The 2016 Spanish Film Festival will showcase more than 30 films and will screen exclusively at the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas from 4-22 May 2016.
The first in this season of great artworks on screen is a celebration of the history of Spain through it's greatest artist & the father of modern art, Francisco Goya.
Taken from her blood-soaked apartment, Ángela Vidal, wakes up on a massive ocean freighter adrift at sea and finds that her nightmare is far from over.
This seemingly standard, police-procedural/crime thriller is impossible not to be mesmerized by and never lets up the pace. Natalia Meta is a director to watch.
Wild Tales is an utterly unique and brutally funny exploration of our modern society's dark corners, made up of six self-contained stories of death and pain.
A haunting example of the power we allow physical objects to hold over us. The film follows 3 women whose lives are changed by the symbolic power of objects.
This is a story about “good people”. It is an incredibly life-like portrayal of the struggle “good people” face in a world obsessed with money and status.
As the highest grossing, Spanish-language film of all time in the US, this standard, screw-ball comedy of “irresponsible lothario suddenly left to raise child” rises above the template to be a quirkily satisfying piece of cinema.
Lila is a 12yo student in rural Argentina who wants to find her father. As she becomes more withdrawn, she attempts to steal her science teacher’s car and run away.
A deserved winner of Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress at the Malaga Film Festival, this film cries out to be seen by a wider audience.
Agoraphobic Elena has a strained relationship with her teenage son which becomes even more complex when his new friend takes a liking to her... because he's dead.
Six characters, each one directed by a different, young director, intersect during the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona.
When a plane’s landing gear is found to be faulty mid-flight, its pilots fear disaster. Wanting to allay passenger fears while averting catastrophe, they instruct the flight attendants to distract them.
If all of the other Spanish films are as good as this irresistibly funny opening night comedy, the 2013 Spanish Film Festival is going to be a very successful one!