Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
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Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2026
The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF) welcomes film fans from all over Scotland to its 13th edition. The festival is delighted to offer a packed programme of cinema screenings, guest appearances and cultural events, featuring a total of 16 films from Spain and Latin America and offering a snapshot of the best brand-new Spanish-language cinema for 2026. The majority of our films are Scottish premieres.
ESFF 2026 celebrates the role of the community, and the idea that shared experiences make life richer, because success and happiness are not only based on individual achievements but also on the connections we build with others. One of our opening films, Lust for Life by El Langui, shows how people can support and elevate one another and achieve much greater things together. Lust for Life’s producer Rodrigo Espinel will also present and discuss his documentary at Filmhouse.
Our programme includes other films that test the power of communal efforts across different periods of Spanish history, including overcoming the challenges of caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s in I Won’t Die for Love by Marta Matute, who will be in attendance at Filmhouse. We will also host a special preview of The Black Ball from the Cannes-awarded directing of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, celebrating the legacy of Federico García Lorca, and co-written by Alberto Conejero who will also be in attendance at Filmhouse.
This year our Basque Window, in collaboration with the Etxepare Institute, includes Maspalomas, a queer dramedy by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregui, and Gaua, a folk horror fantasy by Paul Urkijo.
All our films will be screened in their original language with English subtitles. For hard-of-hearing (HoH) audiences, all screenings of Lust for Life in Edinburgh and across Scotland will feature HoH captions provided by Edinburgh-based accessibility experts Screen Language.
Book tickets for two or more of our Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2026 films in the same transaction to receive a discount!
All copy provided by Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival team.
Showtimes
Showtimes Big Hero 6 + drop-in activities | 11:00AM The Cycle Of Love | 12:45PM, 5:45PM Everybody Digs Bill Evans | 1:00PM, 8:20PM De Gaulle: Liberté | 1:30PM, 8:05PM BSL Film Club x SQIFF: Reconnection + Close to You + Q&A | 2:30PM Queen at Sea | 3:00PM, 8:15PM In-I In Motion | 3:15PM Solaris | 4:45PM The Incomer | 6:00PM Ritas (IberoDocs) | 6:10PM Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | 8:30PM
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We open 30 minutes before the first showtime of the day.
We open 30 minutes before the first showtime of the day.
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All theaters are ADA accessible with wheelchair seating.
All theaters are ADA accessible with wheelchair seating.
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Closed captioning and assistive listening devices are available at the box office.
Closed captioning and assistive listening devices are available at the box office.
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