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  • Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), El evangelio de las maravilla

    6 pm (opening reception at 5 pm) The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival (more...)

  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, _oito

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In his experimental video art piece _oito, Galician audiovisual artist Berio Molina explores and plays with different sounds, including the human voice, in a unique venue. The sloping structure of Clifton Rocks, an underground railroad station located inside Avon Gorge, a hill in England, creates small amphitheatres, accentuating the resonance of sounds both inside and outside the space. 2019; Gallego; 7 minutes; not rated. Free community event In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival (more...)

  • Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), Las razones del corazón

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    6 pm  In a re-interpretation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary set in present-day Mexico City, Emilia, a middle-class housewife, feels burdened by the mediocrity of her life. One day, she loses the two things that make it all bearable—her lover and her credit card—and comes to a fateful decision. 2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 128 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since (more...)

  • Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), La calle de la amargura

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    6 pm Two aging prostitutes, burdened by marital and financial problems, drug and rob twin midgets—doubles for professional luchadores—in an effort to make ends meet. But the eyedrops with which they dose their victims prove fatal, and they murder them unintentionally. Based on a true story, La calle de la amargura takes an unflinching look at the mean streets of Mexico City. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 100 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and (more...)

  • Film: Día de Cine Español/Day of Spanish Cinema, El viaje a ninguna parte

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE El viaje a ninguna parte won the first Goya Awards (Spain’s main national annual film awards) ever given, for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, in 1987. 1986; Spanish with English subtitles; 134 minutes; not rated. Free community event October 6 will mark the establishment of the Day of Spanish Cinema, recognizing the important role of filmmakers in the country’s cultural and social life, as well as the value of this artistic (more...)

  • Film: FIVER, La mirada de ellas, 10 años de cinedanza en España: Kinxi

    12 pm Begins Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31 On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Kinxi, only three minutes in length, the ensemble Piña (Sara Fontán and Clara Tena) transport the audience to the essence of cinedance. “To end up eating kimchi is to eat quiche Lorraine in a Chinese bar.” 2012; 3 minutes; not rated. Free community event In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle (more...)

  • Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Young and Beautiful

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    7 pm Marina Lameiro’s 2018 documentary offers a portrait of a disenchanted generation, as four young people ponder their current situations, their futures, and a social system in which they do not seem to fit. Young and Beautiful was filmed over the course of two years, at several locations in the Basque Country, Navarre, Catalonia, and Valencia, with the director accompanying her friends through the events of their daily lives. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 72 minutes; not rated. Free community event The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas (more...)

  • Film: FIVER, La mirada de ellas, 10 años de cinedanza en España

    12 pm on Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31  Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle of short films: La mirada de ellas: 10 años de cinedanza en España, curated by FIVER director Samuel Retortillo. The screenings are among the activities celebrating the tenth anniversary of Baila España, held annually in the city of Bremen, Germany. FIVER, an international platform for the support, production, and exhibition of film and dance, promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation through the professionalization of the “cinedance” genre. The 2021 (more...)

  • Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo

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    7 pm From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the public streets still remain. In three insightful conversations with female friends, collaborators, and high school students, Xiana do Teixeiro’s 2018 film Tódallas mulleres que coñezo seeks a discourse on fear that is not frightening, a discourse on violence that is not violent—a tale of universal sisterhood. 2018; Galician with English subtitles; 71 minutes; not rated. Free community event The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a (more...)

  • Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Oscuro y Lucientes

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    7 pm Samuel Alarcón’s 2018 documentary traces the last days of the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, exiled, buried, and almost forgotten in Bordeaux, and the mystery surrounding his body. Years after his death, when Goya’s remains were exhumed to be returned to Spain, it was discovered that someone had stolen the head of the famous painter. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 82 minutes; not rated. Free community event The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have (more...)