MRAC Cinema Club presents EL47

Followed by refreshments Film release date: 2025 Film languages: Catalan, Spanish (English subtitles)

Auditorium, Brolga Theatre

This Spanish historical drama directed by Marcel Barrena won 5 awards at the 39th Goya Awards, including Best Picture, and smashed Spanish box office records. Inspired by a true story, the film shows events that took place in Barcelona in 1978. A bus driver named Manolo Vital, played by Eduard Fernandez hijacks a bus on route 4 7 to demonstrate to the local government that his own disadvantaged neighbourhood (he resides there with his wife and daughter) where many immigrants and impoverished families from other parts of Spain live can be accessed by bus and is therefore deserving of a bus service. Critics were almost universally enthusiastic, giving the film 5 stars, with comments calling it 'a beautifully crafted and very effective true life drama', a film that' highlights social struggles that, though they began decades ago, continue to be relevant'.