70th edition. From 24 October to 1 November 2025.
70th edition.
24 Oct./1 Nov. 2025
24 Oct./1 Nov. 2025
Ten years now at the helm of SEMINCI and everything has gone by in a flash thanks to a film festival like this one, steeped in history and prestige and, therefore, demanding. Every day it becomes clearer that festivals have become (or are about to become) the last showcase, the last trench, for a cinema that lives in constant evolution and shock, seemingly without limits.
In this world where the exhibition windows have disappeared in the face of the push of immediacy, content platforms and the savage competition with the big studios, an independent, auteur cinema survives. A cinema that does not need big superhero blockbusters or impressive special effects to survive. And this is because it is a cinema that feeds on the very life that surrounds us; a much more real world, where there are more losers and anonymous heroes than winners.
Where feelings, frustrations and miseries that are common to many humans abound. The only thing that has changed is the look and the language with which the authors tell us the stories. This auteur, independent cinema is what we show at film festivals, most of them non-profit, as a remnant of culture understood as a service to the citizen; that is to say, a duty of those in charge and an inalienable right of citizens.
A rarity in the end. And as long as independent and auteur cinema continues to exist, festivals will continue to exist, and we are becoming spaces or islands where we can still see films that move us and make us reflect, have fun and learn more about life and ourselves. A cinema that sometimes reflects us to the point of surprising us. A type of intelligent cinema, with concerns and ambition to innovate, without traps or easy shortcuts. A cinema that, unfortunately, is gradually disappearing from the media, television channels and, alas, from cinemas, overwhelmed by action and adventure blockbusters and also, of course, by home cinema.
Once again we call for the support of public institutions and private entities, which claim to love cinema and protect culture, to support us in the task of keeping alive this showcase of a cinema that is a way of seeing and understanding human beings and life. We must fight for independent and auteur cinema to continue to be seen in cinemas, with powerful high-definition images and surround sound, just as it was conceived in the minds of the scriptwriter and director. Cinema in its purest form as you will be able to see in this 62nd SEMINCI with more than 230 films programmed out of a total of nearly 2,000 screenings. Cinema for all ages and requirements. Open bar and open bar to taste gourmet cinema 15 hours a day in 5 theatres, 6 cinemas and 1 auditorium, during 8 long and intense days. Enjoy it!
JAVIER ANGULO director of the Valladolid International Film Week
SECCIÓN OFICIAL
Largometrajes
Cortometrajes
PUNTO ENCUENTRO
Largometrajes
Cortometrajes
La noche del Corto Español
TIEMPO DE HISTORIA
Largometrajes
Cortometrajes
DOC ESPAÑA
Fuera de concurso
Proyección especial fuera de concurso
CASTILLA Y LEÓN EN CORTO
QUERCUS
CASTILLA Y LEÓN EN LARGO
MINIMINCI
SEMINCI JOVEN
CINE Y VINO
SEMINCI FÓRUM SENIOR
SPANISH CINEMA
PROYECCIONES ESPECIALES:
CONCIERTO-PROYECCIÓN
CINE Y CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
HOMENAJE A BASILIO MARTÍN PATINO
HOMENAJE A TOLAND TOPOR (1938-1997)
Cortometraje
SEMINCI FORUM SENIOR
DÍA DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN – HOMENAJE A JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ
CICLO SUPERNOVAS
CICLO ISLANDIA
CICLO ESCUELA DE BARCELONA
HOMENAJE A JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE (1917-1973)
ECAM 2017
ESCAC 2017
JURADO INTERNACIONAL
PREMIO DEL PÚBLICO
JURADO DE “PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO”
JURADO DE “TIEMPO DE HISTORIA”
JURADO “DOC. España”
JURADO CASTILLA Y LEÓN EN CORTO EX AEQUO
JURADO JOVEN
Jurado Internacional
Jurado Punto de Encuentro
Jurado Tiempo de Historia
Jurado DOC. España
Jurado Castilla y León en corto
Jurado Blogos de Oro
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