Full Program for the 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival Revealed
This year’s Festival Centrepiece is the Spanish box office hit Sundays (Los domingos).
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After teasing the lineup last month, the 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival has revealed the full program for its 29th edition.
Held at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas and Palace Nova Prospect Cinemas from Wednesday 10 June to Sunday 5 July, this year’s program features over 30 films from Spain, Colombia, Argentina and more, with a diverse lineup that includes gripping thrillers, hilarious comedies, tearjerkers and documentaries.
Speaking on this year’s festival, Benjamin Zeccola, CEO of Palace Cinemas, said, “Opening a window into Spanish and Latin America cinema is to embark on a wonderful adventure, visiting exotic places, hearing the voices and accents shift across regions while navigating the challenges of love, life and freedom with a dose of salsa, a swing of the hips, a delicious dish and a glass of wine.
“We can’t wait to welcome the HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival back for its 29th year across Australia. Audiences can look forward to a rich and eclectic lineup of the best contemporary Hispanic and Latin American cinema.”
Opening this year’s festival is the Australian premiere of Peruvian drama Mistura, a film about a woman’s transformative culinary journey set in the 1950s, while a restoration of Carlos Saura’s award-winning classic The Hunt (La Caza), which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, will close out the film festival.
The Centrepiece is the Spanish box office hit Sundays (Los domingos), written and directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, while there are special presentations of The Captive (El cautivo), an historial epic about Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes as a youth starring Julio Peña (Through My Window) and Alessandro Borghi (The Eight Mountains), and The Tigers (Los Tigres), starring Antonio de la Torre and Bárbara Lennie as professional divers and siblings.
Other highlights of this year’s program include the Paraguayan new noir Narciso, heartfelt small-town drama Band Together (Rondallas), romantic dramedy Always Winter (Siempre es invierno), Argentinian box office hit black comedy Homo Sapiens? (Homo Argentum) and many more.
Families can enjoy the ‘70s-based sports drama Another League, family comedy My Amazing Grandma and the live-action meets animated flick Bear Claw Camp.
This year also sees a retrospective titled “Uncanny Allegory”, featuring three iconic works from three directors who incorporate gothic and surreal imagery and themes in their work.
Film fans can catch Guillermo del Toro’s gothic ghost story The Devil’s Backbone (El espinazo del diablo), Luis Buñuel’s surreal satire of bourgeois fragility, The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador) and Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), a meditation on innocence and mortality.
The 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival is held at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas and Palace Nova Prospect Cinemas from Wednesday 10 June to Sunday 5 July. Tickets and program details available at spanishfilmfestival.com.
