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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.
View previous years coverage of the Viva festival:
Viva Latest Reviews

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.

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.

A couple on the brink of adoption, find themselves in crisis.

Examination of Peru's dark history refracted through the story of a woman struck with an illness from her mother's breast milk.

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.

A store security guard becomes obssessed with a cleaner.

An ex-con plans to get her own back on her thug of a husband by ripping him off.
Viva Features

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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