Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Devociones (2023)
2023-11-24 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Filmmakers Ángel Montero and María Serna explore healing rituals, baths, caresses, and care. Devociones is story of love and illness that explores the acceptance of loss and the real possibility of death. A sensory journey through the mirror in search of healing landscapes to celebrate life.
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: Ningún río me protexe de min (2021)
2023-11-28 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Ningún río me protexe de min takes as its starting point the mysterious theft of a material from the Central African Republic, inside the forest of the Congo Basin. This acts as a response to the conflicts arising from the fragile and trans-subjective encounter with the not-self: an encounter that can only be practiced or experienced, because if it is virtualized, it ceases to exist.
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: La tarara (2021)
2023-12-01 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
La tarara is a children’s game and also the diary of a summer, a gift between friends, a love letter, a family portrait, a song, a wink of reality. Shot during the summer of 2021 in Seville, the film is not a closed piece, but a process that continues to date, like an eternal look, evoking the personal, the intimate, like a song of the soul.
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 Albuquerque: Film Series: Orgullo
2024-02-02 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné
Manuel Mur Oti’s Orgullo is the story of Laura when she returns to her village from Paris after ten years of absence. Her mother trusts her to take charge of the cattle ranch from now on. Laura will soon discover the hatred that exists between her family and the Alzaga family, whose land is separated by a river. Laura will not know the legacy as her own, nor will Enrique, the first-born son of the neighboring family.
Free Community Event.
Screening: Orgullo | Director/s: Manuel Mur Oti | Year: 1955 | Format: archivo digital | Running time: largometraje – 105 min | Genre: Fiction | Country: Spain/ España | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Rated SC
Program:
February 2: Orgullo (1955), by Manuel Mur-Oti
February 9: Un millón en la basura (1966), by José M. Forqué
February 16: El astronauta (1970), by Javier Aguirre
February 23: La grieta (1989), by Juan Piquer

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque: Film Series: Un millón en la basura
2024-02-09 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné
José María Forqué’ Un millón en la basura is about Pepe Martínez works in the night cleaning service of Madrid watering the streets. His family is about to be evicted from their apartment, as they have not paid the rent for more than a year. The situation of grief worsens with the Christmas season. But, one night, Pepe finds a wallet in a garbage can full of bills. It seems that his luck has changed.
Free Community Event.
Screening: Un millón en la basura | Director/s: José María Forqué | Year: 1966 | Format: archivo digital | Running time: largometraje – 89 min | Genre: Fiction | Country: Spain/España | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Calificacion: TP
Program:
February 2: Orgullo (1955), by Manuel Mur-Oti
February 9: Un millón en la basura (1966), by José M. Forqué
February 16: El astronauta (1970), by Javier Aguirre
February 23: La grieta (1989), by Juan Piquer

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque: Film Series: El astronauta
2024-02-16 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné
Javier Aguirre El astronauta takes place in a village in southern Spain, a group of friends awaits the arrival of man on the moon, broadcast by the bar’s television set. One of the parishioners warns his friends that such a feat is nothing exceptional. Convinced that they can start the Spanish space race, they set out to set up a base on nearby land and build the first space prototype.
Free Community Event.
Screening: El astronauta | Director/s: Javier Aguirre | Year: 1970 | Format: archivo digital | Running time: largometraje – 84 min | Genre: fiction | Country: Spain/España | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Calificacion: SC
Program:
February 2: Orgullo (1955), by Manuel Mur-Oti
February 9: Un millón en la basura (1966), by José M. Forqué
February 16: El astronauta (1970), by Javier Aguirre
February 23: La grieta (1989), by Juan Piquer

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque Film Series: La grieta
2024-02-23 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné
A NATO mission dives to a crevice 15,000 meters deep where an experiment seems to have caused strange mutations in the creatures that inhabit it and where a submarine has been lost, which the latter seeks to rescue. The Dannekin rift will bring more than surprises to this group, which ignores the true nature of their expedition.
Free Community Event.
Screening: La grieta | Director/s: Juan Piquer | Year: 1989 | Format: archivo digital | Running time: largometraje – 80 min | Genre: Fiction | Country: España y Estados Unidos | Original version: español (doblado) | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Calificacion: TP
Program:
February 2: Orgullo (1955), by Manuel Mur-Oti
February 9: Un millón en la basura (1966), by José M. Forqué
February 16: El astronauta (1970), by Javier Aguirre
February 23: La grieta (1989), by Juan Piquer

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: La Chana
2024-04-05 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
La Chana reveals the story of a mythical dancer who rose to stardom and then plunged into anonymity. The profound gaze of director Lucija Stojevic – who has recently returned to portraiture with her documentary Pepi Fandango (2023) – follows her protagonist to understand how the artistic vocation of a woman like her could survive and be recreated throughout her life.
Synopsis: A self-taught dancer, Antonia Santiago Amador, known as la Chana, lives a quiet life in Catalonia. Between 1960 and 1980, she was one of the biggest stars of the flamenco world, astonishing with her innovative, fast-paced style and inventive use of rhythm. Peter Sellers, with whom she appeared in The Bobo (1967), invited her to Hollywood. And suddenly, at the peak of her career, she disappeared from the scene. Decades of dancing have worn out her body. Sensual, vulnerable, yet seemingly invincible, she transports us to the essence of her passion as she returns to the stage after a twenty-five-year hiatus.
Director/s: Lucija Stojevic | Year: 2017 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 82 min | Genre: Documental | Country: España | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés | portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Rated: SC

Relators de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 4: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 11: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 18: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 25: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Los Bilbao
2024-04-12 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here:
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
The young director Pedro Speroni debuted in feature-length documentaries with Rancho (2021), where he already demonstrated his sensitivity in approaching the very delicate reality of people who are incarcerated. The personal relationship he established with Iván, a prison inmate, in that first film allowed the filmmaker to accompany him on his life journey after leaving prison and reuniting with his family and his life. Currently, director Pedro Speroni is working on Talía, a woman he has also accompanied in his life inside and outside the penitentiary, with which he will finish his trilogy on the world of the prison.
Synopsis: Iván Bilbao returns home, to the city of Chascomús (Argentina), after having spent five years in prison. His wife, Yamila, and his little daughter, Luz, are waiting for him. Pedro Speroni’s camera infiltrates this family trying to return to normality, almost as if it were an invisible character, and shows that the return is anything but easy.
Screening: Los Bilbao | Director/s: Pedro Speroni | Year: 2022 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 74 min | Genre: Documental | Country: Argentina | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Rated: SC

Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 5: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 12: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 19: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 26: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Light Falls Vertical
2024-04-19 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here:
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
Efthymia Zymvragaki receives a proposal from a man who confesses to abuse in order to investigate the vision of the perpetrator of violence. With the courage to tell a story in the first person, the debut feature of this Greek director addresses the issue of violence that weighs so heavily in today’s society with the intention of approaching it in a complex and intimate way.
Synopsis: A man named Ernesto, a resident of the Canary Islands, contacts filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki to propose making a film about his life. He explains to her that in gender violence there are always two sides: the victim and the aggressor. He confesses to being the aggressor. The Greek director then embarks on a journey, real and cinematic, in which she discovers the hidden corners, the lights and shadows of a character trapped in the cycle of violence, and in the process realizes that Ernesto is, in reality, half criminal and half victim, and that his story pushes her to confront her own family history, which she left in her native country two decades ago.
Screening: Light Falls Vertical | Director/s: Efthymia Zymvragaki | Year: 2022 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 85 min | Genre: Documental | Country: España, Alemania, Italia y Países Bajos | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Rated: +12

Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 5: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 12: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 19: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 26: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Querida Sara
2024-04-26 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here:
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
The relationship between Patricia Franquesa, the director of this documentary, and Sara, the first cab driver in Afghanistan, is proposed to us as a story of friendship whose thread is united by the gaze in front of the camera, where we stand as spectators, but to which the protagonist of the documentary constantly speaks.
All the material filmed in front of this strong and confident woman, who is aware of being filmed and in the story, is offered to us as a tribute that acquires greater impact when we learn about the political and social evolution that took place and continues to take place in Afghanistan.
Synopsis: This is a moving portrait of Sara, the first woman cab driver in Afghanistan. Spanish filmmaker Patricia Franquesa captures the strength of a powerful woman who breaks through the barriers of a society marked by patriarchy. Sara has bright eyes, tireless in defending women’s rights and fighting to achieve what seemed impossible. It is an inspiring story of friendship between two women full of life, a hymn to empathy and dialogue between cultures: the circular tale of Sara’s life story turns from fear to love and from love to fear: a testimony of a reality that no longer exist.
Screening: Querida Sara | Director/s: Patricia Franquesa | Year: 2021 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 60 min | Genre: Documental | Country: España, Serbia y Noruega | Original version: farsi, uzbeko e inglés | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués, italiano, español | Rated: SC

Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 5: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 12: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 19: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 26: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: FanCineQueer. Infancias (June 2024)
2024-06-06 - 2024-06-27 | Virtual
The FanCineQueer. Infancias films in this series will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel, link below, for 96 hours, starting at 2:00 am.
Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo HERE
The Cervantes Institute joins the celebration of LGTBIQ+ culture by presenting a program of short films co-organized with the Extremadura festival FanCineQueer.
FanCineQueer. Infancias Screening:
Cocodrilo– Thursday, June 6, 2024
Elsa – Monday, June 10, 2024
El rey de las flores – Thursday, June 13
17 minutos con Nora – Monday, June 17:
Cristiano – Thursday, June 20
La acampada – Monday, June 24
El Dance Off – Thursday, June 27
This online film series focuses on different stories that bring us closer to the everyday lives of children and young people of different status and backgrounds, who face life from a starting position dominated by questioning and difficulties in their definition of gender.
The different formats and genres presented in this program also speak of the narrative and aesthetic richness of this monographic thematic cinema that allows its authors to address the social vulnerability and the hard search for identity that is always present during this period in the life of every person, and especially in those who defy normativity.

Cocodrilo
Jorge Yúdice’s career as a director took a surprising leap forward with Cocodrilo, which was selected for the Berlinale and received an excellent reception at multiple festivals and screenings. The subtlety with which a past story is told and the way in which his characters communicate shows the drive of a great screenwriter whose first feature film is already awaited.
Alicia, like every afternoon, makes herself a cup of tea and watches her favorite YouTube channel: VictorGaming, dedicated to action role-playing video games. Victor, the youtuber, broadcasts today a live stream where fans can ask him questions. Alicia has something very important to tell him.
Screening: Cocodrilo; Director/s: Jorge Yúdice; Year: 2019; Format: Digital; Running time: 5 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Spain; Original version: español; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: TP
*****

Elsa
Disney’s imaginary serves the director and actor Albert Carbó to talk about transgender children through his own production company, which he created to work on social issues that help to mediate and make their realities visible in a complex way.
Elsa is a six-year-old girl who, like anyone her age, wants to live happily and freely. She knows she is different from the majority, but despite her young age she is clear about things: she knows she is a girl and that she is the queen of her life.
Screening: Elsa; Director: Albert Carbó; Year: 2021; Format: Digital; Running time: 12 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Spain; Original version: catalán; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: TP
*****

El rey de las flores
The first short film by actor and director Alberto Velasco offers a double look at tradition, which is posed as a place that can welcome everyone or reject them decisively. The story of Victor, the center of the narrative, grows as does his inner rage and, in doing so, the director starts from an imaginary of joy and nature to arrive at a somber place of closure.
Victor, ten years old, loves popular folklore. He already knows what it means that what you like most in the world, which in his case is dancing, is what hurts you the most. His mother works tirelessly and also takes care of his bedridden stepfather day and night, but with a lively, sharp and hurtful tongue every time Victor comes through the door. When Victor dances, he transforms, laughs, dreams and escapes from the reality at home. What he could never imagine is that the same violence he received would be his own salvation.
Screening: El rey de las flores; Director: Alberto Velasco; Year: 2021; Format: Digital; Running time: 13 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Spain; Original version: español; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: +16
*****

17 minutos con Nora
The name Nora is indisputably linked to Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, where the whole inner world of women subjected to an external and oppressive law is revealed. Taking this reference as a clear evocation and with Lucas Hnath’s re-reading, this short film by director Imanol Ruiz de Lara leads to a long-delayed conversation between a father and a son, in which all the humanity that is always behind the sudden understanding of the other is condensed.
Nora is nervous because the next day she is performing in a play at her high school, but the insults of her classmates at the door of her house cause her to face something more important to her: that her father accepts her as she is. In seventeen minutes the relationship between the two will change forever.
Screening: 17 minutos con Nora; Director: Imanol Ruiz de Lara; Year: 2021; Format: Digital; Running time: 18 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Spain; Original version: español; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: +12
*****

Cristiano
Comedy is a genre that always surprises us because it highlights characteristics of reality that we would not always call laughable. In this interpretative duel between Nacho Guerreros and Iván Vigara, the terrain is even more slippery as it is a debate that moves from the theological to the personal.
Cristiano is a devout young man who wants to be trained in the seminary to become a Catholic priest, with the surprise that the interviewer responsible for vocations is the former priest of his village, Avelino, an unconventional priest who defines himself as a “modern man”. Just before Avelino approves his enrollment in the seminary, Cristiano confesses his most intimate secret, a secret that will determine whether or not he will be able to become a priest.
Screening: Cristiano; Director/s: Adán Pichardo; Year: 2021; Format: Digital; Running time: 11 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Spain; Original version: español; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: +12
******

La acampada
The social emergence of issues related to mental health shows how these types of conditions, which have always been erased from the public agenda, have come to light to demystify their nature and make their problematic nature evident. This short film – supported by Indetectables, the project of the NGO Apoyo Positivo, which focuses on sexual health and the fight against discrimination of the LGTBIQ+ collective – shows us, through the eyes of a minor who has to take care of his mother, how this is a problem that plagues many adolescents.
Two days in the life of a trans adolescent boy and his sick mother. It is an intimate portrait of a single-parent family, mental illness and caregiving.
Screening: La acampada; Director/s: Afioco Gnecco y Enrique Cervantes; Year: 2022; Format: Digital; Running time: 22 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Spain; Original version: español; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: SC
*****

El Dance Off
Filmed in Chacomús (Argentina), this short film is offered as a love letter to Latin American queer culture and magical realism, which is so closely linked to the idiosyncrasies of this territory. The way in which the characters suffer the patriarchal tradition, so tinged with intransigence and dogmatism, is transgressed in this story that breaks with the expectations of its own generic code.
At a silent gas station on the outskirts of a rural town, young Ernesto dreams of becoming a dancer. It is not until his magical dance-off with a desolate drag queen that the boy discovers the courage to make his dreams a reality.
Screening: El Dance Off; Director: Nicolás Keller Sarmiento; Year: 2023; Format: Digital; Running time: 13 min; Genre: Fiction; Country: Argentina; Original version: español; Subtitles: English, French. Portuges, Italian; Rated: SC

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Con ton y son
2024-09-12 | Virtual
2:00 am (MST)
In this online film series, which will play throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 12. Cervantes Vimeo Link Here.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
In October 2022, the Cervantes Institute in Prague hosted the abstract animation workshop «Muchos metros de película» (Many meters of film), in which a group of schoolchildren, led by artists Laura Ginès and Pepon Meneses, made a collective film emulating the camera-less animation technique popularized in the mid-1950s by artists such as Norman Mclaren, Len Lye, and Stan Brakhage.
This technique would have required 35 mm celluloid strips, which – once manipulated – would have had to be mounted and projected in situ. Due to the cost of celluloid and the technical complexity of its projection, the artists opted to simulate the procedure using paper strips, to give priority to the longitudinal treatment of the drawing with respect to the strip rather than to the frame-by-frame treatment. Thus, using cash register paper rolls as 35 mm celluloid, they worked on paper strips with markers, rollers and pads as photograms, and then photographed the pictures, edited and projected, to create an abstract and gestural collective film in which they play with the concept of dots and stripes in movement: expansion and transformation.

Screening: Con ton y son; Director/s: Pepon Meneses y Laura Ginès; Year: 2022; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 1 min; Genre: Anamation/Animación; Country: República Checa; Rating/Calificacion: SC
In this online film series, which will play throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos -directors of the Punto y Raya Festival- offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Generaciones and El país del futuro
2024-09-19 | Virtual
2:00 am (MST)
In this online film series, which plays throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 19.
Link Generaciones: https://vimeo.com/video/963031836
Link El País del futuro: https://vimeo.com/video/963034780
The Tunisian cities of Tunis and Sousse were the setting for two workshops coordinated by the Instituto Cervantes of Tunis under the title “Counterline and Counterpoint” held in November 2023.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
Students from the Lycée Pierre Mendès France in Tunis and the Mhamed Driss Lycée Français International in Sousse were guided by the founders of the international platform Punto y Raya, dedicated to the production, promotion and education of audiovisual arts in its purest form, Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo, to create two abstract audiovisual works inspired by the classical mosaics housed in some museums in Tunisia. The final work is a similar dialogue between organic and geometric forms, creating its own moving designs and fluctuating freely between one style and another to tell a story of harmony and counterpoint.

Inspired by the ancient mosaics that can be found in the Bardo National Museum or the Archaeological Museum of El Djem in Tunis; mixing themes of Greek mythology, country scenes, hunting or landscapes, from the third century BC to the fifth century AD, with games of shapes, rhythms and compositions more geometric and closer to the Islamic tradition, Generaciones and El país del futuro propose precious narratives where nature is always present despite the high degree of abstraction in the image.
Screening: Generaciones y El país del futuro; Director/s: Punto y Raya (Nöel Palazzo y Ana Santos); Year: 2023; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 1 min; Genre: Anamation/Animación; Country: Túnez; Rating/Calificacion: SC
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos – directors of the Punto y Raya Festival – offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.

Instituto Cervantes: ¡Cine Magnífico! Latino Film Festival
2024-09-27 - 2024-09-28
3:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday
11:00 am to 8:00 pm Saturday
South Broadway Cultural Center (1025 Broadway Blvd SE)
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque is launching the twelfth edition of Cine Magnífico, Latino Film Festival of Albuquerque. This event has focused on the dissemination of culture and audio-visual creation in Spanish in its 11 previous editions, and has given visibility during these years in New Mexico to numerous films and short films made in Spain and various Spanish-speaking countries.
The 2024 edition of the festival will have as its main venue the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque and will be complemented by screenings in Santa Fe (NM) and El Paso (Texas). It will include a program of six feature films from countries such as Spain, Chile, Costa Rica and the United States. Cine Magnifico will also feature talks, meetings with filmmakers and will also focus on young filmmakers from New Mexico.
Tickets are free. Reservations are required.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Día del Cine Español: 7 mesas (de billar francés)
2024-10-06 | Virtual
The film will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for 48 hours, starting at 12:00 pm (MTS) on October 5. Instituto Cervantes. Canal Vimeo HERE.
The fourth edition of Spanish Film Day, to be held on October 6, is presented as the consolidation of an event that aims to raise awareness of the importance of Spanish film heritage as an essential part of contemporary culture.
For the first time, the film selected to commemorate this day is directed by a woman. It is 7 mesas (de billar francés), the fifth feature film by Gracia Querejeta, a filmmaker who belongs to a family that is an essential reference in Spanish cinema.

This family melodrama showcases all the ingredients of the concern for human relationships that Spanish cinema has maintained throughout its history. With a great cast headed by actresses Maribel Verdú and Blanca Portillo, the film’s story of solidarity and self-improvement shows a way of life that underlines women’s ability to reinvent themselves in times of crisis.
The neighborhood setting makes the billiard tables that title this cinematographic work become an image that symbolizes a world resistant to the onslaught of the fluid life we seem to live today. The struggle to rescue and revive these spaces of coexistence results in a wonderful hymn to the preponderance of public space and its inestimable value for citizenship.
The film had a remarkable national and international tour: in addition to its presence in various festivals, the actresses Maribel Verdú and Amparo Baró were awarded the goya awards for best female main cast performance, respectively. 7 mesas (de billar francés), produced and premiered in the 21st century, forces us to think that heritage continues to be created at all times in the cinematographic sphere, where production continues to be a significant reference in the lives of spectators.
Director/s: Gracia Querejeta | Year: 2007 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 112 min | Genre: Ficción/Fiction | Country: España/Spain | Original version: español/Spanish | Subtitles: inglés/English | Rated/Calificacion: TP/All audiences

Cervantes Film Series: Volavérunt
2025-02-06 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
This blockbuster, Volavérunt, directed by Bigas Luna with an international cast and crew, stars Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who plays the Duchess of Alba. Doña Cayetana was a key woman in the court of King Carlos IV with a personality based on intrigue, passion, and desire.
The film’s title evokes an ambiguity that can be traced back to Goya’s Caprichos engraving no. 61, which shares the title of this film. The film’s grandious photography and costumes bring the lavish world of the late 18th century to life.
Synopsis: One morning in the summer of 1802, Cayetana, the Duchess of Alba, is found dead. A few hours before, at the inauguration party at her palace, many of her admirers and detractors were present: Goya, Godoy, Prince Ferdinand, Pepita Tudó and Pignatelli, among them. Although it is admitted as official version that the beautiful duchess died of natural causes, later confessions and revealed secrets invite to think that Cayetana could have been poisoned. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Volavérunt | Director: Bigas Luna | Year: 1999 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 118 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: France and Spain | Original version: Spahish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated PG13/Calificacion: 13+

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: Celos
2025-02-13 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
After many years of trying to make the film Celos, the great Spanish filmmaker Vicente Aranda delves into the complicated territory of jealousy to narrate an agonizing and fatal story. This production incorporates the director’s obsessions with the limits of love and sexual desire, between which there is always violence.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón’s interpretation of the main character displays a range of sophisticated nuances that contribute to the development of a narrative arc full of surprises.
Synopsis: Antonio and Carmen are happy and about to get married. On the eve of the wedding, Antonio finds an old photograph of his future wife with another man. From that moment on, jealousy assaults Antonio and begins to transform his character and behavior. To save their relationship, Carmen must confront her murky past.
Screening: Celos | Director: Vicente Aranda | Year: 1999 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 110 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated R/Calificacion: 18+

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a series dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando
2025-02-20 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
With the soul of a late-night tango in this film, Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando, the songs and the emotion of the world revolve around the music that dominated leisure in the early 20th century: tango. The film is in conversation with another classic from director Jaime Chávarri, best known for his series Las cosas del querer.
Synopsis: In 1930s Buenos Aires, a Spanish immigrant meets a tango singer, considered the best Gardel imitator. Juanita tries to make Renzo look more and more like her idol, until one day the tango singer is given a delicate mission: to imitate the real Gardel. [Source: Flixolé].
Screening: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando | Director: Jaime Chávarri | Year: 1998 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 93 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/Argentina/España y Argentina | Original version: Spain/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated PG/Calificacion: +7

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: Bajarse al moro
2025-02-27 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Honorary Goya
When Fernando Colomo undertook this adaptation of a play by the same name, Bajarse al moro, he was already a key director of the cinematic milestone that was called “la comedia madrileña” (The Madrid Comedy) and that featured the auteur cinema of the eighties.
This film departs from the festive tone that guided his previous titles to get much closer to his characters and present a world where other variables such as class or the future reveal a less playful environment. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón’s character makes a place for herself among her three co-stars who are already part of the canon of our best performers.
Synopsis: Chusa shares an apartment with her cousin, a drug dealer, and her boyfriend, a policeman. To help her cousin, Chusa sometimes smuggles weed from Morocco. Since everyone smokes a little, there is always a need for more. Chusa then decides to go to Morocco with a friend, but this time things don’t go as she thought. [Source: Lola Films]
Screening: Bajarse al moro | Director/s: Fernando Colomo | Year: 1988 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 90 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Not Rated/Calificacion: TP

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Places
2025-04-03 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
2018 was a landmark year for women directors and screenwriters working in the film industry. An example of this is this magnificent debut by Claudia Barral: a search in experimental format of human memory in the inhabited and loved spaces and the imprint we leave on them. Sensations and memories that we rarely name out loud.
Synopsis: Places explores the limits of time and its passage. The short film captures the journey to different instants, always from the same place, expanding the possibilities of ellipsis and giving rise to an artistic universe that will always use the same coordinates. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Places | Director/s: Claudia Barral | Year: 2020 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 4 min | Genre: Ficción/Fiction | Country: España/Spain | Original version: EnglishInglés | Subtitles: English/Inglés, French/Francés, Portugues/Portugués de Brasil, Italian/italiano Spanish/Español | Rated/Calificacion: TP

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Cuentas divinas
2025-04-07 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
Eulalia Ramón, a renowned Spanish actress, presents her first work as a director, produced by her daughter Anna Saura. This is a very black comedy that places a serial killer at the center of a narrative with social undertones that breaks the fourth wall and invites us to ask ourselves about our own taboos.
Synopsis: Monica is a normal woman with a normal life in a normal place in any of these modern times. However, one day, because of an unimportant detail that could have been solved as any other previous disagreement, she kills her husband. Thus she discovers crime as a substitute for anxiolytics, the liberation from all moralism. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Cuentas divinas | Director/s: Eulalia Ramón | Year: 2022 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 14 min | Genre: Ficción Animación/Fisction Animation | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: English/Inglés, French/Francés, Portugies/Portugués de Brasil, Italian /italiano y español | Rated/Calificacion: +16

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Pequeño
2025-04-10 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
Álvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera humorously present us with a moral dilemma in which parents confront their love for their daughter and the novel options of bioethics. It is one of the most transgressive works that have come to the festival La Mirada Tabú, not only because of its subject matter, but also because it gives voice to thoughts that many parents have had at some point and would never confess.
Synopsis: When they are born they are beautiful, almost perfect. But they grow up so fast… I wish there was a way to enjoy that unrepeatable age forever. Petit Toujour combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormone blockade to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby. [Source: Line up].
Screening: Pequeño | Director/s: Meka Ribera y Álvaro G. Company |Year: 2023 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 12 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: English/Inglés, French/Francés, Portugies/Portugués de Brasil | Rated/Calificacion: +12

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: La hija indigna
2025-04-17 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
This heartbreaking documentary, created by the young Argentine filmmaker Abril Dores based on real events, explores the relationship between a genocidal father and his daughter. It is an inquiry into family ties and the deep emotions that bind us to people we do not always consider worthy of our love. It is a brilliant cinematographic work that confronts us with our inner demons and taboos.
Synopsis: Analía Kalinec wakes up every day knowing that her father is responsible for the death and disappearance of thousands of people. This is the story of a father-daughter relationship destroyed by the cruelest acts that human beings can perform.
Screening: La hija indigna | Director/s: Abril Victoria Dores | Year: 2018 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 14 min | Genre: Documental | Country: Argentina | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués de Brasi, italiano y español | Rated/Calificacion: SC

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Happy Friday
2025-04-21 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu
This situation comedy by José Antonio Campos explores such a current and little named topic as the care of dependent relatives, through a hilarious story that transforms pain into laughter, and also provides an unusual solution to the vital anguish of a housewife who has sacrificed her whole life for her family and has never received gratitude or a kind word.
Synopsis: Chari has been on the edge of her life, she can’t take it anymore. Against all odds, capitalism offers her a chance to break free from her ties. But plans never work out as she expects them to. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].
Screening: Happy Friday | Director/s: José A. Campos | Year: 2019 | Format: Digital | Running time: Cortometraje – 12 min | Genre:Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/Español | Subtitles: inglés, francés, portugués de Brasi, | Rated/Calificacion: +7

In April, the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel will be filled with a selection of short films that focus on the concept of taboo from different perspectives, but always with a thoughtful and considered, rather than critical, look to place viewers in the realm of reflection.
Proceeding from the international film festival La Mirada Tabú, the eight short films in this online film series cover different styles and looks and address different hot topics in 21st-century society using different registers and genres: we will find dramas, comedies, parodies, animations… to learn to face our world from a critical conscience.
Program
April 3: Places (Spain, 2020), by Claudia Barral
April 7: Cuentas divinas (Spain, 2023), by Eulalia Ramón
April 10: Pequeño (Spain, 2024), by Alvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera
April 14: Work it class! (Spain, 2021), by Pol Diggler
April 17: La hija indigna (Argentina, 2018), by Abril Victoria Dores
April 21: Happy Friday (Spain, 2019), by José Antonio Campos
April 24: 3, 2 (lo que hacen las novias) (Spain, 2011), by Jota Linares
April 28: Democracia (Spain, 2013), by Borja Cobeaga

Cine Magnifico Opening Film// US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa
2025-11-07 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 una inesperada amistad con el dueño.
Cast: Manolo Solo, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Cabaço, Branka Katić
2025 // 114 min. // Spain, Portugal // Drama // Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles
View the Una Quinta Portuguesa official trailer here:

Free community event

Cine Magnifico: Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras
2025-11-08
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 hechos reales: Ximena, una exitosa psiquiatra, recibe la inesperada visita de su hija mayor, Tamara, quien estuvo aislada en una secta por mucho tiempo. Mientras se refugia en casa de su madre, comienza una investigación policial, debido a que el hijo recién nacido de Tamara, desapareció en extrañas circunstancias al interior de la secta. Tanto la justicia como Ximena intentarán descubrir cuál es el destino del bebé desaparecido.
Cast: Aline Kuppenheim, Camila Roeschmann, Julia Lübbert
2024 // 95 min. // Chile, Argentina // Drama, thriller, cults // Spanish with English subtitles
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Cine Magnifico: Culpa Cero
2025-11-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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, es expuesta mediáticamente por la trascendencia de un plagio. Lejos de asumir su responsabilidad, ella negará las acusaciones e intentará justificarse ridículamente, aunque esto implique sacar a la luz toda su oscuridad.
Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli, Justina Bustos, Cecilia Roth, Gaia Garibaldi
2024 // 110 min. // Argentina // Comedy // Spanish with English subtitles
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Cine Magnifico: El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),
2025-11-08 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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: Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Laura Uribe Rojas, Donovan Said, Carmen Ramos, Micaela Gramajo and Bernardo Gamboa
2025 // 97 min. // Mexico // Dramatic comedy, supernatural // Spanish with English subtitles
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Cine Magnifico: Una Sombra Oscilante
2025-11-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
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 vanishing point that might just set us free.
Él revela e imagina un mundo en el interior de un cuarto oscuro. Su hija hace de eso un juego: sobre imágenes latentes, posibles, inventadas. Sobre las formas de resistir y transitar la oscuridad.
“Una sombra oscilante” explora el peso íntimo y político de las imágenes para abrir un espacio donde pensarlas como acto de resistencia, ya sea porque se hacen pese al horror, o porque existen para ofrecer un punto de fuga imaginario que quizás nos libre de este.
2024 // 77 min. // Chile, Argentina, France // Documentary // Spanish with English subtitles
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