Film: A media voz
2022-04-15 | NM
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, directors of A media voz, are childhood friends who face the challenges of uprooting as they try to rebuild their lives away from Cuba. This moving auto-ethnographic documentary about nostalgia, friendship, roots, and exile reflects the uneasiness of an entire generation.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated G.
Free community event

In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary documentaries by Spanish and Latin American filmmakers from the festival’s “Zonazine documental” category. This year, the films shown, all directed by women, explore a variety of social and political concerns, with the idea of migration and movement running through them as a constant theme in today’s world.
Zonazine documental, en femenino: Film Schedule
* April 8: Cartas mojadas (Paula Palacios, 2020)
* April 15: A media voz (Patricia Pérez & Heidi Hassan, 2019)
* April 22: Sanmao, la novia del desierto (Marta Arribas & Ana Pérez, 2020)
* April 29: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador (Anabel Rodriguez Rios, 2020)All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing.

Film: Sanmao, la novia del desierto
2022-04-22 | NM
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In the 1970s, Chinese writer Sanmao and Spanish diver José María Quero traveled to the Spanish Sahara, where Sanmao captured their daily experiences in a best-selling book, Tales from the Sahara. In Sanmao, la novia del desierto, filmmakers Marta Arribas and Ana Pérez recount the story of two people from radically different worlds whose relationship, marked by love, adventure, and tragedy, ultimately served to unite these worlds. Sanmao’s public persona remains iconic to this day.
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 86 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary documentaries by Spanish and Latin American filmmakers from the festival’s “Zonazine documental” category. This year, the films shown, all directed by women, explore a variety of social and political concerns, with the idea of migration and movement running through them as a constant theme in today’s world.
Zonazine documental, en femenino: Film Schedule
* April 8: Cartas mojadas (Paula Palacios, 2020)
* April 15: A media voz (Patricia Pérez & Heidi Hassan, 2019)
* April 22: Sanmao, la novia del desierto (Marta Arribas & Ana Pérez, 2020)
* April 29: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador (Anabel Rodriguez Rios, 2020)All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing.

Film: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador
2022-04-29 | NM
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ “reflection of a divided country,” the floating village of Congo Mirador, a short distance from Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, is seen through the eyes of two women, espousing opposing ideologies, who are still trying to sustain life in a town that is dying from drought, pollution, corruption, and neglect.
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 99 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary documentaries by Spanish and Latin American filmmakers from the festival’s “Zonazine documental” category. This year, the films shown, all directed by women, explore a variety of social and political concerns, with the idea of migration and movement running through them as a constant theme in today’s world.
Zonazine documental, en femenino: Film Schedule
* April 8: Cartas mojadas (Paula Palacios, 2020)
* April 15: A media voz (Patricia Pérez & Heidi Hassan, 2019)
* April 22: Sanmao, la novia del desierto (Marta Arribas & Ana Pérez, 2020)
* April 29: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador (Anabel Rodriguez Rios, 2020)All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12 pm on the day on which they are scheduled for viewing.

Film: Sleep Dealer
2022-05-12 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm–7:00 pm DJ, cash bar, and food truck
5;30 pm–6:30 pm Pre-film museum tours
7:00 pm Film Screening
Join us for pre-film tours of the exhibition, Fronteras del Futuro , then jam to futuristic tunes by DJ Sunai. Cash bar and food truck.
The place: Mexico. The time: The near future. The world is divided by closed borders, but connected by a digital network that ties people together around the world. In Santa Ana del Río, Oaxaca, where a corporation controls the small village’s water supply, Memo Cruz dreams of heading north to a big city where he can work in a high-tech factory. When his dream becomes a reality, his reality becomes a nightmare of border walls, shanty towns, remote control drones, and security forces searching for “aqua-terrorists.”
2008; United States & Mexico; English; Alex Rivera Director; PG-13
Pre-film tour $3
Film Screening Free

Film: Museo
2022-05-26 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 pm–7:00 pm DJ, cash bar, and food truck
7:00 pm Film Screening
Well into their 30s, Juan and Benjamin can’t seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents’ homes in Satélite, Mexico City’s version of an American suburb. On a fateful Christmas eve, however, they decide it’s finally time to distinguish themselves by pulling off the most infamous heist of cultural artifacts in all of Mexican history—looting the country’s iconic National Anthropology Museum. Museo Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios features Gael García Bernal, Simon Russell Beale, Lynn Gilmartin, Ilse Salas.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; Alonso Ruizpalacios Director;
Film Screening Free

Film: The Red Star (Argentina)
2022-06-23 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:30 – 7:00 pm Tango demonstrations, tapas, and cash bar in Salon Ortega
7:00 pm film screening
The Red Star (A Purim Story) is a mockumentary about Laila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed to the 1960 kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, but who has been omitted from the official history. Director Gabriel Lichtmann presents her story through a series of interviews with a colorful cast of characters; putting together the pieces, the film discovers a secret that had been hidden for decades.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 72 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series

Film: Tarek
2022-07-08 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Anatael Pérez’ Tarek, four young people, of different sexual orientations, relate their experiences of a night at a party where they met a young man named Tarek, offering a suggestive and enigmatic portrait of a character who will always remain out of the frame.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free Event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Antes de la erupción
2022-07-12 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
While a volcano can erupt without previous warning, it is more likely that it will emit different types of signals in advance, if we know how to recognize them—in people as well as in natural phenomena. Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Antes de la erupción, told in retrospect by one of five young participants in a trip to the volcanic island of Lanzarote, offers guidelines .
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 10 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Extraterrestrial (Spain)
2022-07-15 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Join us for free tours of Fronteras del Futuro and other pre-film entertainment, including a cash bar and food from Phat Stax Burgers and More.
7:00 pm: Film screening
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.
2011; directed by Nacho Vigalondo; English; 90 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series

Thank you Phat Stax Burgers and More food truck for joining us. For more information on Phat Stax Burgers and More check out their Facebook page HERE and their website HERE.

Film: Hidroalcohólico
2022-07-15 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Hidroalcohólico, two boys on a blind date discuss the problems, occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, of coming into physical contact with another person. Between comedy and paradox, the short film explores the surreal situations that this new reality has unleashed.
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Yo soy una niña
2022-07-19 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Richard Zubelzu’s Yo soy una niña documents the reality of transsexuality in childhood, while emphasizing the important role of grandparents and their unconditional love for their grandchildren.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Abriendo ventanas
2022-07-22 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Vicky Calavia’s documentary Abriendo ventanas is a story told in seven voices, in which seven women share their affective, sexual, and gender diversity, as well as the discrimination and violence that they have suffered in their lives.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 30 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: (A) Normal
2022-07-26 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Leo, Juan, David, and Lucio meet in the gym locker room—four people with four different views on issues such as masculinity. Miguel Parra’s (A) Normal demonstrates, through the debates that ensue, that “normality” is as personal as each individual’s particular essence and prejudices.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 12 minutes; not rated.
Free cummunity event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Better Days
2022-07-29 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Fran Herrero Ansoleaga’s Better Days presents the testimonies of five people who have fled harassment in their home countries because of their gender identities and have sought asylum in Spain. Before the director’s camera, they share their fears, doubts, and certainties, as well as their belief that “everything gets better.”
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile)
2022-08-12 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:30 pm to 6:15 pm – Chilean folkloric music performed live
6:15 pm to 6:45 pm – “Violeta Parra in context” historical presentation by Dr. Carson Morris
7:00 pm – Film Screening
Andrés Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile’s national hero, and interweaving key set pieces from Parra’s life to capture the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions. Loosely based on Ángel Parra’s memoirs of his mother, the film offers a multi-faceted and lyrical portrayal of an influential figure in world music and complex cultural icon of Chile’s history. Violeta Parra’s revival of Chilean traditional music galvanized a socially and politically committed pan-Latin American folk music movement—“nueva canción“—and became a reference for other Latin American artists committed to their national legacies.
2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 110 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series

¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: Hotel Salvation
2022-08-31 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) follows the story of a reluctant son who must take his father to the holy city of Varanasi, where his father believes he will breathe his last and attain salvation. When a 77-year-old man, Daya, wakes up from a strange nightmare, he knows his time is up and he must get to Varanasi immediately in hope of dying there to attain salvation. His dutiful son, Rajiv, is left with no choice but to drop everything and make the journey with his stubborn father, leaving behind his wife and daughter.
The two of them check into MuktiBhawan, a hotel devoted to people hoping to spend their last days there. Rajiv finds himself having to take care of his father for the first time in his life. While Rajiv struggles to juggle his responsibilities back home, Daya starts to bloom as he finds a sense of community in the hotel, and a companion in the 75-year old Vimla. As the days go by and Daya shows no sign of dying, Rajiv is faced with the dilemma of whether to remain there with his father or fulfill his duty back home.
2016; Written and Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani; 102 min; Hindi with English Subtitles, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: The Square (Sweden)
2022-09-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
Respected and contemporary art museum curator Christian, a devoted father of two who is divorced, drives an electric car and supports good causes. His next exhibit is “The Square”, an installation which invites passersby to altruism, reminding them of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to live up to your own ideals: Christian’s foolish response to the theft of his phone drags him into shameful situations. Meanwhile, the museum’s PR agency has created an unexpected campaign for “The Square”. The response is overblown and sends Christian, as well as the museum, into an existential crisis.
2017; Written and Directed by Ruben Östlund; 151 min; Swedish, Danish English, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)
2022-09-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening
6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque
Dennis Hopper’s second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist’s home in Taos (New Mexico).
Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production – with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb.
1971; 108 min; Color; English, Rated R
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening.
Among the most storied productions of the New Hollywood Era, Hopper was given carte blanche by Universal for his next directorial feature after the tremendous commercial success of Easy Rider. The writer-director-star took the money and ran – literally – staging The Last Movie in Peru at farthest remove from the Hollywood machine, with an on-screen entourage in tow that included Kris Kristofferson, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia, Peter Fonda, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Phillips and director Samuel Fuller.
After the movie, talk with the Peruvian journalist and writer based in Spain, Fietta Jarque, author of the book “Where Dennis Hopper lost his poncho”, which tells the story behind The Last Movie.
Jarque began working in cultural journalism at Oiga magazine and El Observador newspaper. She has lived in Spain since 1984 and in the same year she was hired as editor of the Culture pages of the newspaper El País, where she remained until 2013. She has published the books Entrevista con los ángeles (1995), co-authored with journalist Rosa Rivas; the novel Yo me perdono (1998); and the interview book Cómo piensan los artistas (2015).

¡Cine Magnifico! Canción Sin Nombre (Peru)
2022-09-14 | NM
6:00 p.m.
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
2019; directed by Melina León; Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles; Not Rated
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening. This film is the first half of a double feature that includes a screening of Pizarro at 8:00 p.m.

¡Cine Magnifico! Pizarro (Colombia)
2022-09-14 | NM
8:00 p.m.
This is a story about the burden of family heritage. It begins when María José, in exile in Barcelona, realizes that – no matter how far she runs – she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after signing a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his assassination, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to this murder and to discover a forgotten chapter of the country’s history, silenced by violence and fear.
2016; directed by Simón Hernández; 82 minutes; Not Rated
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening. This film is the second half of a double feature that also includes Canción Sin Nombre (Song Without A Name) at 6:00 p.m.

Albuquerque Film & Music Experience: 10th Anniversary Edition
2022-09-15 - 2022-09-18 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
9:30 am to 10:00 pm Thursday & Friday
10:00 am to 11:00 pm Saturday
9:30 am to 4:30 pm Sunday
The Albuquerque Film & Music Experience celebrate their 10th anniversary at the NHCC with a festival, taking place across Albuquerque, that runs from Tuesday, Sept. 13 through Sunday, Sept. 18. The Experience will include a wide variety of short and feature-length narrative and documentary films, music, and animated videos from around the world. In addition, they will present their popular Center Stage Conversations, Master Classes, and their first Pitch Panel.
This anniversary festival will be held in both in-person and on a virtual platform, making the AFME one of the leading film festivals in New Mexico.

For more information, please visit the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience website here:
https://www.afmxnm.com/
AFMX follows the New Mexico state mandate regarding mask and vaccines. We highly recommend festival attendees and volunteers to be vaccinated and/or follow mask usage to protect our community. We encourage all participants to follow social distancing and cleanliness rules to maintain the highest level of safety possible.

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.

¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
2022-09-21 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Single mother Hanna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster, and how to picture war through fiction. For Hanna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
2020; Written and Directed by Iryna Tsilyk; 74 min; Russian, Ukrainian with English subtitles, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

¡Globalquerque!: Free Global Fiesta
2022-09-24 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am to 3:30 pm
Join us for a fun-filled international journey packed with educational workshops, inter-activities, film, panels, food demos, performances, and much more – with offerings for all ages! – created in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Department of Education! There will be interactive art activities inspired by the music and global cultures visiting the festival to multilingual poetry readings to International Dance Lessons to the NY International Children’s Film Festival Viva Kids Flicks to International Food Demo & Tasting to a presentation on New Mexican History Through New Mexican Traditional Music to workshops from visiting artists from Haiti, Israel, Taos Pueblo, and Malawi and so much more! The ¡Globalquerque! Free Gobal Fiesta is a day filled with exploration and discovery for all ages!
This community event is free, but ticketed.
Please register in advance HERE.

¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s 18th Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture is one of the premiere festivals in the Southwest and is recognized around the country and the world for its adventurous programming. ¡Globalquerque! is committed to presenting and exploring our world through music and the arts, bringing people together to reflect on our similarities, celebrate our differences and consider and revel in what makes our experiences unique and what makes them shared. The Festival offers an eclectic, wide-ranging global exploration with a diverse program of dance, film, crafts, food, educational workshops and activities – and, of course, a myriad of exciting and surprising live musical offerings! From the legendary to up-and-coming, from the traditional to the cutting edge, year to year, ¡Globaquerque! presents of the best of what our planet has to offer.

¡Cine Magnifico! & ¡Globalquerque!: ¡NYICFF Kid Flicks!
2022-09-24 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
11:00 a.m.
¡NYICFF Kid Flicks! celebrates the best Spanish-language short films from around the globe. This program includes seven short films for children.
Free Community Event
Presented as part of the free ¡Globalquerque! Global Fiesta and International Cinema Series
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening.

11:40 (Argentina)
When Damián gets a watch for his birthday, he and his little brother Matias can’t stop checking it, anxiously waiting for 11:40 to arrive.
2018; Live Action, directed by Claudia Ruiz; 12 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
3pies (3feet) (Colombia)
Get your (soccer) kicks on the way to school with Gonzalo as he hilariously tries his very best to keep things clean and stay in the game.
2018; Live Action, directed by Giselle Geney; 14 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Ailin en la luna (Ailín on the Moon) (Argentina)
A mother and daughter’s love is orbited by joys and challenges.
2018; Animation; directed by Claudia Ruiz; 5 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Duermevela (Doze) (Colombia)
Growing up is never easy, especially since Daniel must navigate some of it alone—until support turns up in an unexpected form.
2019; Live Action, directed by Alfonso Acosta, 7 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Mi hermano Luca (My Brother Luca) (Mexico)
When an imaginative little girl discovers that her brother might have superpowers, she sets out on a quest to make sure everyone else sees him as she does.
2019; Animation; directed by Carlos Algara & Catalina Serna; 9 minutes
The Size of Things (El Tamaño de las Cosas) (Colombia)
Diego and his dad live a life of simple means in the forest, so when Diego comes across an unexpected find, its magnitude grows curiouser and curiouser.
2019; Live Action; directed by Carlos Felipe Montoya; 12 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Lessons Learnt by the Sea (Cuba)
Eleven-year-old Alejandro surfs off the coast of Havana every afternoon, learning lessons of resilience from the ultimate teacher, the sea.
2018; Documentary, directed by Néstor Kim Enríquez; 5 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles

¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: Sojourns–Episode One: PUULUUP (Estonia/USA)
2022-09-24 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
12:30 pm
“We draw inspiration from Vormsi nights, trams in November, junkies in love, criminals from Odessa and Antonio Vivaldi.” Indeed.
Travel to Estonia and Finland for the first episode of the documentary series ¡Globalquerque! Sojourns: Puuluup! Visit with Ramo Teder and Marko Veisson, a/k/a Puuluup, one of the most delightful and original music discoveries we have come across. Hang out, cook, longboard, shop, drink, record and more with Ramo and Marko and families and friends! Oh! And there will be music, too!
2021; Directed by Tom Frouge; 64 min; Estonia/English, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

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

Film: Bless Me, Ultima
2022-09-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation in partnership with the English department of the University of New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico, and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is forever changed by the sudden arrival of Ultima, a curandera who inspires him to see the world from a new perspective.
2011; Carl Franklin; English; 102 minutes; rated PG-13.
Reception at 6:00 pm & Pre-film Talk by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez at 6:30 pm.
Free ticketed event. Please make a reservation here, or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series.

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

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

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

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