Events

Events

Film: Ella es Ramona/She’s Ramona

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm In a comic fable that breaks down gender and body size stereotypes, renowned stand-up comedian Andrea Ortega stars as the titular protagonist, who is wrongly fired from her job at a cosmetics company for her full figure, but whose luck changes when she encounters a psychic selling wish-granting beetles. Directed by Hugo Rodríguez; presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes and Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 83 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Buitres/Vultures

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but instead is run over and dies without identification. When an assistant coroner and a photographer kidnap the body to fake his suicide, the case is assigned to an overwhelmed judicial official. Directed by Raúl González Nava; presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes and Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. 2013; Spanish with English subtitles; 86 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: El comienzo del tiempo/The Beginning of Time

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm An elderly couple are forced to steal and sell their belongings in order to survive when their pensions are suspended during a financial and social crisis. Their lives change when their son and grandson, absent for over a decade, unexpectedly reappear. Directed by Bernardo Arellano; presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes and Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. 2014; Spanish with English subtitles; 110 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Santa

NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

7 pm An innocent girl from the country becomes a sought-after but embittered Mexico City courtesan after her affair with a soldier causes her to be rejected by her family and friends and expelled from her village. Santa was the first Mexican film to feature sound. Directed by Antonio Moreno; based on the novel by Federico Gamboa. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1932; Spanish with English subtitles; 81 minutes; not rated. (more...)

Film: Doña Bárbara

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm A powerful and ruthless landowner on the Venezuelan plains, hardened by a brutal gang rape and the murder of her first love, finds herself attracted to a man whom she still seeks to ruin. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes & Miguel M. Delgado; based on the novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1943; Spanish with English subtitles; 125 minutes; (more...)

Film: La Rosa Blanca

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm In this dramatization of the struggle for control over Mexico’s oil resources in the 1920s, the lives of an Indian landowner and those around him are destroyed by the ruthless owner of a U.S. oil company.  Directed by Roberto Gavaldón; based on the novel by B. Traven. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1961; Spanish with English subtitles; 105 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before (more...)

Film: Pedro Páramo

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm This allegorical story, based on a son’s search for his father in the chaotic times of the Mexican Revolution and his travel to a literal ghost town, has been called “the biggest Mexican film ever made.” Directed by Carlos Velo; based on the novel by Juan Rulfo, similarly acclaimed by the novelist Jorge Luis Borges as “one of the greatest texts written in any language.” Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine (more...)

Bosque Chile Festival

11 am to 7 pm Join in the celebration of the chile harvest on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. This is a free event and festivities include entertainment, kids’ activities, arts and crafts vendors, food trucks, beer, wine, and chef demonstrations. Check out this Bosque Chile Festival video HERE. Entertainment schedule: 11:00 – Leah Leyva & The Band (Blues/Rock) 12:15 – The West Wind Band (Country) 1:15 -  La Chaparrita Monica Valdez 1:30 – Rebecca Arscott (Reggae/Pop) (more...)

Film: Los albañiles/The Bricklayers

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm When a watchman is found murdered on a construction side, the investigation swiftly expands to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Directed by Jorge Fons; based on the novel by Vicente Leñero. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1976; Spanish with English subtitles; 122 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Embrace of the Serpent/El abrazo de la serpiente (Spain/Colombia)

NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

7 pm ¡Globalquerque!, Avokado Artists, and the NHCC present the International Cinema Series in September; films in this series are presented in partnership with ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Twelfth Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture, returning to the NHCC on September 23 & 24. The ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the landscape in Ciro Guerra’s  Embrace of the Serpent, centering on an Amazonian shaman, the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who forge a friendship with him over 40 years. It (more...)