Cervantes Film Series: Garelako
2023-07-25 | NM
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With a song by Eneko Sagardoy as a thematic and narrative pillar, the writer and animator Usue Egia proposes a journey through various characters and stories that illustrate a call for freedom to everyone to define themselves and feel as they wish.
Garelako, by Eneko Sagardoy: “The gray sky will not suffocate us. We will flee to the sun. They want to put straw hearts on us. Let us feel what we prefer. If the bird’s wings are for walking, if the whale is denied the sea, we will see nothing but fiction. If above all words is the lie, we will go forward, whether you like it or not. If someone is free, it is because we are all free. We will truly live with you or without you. You will realize it sooner or later. We are not monsters; we do not eat anyone. The sun warms us, and the rain wets us. Now you have realized: we are flesh and blood, like you. Marichico or Marichica, they call us. Stop talking banally. Learn one thing well and keep it in your head, that the only Mari is the one of Anboto”.
Free community event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Media/Climate Justice Internship Film Premiere & Celebration
2023-08-05 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
5:00 pm: Private Reception
6:00 pm: Graduation, Performances, & Screening
Note: This screening has been moved from the Bank of America Theatre to the Wells Fargo Auditorium. Due to the smaller venue, space will be limited. Please register below.
Come celebrate the culmination of El Puente, an 8-week youth summer program that aims to develop and nurture the talents of young individuals, providing them with the tools and skills necessary to become future media creators and advocates for environmental justice. Through hands-on experiences and mentorship, youth are empowered to explore their creativity, amplify their voices, and tell compelling stories that drive positive change in our community.
Free Community Event. Please register below.

Film: Agave is Life
2023-08-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: UNM Mariachi Ensemble
7:00 pm: Film screening
Note: This screening will now be held in the Bank of America Theatre.
Agave is Life is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years ago when hunter-gatherers viewed the hardy desert succulent with its myriad uses as a gift from the gods, agave’s story is told through the lens of archaeological, ethnographic, and modern-day vignettes, closing with concerns about threats to the plant’s future.
Directed by Meredith L. Dreiss & Davi Brown | Documentary | 2014 | 70 minutes | English | TVPG
Free community event. Please let us know how many will be attending below.
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Afro Mundo: Sister Doula
2023-08-16 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
Black babies die at 5 times the rate of white babies. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles this crisis head-on, fighting to save Black babies by offering alternatives to the US healthcare system that surveils, criminalizes, and harms Black families. Mama Hakima is equal parts unapologetic truth-teller and wise-compassionate mentor. This is the story of the birth doulas she has mentored, who advocate for Black birthing people and work toward building a future.
Free Community Event

Antigravity Films & Red on the Side: Cinema Rendezvous
2023-08-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Doors open
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Antigravity Films & Red on the Side present CINEMA RENDEZVOUS. Join us for an evening of local short films and stay for the world premiere of the fan film Star Wars: Rendezvous, followed by a Q&A with our featured local filmmakers. Hosted by Brent Peterson of Antigravity Films, and Crystal Thomas of Red on the Side Productions.
Mix & Mingle with Star Wars Characters at 6:00 pm; screening begins at 7:00 pm, followed immediately by the Q&A. Seats are limited. Tickets are free, though donations to help cover the theater rental are greatly appreciated. Concessions will be available for purchase.
Free Community Event
#starwarsrendezvous #cinemarendezvous

Runtime: 90 minutes

The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Film: Pan’s Labyrinth
2023-08-25 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Cash bar and food trucks
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Musical Performance: WillaJay
7:00 pm: Film screening
It’s 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are led by Capitan Vidal, a murdering sadist, and with him are his new wife Carmen and her daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Ofelia. Ofelia witnesses her stepfather’s sadistic brutality and is drawn into Pan’s Labyrinth, a magical world of mythical beings.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro | 2006 | 118 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles | Rated R
Free community event. Please let us know how many will be attending below.
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Afro Mundo: Maestra
2023-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Denver) | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
In 1961, over 250,000 Cubans joined their country’s National Literacy Campaign and taught more than 707,000 other Cubans to read and write. Almost half of these volunteer teachers were under eighteen years old, and more than half were women.
Free Community Event

Narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, MAESTRA explores the experiences of nine of the women who, as young girls, helped eradicate Cuban illiteracy within one year. Interweaving interviews, archival footage, and campaign photos, this lively documentary includes one of the first Cubans of her generation to call herself a feminist and one of the first openly proud members of Cuba’s LGBTQI community. With wit and spirit, all recall negotiating for autonomy and independence in a culture still bound by patriarchal structures. MAESTRA highlights the will and courage that made the monumental endeavor possible and the pivotal role of women’s and youth empowerment in building a new society.

Film: Coyote Cage Feature Film Premiere
2023-09-22 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Food Trucks & Cash Bar
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Featuring a pre-show performance by Award-Winning Artist Micky Cruz
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tabling
7:00 pm Film Screening
Panel Discussion, Raffle & Q&A to immediately follow.
The National Premiere of the Local Feature Film Coyote Cage. Coyote Cage is about a group of Latin American immigrants who find themselves in the middle of a human trafficking ring and seek shelter in a safe house, that is anything but. The screening will be followed by a Q&A Panel with the filmmakers and members of the cast.
Free community event

Film: Bless Me, Ultima
2023-09-29 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Reception & Cash Bar
6:00 pm: Levi Romero Pre-Film Talk
7:00 pm: Screening
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico, and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is forever changed by the sudden arrival of Ultima, a curandera who inspires him to see the world from a new perspective.
2011 | Carl Franklin | English | 102 minutes | rated PG-13
Free Community Event. Please register below.

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2023-10-12 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Food Trucks, Cash Bar & Pop Fizz
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Music by Lindy Vision
7:00 pm – 9:15 pm: Rumble Screening
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World is a feature documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World brings to light a profound and missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence. Featuring music icons Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Jesse Ed Davis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, and Taboo, Rumble shows how these pioneering Native musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.
Free Community Event, please register below.

Rumble has a long list of music artists, historians, family members, and experts participating in the film, including: Buddy Guy, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Bennett, Taj Mahal, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, John Trudell, David Fricke (Rolling Stone Magazine), Steven Tyler, Taboo, Derek Trucks, Corey Harris, Guy Davis, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Monk Boudreaux, George Clinton, Jackson Browne, Joy Harjo, Iggy Pop, Wayne Kramer (MC5), Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Pura Fé (Ulali), Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne), Matt Sorum (Guns ‘N’ Roses), Mike Inez (Alice in Chains), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Taboo (Black Eyed Peas), Slash (Guns ‘N’ Roses), Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan), Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Pat Vegas (Redbone), Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and many others.
The Sundance, Hot Docs, and Canadian Screen award-winning feature documentary film about a missing part of popular music history: the Indigenous influence.
Produced by REZOLUTION PICTURES | Directed by Catherine Bainbridge (Reel Injun), Co-director Alfonso Maiorana Executive produced / produced by Stevie Salas, Tim Johnson, Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb, Lisa M. Roth, Jan Rofekamp, Diana Holtzberg, Ray Halbritter
Directed by Catherine Bainbridge (Reel Injun) | Canada | 2017 | 102 Minutes

Afro Mundo: Lead Me Home
2023-10-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
More than 500,000 people experience homelessness every night in America. Lead Me Home is a documentary short that tells a few of these real-life stories giving the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of what it means to be unsheltered today while calling into question uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies.
Free Community Event
Runtime: 40 minutes.

Fright Night and Espooky Mercado
2023-10-20 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 pm – 11:30 pm
7:00 pm Family Film
7:00 pm Food Trucks and Cash Bar
8:30 pm Horror Film Features
Family fun, vendors, food trucks, frightful films, and more. If you are looking for something spooky, uncanny, macabre, a little dark, supernatural, or Halloween-inspired, this event is for you!
For information about becoming a mercado vendor, please click Here.
Free Community Event, please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
NOTE: This event will be family friendly from 4pm to 8:30pm and “mas espooky” from 8:30 pm – 11 pm.

Noche de Familia Film Screening: Nocturna
2023-10-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Visually stunning and wildly inventive, this film explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal adventure full of Alice in Wonderland-like characters and moody, dream-inspired landscapes. Have you ever wondered why your hair looks funny in the morning or where the sounds outside your window come from at night? A young boy named Tim finds out after an unusual discovery on the rooftop of his orphanage plunges him into the secret world of Nocturna, inhabited by curious creatures who control the night.
Free community event, appropriate for ages 8+.
Directors: Adrià García & Víctor Maldonado |Children’s/Family | 2007 (USA – Unknown) | Run Time – 80 min. | English & Spanish Language | Rated PG | Studio Filmax Animation

There are hairdressers who specialize in bed-heads, dream writers, and a vast herd of guardian cats led by the gigantic Cat Shepherd. Yet this world is in danger: the stars in the sky are disappearing, kids are becoming restless at night, and a mysterious shadow creature is haunting the empty streets, extinguishing anything that gives off light. If Tim and the Cat Shepherd can’t set things right, nighttime will never be the same! Bold anime-influenced character design and beautiful, fluid 2D animation help to create a fantastic dream world that balances the magical with a touch of menace. Tim and the audience ultimately learn that the night doesn’t have to be so scary after all.

Fright Night Film Screening: Dusk til Dawn
2023-10-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Criminal brothers kidnap a family in order to cross the border into Mexico where they are to meet a connection at a rowdy bar that turns out to be populated by vampires when the sun goes down. An amazing cast including Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, & Cheech Marin. A Miramax Film.
Free Community Event
Directors: Robert Rodriguez | Action Horror | 1996 (USA) | Run Time: 108 min. | Rating: R | Studio Miramax Films

Fright Night Film Screening: BirdBoy: The Forgotten World
2023-10-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
9:00 pm
There is light and beauty, even in the darkest of worlds. Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever.
Free Community Event, appropriate for ages 15+.
Directors: Alberto Vázquez & Pedro Rivero | Adult Animated Horror Drama | 2015 (Spain) | Run time: 76 min. | Not Rated: NR | Studio: Gkidz

Based on a graphic novel and short film by co-director Alberto Vázquez and winner of the Goya Award for Best Animated Feature (where Vázquez won Best Animated Short Film in the same year), Birdboy: The Forgotten Children is a darkly comic, beautiful and haunting tale of coming of age in a world gone to ruin.

Fright Night Film Screening: Dracula
2023-10-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 pm
Renfield, a solicitor, makes a journey into Transylvania via stagecoach. He mentions his destination, Castle Dracula, to the locals who react with alarm. They tell him Drácula is a vampire and when he doesn’t believe them, one insists he wear a cross. When he arrives at the Castle, the Count bids him welcome. After drinking drugged wine, Renfield collapses, still wearing the cross, and is bitten. Aboard ship, a now-enslaved Renfield laughs maniacally below as Drácula picks off the crew one by one. When the ship reaches England, he is the only living person found.
Free Community Event
Directors: George Melford | Adult Horror | 1931 (USA) | Run time: 104 min. | Not Rated: NR | Studio: Universal Pictures

Drácula meets Dr. Seward and his family at the opera. Lucía is completely fascinated by him and that night becomes his victim. Professor Van Helsing is called in, and he recognizes the danger for what it is. He also realizes that Dr. Seward’s patient Renfield is somehow tied up in events. But soon after meeting the Doctor’s new neighbor, Van Helsing figures out that Drácula is a vampire—based on the fact that Drácula casts no reflection in the mirror. By now, Seward’s daughter Eva is falling under his spell. To her horror, she feels increasingly weak and also increasingly wild—at one point attacking her fiancé Juan. With Seward’s and Harker’s help, Van Helsing seeks to trap Drácula, who outwits them and escapes with Eva by seizing control of a nurse’s mind. They follow Renfield into Carfax Abbey—an act which ends with Drácula killing his slave by strangulation, and then tossing him from a tall staircase. Deep in the catacombs under Carfax, they find Drácula asleep and Eva still alive. Van Helsing drives a stake through the vampire’s heart, and as Eva and Harker leave, Van Helsing prays over Renfield’s body.

Fright Night Film Screening: Rec
2023-10-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:45 pm
Reporter Ángela Vidal and her cameraman Pablo are covering the night shift in one of Barcelona’s local fire stations for the television series While You’re Sleeping. The firehouse receives a call about an old woman, Mrs. Izquierdo, who is trapped in her apartment. Ángela and Pablo accompany two of the firefighters, Álex and Manu, to the apartment building on Rambla de Catalunya. The old woman becomes aggressive and attacks one of the police officers, biting his neck. The crew find that the police and military have sealed off the building and trapped them inside.
Free Community Event
Directors: Jaume Balagueró | Adult Horror | 2007 (Spain) | Run time: 75 min | Rating: R | Studio: Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.

Film: Coyote Cage Screening
2023-10-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm Film Screening, Q&A to immediately follow

Thanks to incredible demand, the Center will host a second screening of the New Mexico thriller Coyote Cage! Coyote Cage is about a group of Latin American immigrants who find themselves in the middle of a human trafficking ring and seek shelter in a safe house…that is anything but. The screening will be followed by a Q&A Panel with the director.
Free Community Event. Please register below.

Film: Americonned Documentary: New Mexico Premier
2023-10-29 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm
Golden Goose Kitchen presents Americonned. The super-rich determines virtually every aspect of the lives of the other 90% of Americans. This film examines the hidden struggles of American families, the calculated political maneuvers of the elite, and the long overdue uprising of American workers. With affection for the middle-class and the outrageous attempt to color them as lazy, the film explores the question: How do we make sure workers are paid what they are worth, instead of believing they are only worth what they are paid?
There will be a panel discussion following the screening.
$25 w/ $5 discount for students and seniors
*This event is a rental event, not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images, and description for the event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue. By serving as a venue and posting the event on its website, the NHCC is not endorsing any views expressed in the title or description of the event, nor is it endorsing the content of the event.

Film: Disney*Pixar’s Coco
2023-11-05 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
3:00 pm
Join the NHCC as we present Disney*Pixar’s Coco as part of our Dia de Familia: Día de los Muertos celebration.
Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history.
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), co-directed by Adrian Molina (story artist Monsters University) and produced by Darla K. Anderson (Toy Story 3), Disney*Pixar’s Coco opened in U.S. theatres on November 22, 2017. English with Spanish Subtitles; 105 minutes; rated PG.
Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Super 8 (1996)
2023-11-07 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here

David Domingo is one of the renovators of experimental cinema in Spain. Continuing the legacy of Iván Zulueta and absolute reference of analog cinema in super-8 and 16 mm (the format in which he shot his first films), Domingo is the owner of a unique imaginary in which pop references, visual experiments of all kinds, animations (from frame-by-frame animation to visual collage), domestic epic and a dazzling and colorful aesthetic converge.
Free Community Event.

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: A rapa das bestas (2017)
2023-11-10 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In her first films, Jaione Camborda chose to shoot in super-8 as a sign of identity, with confidence in the image, materiality and lyrical grain. Throughout her filmography, the filmmaker reflects from an ethnographic perspective on man’s relationship with the animal, violence, and the atavistic, as we see reflected in her pieces Proba de axilidade (2015), A rapa das bestas (2017) and Videogramas #4 (2022).
Free Community Event

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Sin Dios ni Santa María (2015)
2023-11-14 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Sin Dios ni Santa María takes as its starting point the historical rereading of the figure of the witch, an investigation that led its directors to texts like Calibán y la bruja, by Silvia Federici. It is an analysis that unearths the dynamics of social expropriation directed over the body, knowledge, and reproduction of women for centuries.
Free Community Event.

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Descartes (2021)
2023-11-17 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In 2016, a search for information began in Filmoteca Española for a research projection on the documentary film Rocío, which had been censored in the early 1980s. Among the materials deposited in its warehouses were 260 rolls of 16 mm photo negatives. They were the leftovers of the editing, footage that was left out of the final version. The forgotten images of a banned film come to life on the screen after forty years in Descartes.
Free Community Event.

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide: Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Afro Mundo: Liz Olivia Fernandez
2023-11-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
2:00 pm, Social Justice Film Screening, Discussion to immediately follow.
We will show 30 minutes total of Uphill on the Hill and Hardliner on the Hudson. They are unreleased. Both docs are 30-40 minutes each but given an hour 20 minutes is generally too long for audiences; we’ll show abridged and polished 15-minute segments of each.
In Uphill on the Hill, award -winning Cuban journalist Liz Olivia Fernandez travels to Washington D.C., where she exposes the political interests driving the U.S. government’s Cold War-era policy toward Cuba.
In Hardliner on the Hudson, award-winning Cuban journalist Liz Olivia Fernandez goes to Union City, New Jersey, where she looks into the murky past of Senator Bob Menendez and reveals how he became the de facto powerbroker for Biden’s Cuba policy.
Talk from award -winning Cuban journalist Liz Olivia Fernandez followed by a Q&A
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Toxos e flores (2016)
2023-11-21 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
A portrait of the landscape of the San Sadurniño area. Natural architectures, still-lifes, spaces of green lights and absolute browns. Filmmaker Lucía Vilela explores the texture of the cut wood, the tiles on the roofs of the houses, the tops of the trees that follow the cadence of the drums of Mociños de Igrexafeita (1971), a popular song that favors an atmosphere of rhythms sheltered by the texture of the celluloid.
Free Community Event.
About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Devociones (2023)
2023-11-24 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Filmmakers Ángel Montero and María Serna explore healing rituals, baths, caresses, and care. Devociones is story of love and illness that explores the acceptance of loss and the real possibility of death. A sensory journey through the mirror in search of healing landscapes to celebrate life.
Free Community Event.

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Ningún río me protexe de min (2021)
2023-11-28 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Ningún río me protexe de min takes as its starting point the mysterious theft of a material from the Central African Republic, inside the forest of the Congo Basin. This acts as a response to the conflicts arising from the fragile and trans-subjective encounter with the not-self: an encounter that can only be practiced or experienced, because if it is virtualized, it ceases to exist.
Free Community Event

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: La tarara (2021)
2023-12-01 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
La tarara is a children’s game and also the diary of a summer, a gift between friends, a love letter, a family portrait, a song, a wink of reality. Shot during the summer of 2021 in Seville, the film is not a closed piece, but a process that continues to date, like an eternal look, evoking the personal, the intimate, like a song of the soul.
Free Community Event.

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Noche de Familia: Invierno
2023-12-08 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Head to the NHCC for an evening of family-friendly fun with a focus on celebrating winter and the holidays. Sip on hot cocoa and nibble biscochitos as you enjoy winter crafts. Join us at 7:00 pm for a free screening of Disney*Pixar’s Encanto in the Bank of America Theatre.
Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.
