Film: Equipo D: los códigos olvidados
2022-03-25
12 pm (available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Jorge Laplace’s Equipo D: los códigos olvidados documents a story of World War II that has yet to be told. Team D, formed by Spanish Republicans in exile, played a decisive role in the Allied victory by deciphering codes encrypted by Germany’s Enigma machine.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 61 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a collaboration with the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), Spain’s oldest film festival, screening four documentaries that have competed in recent years in the festival’s “Tiempo de historia” category. The films selected demonstrate the ability of this genre’s audiovisual narrative to address current issues and societal concerns.
Bajo el silencio: Film Schedule
* March 4: Bajo el silencio (Iñaki Arteta, 2020)
* March 11: Silvia (María Silvia Esteve, 2018)
* March 18: Hija de la laguna (Ernesto Cabellos, 2015)
* March 25: Equipo D: los códigos olvidados (Jorge Laplace, 2019)
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: A media voz
2022-04-15
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
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
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.

¡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
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
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.

¡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

Oralidad Festival: Opening ceremony & Inaugural Talk featuring Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez
2022-11-18 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
5:00 pm
Inauguration. Opening ceremony with the presence of the director of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, Silvia Grijalba, and the Consul of Spain in Texas and New Mexico, Mrs. Julia Olmo.
5:05 pm
Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez kick off the 20222 Oralidad Festival by leading a discussion titled “‘The Voice of My Conscience:’ Life, Times, and Talents of Luis S. Martínez (1898-1986): memories of a poet of the people and the rescue of his work.”
In this presentation, social activist, poet, journalist, and novelist Demetria Martínez joins University of New Mexico professor Enrique Lamadrid to pay tribute to her grandfather, the poet Luis S. Martínez. The presentation is designed to help explore the work of this traditional poet who has great cultural and political influence in Albuquerque, while making a literary recovery of corridos and oral poetry.
Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Oralidad Festival: Francisco Carrillo Martín
2022-11-18 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6:15 pm
Join us as essayist and teacher Francisco Carrillo Martín gives a talk that delves into some of the ideas in his latest book, Fuera de foco: cinco derivas por la obra de Juan Rulfo, which was published at the end of 2021. Through the Mexican author’s literature and photography, he will reflect on how the migratory process of the 1940s and 1950s to the main Latin American cities transformed the voices and landscapes of the rural tradition.
Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Oralidad Festival: Songs and Stories from the Native American Performing Arts Program
2022-11-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
11:00 am
Music, dance, and storytelling intermingle in a program that showcases Native American pride and culture. It is an intertribal presentation, directed by John Williams, that will be performed by students from Albuquerque Public Schools. The program will include two Native American songs, two winter stories accompanied by performances, and a Native American dance that allows for audience participation. This activity will also allow attendees to develop communication and life skills.
Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

John Williams teaches Albuquerque Public Schools’ Native American Studies program. John is a member of the Dakota Sioux Tribe and has worked at APS for over 25 years. His program sponsors annual events such as Winter Storytelling, Native American Fashion Shows, and Music Appreciation.
This program also features: Kaylee Bahe, Isabella Gonzales, Paisleigh Orneales, Kaniece Sandoval, Roma Vigilante, Kayleigh Stevens and Jay Baldwin.

Oralidad Festival: Enrique Lamadrid & Susana Rivera
2022-11-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
4:00 pm
Authors and University of New Mexico professors Dr. Enrique Lamadrid and Dr. Susana Rivera present the latest collection of poems by E.A. “Tony” Mares: Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time: Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War. They will be joined at the event by the four poets who wrote the back cover texts for this volume: Levi Romero, Demetria Martinez, Gary Brower, and Michael Thomas.
Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Oralidad Festival: Andrea Cote Botero
2022-11-19 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6:00 pm
Colombian poet Andrea Cote Botero will read a selection of conversational poems from her books Puerto Calcinado and En las praderas del fin del mundo and will discuss with the public the role of the listener in the construction of a poetics of ruin in contemporary subjectivity.
Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Oralidad Festival: Lara Manzanares & Joe Hayes
2022-11-19 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:30 pm
Lara Manzanares, a bilingual singer-songwriter with roots in Tierra Amarilla, will perform a joint show with master storyteller Joe Hayes. The performance will begin with a folk narration by Hayes aimed at adult and children, to be followed by a performance by the singer-songwriter. This show weaves together the past, present, and future of the oral tradition as well as the performers’ passion for blending cultures and the roots of New Mexico.
Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.
This is a free community event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Iberia (2005)
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26 | Virtual
12 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Don’t miss the latest online film series from Instituto Cervantes, focusing on the life and work of the internationally renowned director Carlos Saura. Saura’s 2005 film Iberia traces a series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz’s “Iberia” suite. The film received the Goya Award for Best Cinematography/Mejor Fotografía in 2006.
2005 | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 1 hour 39 minutes | Not Rated
Free Community Event

This documentary film, Saura continues in his line of work, which uses contemporary flamenco to make his contribution to Spanish musical cinema, accompanied by unquestionable artists such as the dancers Sara Baras, Antonio Canales, José Antonio Ruiz, Aída Gómez and Patrick de Bana, the musicians Manolo Sanlúcar, Gerardo Núñez and Jorge Pardo and the singers Enrique Morente and his daughter Estrella.
This film also initiates a more ambitious stage that will lead Saura to investigate the folkloric tradition of other environments, approaching them directly, as he will demonstrate in two of his later films: Fados (2007) and Zonda, folclore argentino (2015).
Synopsis: Based on Iberia, the musical piece by Isaac Albéniz, this documentary follows the rehearsals and performances of dancers, choreographers, musicians and singers, all great artists in the world of contemporary flamenco.

Cervantes Film Series: Soñando un lugar
2023-05-05
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
Alfonso Kint and Lucía Camón are two artists who embarked on the adventure of moving to a village in the province of Zaragoza to try a different life. Their project Pueblos en Arte was born from this bet, which managed to attract other people with a similar vital profile in an attempt to achieve a better way of life and to generate other creative synergies in a rural environment.
In this documentary film, the director tells us how he decides to leave, together with his wife and his newborn daughter, the busy life of the capital to start from scratch in a village in an empty Spain. With his work, he shows us the infinite possibilities offered by the rural world, despite the critical situation of the village to which he migrates, and proposes a new way of life for future generations.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: Os fillos da vide
2023-05-12
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
Wine culture has an atavistic tradition in Mediterranean culture. The economy derived from it comes along with rites that allude to the importance of the community in its communication with nature and in the celebration of life. The formal bet of the director Ana Domínguez highlights all the visual elements that compose an imaginary that flees from the rational to evoke another type of knowledge: the one offered by nature.
Synopsis: The director Ana Domínguez brings us closer to her origins through this film in which she shows the grape harvest process in a small Galician village. The wine culture becomes an ancestral journey that moves between the autobiographical and the mythical, from the natural cycles to the most visceral traditions, the village festivals, which, as a reflection of the ancient bacchanals, become an explosion of life.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: 150 i una grossa
2023-05-19
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The description of community life is not always easy for cinema, which tends to focus on characters. However, this film bets on making a collective story where the inhabitants of a village will have to make decisions that will radically change their lives. The choral portrait offered by this documentary is testimony to a common thread based on the commitment of a group of people from all generations to keep alive their population and their traditions.
Synopsis: Ametlla de Merola is one of the smallest towns in Catalonia, with just over 150 inhabitants. The theater is the central nucleus of the town, but they will have to close it due to lack of resources: it doesn’t even have seats. Everything changes when this textile colony wins the Christmas jackpot and its inhabitants decide to invest the money in renovating the theater and prevent it from disappearing.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: Los saldos
2023-05-19
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities
The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies transformed their habits. Migrations also broke with this logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of this ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face an evidence that work and coexistence are bringing to light: their lives are very different. The director Raúl Capdevila uses his training as a filmmaker to tell us his family story and works the magic of turning his way of life into an artistic reference that reveals how cinema allows us to observe the world with different eyes.
Synopsis: Raúl Capdevila tells us in the form of a western his return home, to a village in Huesca. His father, José Ramón, is the last of three generations of farmers and ranchers. The film director and his father will have to get along working together on the farm, but, in addition to their differences, they will have to face the implications of the construction of a large meat processing plant by a large meat company.
Free community event

Rural life has undergone countless changes in the last two centuries, as has also occurred in the urban sphere. Migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants have moved to cities to forge their future, often outside their own countries. In recent times, however, there has been a new vocation to recover the elements of wellbeing that the rural environment offers to the people and communities that make it up. Existence outside busy urban life has become an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and found this new rural life.
In order to illustrate these new movements, the Cervantes Institute presents an online film program with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. The four stories open a window on the lights and shadows of this way of life and offer a contemporary perspective on traditions, but also on the problems involved in maintaining these new challenges for the future.
Program:

May 5, 2023: Soñando un lugar (2018), de Alfonso Kint
May 12, 2023: Os fillos da vide (2017), de Ana Domínguez
May 19, 2023: 150 i una grossa (2020), de Aurora Sulli y Núria Deulofeu
May 26, 2023: Los saldos (2022), de Raúl Capdevila

Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
2023-07-04
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly representable in live-action cinema.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
2023-07-07
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940’s and 50’s. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film’s sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue in his subsequent work, using a much more complex visual composition.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
2023-07-11
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
The animators included in Ageda Kopla Taldea – a group of twenty artists coordinated by Bego Vicarioapproach– weave a fascinating story that starts from the tradition of the bertsolaris, the Basque poets who recite their improvised verses, to bring us closer to the history of cultural and popular traditions at a time when their meanings and contents are being redefined.
This work is part of the stream of collective animation works that have been performed in recent years in the field of Fine Arts in the Basque Country, such as Areka (2016) or Miraila (2017).
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to accompanying the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates with us its twenty years of existence with the presentation on our Vimeo channel of an animated film series whose films address this theme. Throughout four weeks, we will be able to see short films that show us stories of all kinds of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators made in Basque.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), de Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) de Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), de varios cineastas
July 14: Thara (2018), de Paco Ramírez y Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), de Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), de Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), de Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), de Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Thara
2023-07-14
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
Planned as a mixed media work, Thara combines a documentary style with a narrative built through animation to achieve greater expressive freedom, only achievable through this technique. The short film shows the story of those transsexual people who are forced to work at night and reveals how difficult the lives of these women can be in Latin American countries.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo
2023-07-18
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
As part of her thesis project, filmmaker Andrea Gudiño proposed this animated documentary that brings us closer to the issue of sexual binarism. The possibility of using the experiences and personal testimonies of real people who do not appear in the image but are generated from an original use of materials and cinematographic techniques, achieves an enormous visual and didactic impact, one of the most effective resources in an animated documentary like this one. The short film is an interesting approach to different ways of conceiving identity, the relationship with one’s own body and love.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Ezohikoak
2023-07-21
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
Through a work with archival photographs, the animator Alejandra Bueno creates a reinterpretation of the presence of women in Basque culture, which combines the manipulation and intervention of these images with the oral enumeration of the functions traditionally attributed to women. The result is a provocative display of how to assume and reverse the elements of tradition and its representation to show its fissures and to open those meanings that are no longer viable or sustainable. In the process, we will witness new representations of gender and sexual orientations that further dynamite the critical discourse.
Free Community Event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Garelako
2023-07-25
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
With a song by Eneko Sagardoy as a thematic and narrative pillar, the writer and animator Usue Egia proposes a journey through various characters and stories that illustrate a call for freedom to everyone to define themselves and feel as they wish.
Garelako, by Eneko Sagardoy: “The gray sky will not suffocate us. We will flee to the sun. They want to put straw hearts on us. Let us feel what we prefer. If the bird’s wings are for walking, if the whale is denied the sea, we will see nothing but fiction. If above all words is the lie, we will go forward, whether you like it or not. If someone is free, it is because we are all free. We will truly live with you or without you. You will realize it sooner or later. We are not monsters; we do not eat anyone. The sun warms us, and the rain wets us. Now you have realized: we are flesh and blood, like you. Marichico or Marichica, they call us. Stop talking banally. Learn one thing well and keep it in your head, that the only Mari is the one of Anboto”.
Free community event

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

Cervantes Film Series: Makun (No llores)
2023-07-28
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation
Emilio Martí’s creative trajectory demonstrates his commitment to social issues that highlight our problems with coexistence and solidarity in today’s society. Since his short film Desanimado (2011), winner of countless awards, his work has not stopped betting on a lively and effective story-telling and emotional resonance, always using animation as an expressive key. With this short film, which also won several awards, he brings us closer to the harsh reality of the Internment Centers for Foreigners (CIE) and the personal experiences of immigrants.
Free Community Event.

The Cervantes Institute maintains its program dedicated to LGTBIQ+ identities by collaborating with institutions and monographic festivals to make their film series more visible. This year, the program dedicated to highlighting the celebration of LGTBIQ+ Pride Day comes from the Basque festival Zinegoak, which celebrates its twenty years of existence with the presentation of an animated film series whose films address this theme on our Vimeo channel. Throughout four weeks, we will see short films that showcase a wide range of identities and LGTBIQ+ collectives through the different techniques that animation provides, and we will also have the opportunity to enjoy several short films by young creators from Basque Country.
Program
July 4: Azaletik azalera (2021), by Mel Arranz
July 7: La mesa, (2018) by Adrian Garcia Gomez
July 11: Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016), by various directors
July 14: Thara (2018), by Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll
July 18: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo (2018), by Andrea Gudiño
July 21: Ezohikoak (2022), by Alejandra Bueno
July 25: Garelako (2015), by Usue Egia
July 28: Makun (‘No llores’) (2015), by Emilio Martí

The Runaways: Living Composers from Spain in New York City
2023-10-22 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm
AMP Concerts and Cervantes Institute Albuquerque presents The Runaways: Living Composers from Spain in New York City. The Runaways is a solo piano and vocal performance of works by contemporary composers from Spain who have expanded their creative borders by moving to New York City. Rosa Torres-Pardo (piano) and Anna Tonna (mezzo soprano) will explore these captivating crossroads through the music of contemporary Spanish-American composers Sonia Megías, Octavio Vazquez and Ricardo Llorca.
The concert will be preceded by a talk by composer Ricardo Llorca, who will delve into the fascinating interaction between Spanish and American musical traditions, highlighting the profound influence each has had on the other.
Free Community Event, generously supported by AARP New Mexico. Please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Descartes (2021)
2023-11-17 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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In 2016, a search for information began in Filmoteca Española for a research projection on the documentary film Rocío, which had been censored in the early 1980s. Among the materials deposited in its warehouses were 260 rolls of 16 mm photo negatives. They were the leftovers of the editing, footage that was left out of the final version. The forgotten images of a banned film come to life on the screen after forty years in Descartes.
Free Community Event.

About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide: Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Toxos e flores (2016)
2023-11-21 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
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A portrait of the landscape of the San Sadurniño area. Natural architectures, still-lifes, spaces of green lights and absolute browns. Filmmaker Lucía Vilela explores the texture of the cut wood, the tiles on the roofs of the houses, the tops of the trees that follow the cadence of the drums of Mociños de Igrexafeita (1971), a popular song that favors an atmosphere of rhythms sheltered by the texture of the celluloid.
Free Community Event.
About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works by authors who use the super-8 analog format for their creations. This series is based on the Spanish film program Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña. The director of the Galician festival, Ángel Rueda, has selected eight short films that speak to the cinematographic experience founded as an aesthetic precedent by Iván Zulueta.
