• Cine Magnifico Opening Film// US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Opening Film // US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa by Avelina Prat The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner. La desaparición de su esposa deja a Fernando, un discreto profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una casa de campo portuguesa, donde entabla (more...)

  • Cine Magnifico: Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras

    12:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Gómez Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn't seen in a long time. While she takes refuge at her mother's house, an investigation is launched: Tamara's newborn son disappeared under strange circumstances within the sect. Both the justice system and Ximena will try to uncover the fate of the missing baby. Inspirada en (more...)

  • Cine Magnifico: Culpa Cero

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    4:45 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Culpa Cero by Valeria Bertuccelli and Mora Elizalde Berta Muller's life, a successful self-help writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for the significance of plagiarism. Far from assuming responsibility, she will deny the accusations and try to justify herself ridiculously, even if it means exposing all her darkness. La vida de Berta Muller, una exitosa escritora de autoayuda, se ve sacudida cuando, en el pico máximo de su carrera, (more...)

  • Cine Magnifico: El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    7:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja), by Ernesto Martínez Bucio Five siblings abandoned by their parents mimic their fears with those of their schizophrenic grandmother and dissolve the barriers between the real and the imaginary to try to stay together. Cinco hermanos abandonados por sus padres imitan sus miedos con los de su abuela esquizofrénica y disuelven las barreras entre lo real y lo imaginario para intentar permanecer juntos. Cast: (more...)

  • Cine Magnifico: Una Sombra Oscilante

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    4:15 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Una Sombra Oscilante by Celeste Rojas Múgica He develops and imagines a world inside a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness. "Una sombra oscilante" (An Oscillating Shadow) explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary (more...)

  • Cine Magnifico: Matryoshka

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    6:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Matryoshka by Jorge Forero Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected. Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on this weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for generations. Ana viaja unos días a casa de su abuela en (more...)