The 2026 HSBC Spanish and Latin American Film Festival will be bringing the fiesta to cities around Australia this June with a curated selection of thirty films from Spain and Latin America, showing at Palace Regent Cinemas in Ballarat.
Opening the Festival is the Australian Premiere of delicious Peruvian drama Mistura, starring the sensational Bárbara Mori. The award-winning feature, revered for its vivid portrayal of Peru's gastronomy and people, centres on a woman (Mori) whose life unravels after her husband leaves her, inspiring her to embark on a transformative culinary journey.
The Centrepiece of the Festival is Sundays (Los domingos) winner of the Golden Shell (Best Film) at the 2025 San Sebastián Film Festival. Writer/director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's quietly spellbinding drama deftly captures the rupture within a family after a young woman defies expectations with her chosen vocation.
The 2026 Special Presentation is The Tigers (Los Tigres), a critically acclaimed maritime thriller from award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez, starring Antonio de la Torre and Bárbara Lennie as professional divers and siblings.
The second Festival Special Presentation is epic historical adventure The Captive (El cautivo) from award-winning director Alejandro Amenábar, which follows a young Miguel de Cervantes as he finds an unexpected refuge in the art of storytelling while imprisoned in 1575 Algiers.
