Films belonging to sections such as Las Nuevas Olas (The New Waves), Las Nuevas Olas No Ficción (The New Waves No Fiction) and Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) form part of the selection to be offered by Filmin
This SEFF’s online programme will have a previous release in cinemas
Seville, November 1st, 2021.- Seville’s Festival, thanks to the collaboration offered by Filmin since 2013, will keep an online window for seven feature films, which will previously form part of its programming in cinemas, as well as for two short, animated film programmes. With the name of Fulfilled Promises: The best European film in Filmin and keeping this hybrid format throughout the celebration of the festival, five of the most interesting films from The New Waves Section will be available online. Among them, Moon, 66 Questions, by the Greek author Jacqueline Lentzou. Awarded Best Film in the last Sarajevo’s Festival, the director’s first work narrates the reconciliation between a woman and her father, who is seriously ill. A film that places Lentzou at the head of the generational renewal of the Greek New Wave that launched Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari. There will also be other films such as Black Medusa, Bloodsuckers. Europa, Liborio, Guerra e pace and Holy Emy.
In this way, the collaboration between Seville’s Festival and Filmin will make Black Medusa available to be enjoyed by the public. This is a ground-breaking film by the new, Tunisian filmmakers Ismaël and Yossef Chebbi, in which the figure of the mythological medusa is reinvented in order to narrate the double life of a young, mute woman that spends the nights claiming for vengeance. Or Bloodsuckers, by the German Julian Randlmaier, who dares to develop a political, black comedy of vampires. A breakdown of frontiers between the two cinematographic genres that won the Jury Special Award in Moscow’s Festival.
Topics of vital importance such as the refugee’s drama or the effects of colonialism will also be dealt with in the other two movies from The New Waves: on the one hand, Europa, by the Italo-Iraqi Heider Rashid, who proposes an immersive experience following the extraordinary journey of an Iraqi, immigrant teenager that tries to survive crossing the border between Turkey and Bulgaria with the purpose of embracing European’s hope. On the other hand, the hypnotic Liborio, a production coming from the Dominican Republic with Spanish participation, a film by the newcomer Nino Martínez Sosa that offers an approach to the community developed around the figure of the historical, peasant and religious, Dominican leader Olivorio Mateo, known as Papá Liborio.
Fulfilled promises will also propose a film in the New Waved No Fiction section and another one in the Extraordinary Stories section. On the one hand, Guerra e pace, by the Italians Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi, which lays out the relationship between cinema and war conflicts as of the first moving images preserved from a war, which date back to the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911, to the present day. On the other hand, adolescence, magical realism, sorority and immigration are underlying aspects in Holy Emy, by Araceli Lemos. Recognised with a Special Mention as the Best First Work in Locarno’s Festival, the film can be defined as a poetical offer that navigates between the limits of documentary edition, fantasy and mysticism.
All films will be available on Filmin for 48 hours for a limited number of views after their national premiere in Seville’s Festival cinemas.
The most revolutionary animation
Seville’s Festival and Filmin, always with the purpose of reaching to new audiences, offers two programmes for all ages based on animated short films that display all sorts of topics and styles, including works by prominent, contemporary, European artists.
On the one hand, Issues. Animated stories about mental health, will focus on one of the biggest problems of our everyday life thanks to a selection in which, apart from comedy and metaphorical worlds, the audience will find some of the most recent, talented, European animators. It will be formed by five short films that will carry us from Croatia to Italy: these are Paranoja Paranoje, Egg, Guilt, Heifer and Snow White Cologne.
On the other hand, a second section named A collection of moving paintings (animation as one of the fine arts) will also be available to be enjoyed by the public. In this section, a peculiar range of stylistic and thematic works has been selected: from classic stories to the online universe, inspiring and subversive works that, from the fine arts, challenge and question the status quo. This selection will include the short films Eriking, 32-Rbit, Krajobraz (The Landscape), The Physics of Sorrow and How Long, Not Long.
Furthermore, Filmin’s online programming, together with the help of Seville’s Festival, will offer three sessions of 15 independent, short films which have been nominated or pre-nominated to the European Film Awards. The short films selected are: Hide, Fall of the Ibis King, Nha Sunhu, Marlon Brando, Dustin, The long goodbye, Beyond is the day, The News, Armadilla and Zonder Meer, Bella, Displaced, In flow of words, Memories and Flowers blooming in our throats.
