70th Valladolid International Film Festival

In April 2025, the governing People's Party (PP) presented a motion to the plenary of the Valladolid municipal council urging the Spanish Ministry of Culture to gift an extraordinary subsidy on occasion of the 70th Seminci. It was approved by unanimity, but an amendment requesting the same help from the Regional Government of Castile and León was rejected by the PP and Vox municipal groups. Likewise, the festival resumed its partnership with the Europa Cinemas network to host the latter's Audience Development & Innovation Lab. The official poster by Ana Mª Hernández and Félix Rodríguez (PobrelaVaca studio) was presented on 4 September 2025 along a new batch of 8 Meeting Point titles. For the 2025 edition, the festival introduced the ESCAC Award recognising the director of the best first or second feature in the Meeting Point section, valued in €5,000. A tranche of Spanish-produced titles, including the world premieres of Subsuelo and Frontera was announced on 16 September 2025. On 8 October 2025, Mia Hansen-Løve, Luis Callejo, as well as the ESCAC and the ECAM film schools were announced as recipients of Honorary Spikes. hosted the opening gala, which included the screening of Three Goodbyes and the musical performance of . The closing gala at the Teatro Calderón on 1 November 2025 was hosted by Elena Sánchez and , including the presentation of Always Winter as the closing film. == Juries ==

On 17 October 2025, the juries were announced: ;International Jury • Mihai Chirilov, Romanian programmer and TIFF artistic director • , Italian producer • Elena López Riera, Spanish filmmaker • João Pedro Rodrigues, Portuguese director • , and French critic and cultural manager ;Meeting Point Jury: • Ivette Liang, Colombian producer • Federico Luis, Argentine screenwriter and director • Adrián Orr, Spanish director ;Time of History Jury: • , Spanish programmer • , Austrian director, writer, and programmer • Feyrouz Serhal, Lebanese filmmaker ;Alchemies Jury: • Yuri Ancarani, Italian filmmaker • María Antón Cabot, Spanish filmmaker • Victoria Marotta, Argentine producer ;Short Films Jury: • Begoña Arostegui, Spanish animation filmmaker • Andrius Blaževičius, Lithuanian filmmaker • Daniel Vadocky, Czech programmer and distributor ;FIPRESCI Jury • Loreta Gandolfi • Giuseppe Sedia • Elsa Tébar ;Green Spike • Cristina Casado Polo • Manuel Planelles • José Manuel Rodríguez Fernández ;Rainbow Spike • Karu Borge • Alejandro Marín • Yolanda Rodríguez Valentín == Official Section (Sección Oficial) Feature Films ==

The following films were selected for the 'Official Section' of feature films: Competition Out of competition == Special Screenings ==

== Meeting Point (Punto de Encuentro) ==

The following films were selected for the 'Meeting Point' section: == Memory & Utopia (Memoria y Utopía) ==

The following films were selected for the 'Memory & Utopia' section: == Time of History (Tiempo de Historia) ==

The following films were selected for the 'Time of History' section: == Awards ==

;Official Selection Feature Films The jury formed by Elena López Riera, Laurentina Guidotti, Serge Toubiana, João Pedro Rodrigues, and Mihai Chirilov conceded the following awards: • Golden Spike: Magellan & The Mastermind • Silver Spike: Silent Friend • 'Ribera del Duero Award' for Best Director: Ramiro Sonzini, Ezequiel Salinas (The Night is Fading Away) • Best Actress: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) • Best Actor: Harry Melling (Pillion) • Best Cinematography: Christopher Blauvelt (The Mastermind) • 'Miguel Delibes' Award for Best Screenplay: Fernando Franco, Begoña Aróstegui (Subsuelo) • 'José Salcedo' Award for Best Editing: Nili Feller (Yes!) ;Other Other awards conceded at the festival include: • Meeting Point Award for Best Film: I Only Rest in the Storm • Audience Award: Hamnet • Rainbow Spike: '''' • Green Spike: Silent Friend • FIPRESCI Award: Two Prosecutors == References ==