This year’s celebration of recent Spanish-language cinema has a very strong selection of documentaries. These include our opening film, LT22 Radio la Colifata, which was a hit at the recent ¡Viva! festival of Spanish cinema in Manchester, and Night Flowers (Flores de luna), a fascinating historical study of a barrio in Madrid. The fiction films range from a Mexican science fiction flick (Sleep Dealer) and a smart Spanish thriller (Fermat’s Room/La habitación de Fermat) to the latest seriocomic work from leading Argentine director Daniel Burman (The Empty Nest/El nido vacío).
The programme comprises a series of ¡Viva! titles on tour plus our own selections. Thanks are due to Cornerhouse in Manchester and the Independent Cinema Office in London for their collaboration. We are also grateful to the Instituto Cervantes Dublin for their support.
