THE SPANISH FILM WEEK opens on Tuesday with Benito Zombrano's Solas, with the director himself in attendance. Of the seven films included in the programme six are from the 1990s, with the seventh representing the young Almodovar: they are intended to present Egyptian film-lovers with the full range and variety of contemporary Spanish cinema.

Their subject matter provides a compelling sampling of the human, cultural and social circumstances of present-day life in Spain. From a passionate love affair that must be kept secret to a wife so miserable she ends up killing her husband with a leg of pork, the films feature such stallwarts of contemporary Spanish cinema as Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suàrez and Federico Luppi. Right, a still from Martin (Hache).

22 June: Solas (Solitary Woman, 1999), by Benito Zambrano

23 June: Solas (at 5pm); Los Amantes del C’rculo Polar (Lovers of the North Pole, 1998), by Julio Medem

24 June: Carrenteras Secundarias (Side Roads, 1997), by Emilio Mart’nez

25 June: Martin (Hache), 1997, by Adolfo Aristarain

26 June: Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (What Have I Done to Deserve This?, 1984), by Pedro Almodovar

27 June: La Ardilla Roja (The Red Squirrel, 1997), by Julio Medem

28 June: Alas de Mariposa (Butterfly Wings), by Juanma Bajo Ulloa

29 June: Secretos del Corazón (Secrets of the Heart, 1997), by Montxo Armendàriz

Unless otherwise indicated all films will be screened, with Arabic subtitles, at 8pm at the Artistic Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds