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Festival Highlights

Opening Night

Set in Bilbao’s world of high cuisine, this delicious Spanish box office hit comedy stars Karra Elejalde and Enric Auquer as a father and son whose unexpected reunion after thirty years apart puts their ideas about cooking and life to the test.

Australian Premiere
Centrepiece

A critical and audience success in Spain, this personal and beautifully observed new ensemble drama follows a family of Catalonian farmers who, after generations harvesting the same land, face eviction and an uncertain future.

Special Presentation

This five-time Goya Award-winner and Spanish box office hit thriller from Alberto Rodríguez, the director of Marshland, follows a young accountant awaiting trial in 1977, who joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.

Australian Premiere
Special Presentation

This multi-award-winning drama, and Colombia’s 2022 Oscars submission, from director Laura Mora follows five Medellín teenagers from the streets who seek a place in the world set out on an adventure in search of the promised land.

Australian Premiere
Special Event

A once-famous tango dance couple reunite and go on a road trip across Argentina with an old friend in this heartwarming adventure starring Darío Grandinetti and Mercedes Morán.

Australian Premiere
Special Event

In this hilarious romantic comedy, two Spanish siblings travel to Mexico to attend the wedding of their father to a woman he met online, but what they find there is not what they expected.

Australian Premiere
Closing Night

This 40th anniversary presentation showcases Carlos Saura's biggest international box-office success with this self-reflexive meditation on both Bizet's popular opera Carmen, featuring legendary dancers Antonio Gades and Laura del Sol.