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." 

🏆 Andrey Zvyagintsev’s MINOTAUR, winner of the 2026 Sydney Film Prize and the Grand Prix at Cannes, will continue its festival journey this August at the Melbourne International Film Festival – ticket information coming soon. From the acclaimed director of Leviathan and Loveless, this gripping portrait of a Russian businessman’s emotional and moral collapse under mounting personal and political pressures is already one of the year’s most talked-about films.