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Seville Film Festival

9 November – 17 November 2018

The 15th edition of Seville Film Festival will run from November 9 to 17. In addition to the sections below, there are a number of shorts programmes.

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  • Infinite Football
    Review preview for Infinite Football

    Infinite Football is a film about outsiders and feeling on the fringe of society

    John-Anthony Disotto · 3 out of 5
    Documentary about ex-footballer Laurentiu Ginghina's opinions on the game.
  • Funan
    Review preview for Funan

    A melancholy contribution to an important cinematic reckoning.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Animation about a young mother sent to a Khmer Rouge forced labour camp, who is separated from her son and has to fight to survive and not lose hope.
  • In My Room
    Review preview for In My Room

    Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
  • What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?
    Review preview for What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?

    While content is important, it is context that is king in a documentary, and this film could do with a lot more of it to orient viewers, especially those who don't have a full working knowledge of the American South.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country.
  • The Hidden City
    Review preview for The Hidden City

    Moreno's travels give us a sense of the enormity of what lies beneath, unhurried but curious in his progress, even homing in to look at the microscopic monsters we might not realise also make these caverns their home.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Beneath the modern city, there lies a vast labyrinth, which the filmmaker explores.
  • Never Look Away
    Review preview for Never Look Away

    The blurring of fictionalisation is just one of the layers that encourages contemplation almost deep enough to justify the film's expansive canvas.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A tormented young German artist who has fled to the west becomes convinced he has met the love of his life.
  • Styx
    Review preview for Styx

    There's a strong sense of isolation from the start in Fisher's film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A storm in the middle of the ocean, a boat full of refugees that is about to sink and a woman all by herself...
  • Anna's War
    Review preview for Anna's War

    Aleksey Fedorchenko isn't the first to try to come at the horrors of the Holocaust from a fresh perspective - although the narrow outlook he adopts here also ends up limiting how much he is able to say.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A little girl survives a Nazi mass execution and hides in the disused chimney and struggles to survive.
  • Sunset
    Review preview for Sunset

    Sunset while resisting the digital, flings us into a dreamworld where nostalgia for the past is twin to premonition of our future.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A young wannabe milliner in Budapest meets a man connected to her past and begins to uncover family secrets.
  • Woman At War
    Review preview for Woman At War

    This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A middle-aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her small town, but everything changes when a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.

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