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Spanish Film Festival promises Reel Inspiración

The Australian premiere of Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados) will open the 2014 Spanish Film Festival

Over 23 days , the 17th annual Spanish Film Festival will present audiences with an opportunity to see 30 of the very best and most recent Latin American films.

 

The Australian premiere of Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados) will open the 2014 Spanish Film Festival

The Australian premiere of Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados) will open the 2014 Spanish Film Festival

For some “Reel Inspiración” don’t miss the impressive and exciting award-winning array of films that Palace Cinemas will present at this year’s upcoming Spanish Film Festival.

Starring in the festival are emotional road-trips, spirited comedies, swindle rom-coms, suspenseful thrillers, stylish dramas, and high-octane action rides, all topped off with some hearty battles-of-the-sexes and plenty of laughter all the way.

Taking place over 23 days at the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas, the Spanish Film Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Australia.

Going strong in its 17th year, the Festival continues to present audiences with an unsurpassed opportunity to see 30 of the very best and most recent Spanish and Spanish-speaking Latin American films.

Opening this year’s Festival is Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados), winner of six Goya Awards (2014) including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, and Official selection at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Set in 1966 Spain, Antonio (Javier Cámara), a school teacher in a small town who uses Beatles lyrics to teach his students English, decides to try and meet his hero John Lennon upon learning he is visiting Almería to shoot a film. Along the way, Antonio is joined by two runaways: Juanjo (Francesco Colomer) and Belén (Natalia de Molina).  Named after John Lennon’s enigmatic song Strawberry Fields (penned in Almería), Living is Easy With Eyes Closed is a charming, bittersweet part road-trip, part coming-of-age tale that will steal audiences’ hearts.

Ariel Winograd’s follow-up to Spanish Film Festival 2012’s hit My First Wedding, To Fool a Thief (Vino para robar), is a winning combination of swindle-thriller and romantic-comedy that will delight audiences with laughs and keep them guessing until the very end. Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 2013 Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, To Fool a Thief, starring Daniel Hendler, Valeria Bertuccelli and Martín Piroyansky, is a witty screenplay superbly encased by snazzy suits, sunglasses and glamour, matched with the striking locations of Argentina’s picturesque wine country.

Director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo also features in the Festival with Family United (La gran familia española), a spirited comedy featuring an all-star cast, including Miquel Fernández, Antonio de la Torre, and Quim Gutiérrez. Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Cannibal (Caníbal) is a stylised, brilliantly crafted psychological noir-like thriller once again starring Antonio de la Torre, with Olimpia Melinte; Goya-award-winning cult Director Álex de la Iglesia (As Luck Would Have It, SFF opening night 2012) returns with a wild, outrageous dose of dark humour in a high-octane, crowd-pleasing ride called Witching and Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi) to guarantee an unforgettable festival closing night!

More details about these films and the full Festival line-up, visit the Spanish Film Festival website.

The 17th annual Spanish Film Festival runs 6-21 May 2014 exclusively at the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas.

 

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