The European Film Festival will make the largest deployment of Dutch film in an international competition.
The European Film Festival runs this year his Sevilla special focus to films made in Holland with one of the largest deployments performed in a festival. A homage to Joris Ivens, one of the pioneers of documentary filmmaking, and his wife and co-director Loridan-Ivens Marceline, moreover, with a large sample of the latest movies made in this country are part of the, fallen earth power leveling, programming.
The organization of the Festival of Seville explained in a statement that a retrospective and pay tribute to Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens, who will travel to Sevilla to receive the homage and give a master class in the program 'Festival_Campus'.
So, was the short film 'The Bridge' (De brug) conducted in 1928 which became a pioneer Joris, cheap aika gold, Ivens in the Dutch film, moreover, to make him known internationally. It was the beginning of a fruitful career working as a documentary that earned him numerous awards such as the World Peace Prize in 1955. Two years later, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival Golden Gate Award San Francisco Film Festival for 'The Seine, tera gold, at Paris rencontre. " During that time, rolled documentaries in France, China, Italy, Cuba, Mali and Chile, as well as movies lyrics.
Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens began, after 1962, a race full of joint projects, trips to distant lands and stories of other lives. After the death of the filmmaker, Loridan-Ivens Marceline believe in 1990 the European Foundation Joris Ivens. This Foundation collects and creations of documentary files, a legacy to the world of cinema and for future generations that makes visible the filmmaker's words, "roll the impossible is the most beautiful thing that can exist." No doubt, Joris Ivens is one of the inventors of the documentary film. Many filmmakers today recognize the profound influence of his works Ivens.
On the other hand, the retrospective includes work in solo and Marceline Joris and others produced by both. Among them: the short film 'Rain', the anti-fascist films 'The spanish Earth', filmed in 1938 with Hemingway in Spain, and 'The 400 Million' in China, 'The shadow of the past', last work as director of Marceline involved his reunion with the Auschwitz survivor of it, 'The 17th Parallel' a feature length documentary about the daily life of the inhabitants of the region more besieged by bombs in Vietnam, and 'A History of the Wind "the last piece of groups representing the culmination of his career and his time, the cinematic testament to Joris Ivens, who died a year later.
The reason for choosing the Netherlands is that the silver Giraldillo of the last two editions, the Dutch have been directors, Urszula Antoniak and Mijke de Jong for 'Nothing Personal' and 'Katia's sister', respectively. So, feature films, documentaries, short films (panorama of the best made between 2008 and 2010), documentary, animation and historical films make up this selection, one of the most extensive carried out by the cinema of the Netherlands at any festival thanks to collaboration of the Institute and Holland Eye Films. The strong base of script and picture quality are two features that have enabled the development of its films into a country cinematically well above its size. SECTION '
Wild tulip '
In addition, the Festivalsection presents 'Wild Tulip' in which a sample of the latest projected film is being produced in Holland, offering a range of genres. Three Dutch films will compete in the official section of the festival are 'Joy', which, after winning the Silver Giraldillo in 2008 with 'Katia's sister', Mijke de Jong returns to the festival with his latest work that closes his trilogy about teenagers . 'Joy' is the long journey in search of a place in the life of a teenager who after being abandoned, being a baby, and spend many years in care, wants to know the identity of his mother.
Also, 'The Happy housewife' Antoinette Beumer counts as a woman's life can be pink to facing motherhood. It stars the famous actress Carice van Houten who participated in the movie 'Valkyrie', alongside Tom Cruise and starred in 'The black book' of Paul Verhoeven.
Finally will compete in this category 'The Aviatrix of Kazbek "of Ineke Smits. An air of drama and musical comedy, set during World War II. The cast figure Ana Maria Marinka. The tape is on the list of 46 films recommended by the European Film Academy (EFA) for this year of its awards. Nominations will be announced on 6 November at the Sevilla Festival.
Select complete the 'Wild Tulip', the following films: 'Bride Flight' ('Bruidsvlucht') Sombogaart Ben, 'Johan First' by Johan Kramer, 'Last Conversation' by Noud Heerkens, 'Love is All' ('Alles is Liefde ') of Joram Luers;' Shocking Blue 'by Mark de Cloe,' The Storm '(' De Storm ') Sombogaart Ben,' Two Eyes Staring '(' Zwart Water ") to Elbert van Striemen, 'Win / Win "Jaap van Heusden;
Also, projection of documentaries 'Farewell' to Ditteke Mensink and "The Player" by John Appel, produced by the Seville Carmen Cobos.
Dutch short film production also plays an important role in the festival under Section 'Orange Short' which will be shown a dozen animated shorts (Animazing) and a choice made by more than a score of short fiction made in last three years in Holland.