Time to chase the winter blues away with a sangria and the 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival beginning at Palace Nova Cinemas on 10 June through to 5 July.
This year’s Festival will feature over thirty films mostly from Spain but also Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The films will take the audiences on culinary adventures in Peru and São Paulo then to Spain for romance and thrilling action, then to New York to find salsa’s origins. There is also a documentary about the pioneering girls that changed women’s football in Spain.
This year’s opening night film will be the Australian Premiere of the Peruvian drama Mistura, starring the acclaimed Bárbara Mori. This award-winning film portraying Peru’s gastronomy and people, centres on a woman (Mori) whose life unravels after her husband leaves her, inspiring her to embark on a transformative culinary journey.
The Festival’s Centrepiece is Sundays, which won the Golden Shell (Best Film) at the 2025 San Sebastián Film Festival. The Spanish box office hit is about deeply religious 17-year-old Ainiara (Blanca Soroa) who shocks everyone in her family by revealing that, rather than going to university, she is considering following her faith to become a cloistered nun. This drama is from rising Spanish writer/director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.
The 2026 Special Presentation is The Tigers, a maritime thriller from award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez, starring Antonio de la Torre and Bárbara Lennie as professional divers and siblings.
The second Festival Special Presentation is epic historical adventure The Captive from award-winning director Alejandro Amenábar, which follows a young Miguel de Cervantes as he finds an unexpected refuge in the art of storytelling while imprisoned in 1575 Algiers.
Also on this year’s program is the film Nothing Between Us with the much-loved Mexican stars Gael García Bernal and Natalia Oreiro, which is an intimate and charming love story set against the backdrop of a corporate crisis.
Closing night will feature the newly restored 60th anniversary version of Carlos Saura’s award-winning classic The Hunt, a thrilling psychological drama set over the course of a single scorching summer day.
More information about the festival is available here; 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival 10 June – 5 July at Palace Nova Cinemas
