The titles programmed in 2025 have won, among other awards, two Oscars, two Goyas, seven Césars, three BAFTAs, five Golden Globes, and eight European Film Academy Awards, with ‘Hamnet’, ‘Sentimental Value’, and ‘The Secret Agent’ emerging as the big winners.

The current heads of programming and coordination of SEMINCI, Javier H. Estrada and Mariona Viader, will co-direct the next edition of the festival to ensure its stability and the continuity of the project launched in 2023.

Film festivals, politicians, filmmakers, and institutions across Spain and Europe have praised how he championed auteur cinema for 30 years through his work leading some of Spain’s most prominent film festivals in Valladolid, Gijón, and Seville.