Free Summer Series Film Screening: The First Rainbow Coalition (2019)
2024-06-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Food Trucks & Cash Bar
7:00 pm: Screening
8:00 pm: Director’s Talk & Q&A to immediately following screening.
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium

Join us for a panel discussion with Filmmaker Ray Santisteban and Black Panther activist Aaron Dixon.
The First Rainbow Coalition, Directed & Produced by Ray Santisteban, charts the history and legacy of a groundbreaking multi-ethnic coalition that rocked Chicago in the 1960s. Comprised of activists from the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots (southern whites), and the Young Lords (a former Puerto Rican street gang), Chicago’s Rainbow Coalition (1969-1971) united poor Blacks, Whites, and Latinos to openly challenge police brutality and substandard housing in one of the most segregated cities in America.
Bridging past and present, The First Rainbow Coalition examines the legacy of the Rainbow Coalition, exploring how contemporary problems that displace the poor in urban areas, such as gentrification and the relationship between the police and poor and minority communities, are fundamentally linked to the defining issues around which the Rainbow Coalition was organized. A thought-provoking film that sparks new dialogue about the 1960s, The First Rainbow Coalition provides an unparalleled platform for contemporary discussions on race and class in an increasingly divided United States.
Free community event, please let us know who will be attending below.

Free Summer Series Film Screening: Utama (2022)
2024-08-02 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm: Food Truck & Cash Bar
5:30 pm -6:30 pm: Lindy Vision Live Performance
7:00 pm: Screening
Q&A immediately following
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre

In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything, they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself.
This visually jaw-dropping debut feature by photographer-turned-filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi is lensed by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Alvarez (Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman) and won the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival.
Release Year: 2022 | Running time: 87 minutes | Country: Bolivia, Uruguay, France | Language: Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles.
Free Community Event

Free Summer Series Film Screening: Stand and Deliver (1998) with Special Guests Lone Piñon
2024-08-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 pm: Food Truck & Cash Bar
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Lone Piñon Live Performance
7:00 pm: Screening
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre

Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this inspirational true story about a teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences–calculus. But the accomplishment is so utterly fantastic that the students are accused of cheating. Given a choice to accept the allegation or retake an extremely demanding examination to prove themselves, the students decide to Stand and Deliver
Director: Ramon Menendez | 1998 | Rating: PG | Studio: Warner Bros. | Runtime: 105 min | Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Vanessa Marquez, Andy Garcia, Virginia Paris.
Free community event, please let us know who will be attending below.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Live Visual Music
2024-09-05 | Virtual
2:00 am (MST)
In this online film series, which plays throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 5. Cervantes Vimeo Link Here
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the emergence of abstract animation through what was known as “Absolute Cinema“, in which European avant-garde visual artists such as Hans Richter, “Viking” Eggeling or Walter Ruttmann sought to expand their pictorial practices using the incipient language of the cinematograph, the first Punto y Raya workshop was held in June 2021.
Organized by the Cervantes Institute at its headquarters in Warsaw in collaboration with the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Techniques, the Catalan animator and visual artist Aurora Gasull Altisent proposed to re-signify this beautiful practice through the eyes and hearts of hearing impaired children from the Głuchoniemych Institute in Warsaw. The participants, aged 12 to 13, created and performed multiple live silent pieces using a visual instrument built by Gasull and programmed in TouchDesigner: an instrument that allows the real-time generation of simple geometric shapes (triangle, circle, rectangle) that change color, size, rotation, line thickness, opacity and persistence through MiDi Korg NanoKontrol2 controllers.

Live Visual Music is the compilation of the works resulting from this workshop, which aimed to provide useful tools to this group, and thus develop a potential professional career in the field of the art of painting music (VJing) and the visualization of music and its vibration.
In short, with the aim of generating visual scores in the minds of the spectators, a group of 12 and 13-year-old hearing-impaired schoolchildren from Warsaw let themselves be guided by the Catalan animator and visual artist Aurora Gasull to animate formal and rhythmic compositions of abstract forms that move and evolve in time: silent works in which the language of cinema, light in movement, stands out.
Screening: Live Visual Music; Director: Aurora Gasull; Year: 2021; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 20 min; Genre: Animation/Animación; Country: Polonia; Rated/Calificacion: SC
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos – directors of the Punto y Raya Festival – offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Con ton y son
2024-09-12 | Virtual
2:00 am (MST)
In this online film series, which will play throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 12. Cervantes Vimeo Link Here.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
In October 2022, the Cervantes Institute in Prague hosted the abstract animation workshop «Muchos metros de película» (Many meters of film), in which a group of schoolchildren, led by artists Laura Ginès and Pepon Meneses, made a collective film emulating the camera-less animation technique popularized in the mid-1950s by artists such as Norman Mclaren, Len Lye, and Stan Brakhage.
This technique would have required 35 mm celluloid strips, which – once manipulated – would have had to be mounted and projected in situ. Due to the cost of celluloid and the technical complexity of its projection, the artists opted to simulate the procedure using paper strips, to give priority to the longitudinal treatment of the drawing with respect to the strip rather than to the frame-by-frame treatment. Thus, using cash register paper rolls as 35 mm celluloid, they worked on paper strips with markers, rollers and pads as photograms, and then photographed the pictures, edited and projected, to create an abstract and gestural collective film in which they play with the concept of dots and stripes in movement: expansion and transformation.

Screening: Con ton y son; Director/s: Pepon Meneses y Laura Ginès; Year: 2022; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 1 min; Genre: Anamation/Animación; Country: República Checa; Rating/Calificacion: SC
In this online film series, which will play throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos -directors of the Punto y Raya Festival- offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Generaciones and El país del futuro
2024-09-19 | Virtual
2:00 am (MST)
In this online film series, which plays throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 19.
Link Generaciones: https://vimeo.com/video/963031836
Link El País del futuro: https://vimeo.com/video/963034780
The Tunisian cities of Tunis and Sousse were the setting for two workshops coordinated by the Instituto Cervantes of Tunis under the title “Counterline and Counterpoint” held in November 2023.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
Students from the Lycée Pierre Mendès France in Tunis and the Mhamed Driss Lycée Français International in Sousse were guided by the founders of the international platform Punto y Raya, dedicated to the production, promotion and education of audiovisual arts in its purest form, Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo, to create two abstract audiovisual works inspired by the classical mosaics housed in some museums in Tunisia. The final work is a similar dialogue between organic and geometric forms, creating its own moving designs and fluctuating freely between one style and another to tell a story of harmony and counterpoint.

Inspired by the ancient mosaics that can be found in the Bardo National Museum or the Archaeological Museum of El Djem in Tunis; mixing themes of Greek mythology, country scenes, hunting or landscapes, from the third century BC to the fifth century AD, with games of shapes, rhythms and compositions more geometric and closer to the Islamic tradition, Generaciones and El país del futuro propose precious narratives where nature is always present despite the high degree of abstraction in the image.
Screening: Generaciones y El país del futuro; Director/s: Punto y Raya (Nöel Palazzo y Ana Santos); Year: 2023; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 1 min; Genre: Anamation/Animación; Country: Túnez; Rating/Calificacion: SC
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos – directors of the Punto y Raya Festival – offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Fantasmagorías abstractas
2024-09-26 | Virtual
2:00 am (MST)
In this online film series, which will play throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 12. Cervantes Vimo Link Here.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
Separated by more than four centuries, the two diverse technologies of theatrical illusionism and computer science meet in an audio-visual dialogue created by high school students from the Visser’t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden (The Netherlands) under the direction of Punto y Raya founders Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo, dedicated to the production, promotion and education of audio-visual arts in their purest state.

This powerful abstract film – born from a workshop held in December 2023 at the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht – was created frame by frame by drawing directly on the tablet with the free FlipaClip application and using the reflections produced by a four-sided cone with an angulation of 45º with respect to the surface of the screen.
The ghostly effect known as Pepper’s ghost, which consists of seeing the reflection of the real image through the angulation of acetate sheets and glass panels, merges with 21st-century computer technology to create Fantasmagorías abstractas, an evocative and emotive film, in which abstraction becomes a universal language (form, color, movement and sound) accessible to all.
Screening: Fantasmagorías abstractas ; Director/s: Punto y Raya (Nöel Palazzo y Ana Santos); Year: 2023; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 2 min; Genre: Animation/Animación; Country: Países Bajos; Rating/Calificacion: SC
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos – directors of the Punto y Raya Festival – offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.

Noche de Familia: Bless Me, Ultima
2024-09-27 | Cayetana Romero Lobby
5:00 – 7:00 pm (Film screening held immediately following)
Join us for a Noche de Familia inspired by Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved novel Bless Me, Ultima! Craft a flapping owl hand puppet, design a drawing inspired by the novel, and use herbs or leaves to emboss clay creations. Free books and coloring books will be available. All ages and individuals will be welcome.
After this event, stick around and settle in for a free screening of the movie in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre! Please register separately for the screening. This event is part of the Center’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.
Free Community Event, generously supported by New Mexico Gas Company.

Film Screening: Bless Me Ultima
2024-09-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Noche de Familia (art activities inspired by Bless Me, Ultima for attending families and intergenerational visitors)
6:30 to 7:00 pm: Reception
7:00 – 7:30 pm: Introduction and Pre-film talk by Ricardo Lopez
7:30 pm: Film screening begins
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.
Free Community Event, generously supported by Las Pistoleras Instituto Cultural de Arte and the UNM Department of English and Literature.

Instituto Cervantes: ¡Cine Magnífico! Latino Film Festival
2024-09-27 - 2024-09-28 | NM
3:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday
11:00 am to 8:00 pm Saturday
South Broadway Cultural Center (1025 Broadway Blvd SE)
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque is launching the twelfth edition of Cine Magnífico, Latino Film Festival of Albuquerque. This event has focused on the dissemination of culture and audio-visual creation in Spanish in its 11 previous editions, and has given visibility during these years in New Mexico to numerous films and short films made in Spain and various Spanish-speaking countries.
The 2024 edition of the festival will have as its main venue the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque and will be complemented by screenings in Santa Fe (NM) and El Paso (Texas). It will include a program of six feature films from countries such as Spain, Chile, Costa Rica and the United States. Cine Magnifico will also feature talks, meetings with filmmakers and will also focus on young filmmakers from New Mexico.
Tickets are free. Reservations are required.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Día del Cine Español: 7 mesas (de billar francés)
2024-10-06 | Virtual
The film will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12:00 pm (MTS) on October 5. Instituto Cervantes. Canal Vimeo HERE.
The fourth edition of Spanish Film Day, to be held on October 6, is presented as the consolidation of an event that aims to raise awareness of the importance of Spanish film heritage as an essential part of contemporary culture.
For the first time, the film selected to commemorate this day is directed by a woman. It is 7 mesas (de billar francés), the fifth feature film by Gracia Querejeta, a filmmaker who belongs to a family that is an essential reference in Spanish cinema.

This family melodrama showcases all the ingredients of the concern for human relationships that Spanish cinema has maintained throughout its history. With a great cast headed by actresses Maribel Verdú and Blanca Portillo, the film’s story of solidarity and self-improvement shows a way of life that underlines women’s ability to reinvent themselves in times of crisis.
The neighborhood setting makes the billiard tables that title this cinematographic work become an image that symbolizes a world resistant to the onslaught of the fluid life we seem to live today. The struggle to rescue and revive these spaces of coexistence results in a wonderful hymn to the preponderance of public space and its inestimable value for citizenship.
The film had a remarkable national and international tour: in addition to its presence in various festivals, the actresses Maribel Verdú and Amparo Baró were awarded the goya awards for best female main cast performance, respectively. 7 mesas (de billar francés), produced and premiered in the 21st century, forces us to think that heritage continues to be created at all times in the cinematographic sphere, where production continues to be a significant reference in the lives of spectators.
Director/s: Gracia Querejeta | Year: 2007 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 112 min | Genre: Ficción/Fiction | Country: España/Spain | Original version: español/Spanish | Subtitles: inglés/English | Rated/Calificacion: TP/All audiences

NHCC’s 2nd Annual Espooky Mercado
2024-10-25 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
4:00 – 8:00 pm
NHCC’s 2nd Annual Espooky Mercado featuring unique and frightful offerings from local vendors. This pop-up gives visitors the chance to indulge their macabre side with supernatural goods of all varieties.
In collaboration with Dark Red Productions. The NHCC will host the 2024 Dark Red Film Festival, New Mexico’s premier international horror film festival on October 25th and October 26th.
We are looking for vendors who can sell Halloween specific merchandise! We are looking for vendors whose items or artworks align with the spookiness of the season. If your work could be considered spooky, uncanny, macabre, a little dark, supernatural, harvest, fall or Halloween-inspired, this mercado is for you. For more information about registering to become a vendor please click HERE.
The NHCC’s 2nd Annual Espooky Mercado is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending below.
*Tickets to the Dark Red Film Festival sold separately.

Dark Red Film Festival
2024-10-25 - 2024-10-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
October 25-26 at the NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
October 27 at The Guild Cinema
6:30 pm & 8:45 pm Friday
3:00 pm, 5:15 pm & 8:30 pm Saturday
3:00, 5:15 pm 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm Sunday
1:00 pm Saturday: Workshop & Panel
Tickets are no longer available online. There are tickets available for all screenings at the door. Please check in to the venue to get your tickets in-person one hour prior to each showing.
For more information about the festival schedule, please visit www.darkredhorror.com/film-fest.

Dark Red Film Festival, New Mexico’s premier international horror film festival takes place in Albuquerque, one of Movie Maker Magazine’s top 5 ranked “Best Places to Live and Work as a MovieMaker” for 6 consecutive years.
Recommended by New York Film Academy as one of the “Top Film Festivals to Submit To,” the Dark Red Film Festival is a vibrant celebration of indie horror crafted by filmmakers with a passion for elevating the horror genre. Spanning three days, this festival will bring together a community of filmmakers and horror enthusiasts at two iconic Albuquerque venues.
Kicking off at The National Hispanic Cultural Center on October 25-26, and closing out the final day at The Guild on October 27, attendees can look forward to a curated selection 70+ of eerie, bizarre, and spine-chilling films that embody the essence of indie horror and showcase the dynamic landscape of the genre.
For details regarding film submissions, tickets, and the festival schedule, please visit www.darkredhorror.com/film-fest.
$15 Block Screenings, $35 Day Passes, $75 Early Bird VIP Festival Passes ($100 VIP Festival passes after 10/18/2024). Free tickets for students with a valid Id.
*All Access VIP passes give you access to all film screenings and events; including our filmmaker panel, Zendo Meet-Up and After Party.
*All Access VIP Passes also get you $1 off beers at Tractor Brewing Nob Hill for the entire festival weekend, as well as 10% off at Phat Stax Burgers on 10/27!
*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.
*In accordance with the ticketing policies of the event promoter, tickets for this event are not permitted to be advertised or re-sold for more than face value. All ticket sales must be purchased through National Hispanic Cultural Center or accompanying host partner.

Film: Disney Pixar’s Coco
2024-11-02 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am
Head to the NHCC as we present Disney Pixar’s Coco to kick off 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.

Voces de Latinidad: An Original Documentary Film
2024-11-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm: Refreshments and Music
6:30 pm: Film Screening
7:00 pm: Panel Discussion
NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Voces de Latinidad: An Original Documentary Film. Celebrating the Richness of Hispanic Identity.
Voces de Latinidad, has united members of our community and explored the diversity and complexity of the many cultural aspects that shape Hispanic, Mestizo, Latino/a/e, Chicano/a, Indígena/o identity and lived experiences in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area. This is the documentary film that shows a community in the process of engaging with identity and history in a thoughtful and inclusive manner.
Free Community Event. Please let us know you will be attending by making a reservation below.
Please check out our trailer HERE.
This film made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support provided by the DEI United Fund of North Central New Mexico United Way and the Albuquerque Community Foundation.

Cervantes Film Series: Volavérunt
2025-02-06 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
This blockbuster, Volavérunt, directed by Bigas Luna with an international cast and crew, stars Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who plays the Duchess of Alba. Doña Cayetana was a key woman in the court of King Carlos IV with a personality based on intrigue, passion, and desire.
The film’s title evokes an ambiguity that can be traced back to Goya’s Caprichos engraving no. 61, which shares the title of this film. The film’s grandious photography and costumes bring the lavish world of the late 18th century to life.
Synopsis: One morning in the summer of 1802, Cayetana, the Duchess of Alba, is found dead. A few hours before, at the inauguration party at her palace, many of her admirers and detractors were present: Goya, Godoy, Prince Ferdinand, Pepita Tudó and Pignatelli, among them. Although it is admitted as official version that the beautiful duchess died of natural causes, later confessions and revealed secrets invite to think that Cayetana could have been poisoned. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Volavérunt | Director: Bigas Luna | Year: 1999 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 118 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: France and Spain | Original version: Spahish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated PG13/Calificacion: 13+

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: Celos
2025-02-13 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
After many years of trying to make the film Celos, the great Spanish filmmaker Vicente Aranda delves into the complicated territory of jealousy to narrate an agonizing and fatal story. This production incorporates the director’s obsessions with the limits of love and sexual desire, between which there is always violence.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón’s interpretation of the main character displays a range of sophisticated nuances that contribute to the development of a narrative arc full of surprises.
Synopsis: Antonio and Carmen are happy and about to get married. On the eve of the wedding, Antonio finds an old photograph of his future wife with another man. From that moment on, jealousy assaults Antonio and begins to transform his character and behavior. To save their relationship, Carmen must confront her murky past.
Screening: Celos | Director: Vicente Aranda | Year: 1999 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 110 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated R/Calificacion: 18+

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a series dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando
2025-02-20 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
With the soul of a late-night tango in this film, Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando, the songs and the emotion of the world revolve around the music that dominated leisure in the early 20th century: tango. The film is in conversation with another classic from director Jaime Chávarri, best known for his series Las cosas del querer.
Synopsis: In 1930s Buenos Aires, a Spanish immigrant meets a tango singer, considered the best Gardel imitator. Juanita tries to make Renzo look more and more like her idol, until one day the tango singer is given a delicate mission: to imitate the real Gardel. [Source: Flixolé].
Screening: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando | Director: Jaime Chávarri | Year: 1998 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 93 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/Argentina/España y Argentina | Original version: Spain/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated PG/Calificacion: +7

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: Bajarse al moro
2025-02-27 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Honorary Goya
When Fernando Colomo undertook this adaptation of a play by the same name, Bajarse al moro, he was already a key director of the cinematic milestone that was called “la comedia madrileña” (The Madrid Comedy) and that featured the auteur cinema of the eighties.
This film departs from the festive tone that guided his previous titles to get much closer to his characters and present a world where other variables such as class or the future reveal a less playful environment. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón’s character makes a place for herself among her three co-stars who are already part of the canon of our best performers.
Synopsis: Chusa shares an apartment with her cousin, a drug dealer, and her boyfriend, a policeman. To help her cousin, Chusa sometimes smuggles weed from Morocco. Since everyone smokes a little, there is always a need for more. Chusa then decides to go to Morocco with a friend, but this time things don’t go as she thought. [Source: Lola Films]
Screening: Bajarse al moro | Director/s: Fernando Colomo | Year: 1988 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 90 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Not Rated/Calificacion: TP

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Reflexiones y Realidades: Artist Reflections & Dialogue on the Border
2025-02-28 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 – 8:30 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Join us for the Albuquerque premiere of Savior, a short film directed, edited, and filmed in Albuquerque by filmmaker Ray Santisteban. The film features Albuquerque poet Marcial Delgado, who has been invited to create a dialogue between the community of poets in Albuquerque writing on immigration and Dr. Laura Belmonte, an Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UNM and author of the book Borderland Brutalities: Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Culture, and Art.
Film Screening, Poetry, and Conversations featuring Ray Santisteban, Marcial Delgado, Laura E. Belmonte, Levi Romero, Demetria Martinez, Kristin Patton, Savannah Rodriguez, Scarlett Cortez, Zahra Marwan, Maragret Randall, & Michelle Otero.
Free community event.

This event will create a space for poets and filmmakers to discuss their artistic practices, exploring how these mediums can raise awareness about social issues affecting our Hispanic community in Albuquerque and what this means for a sanctuary city. Given the current political climate and the looming presidential policies for the next four years, there are significant concerns regarding immigration policy and reform, which must take priority as the future of undocumented individuals in our communities hangs in the balance. By facilitating these discussions and embracing freedom of expression, we aim to cultivate an environment where people can confront the realities of undocumented individuals and their humanity as they face threats.
Screening: Savior | Director: Ray Santisteban | Writer: Marciel Delgado | Producer: Ray Santisteban | Talent: Marciel Delgado | Year Released: 2024 | Country: USA | Length: 1:23

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Places
2025-04-03 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
2018 was a landmark year for women directors and screenwriters working in the film industry. An example of this is this magnificent debut by Claudia Barral: a search in experimental format of human memory in the inhabited and loved spaces and the imprint we leave on them. Sensations and memories that we rarely name out loud.
Synopsis: Places explores the limits of time and its passage. The short film captures the journey to different instants, always from the same place, expanding the possibilities of ellipsis and giving rise to an artistic universe that will always use the same coordinates. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Places | Director/s: Claudia Barral | Year: 2020 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 4 min | Genre: Ficción/Fiction | Country: España/Spain | Original version: EnglishInglés | Subtitles: English/Inglés, French/Francés, Portugues/Portugués de Brasil, Italian/italiano Spanish/Español | Rated/Calificacion: TP

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Cuentas divinas
2025-04-07 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
Eulalia Ramón, a renowned Spanish actress, presents her first work as a director, produced by her daughter Anna Saura. This is a very black comedy that places a serial killer at the center of a narrative with social undertones that breaks the fourth wall and invites us to ask ourselves about our own taboos.
Synopsis: Monica is a normal woman with a normal life in a normal place in any of these modern times. However, one day, because of an unimportant detail that could have been solved as any other previous disagreement, she kills her husband. Thus she discovers crime as a substitute for anxiolytics, the liberation from all moralism. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Cuentas divinas | Director/s: Eulalia Ramón | Year: 2022 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 14 min | Genre: Ficción Animación/Fisction Animation | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: English/Inglés, French/Francés, Portugies/Portugués de Brasil, Italian /italiano y español | Rated/Calificacion: +16

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Pequeño
2025-04-10 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
Álvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera humorously present us with a moral dilemma in which parents confront their love for their daughter and the novel options of bioethics. It is one of the most transgressive works that have come to the festival La Mirada Tabú, not only because of its subject matter, but also because it gives voice to thoughts that many parents have had at some point and would never confess.
Synopsis: When they are born they are beautiful, almost perfect. But they grow up so fast… I wish there was a way to enjoy that unrepeatable age forever. Petit Toujour combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormone blockade to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby. [Source: Line up].
Screening: Pequeño | Director/s: Meka Ribera y Álvaro G. Company |Year: 2023 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 12 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: English/Inglés, French/Francés, Portugies/Portugués de Brasil | Rated/Calificacion: +12

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion: We Will Not Perish
2025-04-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
3:00 pm
NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium
Screening of documentary Ayiti Pap Peri: Ayiti Will Not Perish. A spotlight on Haitian expatriates returning to work on behalf of their country. Panelists include the documentary’s director and journalist Cassandre Thrasybule, Haitian American author Patrick Sylvain, Afro Cuban artist and actress Lili Bernard, and documentarist Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy. Followed by a Q&A.
Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.

About the Festival:

From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, literature, oral histories, theater, film, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions, and more.
Mark your calendars and join us for this bilingual, weeklong, arts & humanities series that explores the shared traditions, histories, struggles, activism and aspirations of Black and Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.
All the programs featured in the 2025 AfroMundo Festival supports NHCC’s mission to preserve, promote and advance Hispanic culture, arts and humanities by broadening understandings of Latinidad, and by introducing intersectional narratives of regions with shared histories, cultures, traditions and plights so as to promote a greater understanding of our shared humanity. AfroMundo is a grassroots, cultural ecosystem where the individual and collective narratives, traditions, and lived experiences of Afro diasporas are expressed through multiple mediums and from local, national, and international perspectives to allow for an exchange of knowledge, and for interrogation as well as critical thinking. AfroMundo further extends the conversation by ensuring that audiences can engage presenters in dialogue.
Ticket reservations are REQUIRED.

AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: Together We Stand
2025-04-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Screening of documentary Standing Above the Clouds. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, the film explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural sites. Panelists include Hawaiian tradition bearer Pua Case; Alaskan playwright Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle; Grand Canyon Havasupai Carletta Tilousi. Moderated by filmmaker Amber Espinosa. Followed by a Q&A.
Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.

About the Festival:

From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, literature, oral histories, theater, film, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions, and more.
Mark your calendars and join us for this bilingual, weeklong, arts & humanities series that explores the shared traditions, histories, struggles, activism and aspirations of Black and Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.
All the programs featured in the 2025 AfroMundo Festival supports NHCC’s mission to preserve, promote and advance Hispanic culture, arts and humanities by broadening understandings of Latinidad, and by introducing intersectional narratives of regions with shared histories, cultures, traditions and plights so as to promote a greater understanding of our shared humanity. AfroMundo is a grassroots, cultural ecosystem where the individual and collective narratives, traditions, and lived experiences of Afro diasporas are expressed through multiple mediums and from local, national, and international perspectives to allow for an exchange of knowledge, and for interrogation as well as critical thinking. AfroMundo further extends the conversation by ensuring that audiences can engage presenters in dialogue.
Ticket reservations are REQUIRED.

AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: No Other Land
2025-04-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Screening of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land,” made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. Over the course of five years, Basel Adra films his Palestinian community of Massager Yatta being destroyed and its populace incarcerated, all as he builds an alliance with an Israeli journalist. Panelists include Palestinian Muslim-American grassroots feminist and organizer Samia Assed, Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy awarded Journalist. Moderated by Doaa Omran. Followed by a Q&A.
Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal.

About the Festival:

From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, literature, oral histories, theater, film, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions, and more.
Mark your calendars and join us for this bilingual, weeklong, arts & humanities series that explores the shared traditions, histories, struggles, activism and aspirations of Black and Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.
All the programs featured in the 2025 AfroMundo Festival supports NHCC’s mission to preserve, promote and advance Hispanic culture, arts and humanities by broadening understandings of Latinidad, and by introducing intersectional narratives of regions with shared histories, cultures, traditions and plights so as to promote a greater understanding of our shared humanity. AfroMundo is a grassroots, cultural ecosystem where the individual and collective narratives, traditions, and lived experiences of Afro diasporas are expressed through multiple mediums and from local, national, and international perspectives to allow for an exchange of knowledge, and for interrogation as well as critical thinking. AfroMundo further extends the conversation by ensuring that audiences can engage presenters in dialogue.
Ticket reservations are REQUIRED.

*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.

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: La hija indigna
2025-04-17 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
This heartbreaking documentary, created by the young Argentine filmmaker Abril Dores based on real events, explores the relationship between a genocidal father and his daughter. It is an inquiry into family ties and the deep emotions that bind us to people we do not always consider worthy of our love. It is a brilliant cinematographic work that confronts us with our inner demons and taboos.
Synopsis: Analía Kalinec wakes up every day knowing that her father is responsible for the death and disappearance of thousands of people. This is the story of a father-daughter relationship destroyed by the cruelest acts that human beings can perform.
Screening: La hija indigna | Director/s: Abril Victoria Dores | Year: 2018 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 14 min | Genre: Documental | Country: Argentina | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués de Brasi, italiano y español | Rated/Calificacion: SC

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

PAPA’s Senior Showcase 2025
2025-04-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
The Senior Class of 2025 at Public Academy for Performing Arts showcases what they do best in music, dance, theatre, and visual art. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these rising stars as this event is one night only!
Approximate length of event: 2 hours
$10, $20, & $30. No other discounts.

*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.

NHCC Summer Film Series: Problemista
2025-06-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
6:00 pm cash bar with Pop Fizz
NHCC | Bank of America Theatre
Join us for a film screening by a Hispanic/Chicane/Latine filmmaker. We will be presenting films that preserve, promote and/or advance the vast cultural identity and experience of Hispanic/Chicane/Latine people.
Julio Torres’ Problemista is the story of Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system.
Director: Julio Torres | Production year: 2024 | Rating: R | Studio: A24 | Runtime: 98 minutes | Cast: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Catalina Saavedra, & James Scully
Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by making a reservation below.

New Mexico Entertainment Awards
2025-07-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm VIP Meet & Greet
6:00 pm Doors Open and Red Carpet
7:00 pm Awards Ceremony
The New Mexico Entertainment Magazine Awards is an annual event that honors individuals, businesses, and organizations contributing to the state’s vibrant entertainment scene. This formal gala recognizes excellence in categories like live events, film, radio, music, comedy, arts, books, and nightlife. Our goal is to spotlight the talented people and groups who consistently deliver quality entertainment across New Mexico. This year, 55 categories will be honored, including the Icon Award presentation to radio legend Bobby Box!
Approximate run time of event: 3 and a half hours
$29 General Admission

*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.
*All NHCC performance/event ticket sales go through the National Hispanic Cultural Center Website. NHCC is a division of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. You will be redirected to our central ticketing system. DO NOT BUY FROM THIRD PARTIES. If you see a third party app or website, please report it to the Center at (505) 246-2261.
