HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival Reveals First Taste Of 2026 Program
This year’s Festival Centrepiece is the Spanish box office hit Sundays (Los domingos).
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The 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival has revealed a first tantalising taste of its program for the 29th edition.
Held at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas and Palace Nova Prospect Cinemas from Wednesday 10 June to Sunday 5 July, this year’s bumper program features an award-winning drama, a rom-com starring one of the most well-known Latin American actors, a historical epic, salsa documentary and more.
The Festival Centrepiece is the Spanish box office hit Sundays (Los domingos). Written and directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, the drama explores how a family deals with their 17-year-old daughter deciding she wants to be a cloistered nun. Critically acclaimed, Sundays won the Golden Shell (Best Film) at the 2025 San Sebastián Film Festival, five Goya Awards and five Feroz Awards.
Also announced were the Festival Special Presentation, 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 Nothing Between Us (Nada entre los dos), a romance set against the backdrop of a corporate crisis starring Gael García Bernal and Natalia Oreiro.
Five more films were also announced as part of the initial program release, including the documentary La Salsa Vive that tells the story of salsa from Colombia and the USA via Havana, and the Brazilian film Isabel, direct from the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival about a talented sommelier Isabel (Marina Person) in São Paulo’s fine-dining scene who dreams of opening her own wine bar away from her controlling boss.
Other highlights are '70s-based sports drama Another League, family comedy My Amazing Grandma and the live-action meets animated flick Bear Claw Camp.
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. The full programme will be announced in the coming weeks, with tickets on sale in mid-May at spanishfilmfestival.com
