Las Palmas at 25: Spanish Festival Sharpens Bet on Discovery and Film History

A Bi Gan tribute, a reshaped Panorama España sidebar and a targeted youth push give this year’s Las Palmas event its main coordinates

By Emiliano de Pablos

Emiliano de Pablos

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The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival heads into its 25th edition with a lineup that plays to its long-established strengths: auteur discovery, film buff rigor and a programming vision that keeps new work and film history in constant dialogue and gives an originality to the Canary Island festival.

Running April 23-May 3, the Canary Islands event returns with more than 100 titles spanning competition, retrospectives, live-score screenings and special focuses.

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