Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Victor XX
2021-07-16 | NM
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Ian de la Rosa’s 2015 film Victor XX, set in a small fishing village on the coast of Almería, explores the conflicts and difficulties of a search for sexual identity. Victor, unsure if he feels more male or more female, enjoys the ambiguity, but must deal with the expectations of his mother and girlfriend, the lack of understanding in his community, and the anxiety involved in a final decision.
2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not recommended for children under 7.

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Cantando desde las azoteas
2021-07-20 | NM
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Director Enric Ribes’ 2017 documentary Cantando desde las azoteas is an emotional and tender tribute to its protagonist, Gilda Love, who was baptized Eduardo Enrique Gustavo Francisco, but never felt that he was any of these men. As the last drag queen in Barcelona’s former “barrio chino” (the historical neighborhood of El Raval), he still takes the stage every night, at the age of 90, under the name he adopted as homage to Rita Hayworth’s signature role.
2017; Spanish with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Snap
2021-07-23 | NM
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Snap, a 2018 documentary by Chilean filmmakers Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira, is the most experimental film in this series—composed through fragments of the audiovisual content of social media, and offering a mosaic of individual reflections on sexual and gender identity.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Alma
2021-07-27 | NM
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Alma, the protagonist of Santiago León Cuéllar’s 2018 film of the same name, has just entered a new high school, and her classmate Victor invites her to a party. The ongoing changes in her body, and her hidden desires, lead her to face her inner fears and begin the process of self-acceptance—loving herself as she is.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 17 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra
2021-07-30 | NM
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In her 2021 documentary El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra, Tamara García Iglesias traces the life and work of Alicia D’Amico, following her artistic trajectory through Buenos Aires, Paris, and Geneva in search of “shadows” of her presence. One of the best-known photographers of her time, D’Amico worked from the late 1950s until her death in Buenos Aires in 2001. She was recognized as a feminist and lesbian pioneer, and in her later, less recognized work she began an “investigation” of female desire and lesbian identity. El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra raises the question: Is it possible to meet someone through exploring the archive she has left behind?
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 47 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film Screening: Reasons
2021-08-07 - 2021-08-08 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday
The Sandia Performing Arts Company (SPAC) presents the film version of their recent production of Reasons. Directed by Ruben Muller, Reasons is the dark and disturbing story of Elvino Luis Mulares, a Mexican American World War II Army veteran who survived the war but still carries the psychological scars, spanning a 40-year period of his life as an alcoholic with a growing family in mid-century New Mexico. Mulares, the narrator of his story, has now died, and begins speaking to an unknown audience to make a case for why he deserves to be admitted to Heaven, rather than damned for his mistakes. The filmed version is just under an hour in length.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de Ignacio Pardo
2021-09-03 | NM
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Ignacio Pardo is one of the pioneers of video art in Galicia and in Spain, utilizing digital animation in work revolving around the classic themes of Eros and Thanatos. Frequently recurring motifs include decay, suffering, and pain, as well as sexuality as a natural element in an ongoing life cycle, and his films display a humor that reflects an acceptance of this cycle and an ability to find joy in living. The short works screened include Videoviolín, Parpadeo, Triángulo, Corpore insepulto, Ninfografía, Carne viva, Ojo de pez, Ventanas de noche, La tentación del caracol vive arriba, and Moscas.
1985-2004; Spanish with English subtitles; 34 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Lume
2021-09-07 | NM
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Lume (Fire) is one of the most recent works by Alberte Pagán, a specialist in experimental cinema, and part of Pagán’s “Superficies” (“Surfaces”) series, in which the director plays with juxtaposing still photographs of natural elements with the movement of his story. In Lume, an intense, reddish chromatic palette, reminiscent of fire, emphasizes the rage shown in the audiovisual images, projected on a photograph of roots. The live sound in the piece is from a demonstration in Santiago de Compostela in memory of 16-year-old Carlos Palomino, assassinated by a neo-Nazi in November 2007.
2020; Gallego with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Inside the Microtubule
2021-09-10 | NM
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Inside the Microtubule, Judith Adataberna, a visual artist specializing in photography, video installation, and experimental film, explores the mechanisms of memory through the increasingly fragile memories of her 99-year-old grandmother. Images from a mountain climb at night during a snowstorm, together with images of the neurons and synapses that form the physical basis of our memories, reinforce the director’s reflections on memory, fear, and solitude.
2018; Gallego with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Reality
2021-09-14 | NM
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Visual artist and filmmaker David Fidalgo Omil uses animation to create his humorous and critical pieces. Reality explores the violence and absurdity of reality televisión, as comedy turns to tragedy in this satirical look at human misery.
2020; Spanish; 8 minutes; suitable for viewers 16 and older.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de DSK
2021-09-17 | NM
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
This anthology showcases the diverse work of DSK, a collective formed by Juan Lesta and Belén Montero. The artists, pioneers of video art in Galicia, were active for 20 years, creating pieces that experiment with hybridization among different disciplines and play with humor and irony as well as aesthetics. The short works screened include M09, Vida, Twin Power, Crépitation, O tempo perdido, aTienda, Morphing, Miro la vida pasar, Square Religion, Vide, Pedra e auga, and Estiven en Galicia e lembreime de ti.
2000-2017; Spanish, Gallego; 57 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Llamada a la escuela
2021-09-21 | NM
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Carme Nogueira, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher, has an extensive background in both creative and academic fields. In Llamada a la escuela, she juxtaposes school archives and testimonies of children who attended the Las Hurdes school in the early 1930s with a passage from Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan, as well as drawings created by students today.
2016; Spanish with English subtitles; 3 minutes; not rated.

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), El evangelio de las maravilla
2021-09-23 | NM
6 pm (opening reception at 5 pm)
The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival de Cine de Madrid-Plataforma de Nuevos Realizadores).
Free Event

La Nueva Jerusalem, a small religious community led by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita, is waiting for the end of the world and the second coming of Christ at the end of the 20th century. When a young follower, Tomasa, becomes the “chosen one” who will serve as the sect’s new leader, unusual new rules are imposed on the community.
1988; Spanish with English subtitles; 116 minutes; rated PG-13.
This screening is preceded by an opening reception for the series with the Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque.
Parejas creativas: Film Schedule
September 23: El evangelio de las maravillas (1988)
September 24: Así es la vida (2000)
September 30: Las razones del corazón (2011)
October1: La calle de la amargura (2015)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, _oito
2021-09-24 | NM
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In his experimental video art piece _oito, Galician audiovisual artist Berio Molina explores and plays with different sounds, including the human voice, in a unique venue. The sloping structure of Clifton Rocks, an underground railroad station located inside Avon Gorge, a hill in England, creates small amphitheatres, accentuating the resonance of sounds both inside and outside the space.
2019; Gallego; 7 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), Las razones del corazón
2021-09-30 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6 pm
In a re-interpretation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary set in present-day Mexico City, Emilia, a middle-class housewife, feels burdened by the mediocrity of her life. One day, she loses the two things that make it all bearable—her lover and her credit card—and comes to a fateful decision.
2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 128 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival de Cine de Madrid-Plataforma de Nuevos Realizadores).
This screening is preceded by an opening reception for the series with the Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque.
Parejas creativas: Film Schedule
September 23: El evangelio de las maravillas (1988)
September 24: Así es la vida (2000)
September 30: Las razones del corazón (2011)
October1: La calle de la amargura (2015)

Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), La calle de la amargura
2021-10-01 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6 pm
Two aging prostitutes, burdened by marital and financial problems, drug and rob twin midgets—doubles for professional luchadores—in an effort to make ends meet. But the eyedrops with which they dose their victims prove fatal, and they murder them unintentionally. Based on a true story, La calle de la amargura takes an unflinching look at the mean streets of Mexico City.
2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 100 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival de Cine de Madrid-Plataforma de Nuevos Realizadores).
This screening is preceded by an opening reception for the series with the Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque.
Parejas creativas: Film Schedule
September 23: El evangelio de las maravillas (1988)
September 24: Así es la vida (2000)
September 30: Las razones del corazón (2011)
October1: La calle de la amargura (2015)

Film: Día de Cine Español/Day of Spanish Cinema, El viaje a ninguna parte
2021-10-05 | NM
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
El viaje a ninguna parte won the first Goya Awards (Spain’s main national annual film awards) ever given, for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, in 1987.
1986; Spanish with English subtitles; 134 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

October 6 will mark the establishment of the Day of Spanish Cinema, recognizing the important role of filmmakers in the country’s cultural and social life, as well as the value of this artistic heritage, now over a century old.
In the first celebration of this day, Instituto Cervantes, in coordination with the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), presents Fernando Fernán-Gómez’ 1986 film El viaje a ninguna parte. Adapted from the director’s acclaimed novel of the same name, the film is the story of a family of traveling comedians who perform in rural communities during the 1940s and 1950s. With the arrival of cinema, their world, and their era, is coming to an end.

Film: FIVER, La mirada de ellas, 10 años de cinedanza en España: Kinxi
2021-10-25 | NM
12 pm
Begins Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Kinxi, only three minutes in length, the ensemble Piña (Sara Fontán and Clara Tena) transport the audience to the essence of cinedance. “To end up eating kimchi is to eat quiche Lorraine in a Chinese bar.”
2012; 3 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle of short films: La mirada de ellas: 10 años de cinedanza en España, curated by FIVER director Samuel Retortillo. The screenings are among the activities celebrating the tenth anniversary of Baila España, held annually in the city of Bremen, Germany. FIVER, an international platform for the support, production, and exhibition of film and dance, promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation through the professionalization of the “cinedance” genre. The 2021 retrospective features ten short films directed by women selected as recipients of, or finalists for, awards by FIVER between 2012 and 2021.
FIVER (all films available for viewing October 25-31):
* Kinxi (Sara Fontán & Clara Tena, codirected by Anna Rubirola, 2012)
* Caballo negro (Tuixén Benet, 2013)
* Europe Endless (Ana Cembrero, codirected by Jorge Piquer, 2014)
* Fuego lento (Elena Castilla, 2015)
* Atma (Carla Subirana, 2016)
* Da mopa (Sevillanas electrónicas) (María Teresa García, 2017)
* Inside, inhabited landscapes (Carmen Porras, 2018)
* Sinfonía del cuerpo (Mónica Ruiz van Hattem, 2019)
* Inside/Outside (Carolina Romillo, 2020)
* Vals y rumba (Laura Delgado, codirected by Eduardo Rodríguez, 2021)

Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Young and Beautiful
2021-10-29 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Marina Lameiro’s 2018 documentary offers a portrait of a disenchanted generation, as four young people ponder their current situations, their futures, and a social system in which they do not seem to fit. Young and Beautiful was filmed over the course of two years, at several locations in the Basque Country, Navarre, Catalonia, and Valencia, with the director accompanying her friends through the events of their daily lives.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 72 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have been released in the last few years, and whose innovative approaches move away from more traditional formulas.
Contemporáneos: Film Schedule
October 29: Young and Beautiful (2018)
November 4: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo (2018)
Novevber 5: Oscuro y Lucientes (2018)

Film: FIVER, La mirada de ellas, 10 años de cinedanza en España
2021-10-31 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | NM
12 pm on Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle of short films: La mirada de ellas: 10 años de cinedanza en España, curated by FIVER director Samuel Retortillo. The screenings are among the activities celebrating the tenth anniversary of Baila España, held annually in the city of Bremen, Germany. FIVER, an international platform for the support, production, and exhibition of film and dance, promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation through the professionalization of the “cinedance” genre. The 2021 retrospective features ten short films directed by women selected as recipients of, or finalists for, awards by FIVER between 2012 and 2021.
Free Event

In Kinxi, only three minutes in length, the ensemble Piña (Sara Fontán and Clara Tena) transport the audience to the essence of cinedance. “To end up eating kimchi is to eat quiche Lorraine in a Chinese bar.”
2021: 3 minutes; not rated.
Caballo negro is the concluding part of Catalan choreographer Tuixén Benet’s final project at the Institut del Teatre, and her first video clip. It features dancers from the group Tu Madre.
2013; 4 minutes; not rated.
Inspired by the work and lifestyle of “Eurocrats” in Brussels, Belgium, Europe Endless, by Ana Cembrero and codirector Jorge Piquer, features five dancers moving through empty spaces devoid of time and context. Cembrero describes the project as a fusion of three art forms: a dance film, a theatrical performance, and a site-specific work utilizing unconventional dance spaces.
2014; 26 minutes; not rated.
The pieces comprising Elena Castilla’s Fuego lento were developed in a choreography workshop offered by the director at the Pedro de Valdivia Juvenile Center in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz. The twelve teenagers participating in the workshop responded to a series of questions in creating these works: How do you feel? What do you want to say? What would you like to do in the future? What do you long for?
2015; 15 minutes; not rated.
In Atma, Carla Subirana tells the story of a warrior who, forgotten by her army after losing a battle, decides to abandon the armor that has protected her and start out on a path that will lead to a final surrender, and to victory.
2015; 9 minutes; not rated.
Da mopa (Sevillanas electrónicas), by María Teresa García, embodies the dilemma of presenting a primarily musical project as a danced concert, with themes ranging from a call to prayer to contemporary critical meta-thinking, and highlighting the contradictions of our needs, whether innate or acquired.
2017; 4 minutes; not rated.
Inspired by her performance in Mujeres que hay en mí, as well as her own memory and those of many other women, choreographer Carmen Porras created Inside, inhabited landscapes to trace the ancient footsteps of a dreamlike journey through external and internal landscapes, in which every corner resonates with the story living within the character.
2018; 6 minutes; not rated.
In Mónica Ruiz van Hattem’s Sinfonía del cuerpo, dancer Eduardo Guerrero and singer/saxophonist Antonio Lizardo create a relationship among music, dance, and the environment—an ode to the body’s ability to reclaim space within the overwhelming architecture of Rotterdam.
2019; 15 minutes; not rated.
Carolina Romillo’s short film Inside/Outside, created during the pandemic, uses contemporary dance movement to embody the anxiety and emotional ups and downs caused by imposed isolation: longing to be outside, and forced to be inside.
2020; 5 minutes; not rated.
In Vals y rumba, Laura Delgado and codirector Eduardo Rodríguez tell the story of a little cleaning robot in a museum and a statue of a dancer who wants to become one of the ballerinas in “The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage”—the Degas painting in front of which she is exhibited. Debussy’s “Moonlight” provides the score for this charming animated film, in which art can awaken dreams and friendship can make them come true.
2021; 6 minutes; not rated.
FIVER (all films available for viewing October 25-31):
* Kinxi (Sara Fontán & Clara Tena, codirected by Anna Rubirola, 2012)
* Caballo negro (Tuixén Benet, 2013)
* Europe Endless (Ana Cembrero, codirected by Jorge Piquer, 2014)
* Fuego lento (Elena Castilla, 2015)
* Atma (Carla Subirana, 2016)
* Da mopa (Sevillanas electrónicas) (María Teresa García, 2017)
* Inside, inhabited landscapes (Carmen Porras, 2018)
* Sinfonía del cuerpo (Mónica Ruiz van Hattem, 2019)
* Inside/Outside (Carolina Romillo, 2020)
* Vals y rumba (Laura Delgado, codirected by Eduardo Rodríguez, 2021)

Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo
2021-11-04 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the public streets still remain. In three insightful conversations with female friends, collaborators, and high school students, Xiana do Teixeiro’s 2018 film Tódallas mulleres que coñezo seeks a discourse on fear that is not frightening, a discourse on violence that is not violent—a tale of universal sisterhood.
2018; Galician with English subtitles; 71 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have been released in the last few years, and whose innovative approaches move away from more traditional formulas.
Contemporáneos: Film Schedule
October 29: Young and Beautiful (2018)
November 4: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo (2018)
Novevber 5: Oscuro y Lucientes (2018)

Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Oscuro y Lucientes
2021-11-05 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Samuel Alarcón’s 2018 documentary traces the last days of the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, exiled, buried, and almost forgotten in Bordeaux, and the mystery surrounding his body. Years after his death, when Goya’s remains were exhumed to be returned to Spain, it was discovered that someone had stolen the head of the famous painter.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 82 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have been released in the last few years, and whose innovative approaches move away from more traditional formulas.
Contemporáneos: Film Schedule
October 29: Young and Beautiful (2018)
November 4: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo (2018)
Novevber 5: Oscuro y Lucientes (2018)

Film: Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Arima
2021-11-05 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Jaione Camborda’s debut feature film Arima is a story, steeped in mystery, of four women and a girl whose lives are altered when two strangers arrive unexpectedly in their village. The events in this “ghost film” move between real and imagined, nightmare and dream, fear and desire.
2019; Galician and Spanish with English subtitles; 77 minutes; not recommended for children under 12.
Free community event

In November, Instituto Cervantes collaborates with the Seville European Film Festival on the film cycle Nuevas cinefilias: Estaciones singulares. The four recent Spanish films screened in this cycle could not have been made in the past because of their language and themes—they innovate, take risks, and play with contemporary structure and narratives, and in doing so, they update the legacy of cinema and open a path for filmgoers to understand the constant changes that are taking place in society.
Since 2018, this film cycle has been organized by both collaborating institutions as a showcase for new Spanish cinema.
Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Film Schedule
* November 5: Arima (Jaione Camborda, 2019)
* November 12: Violeta no coge el ascensor (Mamen Díaz, 2019)
* November 19: This Film Is About Me (Alexis Delgado, 2019)
* November 26: La reina de los lagartos (Burnin’ Percebes, 2019)
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing.

Film: Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Violeta no coge el ascensor
2021-11-12 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Mamen Díaz’ indie comedy Violeta no coge el ascensor, twenty-something Violeta is spending a stifling summer in Madrid as an intern in a publishing house. Dodging the heat between affairs that only multiply her self-doubts, she makes new friends and makes decisions—some good and some bad—as she comes to learn that “failure is more an art than a drama.”
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 87 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In November, Instituto Cervantes collaborates with the Seville European Film Festival on the film cycle Nuevas cinefilias: Estaciones singulares. The four recent Spanish films screened in this cycle could not have been made in the past because of their language and themes—they innovate, take risks, and play with contemporary structure and narratives, and in doing so, they update the legacy of cinema and open a path for filmgoers to understand the constant changes that are taking place in society.
Since 2018, this film cycle has been organized by both collaborating institutions as a showcase for new Spanish cinema.
Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Film Schedule
* November 5: Arima (Jaione Camborda, 2019)
* November 12: Violeta no coge el ascensor (Mamen Díaz, 2019)
* November 19: This Film Is About Me (Alexis Delgado, 2019)
* November 26: La reina de los lagartos (Burnin’ Percebes, 2019)
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing

Festival Oralidad
2021-11-18 | NM
Reception—6 pm, Cayetana Romero Lobby
Introduction to Festival Oralidad—6:30 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Concert, Nacha Mendez Trio—7:30 pm, Bank of America Theatre
Reception and festival introduction free to the public; concert tickets $17 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members, purchase Here
Please note: Both the festival introduction and the concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.
Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with the collaboration of AMP Concerts and the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, present the first Festival Oralidad on November 18, 20, and 22, 2021. The festival combines workshops, lectures, panel discussions, storytelling performances, and musical performances connected to the oral tradition and storytelling. It was created with two essential purposes: the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling and the establishment of a collaborative relationship among artists from New Mexico, other parts of the United States, Spain, and Latin America to create new works together and contribute to the advancement of the genre.

New Mexico, where Native American cultures, Latin American oral tradition, and cultural traditions such as flamenco converge, is an ideal place for a festival focused on the oral tradition, and Instituto Cervantes is positioned to encourage this union of cultures and promote an exchange between artists of diverse origins. Over three days, Festival Oralidad offers academic and theoretical debate, shares the secrets of storytellers with children, and brings together some of the most significant musicians and storytellers in the U.S. While travel restrictions this year have limited participation to artists residing in-country, future festivals will include colleagues from Latin America and Spain.
A reception with wine and Spanish ham will greet festival participants on the opening evening, followed by an introduction to the three-day event by Nasario García, a folklorist, writer and educator, and one of New Mexico’s foremost experts on oral tradition. He will give a talk on the state’s cultural and linguistic roots in the spoken word, and will discuss the importance of storytelling with Silvia Grijalba, director of the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque and El Paso. The evening will conclude with a concert by the Nacha Mendez Trio
Nasario García, professor emeritus of Spanish and Hispanic literatures, holds a B.A. in Spanish, an M.A. in Portuguese, and a Ph.D. in 19th century Spanish literature. He has published more than 30 books educating both adults and children about the richness of New Mexico’s Spanish language and culture, including Memorias de los viejos: Tales of the Rio Puerco; Abuelitos: Stories of the Rio Puerco Valley; Comadres: Hispanic Women of the Rio Puerco Valley; and Más antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley. Dr. García has worked over the years to preserve the language and culture of northern New Mexico, particularly his beloved Rio Puerco Valley, where he grew up in the community of Ojo del Padre (Guadalupe).
Nacha Mendez combines storytelling, music, and song in a journey through her personal experience that speaks to her Latin blood, Native American history, and experience as an artist throughout Europe. Mendez grew up in the small border town of La Union in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing guitar at an early age. She learned traditional ranchera singing from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso.
She studied classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Conservatory of Music in Barcelona, Spain. In the early 1990s, she was a lead singer with Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan, and has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters.
She has received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists, voted Best Female Vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2009 and 2010, and awarded Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards.
This concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.

Film: Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: This Film Is About Me
2021-11-19 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
Alexis Delgado’s This Film Is About Me is a singular portrait of Renata Felicitas Soskey, serving time in a Galician prison for the brutal murder of her neighbor. Renata sees it clearly: this film is about her—about her personality, her charisma, her poetry, and her unpredictability, and not about her crime or her punishment. The director also becomes a player as the film unfolds, caught up in his fascination with his subject.
2019; Spanish and German with English subtitles; 61 minutes; not recommended for children under 12.
Free community event

In November, Instituto Cervantes collaborates with the Seville European Film Festival on the film cycle Nuevas cinefilias: Estaciones singulares. The four recent Spanish films screened in this cycle could not have been made in the past because of their language and themes—they innovate, take risks, and play with contemporary structure and narratives, and in doing so, they update the legacy of cinema and open a path for filmgoers to understand the constant changes that are taking place in society.
Since 2018, this film cycle has been organized by both collaborating institutions as a showcase for new Spanish cinema.
Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Film Schedule
* November 5: Arima (Jaione Camborda, 2019)
* November 12: Violeta no coge el ascensor (Mamen Díaz, 2019)
* November 19: This Film Is About Me (Alexis Delgado, 2019)
* November 26: La reina de los lagartos (Burnin’ Percebes, 2019)
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing

Film: Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: La reina de los lagartos
2021-11-26 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In La reina de los lagartos, Burnin’ Percebes (Fernando Martínez and Juan González) introduce us to Berta and Javi, a couple who are saying goodbye after a summer romance. However, the spaceship that was supposed to pick up Javi, the prince of an alien race of lizards, never comes to take him away.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 63 minutes; not recommended for children under 12.
Free community event

In November, Instituto Cervantes collaborates with the Seville European Film Festival on the film cycle Nuevas cinefilias: Estaciones singulares. The four recent Spanish films screened in this cycle could not have been made in the past because of their language and themes—they innovate, take risks, and play with contemporary structure and narratives, and in doing so, they update the legacy of cinema and open a path for filmgoers to understand the constant changes that are taking place in society.
Since 2018, this film cycle has been organized by both collaborating institutions as a showcase for new Spanish cinema.
Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Film Schedule
* November 5: Arima (Jaione Camborda, 2019)
* November 12: Violeta no coge el ascensor (Mamen Díaz, 2019)
* November 19: This Film Is About Me (Alexis Delgado, 2019)
* November 26: La reina de los lagartos (Burnin’ Percebes, 2019)
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing

Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Amore d’inverno
2021-11-30 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Isabel Herguera’s Amore d’inverno (Winter Love), a couple walks along the river while hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest remember the “Dancer of Clavesana,” a metaphor for free love who vanishes slowly into the winter landscape. The director was nominated for a Goya award in 2005 for La gallina ciega, and has received increasing national and international recognition for her short films.
2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 8 minutes; rated G.
Free community event

In collaboration with Mujeres y Cine (MYC), Instituto Cervantes presents six short animated films for adults, created by an intergenerational group of female directors who have found freedom of self-expression in the immense possibilities offered by diverse animation techniques.
Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Film Schedule
* November 30: Amore d’inverno (Isabel Herguera, 2015)
* December 3: Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren guay (Begoña Vicario, 2016)
* December 7: Lursaquak (Izibene Oñederra, 2019)
* December 10: Patchwork (María Manero, 2018)
* December 14: Yo (Begoña Arostegui, 2020)
* December 17: ¿Dónde estabas tú? (María Trénor, 2020)
* December 21: Esfinge urbana (María Lorenzo, 2020)
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing.

Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren gua
2021-12-03 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Begoña Vicario’s Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren guay (Jane, Tarzan Wasn’t So Cool) was created by a collective of 20 young Basque artists, coordinated by the director. It reinterprets the famous scene from Cedric Gibbons’ 1934 film Tarzan and His Mate in which Tarzan and Jane swim together.
2016; no dialogue; 3 minutes; rated G.
Free community event

In collaboration with Mujeres y Cine (MYC), Instituto Cervantes presents six short animated films for adults, created by an intergenerational group of female directors who have found freedom of self-expression in the immense possibilities offered by diverse animation techniques.
Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Film Schedule
* November 30: Amore d’inverno (Isabel Herguera, 2015)
* December 3: Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren guay (Begoña Vicario, 2016)
* December 7: Lursaquak (Izibene Oñederra, 2019)
* December 10: Patchwork (María Manero, 2018)
* December 14: Yo (Begoña Arostegui, 2020)
* December 17: ¿Dónde estabas tú? (María Trénor, 2020)
* December 21: Esfinge urbana (María Lorenzo, 2020)
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing.

Film: Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Lursaguak
2021-12-07 | NM
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Basque artist Izibene Oñederra’s powerful, cutting-edge works have continued to delve deeply into uncomfortable themes. Her animated film Lursaguak (Scenes of Life) is a dark, grotesque commentary on the human condition, in which millions of voles of an unknown species are undermining the conceptual basis of a thousand-year-old culture.
2019; no dialogue; 12 minutes; not recommended for children under 16.
Free community event

In collaboration with Mujeres y Cine (In collaboration with Mujeres y Cine (MYC), Instituto Cervantes presents six short animated films for adults, created by an intergenerational group of female directors who have found freedom of self-expression in the immense possibilities offered by diverse animation techniques.
Creadores de animación para el siglo XXI: Film Schedule
* November 30: Amore d’inverno (Isabel Herguera, 2015)
* December 3: Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren guay (Begoña Vicario, 2016)
* December 7: Lursaguak (Izibene Oñederra, 2019)
* December 10: Patchwork (María Manero, 2018)
* December 14: Yo (Begoña Arostegui, 2020)
* December 17: ¿Dónde estabas tú? (María Trénor, 2020)
* December 21: Esfinge urbana (MaMYC),
Instituto Cervantes presents six short animated films for adults, created by an intergenerational group of female directors who have found freedom of self-expression in the immense possibilities offered by diverse animation techniques.
