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Viva

2010

Just Walking opens this year's Viva festival
Just Walking opens this year's Viva festival

Now in its 16th year, the Viva Spanish and Latin American Film Festival celebrates the best of the current crop of Spanish language films.

The festival kicks off at Manchester's Cornerhouse on March 6, with Solo Quiero Caminar (Just Walking).

Selected highlights from the festival will tour venues across the UK and Ireland including Dartington, Nottingham, Cardiff, Chichester, Clwyd, Edinburgh, Inverness, Northampton, Dublin, Sheffield, Newcastle, Bristol and Derby, for more details visit the Independent Cinema Office.

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Other years (10)

Latest reviews

  • Little Indi
    Review preview for Little Indi

    Recha depicts a hardscrabble existence but finds fleeting moments of beauty, affection, and pleasure by focussing on the things that truly matter to Arnau.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    Living on the outskirts of Barcelona, Arnau raises a menagerie of songbirds and tries to accumulate the funds to hire a lawyer for his imprisoned mother.
  • Plan B
    Review preview for Plan B

    Despite being slightly reductive, this low budget Argentinean film is still largely a sweet and honest portrayal of two men falling in love.

    Dan Hooper · 3 out of 5
    When a man is dumped by his girlfriend, he determines to win her back... even if he has to get her new man out of the way.
  • The Shame
    Review preview for The Shame

    Planell has been working as a writer on Spanish television for several years, so it is little surprise that this story feels as though it could just as easily be an episode in an ongoing soap opera as the basis for a feature film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A couple on the brink of adoption, find themselves in crisis.
  • The Milk Of Sorrow
    Review preview for The Milk Of Sorrow

    Although the layers of symbolism and allegory certainly add to the depth of the film's resonance, those who consider it purely as a more simply magic realist-inflected coming of age tale are unlikely to be disappointed either.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Examination of Peru's dark history refracted through the story of a woman struck with an illness from her mother's breast milk.
  • Lion's Den
    Review preview for Lion's Den

    The strength of Pablo Trapero's sumptuous film, Argentina's Palme D'Or nominee, is the depth and breadth of its considerations.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Waking covered in blood in an apartment where one man is dead and another badly injured, with little memory and no alibi, a pregnant woman must learn to deal with imprisonment.
  • Gigante
    Review preview for Gigante

    Engagement with this film requires patience and hinges on the performance of Camandule.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A store security guard becomes obssessed with a cleaner.
  • Just Walking
    Review preview for Just Walking

    A stylish femme-thriller with good twists and turns.

    Darren Amner · 3.5 out of 5
    An ex-con plans to get her own back on her thug of a husband by ripping him off.

Features

  • Behind the Milk Of Sorrow
    Claudia Llosa talks about Peru's history and the themes in her magic realist Golden Bear winning film.