HSBC Spanish Film Festival 2024

FIESTA TIME IS NEAR!

HSBC Spanish Film Festival

It’s fiesta time!

The 2024 HSBC Spanish Film Festival is back celebrating the rich cinematic cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. Presented by Palace with the support of Naming Partner HSBC, get ready for the festival to set screens alight with a superb selection of new and classic films from Spain and Latin America.

This year’s line-up is the largest to date, with an abundant programme that spans almost 100 years of cinema and crosses borders around the world. Female filmmakers take centre stage in this year’s edition with profiles on some of Spain’s finest. Elsewhere, the “New Spanish Cinema” and “Cine Latino” streams offer the best of contemporary Spanish-language cinema. The “Spanish Comedies” programme stream provides viewers a light-hearted offering with popular comedies fresh from the Iberian Peninsula. Art fans will be paying attention to the retrospective on the world’s favourite surrealist Salvador Dali includes, including classic works by Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel and David Pujol. The festival closes with a new 4k restoration of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist odyssey The Holy Mountain.

The festival’s largest line up to date opens nationally in eight Australian cities and towns from 11 June at Palace Cinemas, Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas and Luna Palace Cinemas.

LISTING DETAILS:

Canberra 11 June – 3 July: Palace Electric Cinema

Adelaide 12 June – 3 July: Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

Brisbane 13 June – 3 July: Palace James Street and Palace Barracks

Perth 13 June – 3 July: Palace Raine Square Cinemas, Luna Leederville and Luna on SX

Melbourne 14 June – 3 July: The Astor Theatre, Palace Cinema Como, Palace Brighton Bay, Palace Penny Lane, Palace Westgarth, The Kino, Palace Balwyn and Pentridge Cinema

Byron Bay 21 June – 10 July: Palace Byron Bay

Ballina 21 June – 10 July: Ballina Fair Cinemas

Sydney 19 June – 10 July: Palace Norton Street, Palace Moore Park, Palace Central and Chauvel Cinema

For updates and more information, visit www.spanishfilmfestival.com

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