Barely six months since its last edition, The UK’s largest and most popular celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture – ¡Viva! Festival – returns to HOME Manchester for its 28th film fiesta, which runs 18 March-7 April. With 14 titles... Read Article
¡VIVA! Spanish and Latin American Festival once again graces Manchester with 18 days of film, theatre, visual art and events, bringing together some the most innovative cultural productions of the Hispanic world. This year’s edition includes a special... Read Article
Victoria Galardi’s third feature, Pensé Que Iba A Haber Una Fiesta (I Thought It Was A Party), tells the story of a woman who begins an affair with her best friend’s ex-husband while house-sitting for her. With scattered... Read Article
Old age is an issue which will affect us all at some point. Most of us still have a fair bit of time to prepare for its onset. In the meantime however, we’ll have to come to terms... Read Article
Cristián Jiménez’ Bonsai (review here) has already generated a lot of hype and positive reviews for the way it, quite cleverly, tries to squeeze a literary peg into a cinema-shaped hole. With any adaptation between different media, it... Read Article
Based on the book Ciencias Morales by Martin Kohan, The Invisible Eye (La Mirada Invisible) is a film about discipline and the stranger sides of sexuality, all set against the allegorical backdrop of a strict private school during... Read Article
“Fiction can take the shape of a lie, but also a narration, a forgery, a personal ritual or a pot containing and shaping a plant.” So says director Christian Jimenez about his cinematic adaption of Alejandro Zambra’s short... Read Article
