¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: Zombi Child
2022-09-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Zombi Child is a 2019 French drama film directed by Bertrand Bonello. It is based on the account of the life of a supposed zombified man in Haiti, Clairvius Narcisse. It was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
2019; Written and Directed by Bertrand Bonello; 103 min; French with English subtitles, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

Film: Bless Me, Ultima
2022-09-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation in partnership with the English department of the University of New Mexico. 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.
Reception at 6:00 pm & Pre-film Talk by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez at 6:30 pm.
Free ticketed event. Please make a reservation here, or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series.

Noche de Familia
2022-10-21 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Join us at the Center for an evening of Halloween fun for the whole family! Our Noche de Familia will feature trick-or-treating, artmaking, music, and a free screening of Coco at 7:00 pm. The screening is on a first come first served seating. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat.
Free family event. Register in advance below.
This program generously supported by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Families and Bank of America.

NHCC Signature Event: Hector Galán Director Talk and Screening
2022-10-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm- Pre-film reception in Salón Ortega
7:00 pm- Screening begins in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Join us as we celebrate Hector Galán, the first documentary filmmaker to be inducted into the prestigious Texas Film Hall of Fame, to cap off our Hispanic Heritage Month celebration! Galán will be hosting a director’s talk and screening of his documentary Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement.
Free Community Event, sponsored by United Way. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

As one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers working today, Hector Galán has contributed over forty hours of programming to major television series such as PBS Frontline and American Experience, to cable networks, and to PBS primetime. Galán has produced many critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films through his company Galán Inc. Television/Film which was founded in 1984 in Austin, Texas.
Galán theatrically released his feature documentary, Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads in 2006. Most recently, Galán completed production in the Middle East and Europe on a six hour series, The Road from Christ to Constantine, a remarkable journey into early Christianity and completed production on Children of GIANT, a documentary feature set in the West Texas town of Marfa, that explores social issues throughout history, weaving a scenic exploration of the Academy Award-winning film, George Stevens’ Giant, with contemporary interviews.

Día de los Muertos: Catrina en el Museo
2022-11-02 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Please join us for screenings of short films from Mexico, a cash bar, and a live Catrina en el Museo styled by BBLex Productions. Participate in our community ofrenda while you celebrate Día de los Muertos at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Special thanks to the Consul de Mexico for their support of this event.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Noche de Familia: Encanto
2022-12-09 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Holiday fun for the entire family! Decorate ornaments and craft luminarias, while enjoying music, hot chocolate, and biscochitos. Then, enjoy a free screening of Encanto at 7:00 pm!
Walt Disney Pictures; Directors; Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Castro Smith; 2021; 99 minutes; PG
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance. Please note the seating of Encanto will be first come first seated.
This program is generously supported by Bank of America and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico.

Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
2023-01-28 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 to 8:30 pm
Opening Reception in Cayetana Romero Lobby: 6:00 pm—6:45 pm
Film Screening: 7:00 pm—8:00 pm
Panel discussion: 8:00 pm—8:30 pm
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies and the NHCC present Acequias: The Legacy Lives On. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias: The Legacy Lives On is an hour-long visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists and members of the community. Chapa produces and directs an emotional and reverential tribute to acequias’ past, present and future.
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

With funding from UNM’s Center for Regional Studies, the film unfolds through a series of storylines including the acequias’ current challenges, such as climate change and water rights transfers, their important role in the development of local food sheds, and the economic opportunity they provide for members of rural communities. Further, in an arid state where every drop of water is studied and tracked, it has been shown that acequias provide recharge to our groundwater systems as water seeps into the earth beneath the flow. For over 400 years, Acequias have been in continuous use and remain important to an understanding of New Mexico’s acequia heritage and the continuing relevance of these water democracies.
The trailer for the movie is available here.

Navajo Star Wars Intergalactic Night
2023-03-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Art Activities, Music, Food Truck, & Cash Bar – 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Fronteras del Futuro Exhibition open – 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Prefilm Talk with Manny Wheeler – 6:00 pm
Film Screening – 7:00 pm
Join the NHCC for a special screening of Star Wars: A New Hope in Navajo. Manny Wheeler, who was instrumental in getting this version of Star Wars made into an official dub, will give a pre-film talk about the importance of access to cultural resources in the Navajo language and equitable representation for native nations. Arrive early to tour the NHCC Art Museum exhibition, Fronteras del Futuro, to find other Star Wars connections while you enjoy artmaking, music, food trucks, and a cash bar. If you are lucky, you might spot a stormtrooper or two!
Free Community Event. Please register HERE or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Generous support for this event provided by Bank of America. © & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Used Under Authorization.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Iberia (2005)
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26 | Virtual
12 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Don’t miss the latest online film series from Instituto Cervantes, focusing on the life and work of the internationally renowned director Carlos Saura. Saura’s 2005 film Iberia traces a series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz’s “Iberia” suite. The film received the Goya Award for Best Cinematography/Mejor Fotografía in 2006.
2005 | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 1 hour 39 minutes | Not Rated
Free Community Event

This documentary film, Saura continues in his line of work, which uses contemporary flamenco to make his contribution to Spanish musical cinema, accompanied by unquestionable artists such as the dancers Sara Baras, Antonio Canales, José Antonio Ruiz, Aída Gómez and Patrick de Bana, the musicians Manolo Sanlúcar, Gerardo Núñez and Jorge Pardo and the singers Enrique Morente and his daughter Estrella.
This film also initiates a more ambitious stage that will lead Saura to investigate the folkloric tradition of other environments, approaching them directly, as he will demonstrate in two of his later films: Fados (2007) and Zonda, folclore argentino (2015).
Synopsis: Based on Iberia, the musical piece by Isaac Albéniz, this documentary follows the rehearsals and performances of dancers, choreographers, musicians and singers, all great artists in the world of contemporary flamenco.

Feature Film: Backstreet to the American Dream
2023-04-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories
Feature: Backstreet to the American Dream (2021) directed by Patricia Nazario
6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar
7:00 pm: Film Screening Followed by Director’s Q&A
Backstreet to the American Dream is a modern-day look at the classic American Dream done through the quintessential 21st Century entrepreneurial endeavor – food trucks! This deep dive into the birthplace of the $2 billion dollar global industry, Los Angeles, profiles two trucks and juxtaposes the experiences of American entrepreneurs and Mexican immigrants. Indeed, these are very different operations in the same city: the gourmet burger truck, Grill ‘Em All, is the first season winner of The Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network in 2010, and El Pescadito, a mariscos lonchera (seafood truck), that has been parking at the same swap meet in an immigrant neighborhood since 1982.
Through rich and vibrant stories of everyday Americans, this powerful 90-minute feature takes the audience on a journey waved from intimate moments. You’ll consider pop culture and family traditions, formal and informal economies, and the unifying quest for the American Dream. Additionally, a four-minute animated open (in English/Spanish/and the indigenous Náhuatl language), scored with native sounds from handmade instruments, traces street food from South L.A. back to Ancient Mexico and reveals many Náhuatl names still used for food to this very day.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
2022 | Documentary | Spanish with English Subtitles | 71 minutes | not rated

Feature Film: What We Leave Behind
2023-04-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories
Feature: What We Leave Behind (2022) directed by Iliana Sosa
6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar
7:00 pm: Film Screening followed by Director’s Q&A
What We Leave Behind is a 2022 documentary film. It’s a portrait of director Iliana Sosa’s grandfather, Julián Moreno, as he starts building a house in the Mexican state of Durango. As a younger man, Julián had spent decades living between the United States and Mexico, first working as a bracero and later traveling by bus to visit his children and grandchildren in the Southwestern United States. In the film, Julián revisits this past with his granddaughter as the two forge a tighter bond together. Voiceovers from the director punctuate the film and pair with imagery of the local landscape; the soundtrack features an a cappella song by the Cardencheros de Sapioriz, who are also from Durango.
The film received development, production, and post-production support from several institutions, including the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, the Sundance Institute, the IDA, the Austin Film Society, the True/False & Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, the Jacob Burns Film Center, the Gotham Documentary Lab, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
2022 | Documentary | Spanish with English Subtitles | 71 minutes | not rated

Directors’ Talks with Iliana Sosa, Patricia Nazario, & Aracely Chapa
2023-04-15 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
On April 15th, participate in Director’s Talks and question and answer sessions with filmmakers Patricia Nazario, Iliana Sosa, and Aracely Chapa from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in Salón Ortega. A full schedule of events is available below.
This is event is part of the 1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

1:00 pm – Iliana Sosa: Ethics and Challenges in Making a Personal Documentary. Sosa discusses the ethics and the many challenges of the 12-year journey and production with film clips, stories and images. Over these years, Sosa filmed her grandfather’s work, gently sifting through Julian’s previously unspoken memories brought up by the construction project to reveal both the daily pragmatism and poetry of life. The personal documentary unfolds as a love letter to her grandfather and an intimate and insightful exploration of her own relationship with her grandfather and his homeland.
2:00 pm – Aracely Chapa: A Behind the Scenes look at the making of the film, Acequias – The Legacy Lives On. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias is an hour-long, visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, parciantes and more. Chapa recounts an oral history of the films 5-year production with film clips and archival pictures.
3:00 pm – Patricia Nazario: How to Finish a Documentary Film on a Shoestring Budget. Learn about the experience of a non-traditional filmmaker and resources used to maximize your budget. The talk will empower anyone, regardless of their educational level, to compose a sequential film timeline. I will share concepts, shortcuts, and links that helped me get started. I went to journalism, not film school. So, my learning curve was steep! Learn some tips and tricks of how to make a documentary film without going to film school.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Afro-Indigeneity
2023-04-17 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Screening of film “Garifuna in Peril” (2012), 99 mins.
Produced and Directed by Alí Allié y Ruben Reyes
Latin America has traditionally treated Indigenous and Afro peoples as separate. Yet the fates and identities of both have been intertwined since the arrival of Africans to the Americas. The film Garifuna in Peril delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna.
Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Indigeneity Scholar Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means; and Big Queen of the New Orleans Washitau Nation, Ausettua AmorAmenkum.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Folk Medicine: Healing & Spirituality
2023-04-18 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Screening of short film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” (2022), written and directed by Cara Lawson, 15 mins.
Savannah’s moss-covered forests are alive to Bertie Bee Hooks, a gifted granddaughter of a midwife. With the wisdom of folk medicine, Bertie Bee depends on mystical connections to the spirit world as she becomes exposed to the tragedies of a wounded American past.
Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & Healer Tauz TamuPovi; Ausettua AmorAmenkum who since the 1980s has engaged incarcerated women with performance & spiritual arts.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Inclusive Narratives
2023-04-20 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Screening of short documentary film “Rising Voices” (2022), by Kwanza Gooden, 8 mins.
This short documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers.
Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group; The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Día de Familia: Tierra Hermosa
2023-04-22 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
11:00 am–3:00 pm
3:00 to 4:30 pm: Screening of Boy & The World (Brazil, 2013)
Celebrate Earth Day at the NHCC with art activities, music, film, and poetry for all! Take a stroll along the Bosque and honor our beautiful earth through the arts. Guests will explore bats with RD Wildlife and native seeds with the U.S. Forest Service. Everyone is encouraged to bring their bike for minor repairs! Story Riders will host a bike clinic.
Express your love of the earth through poetry and take a poetry walk with the New Mexico Poetry Society. Art activities include plein air painting on the bosque and other nature-inspired projects that connect art and science. Tierra Adentro Charter School Dance Ensemble will present a flamenco pre-film performance. Then, finish out the day with a free film screening of the award-winning Brazilian animated children’s film, Boy & The World.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Generously supported by PNM. Film screening courtesy of Bank of America.

Film Screening: Boy and the World
2023-04-22 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
3:00 pm
Brazilian artist Alê Abreu’s Academy Award-nominated masterpiece is a riotous explosion of music and color, a breathtakingly original and vibrant cinematic experience that depicts the wonders and struggles of the modern world as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering civilization, industrial landscapes are inhabited by animal-machines, with barrios of decoupage streets and shop windows and flashing neon advertisements that illuminate the night. The story depicts a clash between village and city, hand crafted and mechanized, rich and poor – and throughout the tumult, the heart and soul of the people beats on as a song.
Arrive early to attend Día de Familia: Tierra Hermosa
2013 | Animated Feature | Portuguese (spoken backwards) | 80 minutes | not rated | Alê Abreu Director
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Cervantes Film Series: Soñando un lugar
2023-05-05
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
Alfonso Kint and Lucía Camón are two artists who embarked on the adventure of moving to a village in the province of Zaragoza to try a different life. Their project Pueblos en Arte was born from this bet, which managed to attract other people with a similar vital profile in an attempt to achieve a better way of life and to generate other creative synergies in a rural environment.
In this documentary film, the director tells us how he decides to leave, together with his wife and his newborn daughter, the busy life of the capital to start from scratch in a village in an empty Spain. With his work, he shows us the infinite possibilities offered by the rural world, despite the critical situation of the village to which he migrates, and proposes a new way of life for future generations.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: Os fillos da vide
2023-05-12
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
Wine culture has an atavistic tradition in Mediterranean culture. The economy derived from it comes along with rites that allude to the importance of the community in its communication with nature and in the celebration of life. The formal bet of the director Ana Domínguez highlights all the visual elements that compose an imaginary that flees from the rational to evoke another type of knowledge: the one offered by nature.
Synopsis: The director Ana Domínguez brings us closer to her origins through this film in which she shows the grape harvest process in a small Galician village. The wine culture becomes an ancestral journey that moves between the autobiographical and the mythical, from the natural cycles to the most visceral traditions, the village festivals, which, as a reflection of the ancient bacchanals, become an explosion of life.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Film Screening: Bound by Honor
2023-05-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm: Reception & Book Signing
6:00 pm: Pre-Film Talk with Jimmy Santiago Baca
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Our Summer Film Series kicks off with a 30th anniversary screening of Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out) and special guest Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Bound by Honor, an American epic crime drama, directed by Taylor Hackford, has become a cult-classic film within the Mexican-American community. Based on the true-life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on Chicano step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their biracial cousin Miklo. Bound by Honor follows their intertwining lives from 1972 to 1984, when they start out as members of a street gang in East Los Angeles. As dramatic incidents occur, their lives and friendships are forever changed. Bound by Honor was filmed in 1991 throughout the Spanish-speaking areas of Los Angeles and inside California’s San Quentin State Prison.
Directed by Taylor Hackford | 1993 | 180 minutes | English | Rated R (strong violence, language, sex and drug content.)
Free Community Event, generously supported by Bank of America.

Cervantes Film Series: 150 i una grossa
2023-05-19
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The description of community life is not always easy for cinema, which tends to focus on characters. However, this film bets on making a collective story where the inhabitants of a village will have to make decisions that will radically change their lives. The choral portrait offered by this documentary is testimony to a common thread based on the commitment of a group of people from all generations to keep alive their population and their traditions.
Synopsis: Ametlla de Merola is one of the smallest towns in Catalonia, with just over 150 inhabitants. The theater is the central nucleus of the town, but they will have to close it due to lack of resources: it doesn’t even have seats. Everything changes when this textile colony wins the Christmas jackpot and its inhabitants decide to invest the money in renovating the theater and prevent it from disappearing.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: Los saldos
2023-05-19
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies transformed their habits. Migrations also broke with this logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of this ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face an evidence that work and coexistence are bringing to light: their lives are very different. The director Raúl Capdevila uses his training as a filmmaker to tell us his family story and works the magic of turning his way of life into an artistic reference that reveals how cinema allows us to observe the world with different eyes.
Synopsis: Raúl Capdevila tells us in the form of a western his return home, to a village in Huesca. His father, José Ramón, is the last of three generations of farmers and ranchers. The film director and his father will have to get along working together on the farm, but, in addition to their differences, they will have to face the implications of the construction of a large meat processing plant by a large meat company.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Film: Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
2023-05-25 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Food Trucks, Live Music & Cash Bar
7:00 – 8:15 pm: Acequias Screening
8:15 pm: Director Q&A following film screening
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies and the NHCC present Acequias: The Legacy Lives On. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias: The Legacy Lives On is an hour-long, visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists, and members of the community. Chapa produces and directs an emotional and reverential tribute to acequias’ past, present, and future.
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

With funding from UNM’s Center for Regional Studies, the film unfolds through a series of storylines including the acequias’ current challenges, such as climate change and water rights transfers, their important role in the development of local food sheds, and the economic opportunity they provide for members of rural communities. Further, in an arid state where every drop of water is studied and tracked, it has been shown that acequias provide recharge to our groundwater systems as water seeps into the earth beneath the flow. For over 400 years, Acequias have been in continuous use and remain important to an understanding of New Mexico’s acequia heritage and the continuing relevance of these water democracies.
The trailer for the movie is available here.
Run time: 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Film Screening: Boy and the World
2023-05-27 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
3:00 pm
Brazilian artist Alê Abreu’s Academy Award-nominated masterpiece is a riotous explosion of music and color, a breathtakingly original and vibrant cinematic experience that depicts the wonders and struggles of the modern world as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering civilization, industrial landscapes are inhabited by animal-machines, with barrios of decoupage streets and shop windows and flashing neon advertisements that illuminate the night. The story depicts a clash between village and city, hand crafted and mechanized, rich and poor – and throughout the tumult, the heart and soul of the people beats on as a song.
2013 | Animated Feature | Portuguese (spoken backwards) | 80 minutes | not rated | Directed by Alê Abreu
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Film Screening: El Cantante
2023-06-02 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Food Truck (T’s Tynie Kitchen)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live DJ Pancho Quinones & Pedro Turon | Salsa Dancing with Jessica Montoya
7:00 pm: Film Screening
Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe (Marc Anthony) emigrates to the United States and becomes a pioneer of salsa music. In New York, he meets Puchi (Jennifer Lopez), who becomes Héctor’s loving but fiery wife. Signing with Jerry Masucci’s Fania record label, Lavoe teams up with trumpeter Willie Colón (John Ortiz) to perfect the new musical style. The duo rise to fame, but Lavoe’s struggle with drug addiction threatens his life as well as career.
Director Leon Ichaso | 2007 | 106 minutes | English | Rated R (profanity, drug use and some violent and sexual situations)
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Animal Humane New Mexico: Feline Film Festival 2023
2023-06-23 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Pet Adoptions
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm VIP Reception
6:15 pm to 7:45 pm Film Screening
7:45 pm to 8:00 pm Film Awards/Winner Celebration
Your mission if you choose to accept it… Join us for the epic return of Animal Humane’s Feline Film Festival! Hosted by the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and sponsored by Garcia Subaru, this cat-tastic event will feature an incredible collection of cat-inspired cinema from around the world, food trucks, pet adoptions & MORE. Only the film screening & VIP event are ticketed, meeting adoptable pets from around the state is priceless!
$30 w/ discounts for seniors, members, and students. VIP Ticketing includes access to the VIP Reception from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

4:00pm-6:30pm: Local animal welfare organizations will be hosting information tables & cat adoptions. Participating Organizations: Animal Humane New Mexico, Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department, Bernalillo County Animal Care and Resource Center, Española Humane and June’s Senior Cat Rescue. Two food trucks on site: Mi Taco Su Taco and Pop Pop’s Italian Ice.
5:00pm-6:00pm: VIP Reception Presented by Hill’s Pet Nutrition. Tickets are $75.00 and will include appetizers, an array of beverages and a commemorative wine glass along with entrance to the screening.
6:15pm-7:45pm: Film screening consisting of 32 cat-centric films from all over the world. The theme of this year’s film is MISSION IMPAWSSIBLE!
7:45pm-8:00pm: Winners announced, and awards given out. Categories include: Top 3 Films, Fan Favorite and Best in Theme.

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 Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
2023-06-30 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Food Trucks | Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Motorcycle Show (ends 6:00 pm)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live Capoeira Performance
6:30 pm: Pre-Film Talk
7:00 pm: The Motorcycle Diaries Screening
On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation of labor by wealthy industrialists. When they reach a leper colony in Peru, Ernesto’s values have changed so much that he sides with the sufferers, forgetting his own comfort.
Director Walter Salles | 2004 | 126 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles | Rated R (social drinking, strong language, and discussions of a sexual nature)
Generously supported by Bank of America.

Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
2023-07-04
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly representable in live-action cinema.
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 varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez y 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

Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
2023-07-07
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940’s and 50’s. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film’s sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue in his subsequent work, using a much more complex visual composition.
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), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
2023-07-11
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
The animators included in Ageda Kopla Taldea – a group of twenty artists coordinated by Bego Vicarioapproach– weave a fascinating story that starts from the tradition of the bertsolaris, the Basque poets who recite their improvised verses, to bring us closer to the history of cultural and popular traditions at a time when their meanings and contents are being redefined.
This work is part of the stream of collective animation works that have been performed in recent years in the field of Fine Arts in the Basque Country, such as Areka (2016) or Miraila (2017).
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 accompanying the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates with us its twenty years of existence with the presentation on our Vimeo channel of an animated film series whose films address this theme. Throughout four weeks, we will be able to see short films that show us stories of all kinds 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 made in Basque.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí
