social integration, environmental development and the climate emergency, and artistic creation, among other issues.
Out of the total of 22 titles programmed, all of which are European productions except for one Latin American production, there are five animated films. It should also be noted that several of these productions have won awards at international festivals as well as the recognition of specialised critics.
Titles of the eight feature films:
- Ruben Brandt, Collector, by Milorad Krstic (Hungary).
- Float Like a Butterfly, by Carmel Winters (Ireland)
- Just Charlie, by Rebekah Fortune (UK)
- Strike, by Trevor Hardy (UK)
- La Melodie, by Mohamed Rachid Hami (France)
- Boxi And The Lost Treasure, by Béla Klingl (Hungary)
- Jim Button And Luke The Engine Driver, by Dennis Gansel (Germany)
- Mission H20, by Álvaro Cáceres (Venezuela)
Titles of the 14 short films:
Ecosistema en corto (+7 years):
- Flight to Earth, by Ignacio Rodó (Spain)
- Nimbus: The Cloud Hunter, by Marco Nick (Brazil)
- El Pájaro Cubo (The Cube Bird), by Jorge Alberto Vega Rivera (Colombia)
Ecosistema en corto (+3 years):
- The Tree Has Already Been Planted, by Irene Blei (Argentina)
- The Little Cousteau, by Jakub Kouril (Czech Republic)
- Ginko, (various directors) (France)
- Migrants, (various directors) (Czech Republic)
- Un Lynx Dans La Ville, by Nina Bisiarina (France/Switzerland)
- Le Dernier Jour D'Automne, by Marjorlaine Perreten (Switzerland/Belgium/France)
Moraleja (+7 years):
- The Kite, by Martin Smatana (Czech Rep./Slovakia/Poland)
- Lea Salvaje, by María Teresa Salcedo Montero (Colombia)
- 028, (Various directors) (France)
- Grand Loup and Petit Loup, by Rémi Durin (Belgium/France)
- Reflejo, by Juan Carlos Mostaza (Spain)
Ruben Brandt, Collector, by Milorad Krstic
The Cinephile Window project is also reinforced in the classroom with the development of the Small Format Ideas initiative, divided into three areas of work: editing, directing and music in film.
In the area of editing, in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Audiovisual Editors (AMAE), the students participating in the programme of Cinephile Window will be able to explore the mysteries of editing through a series of didactic pieces created by renowned montage professionals such as Fátima de los Santos, Fernando Franco, Manuel Múñoz Rivas, Mercedes Cantero and Meritxell Colell.
As for directing, and thanks to the Film Directors' Association (ACCIÓN), the schools participating in the Cinephile Window will host interviews with different directors who will reflect on their first filmmaking experiences and their vocation for storytelling. This initiative features the participation of Abraham López Guerrero, Alberto Morais, Helena Taberna, Inés París, Jorge Naranjo, Juan Vicente Córdoba, Judith Collel, Liliana Torres, Pavel Giroud, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Silvia Rey, amongst other leading names in Spanish filmmaking..
Lastly, the study of music in film, within the framework of the Cinephile Window project, will be addressed by the Seville Music in Film Festival (FIMUCS) in collaboration with Loyola University. In this way, within the context of the work developed in class, students and teachers will study the different working methods and the importance of music in film editing based on the examples of soundtracks by film composers such as Pablo Cervantes, Luis Ivars, Ivan Lacámara, Manel Gil-Inglada and Zacarias Martínez de la Riva.
