Screening nationally until 12 July, the 29th Spanish & Latin American Film Festival is premiering over 25 contemporary features. Among the line-up is the delicious Peruvian melodrama MISTURA, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa multi award-winning drama SUNDAYS, Gabriel Mascaro's extraordinary Amazon odyssey THE BLUE TRAIL, Marcelo Martinessi's seductive Paraguayan noir NARCISO, Carla Simón's beautiful new drama ROMERÍA, and Cesc Gay's effervescent new comedy MY FRIEND EVA.

On the eve of its release, ROMERÍA writer/director Carla Simón was profiled by The Guardian's Philip Oltermann: "No film-maker working in Europe now is as capable of turning birthday gatherings, garden parties or poolside barbecues into thrillingly sprawling canvases of human virtue and vice as the 39-year-old rising star of Spanish Cinema. She makes you leave the cinema with renewed faith that having relatives and keeping in touch with them may actually be a wonderful thing." 

Writer/director Thierry Klifa on his irresistible dark comedy THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD: "What fascinated me from the start was the Shakespearean quality of the story. There is at once tragedy and farce, the two blend together. I wasn’t going to make anybody cry for the extra-rich, so we might as well laugh at them. Their wit is funny, and so is their cruelty. But we also laugh at their ridiculousness, their excess."