4th Annual Globalquerque International Cinema Series: The Way Home/Jibeuro (Korea)
2017-09-07 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Seven-year-old Sang-woo, raised in the city, is left with his grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work. Selfish and disrespectful, he quickly comes into conflict with her old-fashioned ways and his rural surroundings, but through her patience and devotion learns empathy and the importance of family. 2002; directed by Lee Jeong-hyang; Korean with English subtitles; 85 minutes; not rated.
From late August through September, the Bank of America Thursday Film Series showcases the International Cinema Series, presented in partnership with Avokado Artists and ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Thirteenth Celebration of World Music and Culture, returning to the NHCC on September 22 & 23.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

4th Annual Globalquerque International Cinema Series: Neruda (Chile)
2017-08-31 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
In post-World War II Chile, a police prefect pursues Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, now a fugitive in his own country for joining the Communist Party. In this story of a persecuted artist and his obsessive adversary, Neruda sees his chance to become a symbol for liberty as well as a literary legend. 2016; directed by Pablo Larraín; Spanish with English subtitles; 107 minutes; rated R.
From late August through September, the Bank of America Thursday Film Series showcases the International Cinema Series, presented in partnership with Avokado Artists and ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Thirteenth Celebration of World Music and Culture, returning to the NHCC on September 22 & 23.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Sin nombre
2017-08-24 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Sayra, a young Honduran girl, joins her father and uncle on a journey across the Latin American countryside to realize her dream of a new life in the United States. On the way, she crosses paths with Casper, a teenaged Mexican gang member who is trying to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2009; directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga; Spanish with English subtitles; 96 minutes; rated R.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Bosque Chile Festival
2017-08-19 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10 am to 7 pm
A celebration of food, art, and culture on the Rio Grande, presented by Bernalillo County and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Join in the celebration of the chile harvest with entertainment, kids’ activities, arts and crafts vendors, food trucks, beer and wine, a salsa competition, and chef demonstrations.
New this year—agricultural education workshops and a green chile stew competition.
Entertainment Schedule:
10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | School of Rock
11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Jagg
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Rebecca Arscott
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | On Point Dance
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. | Hartless
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. | Red Wine
For more information, call 505-468-1418 or e-mail bosquechilefestival@bernco.gov.
$5 adults; free for children age 5 and younger

Film: Sugar Kisses/Besos de azucar
2017-08-17 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Thirteen-year-old Nacho is the son of a market vendor in Mexico City’s rough commercial barrio of Tepito; Mayra is the daughter of “La Diabla,” a gang leader who controls the market stalls. Love might be their only escape from their troubled lives, but twisted circumstances threaten to dismantle their innocent dreams. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2013; directed by Carlos Cuarón; Spanish with English subtitles; 85 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Pelo malo/Bad Hair
2017-08-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Junior, a nine-year-old boy living in a housing project in Caracas with his widowed mother and baby brother, wants to have his stubbornly curly—or “bad”—hair straightened for his yearbook picture. As he grows increasingly obsessed with his hair, his mother finds him increasingly difficult to handle, and a showdown looms. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2014; directed by Mariana Rondón; Spanish with English subtitles; 93 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Valentín
2017-08-03 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Eight-year-old Valentín lives with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires. Solemn and observant, he spends a lot of time “building stuff for astronauts” and peering at the world through enormous glasses, observing the adults in his life with analytical zeal. When he feels that the adult world is handling its affairs badly, he takes matters into his own hands. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2002; directed by Alejandro Agresti; Spanish with English subtitles; 86 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Extraterrestrial
2017-07-27 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment, his pleasure at realizing that he has spent the night with the beautiful Julia is complicated by the unexpected return of Julia’s boyfriend and the interference of a prying neighbor, as well as the discovery of a giant flying saucer hovering over the deserted city of Madrid and, possibly, the end of the world. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2011; directed by Nacho Vigalondo; English; 90 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Only Human/Seres Queridos
2017-07-20 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Leni, a Jewish television personality, brings her boyfriend Rafi, a Palestinian university professor, home to meet her family in Madrid. Sharing an apartment, the extended family includes a belly-dancing sister, a brother with a wounded pet duck, and a blind grandfather with a loaded rifle. Add in a potentially lethal block of frozen soup, and the couple discovers that whatever can go wrong, will…. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2004; directed by Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegrí; Spanish with English subtitles; 85 minutes; rated R.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Princesas
2017-07-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
The “princesas” of the film’s title are two young prostitutes on the streets of Madrid: Spanish-born Caye, who is hiding her profession from her middle-class family and is disturbed by the influx of competition from other countries, and Zulema, an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic who is sending money home to her mother and son. As the two struggle to survive for different reasons under stressful circumstances, an unlikely and touching friendship develops. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2005; directed by Fernando León de Aranoa; Spanish with English subtitles; 114 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: The Sea Inside/Mar Adentro
2017-07-06 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
The Sea Inside is based on the life story of Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish ship mechanic and part-time poet who was left quadriplegic and bedridden at the age of 26 following a diving accident. Sampedro fought a 30-year campaign for the legal right to end his life with dignity; despite his wish to die, he was able to inspire those who were close to him to live life to the fullest. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2004; directed by Alejandro Amenábar; dubbed in English; 125 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2017-06-29 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Vicky and Cristina, two young Americans spending a summer in Spain, meet a charming Casanova and his beautiful but volatile ex-wife. When they all become romantically entangled, the sparks begin to fly in hilarious fashion, lighting up the stunning city of Barcelona. The sexy, romantic comedy has been described as “one of Woody Allen’s finest films.” Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series; in June, the series features films by award-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
2008; directed by Woody Allen; English; 97 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Love in the Time of Cholera
2017-06-22 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
An innocent desire blossoms into a romance for the ages in this stunning epic, based on Gabriel García Márquez’ best-selling novel. At the turn of the 20th century, youthful romantic Florentino Ariza spots the beautiful and sheltered Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. Denied by her father, he refuses to give up his dream of winning her hand, even if it means waiting decades. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series; in June, the series features films by award-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
2007; directed by Mike Newell; English; 138 minutes; rated R.
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Film: Goya’s Ghosts
2017-06-15 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
An epic drama of power, passion, and betrayal set during the Spanish Inquisition. Celebrated painter Francisco Goya is drawn into a web of deception when his muse and inspiration Inés is imprisoned for heresy against the Church, and he seeks to free her with the help of Inquisitor Brother Lorenzo. When the duplicitous monk commits the unthinkable, Goya is left to make sense of a world gone mad. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series; in June, the series features films by award-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
2006; directed by Milos Forman; English; 114 minutes; rated R.
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Film: Mondays in the Sun
2017-06-08 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) follows five unemployed shipworkers in the Spanish port city of Vigo. Down on their luck, they pass their time at La Naval, a bar that one of them opened after the shipyard closed, and face their futures in makeshift ways—encouraging each other to search for work, love, and the strength of hope for better days. Santa, the unofficial leader and troublemaker of the group, dreams of one day going to Australia. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series; in June, the series features films by award-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
2002; directed by Fernando León de Aranoa; Spanish with English subtitles; 113 minutes; rated R.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Before Night Falls
2017-06-01 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Before Night Falls, based on the writer’s autobiography of the same name, is the story of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, born in rural Oriente province in 1943. After joining the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, Arenas moved to Havana, where he joined a circle of writers and artists and gained critical acclaim for his own work. His political writing and openly gay lifestyle eventually led to imprisonment by the Castro regime, failed attempts to leave the country, and his final departure from Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Arenas died in Manhattan in 1990. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series; in June, the series features films by award-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
2000; directed by Julian Schnabel; English; 133 minutes; rated R.
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Film: Ladrón que roba a ladrón
2017-05-25 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Two former thieves reunite to rob the biggest thief they know—a TV infomercial guru who has made millions selling worthless health products to poor Latino immigrants. While his empire is nearly impossible to infiltrate, they know that by going undercover as day laborers they can pull off the heist. When none of their associates want the job, they turn to the real thing for help, forming a team of criminal amateurs with just the right skills. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2007; directed by Joe Menéndez; Spanish with English subtitles; 98 minutes; rated PG-13.
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Film: No se aceptan devoluciones/Instructions Not Included
2017-05-18 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
An Acapulco playboy’s bachelor lifestyle comes to a halt when a former lover shows up on his doorstep with a baby girl, asks for money to pay her cab fare, and disappears. His attempt to return the child to her mother leads him to Los Angeles, to a successful career as a stuntman, and to unexpected developments—alternatively sweet, funny, and poignant. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2013; directed by Eugenio Derbez; Spanish with English subtitles; 122 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Pulling Strings
2017-05-11 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
When a Mexican mariachi singer and single father applies for a visa for his daughter to travel to Arizona, his application is promptly denied by an uptight U.S. embassy official looking forward to her forthcoming transfer to London. Subsequent events, and complications, bring the two together in a bilingual romantic comedy that has been described as “a love letter to Mexico City.” Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2013; directed by Pitipol Ybarra; English/Spanish with English subtitles; 112 minutes; rated PG.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Cinco de Mayo: La batalla
2017-05-04 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Cinco de Mayo: La batalla is the story of the 1862 Battle of Puebla, the most important battle in Mexican history. Defending the city of Puebla, the army of General Ignacio Zaragoza, numbering around 2,000 men, won an unlikely victory against a supposedly unbeatable French army of over 6,000—at that time the world’s largest and most powerful army. French forces were withdrawn from the country six years later; the legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico is celebrated to this day. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2013; directed by Rafael Lara; Spanish with English subtitles; 126 minutes; rated R.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Trash
2017-04-27 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
When three young catadores—boys picking trash in the slums of Rio de Janeiro—find a wallet in the daily detritus of their local dump, they little imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet’s return, the boys realize that what they’ve found must be important. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2015; directed by Stephen Daldry; Portuguese with English subtitles; 114 minutes; rated R.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Un Quijote sin mancha
2017-04-20 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
7 pm
Beloved Mexican comic Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) portrays a young lawyer who dedicates himself to resolving the problems of the less fortunate. The title is a play on words deriving from his old professor’s description of him as “un hombre puro, y sin mancha” (a pure man, without stain)—qualities he is perceived to share with Cervantes’ Don Quixote de la Mancha (referring, in this case, to the region of Spain in which Don Quixote lives). Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series, as well as Semana Cervantina.
1969; directed by Miguel M. Delgado; Spanish with English subtitles; 100 minutes; not rated.
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Film: Watermark
2017-04-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
A visually stunning look at the relationship between humankind and water brings together diverse stories from around the globe to examine how the liquid shapes people’s lives—how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it, and the impact of that use on this precious resource. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2013; directed by Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky; English; 90 minutes; rated PG.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: The Milagro Beanfield War
2017-04-06 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
When Joe Mondragón, an impoverished farmer in Milagro, NM, diverts water from the future site of a large, and lucrative, resort development to irrigate his small bean field, he sets off a chain reaction that threatens to erupt into a small war in this comedy of everyday people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
1988; directed by Robert Redford; English; 118 minutes; rated R.
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Film: El lugar de las fresas
2017-03-30 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Lina, now in her seventies, has always been a farmer, going at dawn to Turin’s Porta Palazzo, Europe’s biggest open air market, to sell her vegetables and strawberries. Her life has always been “home, church, and work,” until she encounters a young Moroccan immigrant looking for a job. The filmmaker’s documentation of their evolving lives and relationship over the next several years addresses themes of immigration, globalization, and transformation, as well as the enduring value of working with the land. Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2015; directed by Maite Vitoria Daneris; Spanish with English subtitles; 93 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Excluidas del paraíso
2017-03-23 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
A documentary exploring the mechanisms that maintain patriarchal systems and perpetuate economic, cultural, and social inequality and imbalances of power in the 21st century, in the West in general and Spanish society in particular. Patriarchal ideology is revealed in images projected through our modes of communication; feminist thinkers interviewed include Ana de Miguel, Ochy Curiel, Pablo Llamas, Pilar Aguilar, Remedios Zafra, Rosa Cobo, Soledad Murillo, and Yayo Herrero. Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2015; directed by Esther Pérez de Eulate; Spanish with English subtitles; 93 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: La fiesta de otros
2017-03-16 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Verbenas, summer festivals on town plazas featuring dance bands, were an integral part of the filmmaker’s childhood in Asturias. Her documentary focuses on the “end of the party”—when the plaza falls silent and “music, summer, work, money all disappear when winter arrives for musicians belonging to a time that is slowly fading away.” Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2015; directed by Ana Serret Ituarte; Spanish with English subtitles; 73 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Las constituyentes
2017-03-09 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
A documentary about the 27 women who served in the Spanish legislature in 1977, promoting political change during Spain’s transition to democracy following the end of the Franco regime. Through their personal experiences, the film traces the history of women’s political involvement in Spain up to the present day, and includes a debate between these pioneering women, the “mothers of the constitution,” and women currently serving in the Spanish parliament. Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2011; directed by Oliva Acosta; Spanish with English subtitles; 70 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration
2017-03-02 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Folk icon Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday in 2016, honoring her legendary 50-plus years in music with a career-spanning live performance at New York’s historic Beacon Theatre. Baez performed with fellow artists and friends including David Bromberg, David Crosby, Damien Rice, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, Indigo Girls, Richard Thompson, Judy Collins, Nano Stern, and Paul Simon. The event was filmed as an episode of PBS’s Great Performances. Presented in partnership with New Mexico PBS as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
2016; directed for television by David Horn; English; 90 minutes; not rated.
Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: The Burning Season
2017-02-23 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
The real-life story of Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper, union leader, and environmental activist whose relentless campaigning against the exploitation and destruction of the rainforest led to his assassination in 1990 by ranchers opposed to his activism. Presented as part of the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series.
1994; directed by John Frankenheimer; English; 123 minutes; rated R.
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