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:

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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
View the Culpa Cero official trailer here:

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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
View the El Diablo Fuma official trailer here:

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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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Cine Magnifico: Matryoshka
2025-11-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025
Matryoshka
by Jorge Forero

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected.
Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on this weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for generations.
Ana viaja unos días a casa de su abuela en el campo. Su madre también está presente, pero la relación se vuelve visiblemente incómoda, pues se siente abandonada.
El aborto secreto de Ana, debido a un embarazo no planeado, renueva su perspectiva de ser madre y la ayuda a comprender la vida de su propia madre. En este fin de semana, busca sanar de las cargas y los secretos que ha arrastrado durante generaciones.
Cast: Vicky Hernández, Ana María Sánchez, Alma Rodríguez
2024 // 87 min. // Colombia // Drama, motherhood // Spanish with English subtitles
View the Matryoshka official trailer here:

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Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque: Día del Libro
2026-04-25 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque: Día del Libro
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
NHCC Campus
Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day, Día del Libro, with an outdoor event open to the public, featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booth from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose.
Free Community Event
Activities Include:
Día del Libro
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
NHCC Campus
Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque celebrates International Book Day, Día del Libro, with a free outdoor event that is open to the public featuring a variety of activities. The centerpiece of the event will be a fair featuring booths from independent Albuquerque bookstores offering books in both Spanish and English. The Center will present the first 50 attendees with a complimentary book and a rose.
Free Community Event
Activities to include:
10:00 am: Opening ceremonies with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, Guest of Honor; Patricia Pinzón, Cónsul General of México in Albuquerque; Zack Quintero, National Hispanic Cultural Center Executive Director; Carlos Madrid, Director of Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque; Master of Ceremonies and former Poet Laureate of the City of Albuquerque, Jessica Helen López.
11:00 am: Peruvian Dance and Music performance by Peru-Dance Abq, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in Denver. Main Stage.
11:00 am: Docent-guided tour of the NHCC’s Torreón fresco, Mundos de Mestizaje. NHCC Welcome Center
11:30 am: Free demonstration Spanish class, honoring not only World Book Day but also Spanish Language Day—both celebrated on April 23. Instituto Cervantes, Rm. 128
12:00 pm: Poesía on the Plaza, a poetry session hosted by local group Chicharra Press, featuring local poets Marcial Delgado, Manuel González, Kristin Patton, Zach Kluckman, Jessica López, Marissa Prada, and students from Native American Community Academy. Main Stage.
1:00 pm: Film screening of the Spanish film, El jugador de ajedrez (2017), which will feature a Q&A with producer Juan Antonio Casado—an event organized by the Spanish Resource Center of the Embassy of Spain in Washington. Bank of America Theatre, Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts.
1:30 pm: Tablao flamenco, sponsored by the National Institute of Flamenco. Main Stage.
2:00 pm: Lecture. Cancionero Huehuetenango, on sacred and secular music from the highlands of Guatemala, with Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich. Instituto Cervantes, Rm. 128
2:30 pm: Reading with Mexico—an exciting literacy-promotion event with word games, puzzles, and a raffle of 10 bikes for children and teenagers, with music by Mariachi de San José High School, in collaboration with the Consulate General of México. Main Stage.
3:00 pm: Guided tour of the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts Library with Amy Padilla, NHCC Librarian. History & Literary Arts Bldg.
4:00 pm: ¡Viva México!, an unforgettable celebration of Hispanic culture and Mexican independence, spotlighting the huapangos that embody Veracruz’s African and Andalusian roots, with support from the Consulate General of México. Wells-Fargo Auditorium, Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts.
4:00 pm: Music in Spanish. Main Stage.
Special thank you to our sponsors and partners!
