This winter, the HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival will light up Australian screens with a curated line up of over thirty films from Spain, Colombia, Argentina and more.
Screening at Palace Cinemas Raine Square, Luna Leederville and Luna on SX from Thursday, June 11, to Wednesday, July 1, the Spanish & Latin American Film Festival is set to enter its 29th year across Australia in 2026. From culinary adventures in Peru and São Paulo to thrillers, Spanish romances, salsa dancing and women’s soccer documentaries, audiences will be taken on cinematic journeys across the diverse program.
Palace Cinemas CEO Benjamin Zeccola said of this year’s festival – “Opening a window into Spanish and Latin American 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.”
The festival opener is Mistura, a Peruvian drama starring Bárbara Mori making its Australian premiere. The award-winning feature focuses on a woman embarking on a transformative culinary journey in 1950s Peru after her husband leaves her.
The Tigers is this year’s Special Presentation, a critically acclaimed maritime thriller from award-winning director Alberto Rodriguez, in which Antonio de la Torre and Bárbara Lennie star as professional divers and siblings that discover a crime.
Epic historial adventure The Captive is another Special Presentation, featuring an international ensemble cast that includes Julio Peña (Through My Window) and Alessandro Borghi (The Eight Mountains). The drama follows a young Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) finding a refuge in the art of storytelling while imprisoned in 1575 Algiers.
Beloved Mexican actor Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá tambien) stars in Nothing Between Us, an intimate love story set against the backdrop of a corporate crisis.
Closing the festival is Carlos Saura’s award-winning classic The Hunt. Considered a landmark of Spanish cinema and a representative film of Neuvo cine español, this showing marks its 60th anniversary with a new restoration. The psychological drama following rising tensions between friends on a rabbit hunt acts as an allegory for the wounds of the Spanish Civil War, and awarded Saura his first international success.
Ladies Hunting Party is a contemporary adaptation of The Hunt, in which an all-female lineup of legendary actors (Blanca Portillo, Carmen Machi and Rossy de Palma) explore the cycle of betrayal, corruption and abuse of power in society.
The 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival hits Perth from Thursday, 11 June to Wednesday 1 July. Tickets are on sale now at spanishfilmfestival.com.