The Seville European Film Festival (SEFF; es, Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, links=no) is an annual film festival dedicated to

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held in

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Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, Spain, since 2004. The festival is an initiative of the Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla (; ICAS), which depends on the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. It is supported by the ICAA and the sub-programme Europe Creative MEDIA. The festival has also traditionally served as staging ground for the announcement of the nominations to the

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. Since 2013, it enjoys the collaboration from

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. The top prize awarded at the festival is known as the 'Golden Giraldillo' (). The first edition took place on 6–13 November 2004.

Golden Giraldillo

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