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Valladolid Film Festival: Seminci 2026

This dossier follows the 71st Valladolid International Film Festival, its competition and awards.

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Portrait of Alain Gomis at the 2017 Berlinale.
Alain Gomis in Berlin in February 2017. Archive image; not Seminci 2026. Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized. — Maximilian Bühn — CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ — Berlinale, 11 février 2017, taille réduite.

Where things stand

On 31 October 2026, Alain Gomis’s Dao wins the Golden Spike and Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva takes the Silver Spike.

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Alain Gomis’s Dao wins the Golden Spike at Seminci

The jury of the 71st Valladolid International Film Festival awarded the Golden Spike to Dao, by French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis, on 31 October 2026.

Portrait of Alain Gomis at the 2017 Berlinale.
Alain Gomis in Berlin in February 2017. Archive image; not Seminci 2026. Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized. — Maximilian Bühn — CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ — Berlinale, 11 février 2017, taille réduite.

The France–Senegal–Guinea-Bissau co-production intertwines a wedding in France with a farewell ritual in Guinea-Bissau. It brings professional and non-professional performers together to explore family ties and belonging.

The Silver Spike goes to Marine Atlan’s debut feature La Gradiva, which also wins the editing award for Guillaume Lillo. Lisandro Alonso receives the directing prize for La Libertad Doble. The acting awards honour Alba Rohrwacher for A Good Little Soldier and Swann Arlaud for Un hombre de nuestro tiempo.

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