Juan Taratuto s romantic comedy, A Boyfriend for My Wife will open the 2009 La Mirada Film Festival, now in its third year. A Boyfriend for My Wife is the first film to screen as part of a new focus on Argentine cinema which dates back over a 100 years and is a significant contribution to the culture of Argentina. Highlights include Martin Carranza and Victoria Galardi s Lovely Loneliness, a charming film about twentysomethings torn between lovers; and Gabriel Medina s The Paranoids - a comedy about an insecure aspiring screenwriter in his 30 s who discovers his annoyingly successful friend has made a TV show unflatteringly based on him.

Javier Fesser s heart-wrenching Camino will be one of the New Spanish Cinema drawcards after it cleaned out the 2009 Goya Awards with six major awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress & Actor. Camino is the emotional adventure of an extraordinary eleven-year-old who is faced simultaneously with two completely new situations in her life: falling in love and dying.

Highlights from Almodovar Presents a collection of classic Spanish films curated by critically acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar include canonical Spanish cult film Bilbao; and Ivn Zulueta s cult masterpiece Rapture, the vampiric relationship between a B-grade film director suffering a personal and creative crisis and a mysterious young man obsessed with the process of filming.