Spanish Affair
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Daniel (Daniel Levitt), is a young American actor who is hopelessly in love and hopelessly manipulated by his girlfriend Natalia (a captivating Natalia Miranda). Their break-up pushes Daniel to the edge, and he performs the unthinkable with a bottle of Vanish stain remover in a youtube video for all the world to see, including two young Korean girls dealing with their own relationship problems.
Australian-born, Mexico-based Camera d’Or-winning director Michael Rowe (Leap Year) returns with another considered exploration of loneliness. This time, we view isolation through the eyes of young Carolina (a captivating Zaili Sofía Macías Galván), who is forced to move away from her father and her home in Mexico City to small-town Cholula with her mother and unfeeling step-father.
The Mexican economy has collapsed: there is a shortage of labour, of will and of resources. In this universe we find Flavia (Sofía Espinosa), a rebellious, spoiled teenager who faces being forced to move back to her home town after she is not accepted at university. Her neighbour Martín (Juan Carlos Colombo), a grumpy elderly man with rigid routines, is her polar opposite. Furthermore, in the street, outside their building, there is a camp of protesters: people who have lost their livelihood, including Flavia’s love interest Sebástian (Harold Torres).
This coming-of-age feature debut of Argentinian writer-director Matías Lucchesi has won a host of prestigious awards and accolades around the world from Berlin to Guadalajara for its original story and excellent performances from the two female leads.
Álvaro Brechner’s second feature is a hilarious, crowd-pleasing black comedy revolving around a Jewish retiree who is convinced that the shy, old German owner of a local seafront restaurant is in fact a former Nazi.
The highest grossing Spanish-language film of all time in the U.S, this sentimental comedy tells the story of Valentin (Eugenio Derbez), Acapulco's resident playboy whose life is turned upside down when his illegitimate daughter Maggie (Loreta Peralta) is left stranded on his doorstep. After travelling to the USA in a desperate attempt to track down the mother, Julie (Jessica Lindsey, Now You See Me), Valentin eventually gives up, and instead decides to embrace his circumstance.
Gonzalo Díaz’s debut feature is a powerful, human story about immigration, solidarity and finding common ground with other cultures in a new country.
Young, spoiled Ana (beautiful and popular Mexican actress Martha Higareda), finds out that her fiancé has cheated on her with her best friend just before their wedding. Clearly struggling with the revelation, Ana drowns her sorrows with alcohol, accidentally passing out in the back-tray of a truck that, unaware of the cargo, moves from the city to a jungle in Quintana Roo. Lost and afraid, Ana is reluctantly taken under the wing of rural doctor (Argentinian heart-throb Michel Brown).
Peruvian cuisine's global popularity has no more vocal champion than Gastón Acurio, restaurateur extraordinaire and subject of this inspirational, mouth-watering documentary.