London Spanish Film Festival

The London Spanish Film Festival 2007 is on at the Cine Lumiere in South Kensington from the 14-27 September featuring the best in modern Spanish cinema. The festival includes documentaries and shorts as well as feature films and one of the highlights is a screening of Alatriste, the most expensive Spanish-language film ever made, which stars Viggo Mortensen and was the top film at the Spanish box office last year.

The Cine Lumiere is at 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7 2DT, just across the Cromwell Road from the Natural History Museum, Map. Here’s on showing over the next two weeks.

14 September - Ar meno un quejìo Docu-drama filmed in Spain, Cuba and Italy over two years following ‘urban flamenco’ band Los Mártires del Compás. Starts at 6.30pm.
14 September - Hécuba Documentary where Spanish actors including Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Victoria Abril and Carmen Maura reflect on their craft. 8.30pm.
15 September - Una preciosa puesta de sol Three generations of women spend a weekend together at a lakeside retreat. 4.15pm.
15 September - El Ciclo Dreyer Drama set in Madrid in the early 1960s. 6pm.
15 September - Lo que sé de Lola A loner takes an obsessive interest in his neighbour who’s a porn actress on a local channel. 8.30pm.
16 September- La vida perra de Juanita Narboni A Spanish woman’s life in Morocco from the Spanish Civil war to Moroccan independence. 7.30pm. Also with the short film Libra.
18 September - Octavia The story of a man returning to his childhood home and family after 40 years away. 6.30pm.
18 September - Canciones para después de una guerra A satirical look at Spanish society under Franco’s dictatorship. 8.30pm.
19 September - El Grito del Sur:Casas Viejas An account of an uprising in a Andalusian viilage in 1933 against the government of the Spanish Republic. 6.30pm.
19 September - Soldados de Salamina A writer takes an assignment about an episode in the Spanish Civil war to clear her creative block. 8pm.
20 September - Alatriste Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star Spanish cast in the story of a 17th-century swordsman returning home in the declining years of the Spanish empire. 7.30pm.
21 September - Ar meno un quejìo 6.30pm.
21 September - Yo soy la Juani Two young girls from the provinces head to Madrid to escape small town life. 8.30pm.
22 September - Dies d’agost Twin brothers get back together for a trip through the backroads of Catalonia. 6.30pm
22 September - Vete de mí A father’s 30-something son comes to stay with him and his younger lover, up setting his comfortable routine. 8.30pm.
23 September - Alatriste 4.30pm.
23 September - Salvador The story of the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by garrotte in 1974. 7.30pm.
25 September - Estrellas de La Línea Prostitutes in Guatemala form a football team. 6.30pm.
25 September - Los ojos de Ariana The story of the workers of The National Film Institute of Afghanistan who saved all the films in the Afghan film archive from destruction by the Taliban. 8.30pm.
26 September - Vete de mí 6.30pm.
26 September - Salvador 8.30pm.
27 September - Dies d’agost 6.30pm.
27 September - Concursante A black comedy with hilarious and biting satire on consumer society. 8.30pm.