Premiering in Australia as the Centrepiece Selection of the German Film Festival (6–27 May), AMRUM is the new film from award-winning director Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven, In The Fade), a deeply affecting historical drama about a young boy caught between family allegiance and an emerging moral conscience in wartime Germany. A profound meditation on innocence, loss, and the enduring need for compassion, inspired by true events.

Writer/director Thierry Klifa on his irresistible dark comedy THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD: "What fascinated me from the start was the Shakespearean quality of the story. There is at once tragedy and farce, the two blend together. I wasn’t going to make anybody cry for the extra-rich, so we might as well laugh at them. Their wit is funny, and so is their cruelty. But we also laugh at their ridiculousness, their excess."

From 10 June-12 July, the 29th Spanish & Latin American Film Festival will be bringing the fiesta to cinemas around Australia. Among the line-up is Alauda Ruiz de Azúa quietly spellbinding, multi award-winning drama SUNDAYS, Gabriel Mascaro's extraordinary Amazon odyssey THE BLUE TRAIL, Marcelo Martinessi's seduction Paraguayan noir NARCISO, and Carla Simon's beautiful new drama ROMERÍA.