Don't look into the eyes, the latest film by Félix Viscarret, starring Paco León and Leonor Watling and based on a novel by Juan José Millás, From the Shadow, will open today the new edition of the Seminci, which this year will have a marked Irish accent .
The Valladolid Festival pays tribute to Irish cinema with a retrospective that includes titles such as Redemption of a Rogue (Philip Doherty, 2020), Sea Fever (Neasa Hardiman, 2019), Rosie (Paddy Breathnach, 2018) or In America (Jim Sheridan , 2002). Sheridan will travel to Valladolid where the Festival directed by Javier Angulo will award him a Spike of Honor.
There will be more. For the Spanish actors Victoria Abril and Antonio Resines. For the directors Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Fernando Colomo and for the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. But beyond the awards, the Seminci wants to be a showcase for auteur cinema that will hit Spanish screens in 2023.
For this reason, it has selected for its official section titles such as the also Irish The Banshees of Inisherin , a very, very black comedy by Martin McDonagh that earned its protagonist, Colin Farrell, the Coppa Volpi for best male performance at the Festival of Venice last September.
The Mostra also applauded No Bears, which will compete in Valladolid. is the new film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is imprisoned in a Tehran prison for opposing the Ayatollahs' regime.
There will be no shortage of Spanish cinema this week in Valladolid. In addition to Don't look into the eyes , the official section has included Vasil , Avelina Prat's debut feature starring Karra Elejalde. And the most international actress in Spanish cinema, Penélope Cruz, is the star of L’immensità, a film in which Emanuele Crialese delves into his childhood memories in Rome in the 1970s with Raffaella Carrà as the soundtrack.
Despite the war, the Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukolytyy-Sobchuk was able to shoot Pamfir , a drama that convinced critics on its way through the Cannes festival. Among the 21 titles selected for the official section also stand out the Chinese Return to Dust , by Li Ruijun, which received good applause at the Berlinale; Jerzy Skolimowski's Eo, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes, and the Moroccan drama The Blue Caftan, directed by Maryam Touzani.
