70th Valladolid International Film Festival
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 Official poster of the 70th Seminci | |
| Opening film | Three Goodbyes |
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| Closing film | Always Winter |
| Location | Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain |
| Awards | Golden Spike: Magellan & The Mastermind |
| Directors | José Luis Cienfuegos |
| Festival date | 24 October – 1 November 2025 |
The 70th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) took place from 24 October to 1 November 2025, in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain.
Three Goodbyes screened as the opening film.
In April 2025, the governing People's Party (PP) presented a motion to the plenary of the Valladolid municipal council urging the Spanish Ministry of Culture to gift an extraordinary subsidy on occasion of the 70th Seminci.[1] It was approved by unanimity, but an amendment requesting the same help from the Regional Government of Castile and León was rejected by the PP and Vox municipal groups.[1]
An early batch of 'Official Section' and 'Meeting Point' titles was announced in July 2025.[2] Likewise, the festival resumed its partnership with the Europa Cinemas network to host the latter's Audience Development & Innovation Lab.[3] The official poster by Ana Mª Hernández and Félix Rodríguez (PobrelaVaca studio) was presented on 4 September 2025 along a new batch of 8 Meeting Point titles.[4][5][6] For the 2025 edition, the festival introduced the ESCAC Award recognising the director of the best first or second feature in the Meeting Point section, valued in €5,000.[6] Three Goodbyes was later announced as the opening film.[7] A tranche of Spanish-produced titles, including the world premieres of Subsuelo and Frontera was announced on 16 September 2025.[8]
On 8 October 2025, Mia Hansen-Løve, Luis Callejo, as well as the ESCAC and the ECAM film schools were announced as recipients of Honorary Spikes.[9] Pepa Blanes hosted the opening gala, which included the screening of Three Goodbyes and the musical performance of El Niño de Elche.[10]
The closing gala at the Teatro Calderón on 1 November 2025 was hosted by Elena Sánchez and Llum Barrera, including the presentation of Always Winter as the closing film.[11]
Juries
On 17 October 2025, the juries were announced:[12]
- International Jury
- Mihai Chirilov, Romanian programmer and TIFF artistic director
- Laurentina Guidotti, Italian producer
- Elena López Riera, Spanish filmmaker
- João Pedro Rodrigues, Portuguese director
- Serge Toubiana, and French critic and cultural manager
- Meeting Point Jury
- Ivette Liang, Colombian producer
- Federico Luis, Argentine screenwriter and director
- Adrián Orr, Spanish director
- Time of History Jury
- Manuel Asín, Spanish programmer
- Alexander Horwath, Austrian director, writer, and programmer
- Feyrouz Serhal, Lebanese filmmaker
- Alchemies Jury
- Yuri Ancarani, Italian filmmaker
- María Antón Cabot, Spanish filmmaker
- Victoria Marotta, Argentine producer
- Short Films Jury
- Begoña Arostegui, Spanish animation filmmaker
- Andrius Blaževičius, Lithuanian filmmaker
- Daniel Vadocky, Czech programmer and distributor
- FIPRESCI Jury
- Loreta Gandolfi
- Giuseppe Sedia
- Elsa Tébar
- Green Spike
- Cristina Casado Polo
- Manuel Planelles
- José Manuel Rodríguez Fernández
- Rainbow Spike
- Karu Borge
- Alejandro Marín
- Yolanda Rodríguez Valentín
Official Section (Sección Oficial) Feature Films
The following films were selected for the 'Official Section' of feature films:
Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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| Below the Clouds | Sotto le nuvole | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy |
| The Blue Trail | O Último Azul | Gabriel Mascaro |
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| The Chronology of Water | Kristen Stewart |
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| Duse | Pietro Marcello |
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| Golpes | Rafael Cobos |
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| Left-Handed Girl | 左撇子女孩 | Shih-Ching Tsou |
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| Lionel | Carlos Saiz Espín |
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| Living the Land | 生息之地) | Huo Meng | China |
| Magellan | Magalhães | Lav Diaz |
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| The Mastermind | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
| Mirrors No. 3 | Miroirs No. 3 | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| The Night is Fading Away | La noche está marchándose ya | Ramiro Sonzini, Ezequiel Salinas | Argentina |
| Orphan | Árva | László Nemes |
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| Pillion | Harry Lighton |
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| Resurrection | 狂野时代 | Bi Gan |
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| Silent Friend | Stille Freundin | Ildikó Enyedi |
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| Sorry, Baby | Eva Victor | United States | |
| Sound of Falling | In die Sonne schauen | Mascha Schilinski | Germany |
| Subsuelo | Fernando Franco |
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| Three Goodbyes | Tre Ciotole | Isabel Coixet |
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| Two Prosecutors | Zwei Staatsanwälte | Sergei Loznitsa |
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| When a River Becomes the Sea | Quan un riu esdevé el mar | Pere Vilà Barceló | Spain |
| Yes! | כן! | Nadav Lapid |
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| The Young Mother's Home | Jeunes mères | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne |
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Out of competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Always Winter | Siempre es invierno | David Trueba |
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| Girl | 女孩 | Shu Qi | Taiwan |
| Hamnet | Chloé Zhao |
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| Rental Family | Hikari |
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| RTVE Galas | |||
| Frontier | Frontera | Judith Colell |
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Special Screenings
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awakening Beauty | Bella | Manuel H. Martín, Amparo Martínez Barco |
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| Breathless | À bout de souffle | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| El Canal de Castilla | Leopoldo Alonso | Spain | |
| Las gafas de Isabel Coixet | Santiago Tabernero | Spain | |
| Giant | Rowan Athale | United Kingdom | |
| The Last Rapture | El último arrebato | Marta Medina del Valle, Enrique López Lavigne | Spain |
| Maya, Give Me a Title | Maya, donne-moi un autre titre | Michel Gondry | France |
| El noveno | Basilio Martín Patino | Spain | |
| Pendaripen, the Untold Story of the Roma People | Pendaripen, la historia silenciada del Pueblo Gitano | Alfonso Sánchez | Spain |
| Sleepless City | Ciudad sin sueño | Guillermo Galoe |
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| Space Cadet | Kid Koala | Canada | |
| Super-Charlie | Jon Holmberg |
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| Jakarta (series) | Yakarta | Elena Trapé, Javier Cámara, Fernando Delgado-Hierro | Spain |
| RTVE Galas | |||
| Leo & Lou | Carlos Solano |
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Meeting Point (Punto de Encuentro)
The following films were selected for the 'Meeting Point' section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Between Dreams and Hope | میان رویا و امید | Farnoosh Samadi | Iran |
| Death Does Not Exist | La Mort n'existe pas | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
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| Forastera | Lucía Aleñar Iglesias |
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| Heads or Tails? | Testa o croce? | Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis |
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| Growing Down | Minden rendben | Bálint Dániel Sós | Hungary |
| I Only Rest in the Storm | O Riso e a Faca | Pedro Pinho |
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| Kika | Alexe Poukine |
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| Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes | Anoche conquisté Tebas | Gabriel Azorín |
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| Little Trouble Girls | Kaj ti je deklica | Urška Djukić |
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| The Luminous Life | A Vida Luminosa | João Rosas |
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| Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) | Joel Alfonso Vargas | United States | |
| Nino | Pauline Loquès | France | |
| Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake | L'Olívia i el terratrèmol invisible | Irene Iborra Rizo |
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| Phantoms of July | Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen | Julian Radlmaier | Germany |
| Rebuilding | Max Walker-Silverman | United States | |
| A Sad and Beautiful World | نجوم الأمل و الألم | Cyril Aris |
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| Wild Foxes | La Danse des renards | Valéry Carnoy |
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Memory & Utopia (Memoria y Utopía)
The following films were selected for the 'Memory & Utopia' section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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| Ana | António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro | Portugal | |
| Beata | Anna Sokołowska | Poland | |
| The Bridge | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | Germany |
| A Dry White Season | Euzhan Palcy | United States | |
| Grandmother | Yaaba | Idrissa Ouédraogo |
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| Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple | United States | |
| The Lizards | I basilischi | Lina Wertmüller | Italy |
| Lucía | Humberto Solás | Cuba | |
| The Money Order | Mandabi | Ousmane Sembène |
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| Melek Leaves | Die Kümmeltürkin geht | Jeanine Meerapfel | Germany |
| Men at Work | کارگران مشغول کارند | Mani Haghighi | Iran |
| Time of Love | Tiempo de amor | Julio Diamante | Spain |