HSBC Spanish Film Festival 2024 Program Revealed
This year’s eclectic program includes the Australian premiere of The Movie Teller and a focus on female filmmakers.
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Prepare for a fiesta of fun when the HSBC Spanish Film Festival his Adelaide this June. Taking place over four weeks at Palace Nova cinemas from June 12 - July 10, the 2024 program is stacked with contemporary cinema and golden oldies from Spain and Latin America.
The opening night of the festival is headlined by multi-award-winning director Lone Scherfig’s The Movie Teller (La Contadora de Películas). The flick is a moving tribute to cinema and tells the tale of a young woman coming of age in a Chilean mining town. The cast includes Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl and incredible newcomer Alondra Valenzuela.
This year’s festival highlights female filmmakers and includes the Australian premiere of Arantxa Echevarría’s coming-of-age drama Chinas, Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo’s romantic comedy Idol Affair (Buscando a Coque) – about a woman who has an affair with a pop star – and prolific Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s latest Un Amor, a drama about passion and power in rural Spain.
Coixet is also this year’s Spotlight Director, with several of her films being shown throughout the four-week festival, including the aforementioned Un Amor, the Monica Bellucci period drama starring Those Who Love (A los que aman) and Elegy, a tender drama about the romance between a teacher (Ben Kingsley) and his student (Penélope Cruz).
The Spanish Film Festival 2024 program also includes three films commemorating 120 years since the birth of Salvador Dalí, the Special Presentation category that brings together a selection of contemporary female-led films exploring the themes of 'Liberation, Sexuality and Empowerment' and a fantastic selection of South America films.
The four-week festival ends with a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal and visually stunning avant-garde odyssey The Holy Mountain (La montaña sagrada). 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Jodorowsky’s bizarre epic, with a fully restored 4K version of the flick playing on June 10.
The HSBC German Film Festival runs from June 12 – July 10 at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas and Palace Nova Prospect Cinemas. Check out the full program and buy tickets here.
