Seville hosts numerous activities in the run-up to the Goya

On the occasion of the celebration of the Goya Awards gala on February 11, Seville will host the concert during these days Gala with the Goya, meetings with performers and filmmakers, screenings and an exhibition, and will illuminate some of its most representative spaces with images of the nominated films.

The program of previous activities was presented this Wednesday at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, and the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz.

“We return to this cinematic city to celebrate the extraordinary harvest of Spanish cinema of 2022. I am sure that all the events we have prepared will bring our cinema closer to the people of Seville,” said Méndez-Leite.

"We want the gala to transcend beyond the ceremony. We hope to overcome the economic impact of the 2019 gala, which was a 'blockbuster' for a city also immersed in a solid strategy to attract filming," highlighted Antonio Muñoz.

Its Town Hall, its streets, the Cartuja Center CITE, the Nervión cinemas, the Convent of Santa Clara, the Alcázar, the Paseo Marqués de Contaderos and the Sevilla I penitentiary center are some of the settings for the activities that will be carried out in collaboration with the Junta de Andalucía and the Seville City Council.

film music concert

The melodies of films nominated in different editions of the Goya Awards will be played this year in Seville. On Friday, January 27, at 8:00 p.m., at the Cartuja Center CITE, the Gala with the Goya, a concert organized by the Film Academy in collaboration with the Seville International Film Music Festival (FIMUCS) that includes musical creations for the big screen by the Goya Award-winning and nominated composers José Nieto (Carmen), Roque Baños (The Skin of the Drum), Zeltia Montes (The Good Patron), Bingen Mendizabal and Koldo Uriarte (Baby), Víctor Reyes (In the City Without Limits), Federico Jusid (The Summer We Live), Arnau Bataller (Mediterranean) and Manu Rivero (The Shadow of the Law).

The program, which is completed with the suite History of our cinema, will be performed by the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville (ROSS), under the musical direction of David Hernando. The event will be presented by the actor Antonio Dechent.

Urban exhibition: From Andalusia to the Goyas

The Goya Awards will take to the streets. The Avenida de la Constitución will be the setting in which 48 large-format photographs of Andalusian professionals who have received a Goya Award will be exhibited. This urban exhibition reflects the excitement surrounding the big night of Spanish cinema. Pipo Fernández, Alberto Ortega, Papo Waisman and Luis Castilla are the authors of these images that visitors who visit this space will be able to enjoy from January 27 to February 13. This initiative is carried out with the Andalusian Film Academy.

Experience the Goyas: 9 giant replicas around the city

Also from January 27, the citizens of Seville will be able to get up close and personal with the famous statuette that so many Spanish film professionals have raised over the last thirty-six years. 9 giant-sized replicas will adorn the streets during the two weeks prior to the gala. People will be able to take photos with these giant Goya Award statues that will be installed in the Andalucía Auditorium, Plaza Nueva, Marqués de Contaderos, Plaza de España and Triana, among other locations.

Photocall at the Town Hall

From February 6 to 11, from 12:00 to 20:00, residents of Seville will be able to go to the city's Town Hall to have their photo taken with a replica of a Goya Award and discover an exact recreation of the photocall of the 37th edition of the Goya, through which all the nominees and guests will parade on the big night of Spanish cinema.

city lighting

The Goyas will also fill emblematic buildings of the city such as the Torre del Oro or the Macarena Wall with light with images from the nominated films. The lighting will be present on the night of the gala, February 11.

Screenings in Nervión cinemas

Starting Monday, January 30, the Academy invites the Nervión cinemas in Seville to screenings of the feature films nominated in the Best New Director categories (Little Pig, Five Little Wolves, Water, On the Margins y Suro) and Best Picture (Alcarrás, As bestas, Cinco wolves, La maternal y Model 77), the latter category that will be accompanied by meetings between nominees and the public. Before, on January 26, from 5:00 p.m., these emblematic cinemas will show the fifteen short films nominated in the Animation, Documentary and Fiction categories. The week of February 6, the Nervión will also open its doors to host educational activities – morning sessions with screenings and meetings with preschool, primary and secondary school students.

Meetings with filmmakers

To talk about Ibero-American cinema, professionals from the five titles that are competing for the Goya in this category – the Chilean 1976, the Argentinian Argentina 1985, the Colombian La Jauría, the Mexican Noche de Fuego and the Bolivian Utama – will have a meeting with the public on February 10.

The meetings that day are completed with creators from the different support programs for filmmakers of the Film Academy – 'Residences', 'Rueda' and 'Summer Campus' -. The creators nominated in different categories of the 37th edition of the Goya Awards will talk about the importance of supporting the development of projects and the community of filmmakers that is being generated around these institution's programs.

The next day, on Paseo Marqués de Contaderos, at 12:00 p.m., the directors of the nominated documentaries Laura Hojman (To the women of Spain. Maria Lejarraga), Isabel Coixet (The yellow roof), Evil Urresti (Labordeta, a man without more), Kike Maíllo (Oswald. The forger) and Fernando León de Aranoa (Feeling very sorry) will talk with the public.

Seville Penitentiary Center I

For the third year, the Film Academy brings Spanish culture and cinema closer to people who are deprived of liberty, in order to help them in their process of reintegration into society. One day before the celebration of the Goya Awards, and in collaboration with the Solidarios organization, the inmates of the Sevilla I Penitentiary Center will be able to enjoy a screening and subsequent meeting.