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70th Valladolid International Film Festival

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.

Background

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. 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.

An early batch of 'Official Section' and 'Meeting Point' titles was announced in July 2025. Likewise, the festival resumed its partnership with the Europa Cinemas network to host the latter's Audience Development & Innovation Lab. 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. 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. Three Goodbyes was later announced as the opening film. A tranche of Spanish-produced titles, including the world premieres of Subsuelo and Frontera was announced on 16 September 2025.

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. hosted the opening gala, which included the screening of Three Goodbyes and the musical performance of .

The closing gala at the Teatro Calderón on 1 November 2025 was hosted by Elena Sánchez and , including the presentation of Always Winter as the closing film.

Juries

On 17 October 2025, the juries were announced:

International Jury
Meeting Point Jury:
  • Ivette Liang, Colombian producer
  • Federico Luis, Argentine screenwriter and director
  • Adrián Orr, Spanish director
Time of History Jury:
  • , Spanish programmer
  • , 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:
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

Out of competition

Special Screenings

Meeting Point (Punto de Encuentro)

The following films were selected for the 'Meeting Point' section:

Memory & Utopia (Memoria y Utopía)

The following films were selected for the 'Memory & Utopia' section:

Time of History (Tiempo de Historia)

The following films were selected for the 'Time of History' section:

Awards

Official Selection Feature Films

The jury formed by Elena López Riera, Laurentina Guidotti, Serge Toubiana, João Pedro Rodrigues, and Mihai Chirilov conceded the following awards:

Other

Other awards conceded at the festival include:

References