FOOTPRINTS AND ESCAPES. SPANISH CINEMA AT SEMINCI

Every film that comes to the Valladolid International Film Festival is the result of a complex process of creation, research, production and implementation that transcends the screen. Behind each work is a team that imagines, designs and constructs a universe that, with luck, will remain in the viewer's memory and contribute to enriching the legacy of Spanish cinema, a fundamental part of our cultural identity.

To celebrate and give greater visibility to some of the Spanish titles that will form part of the 70th edition of SEMINCI —spread across the Official Section and the Time of History and Alchemies sections— the exhibition Traces and Fugues.

The exhibition, curated by set designer and visual artist Ramón Isidoro together with festival director José Luis Cienfuegos, brings together original materials that document the creative process behind these works: sketches, costumes, props, storyboards, filming notebooks and posters that reveal the physical traces of the filmmaking process.

Some of the titles represented are This Body of Mine by Carolina Yuste and Afioco Gnecco – with a banner carried by them during the LGTBIQ+ Pride march – Lionel by Carlos Saiz, from which objects such as a broken car headlight and an original firefighter's suit from France that form part of its characters can be seen; the inventive and imaginative puppets from Irene Iborra's film Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake; the vintage blond tobacco packets carried by the character Angelitas in Golpes, by Rafael Cobos; and the cardboard figure of a Korean artist with whom the protagonist of Three Goodbyes, by Isabel Coixet, converses, among others. Each selected piece takes us into the particular universe of its film, showing the diversity of approaches and styles in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Each selected piece takes the viewer into the particular universe of the film it represents, reflecting the diversity and richness of approaches and styles in contemporary Spanish cinema.