Films
Opening Night Film
Opening Night Film
La Tribu
A sure-fire crowd-pleaser packed with music and laughs, it stars Carmen Machi as a street dancing mother reunited with her long-lost son (Paco León).
Comedy
Closing Night
Closing Night
El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro’s darkly beautiful fairy tale — about a young girl who discovers a magical underworld in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War — won three Academy Awards.
Fantasy / Drama
Special Event
Special Event
Sin rodeos
One of Spain’s most popular comedic talents, Santiago Segura, directs Maribel Verdú as a woman who takes a remedy that makes her unable to stop speaking her mind.
Comedy
Reel Retrospective: The Bigas Luna Tribute
Reel Retrospective: The Bigas Luna Tribute
In Bigas Luna’s best-known film, Javier Bardem plays a would-be bullfighter who models underwear and is hired to seduce away the lover (Penélope Cruz) of a wealthy woman’s son.
Comedy / Drama
Reel Retrospective: The Bigas Luna Tribute
Huevos de oro
Benito González (Javier Bardem) is a young macho Spaniard whose aim in life is to erect the tallest building in the region, in Bigas Luna’s parody of machismo and ambition.
Comedy / Drama
Reel Retrospective: The Bigas Luna Tribute
La teta y la luna
Winning Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival 1994, the final film in Bigas Luna’s Iberian Trilogy is a soulful fantasy and an ode to puberty and the motherland, Catalonia.
Comedy
Reel Retrospective: The Bigas Luna Tribute
Javier Bardem produces this documentary on the larger-than-life director Bigas Luna, compiled from over 600 hours of his personal video-diaries to reveal his most intimate side.
Documentary
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
As visually sumptuous as it is entertaining, a desperate housewife’s inattentive husband gets possessed by a ghost in this Almodóvar–esque comedy from Pablo Berger starring Maribel Verdú.
Comedy
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
Morir
Breakout director Fernando Franco follows up his Spanish Academy Award winning debut Wounded with this evocative drama also starring Marian Álvarez.
Drama
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
Oro
A standout cast of Spain’s finest actors star in this historical epic, about a group of Spanish deserters’ search for El Dorado to save themselves from pursuing Emperor soldiers.
Historical Drama
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
Es por tu bien
Three overprotective fathers conspire to scare off their daughters’ no-good boyfriends in this hit comedy from the producers of Spanish Affair.
Comedy
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
Señor, dame paciencia
A box-office hit in Spain, an ultraconservative father has to spend a weekend with his dysfunctional adult children and their partners.
Comedy
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
A journalist (Penélope Cruz) strikes up a romantic relationship with notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar(Javier Bardem), based on Virginia Vallejo´s bestselling memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.
Drama
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
La niebla y la doncella
Adapted from Lorenzo Silva’s best-selling novel, this gripping mystery follows a cold case investigation on a Spanish Canary Island.
Mystery / Drama
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
Operación concha
Set amid Spain’s glamorous San Sebastian Film Festival, a con artist hires a lookalike to pose as a movie star to scam an investor in this heist comedy.
Comedy
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
In the style of V for Vendetta, this action-thriller packs in an all-star cast including Fele Martínez, Hovik Keuchkerian and Juan Pablo Shuk.
Action / Crime
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
El jugador de ajedrez
Leaping from Spain’s Civil War to Nazi occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison.
Historical Drama
Reel Español: The best new Spanish cinema
El sistema solar
Christmas Eve, the eclectic Del Solar family gather for the first time since the father of the household started dating his son’s ex-girlfriend in this dark comedy.
Drama / Comedy
Reel Directoras: Showcasing Spain’s female directors
Reel Directoras: Showcasing Spain’s female directors
Júlia ist
Elena Martín’s 2017 Málaga Film Festival award-winning debut portrays the life of an exchange student coming-of-age in the cold, stark city of Berlin.
Drama
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Reel Directoras: Showcasing Spain’s female directors
Five women, four cities; this intimate documentary partially set in Melbourne is about single women over thirty, and their place in the modern world.
Documentary
Reel Directoras: Showcasing Spain’s female directors
Estiu 1993
The breakout critical discovery of the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, Carla Simón’s autobiographical jewel is one of the most evocative and affecting depictions of childhood seen in years.
Drama
Reel Directoras: Showcasing Spain’s female directors
La higuera de los bastardos
Karra Elejalde from Spanish Affair 1&2 leads this black comedy, following a Civil War executioner who tries to atone for his sins by becoming a hermit near a small village.
Comedy / Drama
Reel Directoras: Showcasing Spain’s female directors
La puerta abierta
Rosa (Carmen Machi), a prostitute past her prime living with her senile but feisty mother in Madrid, gets an unexpected addition to her family in this Audience Award winning drama.
Drama
Reel Infantil: Films for Kids
Reel Infantil: Films for Kids
Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del Rey Midas
The sequel to the highest-grossing animated film in Spain of all time, this time amateur explorer Tad Jones must stop a millionaire who’s after King Midas’s necklace.
Family
Reel Infantil: Films for Kids
Full of wit, music, and colour, this beloved Pixar Oscar winner follows a young boy who dreams of being a musician despite his family’s generations-old ban on music.
Family