Belgian courtroom drama “We Consider You” swept the twenty second Seville European Movie Pageant, taking the Golden Giraldillo for finest movie plus two additional Official Choice prizes because the Andalusian occasion wrapped its Nov. 7-15 version.
The debut function by co-directors Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys which bowed within the Berlinale’s new Views strand – additionally scooped finest screenplay and finest actress for Myriem Akheddiou, confirming its standing as one of many yr’s European discoveries.
Set virtually completely inside a Belgian courthouse and anchored by a close to hour-long custody listening to performed in actual time, the movie facilities on Alice, a mom preventing to guard her kids from their father in a system that retains shifting scrutiny again onto her.
Bought by The Celebration Movie Gross sales
Produced by Belgium’s Makintosh Movies, “We Consider You” is dealt with worldwide by Paris-based The Celebration Movie Gross sales, which is aiming to parlay its Berlin and Seville profile into an autumn pageant and awards run. In Spain, it will likely be co-distributed by arthouse labels Filmin and Karma Movies.
The Seville jury – presided over by veteran producer and former Edinburgh Movie Pageant head Lynda Myles and together with U.S. government Bonnie Voland, Spanish writer-director Laura Hojman and exhibitor Nacho Martínez-Useros – hailed the movie’s braveness in turning a procedural custody listening to right into a collective reckoning. Devillers and Dufeys’ script was additionally praised for constructing pressure from minute gestures and silences whereas progressively exposing the burden of the trauma behind the case. Akheddiou’s efficiency as Alice was cited for its mix of restraint and uncooked emotion, with the jury singling out a flip that “clings” to the viewer and carries the movie.
“We Consider You” additionally shared Seville’s Aamma Girls in Focus Award, handed out by Spain’s affiliation of ladies within the audiovisual sector, in a tie with “The Women We Need,” French filmmaker Prïncia Automobile’s Marseille-set summer-camp drama, which performed in Seville’s Alumbramiento sidebar after a Administrators’ Fortnight premiere at Cannes.
“DJ Ahmet”: a coming-of-age dramedy
Produced by After Hours Manufacturing and offered by France’s SND, Automobile’s debut makes use of a largely non-professional teen forged to discover need, energy and masculinity in a working-class neighborhood.
The pageant’s Grand Jury Prize went to “DJ Ahmet,” the function debut of North Macedonian director Georgi M. Unkovski.
A European co-production dealt with by Lyon and Berlin-based Movies Boutique, the coming-of-age dramedy follows a 15-year-old boy in a conservative rural group who discovers digital music. Seville additionally handed “DJ Ahmet” one of the best actor award for newcomer Arif Jakup, praised for a contemporary, unforced efficiency that balances awkwardness and budding self-confidence.
Finest director honors went to U.S. filmmaker Cherien Dabis, of Palestinian descent, for “All That’s Left of You,” a decades-spanning saga that she writes, directs and co-stars in. Dealt with internationally by The Match Manufacturing unit, the movie follows three generations of a Palestinian household from 1948 to 2022. The jury lauded Dabis’ “formidable path” and “delicate gaze on trauma.”
On the craft facet, Daniel Vidal Toche’s debut “The Anatomy of the Horses” (“La anatomía de los caballos”) – a co-production with Andalusian outfit Playa Chica – scored a double win, taking finest cinematography for Angello Faccini and finest manufacturing design for Juan Pablo Garay.
A time-bending exploration of revolution and a contemporary equal, the movie drew plaudits for dense, poetic imagery and a ritual-inflected visible universe that hyperlinks panorama, fantasy and reminiscence.
Swiss hospital thriller “Late Shift,” written and directed by Petra Volpe, took the modifying award for Hansjörg Weissbrich. Switzerland’s submission for the worldwide function Oscar, the movie makes use of lengthy takes and tight slicing to keep up pressure whereas preserving a human core, in response to critiques.
DJ Ahmet
“DJ Ahmet” (Courtesy of Cinema Futura)
Puerta América encouraging worldwide function race
In Seville’s Puerta América Award, which spotlights titles representing their international locations within the worldwide function race, the jury opted for Joachim Trier’s Norwegian household drama “Sentimental Worth.”
Winner of this yr’s Cannes Grand Prix, produced by Mer Movie and offered internationally by MK2 Movies, the film follows two sisters reconnecting with their estranged, once-feted filmmaker father as he makes an attempt a late-career comeback.
Past Seville’s primary competitors, within the Embrujo sidebar (previously Las Nuevas Olas), Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Namir Abdel Messeeh’s autofiction “Life After Siham,” which presents a film-buff journey by way of reminiscence, took finest movie.
In the meantime, the European Movie Academy choice’s Viewers Award went to French-Belgian drama “Little Amélie,” tailored from Amélie Nothomb’s childhood-in-Japan memoir “The Character of Rain.”
‘Sentimental Worth’
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Underlining Seville’s ambitions
This yr’s Giraldillos of Honor, the occasion’s tribute, underlined Seville’s ambition to take a seat on the crossroads of European movie historical past and its current. The pageant paid tribute to 4 heavyweights: Juliette Binoche, Costa-Gavras, Jim Sheridan and native hero Alberto Rodríguez.
Rodríguez took a front-row function at this yr’s version, receiving his Giraldillo of Honor within the opening-night gala – a tribute not simply to his personal profession however to the era that kick-started the so-called Nuevo Cine Andaluz. The director of “Marshland,” “Grupo 7” and “Jail 77″ framed the accolade as a “collective” award for the filmmakers who started taking pictures within the ‘90s on the periphery of the Spanish business and turned Seville right into a manufacturing hub.
The pageant doubled down on that salute by showcasing his new thriller “Los tigres” and a part of his Movistar Plus+ Authentic sequence “The Anatomy of a Second” in Particular Screenings, underlining Rodríguez’s standing as the town’s most influential modern filmmaker and a key bridge between native expertise and Spain’s nationwide business.
That function is shared with legacy with Rafael Cobos, Rodríguez’s long-time co-writer, now on the bottom in Seville along with his function directing debut, “Golpes.” Backed by Galicia’s Vaca Movies and co-produced with France’s Playtime, the Nineteen Eighties-set thriller world-premiered in competitors at Valladolid’s Seminci earlier than bowing at Seville, the movie strolling off at Seville with the Juan Antonio Bermúdez Award for finest fiction function in Panorama Andaluz sidebar.
Seville’s Trade Edge
On the business facet, Seville constructed on this star momentum with a strengthened Body Sevilla program that helped flip the occasion into a real fall market-magnet. Body hosted greater than 30 actions – roundtables, masterclasses, pitching periods, workshops and focused networking – pulling in a broad mixture of producers, gross sales brokers, broadcasters and streamers from throughout Europe.
Teaming with the European Movie Promotion, Seville hosted Future Frames, giving 4 rising administrators a second platform after Karlovy Range. The pageant additionally sealed a strategic alliance with RTVE as its public broadcaster companion.
That skilled footprint will lengthen past the closing evening: Seville now rolls straight into the return of the European Movie Academy nominations ceremony on the Actual Alcázar on Nov. 18, cementing the town’s repositioning as a key European hub the place red-carpet status, expertise discovery and dealmaking occur inside the identical panorama.
A full checklist of winners on the 22th Seville European Movie Pageant:
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Giraldillo de Oro Award for Finest Movie
“We Consider You,” Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys
Grand Jury Award
“DJ Ahmet,” Georgi M. Unkovski
Puerta América Award
“Sentimental Worth,” Joachim Trier
Course
Cherien Dabis, “All That’s Left of You”
Screenplay Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys, “We Consider You”
Actress
Myriem Akeddiou, “We Consider You”
Actor
Arif Jakup, “DJ Ahmet”
Enhancing
Hansjörg Weißbrich, “Late Shift”
Cinematography
Angello Faccini, “La anatomía de los caballos”
Artwork Course
Juan Pablo Garay, “La anatomía de los caballos”
OFFICIAL SELECTION SHORT FILMS
Reside Motion
“In Her Arms,” Roman Volosevych
Animation
“The Chook from Inside,” Laura Anahory
EMBRUJO
Finest Movie Award
“Life After Siham,” Namir Abdel Messeeh
RAMPA
Finest Movie Award
“My Father’s Shadow,” Akinola Davies Jr.
ALUMBRAMIENTO
Finest Movie Award
“Renovation,” Gabriele Urbonaitè
PANORAMA ANDALUZ
Juan Antonio Bermúdez Finest Movie Award
“Golpes,” Rafael Cobos
Finest Documentary Award
“Tiempo entre olivos,” Fany de la Chica
Jury Particular Point out
“No sea tu falta,” Moisés Salama
Rosario Valpuesta Finest Quick
“Allí, lejos de aquí,” Pedro Gondi
Rosario Valpuesta Particular Award for Creative Contribution
“Las desqueridas,” Charlie García Villalba, Gonzalo Ruiz Esteban
OTHER PRIZES
ASECAN JURY
Finest Screenplay for function movie (Ex aequo)
Fernando Navarro, Rafael Cobos, “Golpes”
Mauricio Angulo, Julio Muñoz, “Los pinceles de la baronesa”
Finest Screenplay for brief movie (Ex aequo)
Pablo Cueto, “Acción, figuración”
Álvaro Amate, Jaime Tigeras, “Discordia”
AC/E Finest Director of a Spanish Characteristic
“Els mals noms,” Marc Ortiz
AAMMA Girls in Focus Award (Ex aequo)
“We Consider You,” Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys “The Women We Need,” Prïncia Automobile
Queer Ocaña Award
“Els mals noms,” Marc Ortiz
Cinéfilos del Futuro Award
“Bella,” Manuel H. Martín, Amparo Martínez Barco
Europa Júnior Award
“Falcon Categorical,” Benoît Daffis, Jean-Christian Tassy
UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE EUROPEAN FICTION FILM-SCREENWRITING AWARDS
First Prize
“El infinito tiene hambre,” Alejandro Ruiz Padín
Second Prize
“Nadie quiere enterrarte,” Matías García Martín
Viewers Award for Finest Movie within the EFA Choice
“Little Amélie,” Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
