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It’s fiesta time as the 2024 HSBC Spanish Film Festival, presented by Palace, prepares to set screens alight with a superb selection of the finest new and classic films from Spain and Latin America.
Based on a popular novel and directed by multi award-winning director Lone Scherfig, THE MOVIE TELLER is this year’s star-studded Opening Night selection. A moving tribute to cinema and the magical power of storytelling, the film stars Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl and brilliant newcomer Alondra Valenzuela.
The 2024 Special Presentation brings together six female led films exploring the themes of ‘Liberation, Sexuality and Empowerment’, while the Festival Centrepiece is acclaimed drama THE TEACHER WHO PROMISED THE SEA, winner of the Audience award at the 2024 Gaudí Awards.
The festival is delighted to announce a Spotlight on Spanish director Isabel Coixet with a selection of the acclaimed director’s work presented alongside her newest release UN AMOR, a striking drama starring Laia Costa and Hovik Keuchkerian .
Celebrating 120 years since the birth of Salvador Dalí, is a showcase of films from and about the surrealist master, including documentary SALVADOR DALÍ: IN SEARCH OF IMMORTALITY.
Closing the festival is THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, which recently marked its 50th Anniversary. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal and visually stunning avant-garde odyssey has been fully restored in lavish 4K presenting a mesmerising journey through a series of bizarre and symbolic experiences.
The 2024 HSBC Spanish Film Festival will take place nationally from 11 June to 10 July (dates vary – and ending 17 July in Sydney) in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Ballina and Byron Bay. Tickets are now on sale.