Film: Zonazine documental, Una corriente salvaje
2021-05-28
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Una corriente salvaje, Nuria Ibañez’ third feature film, explores the daily lives and the burgeoning relationship of two men who have chosen to live on an isolated beach in Baja California, Mexico, leaving their separate pasts behind, living off the grid, and fishing to survive. Alone with only the sand and water for company, Omar and Chilo become unlikely friends as they harvest food from the ocean, share meals together, and talk late into the night in this “delightfully intimate and beautifully realized portrait of male companionship.”
Mexico; 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 72 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During May, in collaboration with Spain’s Festival de Málaga, established in 1998 to promote Spanish cinema and celebrating its 24th anniversary next month, Instituto Cervantes presents four documentaries that were screened at the festival in 2019. The series “Zonazine documental,” whose name is taken from one of the components of this festival, has been an integral part of Instituto Cervantes’ programming since 2014, sharing the best work of contemporary Spanish and Latin American documentary filmmakers.
Zonazine documental Film Schedule:
May 7: El cuarto reino: El reino de los plásticos (Adán Aliago & Álex Lora, 2019)
May 14: Para la guerra (Francisco Marise, 2018)
May 21: Baracoa (Pablo Briones, Sean Clark & Jace Freeman, 2019)
May 28: Una corriente salvaje (Nuria Ibañez, 2018)

Film: Berlanga cumple cien años, Esa pareja feliz
2021-06-04
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Set in Madrid in the 1950s, Esa pareja feliz is the feature film debut by Luis García Berlanga and Juan Antonio Bardem. Underlying the 1951 comedy, heavily influenced by Italian neorealism, is a critical look at the incipient consumerism that was beginning to infiltrate the society of the day. A young couple, searching for ways to improve their lot in life, win a contest sponsored by the Florit soap company and receive the gifts and invitations awarded to the “happy couple” for 24 hours, before they must return to their everyday reality.
Spain; 1951; Spanish with English subtitles; 102 minutes; rated PG.
Free community event

Luis García Berlanga is one of the most renowned directors in the history of Spanish cinema. His long and fruitful film career, his unmistakable creative hallmarks, his corrosive humor, and his work in directing some of the great classics of the 20th century all merit the tribute of this on-line film series, presented on the centenary of his birth. In June, Instituto Cervantes showcases four films that represent the trajectory of Berlanga’s career and demonstrate his evolution as a filmmaker.
Berlanga cumple cien años: Film Schedule
June 4: Esa pareja feliz (Luis García Berlanga & Juan Antonio Bardem, 1951)
June 11: Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga, 1956)
June 18: Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961)
June 25: Patrimonio nacional (Luis García Berlanga, 1981)

Film: Berlanga cumple cien años, Calabuch
2021-06-11
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
An illustrious American rocket scientist, wearied of working on atomic bombs and increasingly concerned about their destructive potential, flees the country to find refuge in Calabuch, a small village on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, in Berlanga’s 1956 film of the same name. First taken for a smuggler’s accomplice and then for a kindly tramp, he soon blends into the everyday life of the community, but when he helps his neighbors win a fireworks competition, the international authorities discover his whereabouts.
Spain/Italy; 1956; Spanish with English subtitles; 92 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Luis García Berlanga is one of the most renowned directors in the history of Spanish cinema. His long and fruitful film career, his unmistakable creative hallmarks, his corrosive humor, and his work in directing some of the great classics of the 20th century all merit the tribute of this on-line film series, presented on the centenary of his birth. In June, Instituto Cervantes showcases four films that represent the trajectory of Berlanga’s career and demonstrate his evolution as a filmmaker.
Berlanga cumple cien años: Film Schedule
June 4: Esa pareja feliz (Luis García Berlanga & Juan Antonio Bardem, 1951)
June 11: Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga, 1956)
June 18: Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961)
June 25: Patrimonio nacional (Luis García Berlanga, 1981)

Film: Berlanga cumple cien años, Plácido
2021-06-18
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Berlanga’s 1961 film Plácido, an impoverished truck driver in rural Spain becomes involved in a Christmas Eve “Invite a poor person to dinner” event sponsored by a cookware manufacturer. The fast-paced, darkly comic farce takes a satirical look at the true meaning of charity, contrasting charity from the head—the cold, calculated kind practiced by a hypocritical upper class—with charity from the heart.
Spain; 1961; Spanish with English subtitles; 85 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Luis García Berlanga is one of the most renowned directors in the history of Spanish cinema. His long and fruitful film career, his unmistakable creative hallmarks, his corrosive humor, and his work in directing some of the great classics of the 20th century all merit the tribute of this on-line film series, presented on the centenary of his birth. In June, Instituto Cervantes showcases four films that represent the trajectory of Berlanga’s career and demonstrate his evolution as a filmmaker.
Berlanga cumple cien años: Film Schedule
June 4: Esa pareja feliz (Luis García Berlanga & Juan Antonio Bardem, 1951)
June 11: Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga, 1956)
June 18: Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961)
June 25: Patrimonio nacional (Luis García Berlanga, 1981)

Film: Berlanga cumple cien años, Patrimonio nacional
2021-06-25
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
The 1981 film Patrimonio nacional is the second in Berlanga’s “trilogía Nacional,”co-written late in his career with acclaimed screenwriter Rafael Azcona. It is preceded by La escopeta nacional and followed by Nacional III. After the death of Franco in 1975 and the restoration of the monarchy, the Marquis of Leguineche returns with his son to his palace in the heart of Madrid, intending to regain his position among the city’s aristocracy, and gain access to the king’s inner circle, following decades of voluntary exile. His estranged wife, however, has been ensconced in the palace for over 40 years, loathes both her husband and her son, and has no intention of leaving. When the Marquis plots to have her committed, a variety of eccentric characters pop in and out of the palace in this sardonic and surreal commentary on the opportunism and decadence of the Spanish upper classes post-Franco.
Spain; 1981; Spanish with English subtitles; 110 minutes; rated PG-13.
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Luis García Berlanga is one of the most renowned directors in the history of Spanish cinema. His long and fruitful film career, his unmistakable creative hallmarks, his corrosive humor, and his work in directing some of the great classics of the 20th century all merit the tribute of this on-line film series, presented on the centenary of his birth. In June, Instituto Cervantes showcases four films that represent the trajectory of Berlanga’s career and demonstrate his evolution as a filmmaker.
Berlanga cumple cien años: Film Schedule
June 4: Esa pareja feliz (Luis García Berlanga & Juan Antonio Bardem, 1951)
June 11: Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga, 1956)
June 18: Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961)
June 25: Patrimonio nacional (Luis García Berlanga, 1981)

Film:Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia
2021-07-06
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Una dedicatoria a lo bestia, a 2019 documentary by Nucbeade (the collective formed by artists QuielaNuc and Andrea Beade), focuses on a variety of objects found at the headquarters in San Fernando de Henares of the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. This internment center for young women ages 13 to 21 was in operation from 1944 to 1985. The filmmakers’ use of documentary as an archaeological exercise, uncovering evidence of the daily reality experienced at the site, offers valuable insights into an uncomfortable and little-known part of recent Spanish history, and raises ongoing questions. Can evidence of resistance and rebellion be found in a space that was constructed for the repression of female sexuality? What memories are activated by these relics, and how can they be integrated into the historical record of the Franco regime and Spain’s transition to democracy?
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 10 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love,and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecasin the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
* Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
* Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
* Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
* Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
* Tuesday, July 20: Cantando en las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
* Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
* Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
* Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Después también
2021-07-09
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Carla Simón’s 2019 short subject Después también takes a realistic and sensitive look at the impact of AIDS on the lives of young people, as Edu is told by his ex, Alex, that the latter has tested positive for HIV.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 25 minutes; not recommended for children under 7
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love,and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewerswith realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecasin the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
* Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
* Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
* Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
* Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
* Tuesday, July 20: Cantando en las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
* Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
* Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
* Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Su
2021-07-13
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Laia Foguet’s 2019 film Su, despite its brevity, paints a complex and complete story of love and life with carefully chosen brushstrokes. When Su returns home after many years away, she confronts a past she had attempted to leave behind.
2019; Catalán with English subtitles; 12 minutes; rated PG.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Victor XX
2021-07-16
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Ian de la Rosa’s 2015 film Victor XX, set in a small fishing village on the coast of Almería, explores the conflicts and difficulties of a search for sexual identity. Victor, unsure if he feels more male or more female, enjoys the ambiguity, but must deal with the expectations of his mother and girlfriend, the lack of understanding in his community, and the anxiety involved in a final decision.
2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not recommended for children under 7.

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Cantando desde las azoteas
2021-07-20
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Director Enric Ribes’ 2017 documentary Cantando desde las azoteas is an emotional and tender tribute to its protagonist, Gilda Love, who was baptized Eduardo Enrique Gustavo Francisco, but never felt that he was any of these men. As the last drag queen in Barcelona’s former “barrio chino” (the historical neighborhood of El Raval), he still takes the stage every night, at the age of 90, under the name he adopted as homage to Rita Hayworth’s signature role.
2017; Spanish with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Snap
2021-07-23
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Snap, a 2018 documentary by Chilean filmmakers Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira, is the most experimental film in this series—composed through fragments of the audiovisual content of social media, and offering a mosaic of individual reflections on sexual and gender identity.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Alma
2021-07-27
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Alma, the protagonist of Santiago León Cuéllar’s 2018 film of the same name, has just entered a new high school, and her classmate Victor invites her to a party. The ongoing changes in her body, and her hidden desires, lead her to face her inner fears and begin the process of self-acceptance—loving herself as she is.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 17 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra
2021-07-30
8 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In her 2021 documentary El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra, Tamara García Iglesias traces the life and work of Alicia D’Amico, following her artistic trajectory through Buenos Aires, Paris, and Geneva in search of “shadows” of her presence. One of the best-known photographers of her time, D’Amico worked from the late 1950s until her death in Buenos Aires in 2001. She was recognized as a feminist and lesbian pioneer, and in her later, less recognized work she began an “investigation” of female desire and lesbian identity. El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra raises the question: Is it possible to meet someone through exploring the archive she has left behind?
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 47 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series. The series comprises eight different stories by eight filmmakers, showcasing a remarkable variety of cinematic language while dealing specifically, but not only, with issues of gender identity, same sex love, and transsexuality. These personal reflections, testimonies, and portraits present viewers with realities that are generally underrepresented in cinema. Taking its name from a song popularized by Las Grecas in the 1970s, Te estoy amando locamente is presented in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Bank of America Free Film Series.
Te estoy amando locamente programming:
Tuesday, July 6: Una dedicatoria a lo bestia (Nucbeade, 2019)
Friday, July 9: Después también (Carla Simón, 2019)
Tuesday, July 13: Su (Laia Foguet, 2019)
Friday, July 16: Victor XX (Ian de la Rosa, 2015)
Tuesday, July 20: Cantando desde las azoteas (Enric Ribes, 2017)
Friday, July 23: Snap (Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira, 2018)
Tuesday, July 27: Alma (Santiago León Cuéllar, 2018)
Friday, July 30: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra (Tamara García Iglesias, 2021)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de Ignacio Pardo
2021-09-03
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Ignacio Pardo is one of the pioneers of video art in Galicia and in Spain, utilizing digital animation in work revolving around the classic themes of Eros and Thanatos. Frequently recurring motifs include decay, suffering, and pain, as well as sexuality as a natural element in an ongoing life cycle, and his films display a humor that reflects an acceptance of this cycle and an ability to find joy in living. The short works screened include Videoviolín, Parpadeo, Triángulo, Corpore insepulto, Ninfografía, Carne viva, Ojo de pez, Ventanas de noche, La tentación del caracol vive arriba, and Moscas.
1985-2004; Spanish with English subtitles; 34 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Lume
2021-09-07
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Lume (Fire) is one of the most recent works by Alberte Pagán, a specialist in experimental cinema, and part of Pagán’s “Superficies” (“Surfaces”) series, in which the director plays with juxtaposing still photographs of natural elements with the movement of his story. In Lume, an intense, reddish chromatic palette, reminiscent of fire, emphasizes the rage shown in the audiovisual images, projected on a photograph of roots. The live sound in the piece is from a demonstration in Santiago de Compostela in memory of 16-year-old Carlos Palomino, assassinated by a neo-Nazi in November 2007.
2020; Gallego with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Inside the Microtubule
2021-09-10
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Inside the Microtubule, Judith Adataberna, a visual artist specializing in photography, video installation, and experimental film, explores the mechanisms of memory through the increasingly fragile memories of her 99-year-old grandmother. Images from a mountain climb at night during a snowstorm, together with images of the neurons and synapses that form the physical basis of our memories, reinforce the director’s reflections on memory, fear, and solitude.
2018; Gallego with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Reality
2021-09-14
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Visual artist and filmmaker David Fidalgo Omil uses animation to create his humorous and critical pieces. Reality explores the violence and absurdity of reality televisión, as comedy turns to tragedy in this satirical look at human misery.
2020; Spanish; 8 minutes; suitable for viewers 16 and older.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de DSK
2021-09-17
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
This anthology showcases the diverse work of DSK, a collective formed by Juan Lesta and Belén Montero. The artists, pioneers of video art in Galicia, were active for 20 years, creating pieces that experiment with hybridization among different disciplines and play with humor and irony as well as aesthetics. The short works screened include M09, Vida, Twin Power, Crépitation, O tempo perdido, aTienda, Morphing, Miro la vida pasar, Square Religion, Vide, Pedra e auga, and Estiven en Galicia e lembreime de ti.
2000-2017; Spanish, Gallego; 57 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Llamada a la escuela
2021-09-21
12 pm MST
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Carme Nogueira, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher, has an extensive background in both creative and academic fields. In Llamada a la escuela, she juxtaposes school archives and testimonies of children who attended the Las Hurdes school in the early 1930s with a passage from Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan, as well as drawings created by students today.
2016; Spanish with English subtitles; 3 minutes; not rated.

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), El evangelio de las maravilla
2021-09-23
6 pm (opening reception at 5 pm)
The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival de Cine de Madrid-Plataforma de Nuevos Realizadores).
Free Event

La Nueva Jerusalem, a small religious community led by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita, is waiting for the end of the world and the second coming of Christ at the end of the 20th century. When a young follower, Tomasa, becomes the “chosen one” who will serve as the sect’s new leader, unusual new rules are imposed on the community.
1988; Spanish with English subtitles; 116 minutes; rated PG-13.
This screening is preceded by an opening reception for the series with the Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque.
Parejas creativas: Film Schedule
September 23: El evangelio de las maravillas (1988)
September 24: Así es la vida (2000)
September 30: Las razones del corazón (2011)
October1: La calle de la amargura (2015)

Film: Videocreación en Galicia, _oito
2021-09-24
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In his experimental video art piece _oito, Galician audiovisual artist Berio Molina explores and plays with different sounds, including the human voice, in a unique venue. The sloping structure of Clifton Rocks, an underground railroad station located inside Avon Gorge, a hill in England, creates small amphitheatres, accentuating the resonance of sounds both inside and outside the space.
2019; Gallego; 7 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival presents works created at the intersection between contemporary art and avant-garde cinema, and the films chosen for screening this month demonstrate the artists’ will to overcome or reinvent the limits of audiovisual language.
Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía: Film Schedule
September 3: Foco de Ignacio Pardo (1985-2004)
September 7: Lume (Alberte Pagán, 2020)
September 10: Inside the Microtubule (Judith Adataberna, 2018)
September 14: Reality (David Fidalgo, 2020)
September 17, Foco de DSK (2000-2017)
September 21, Llamada a la escuela (Carme Nogueira, 2019)
September 24, __oito (Berio Molina, 2019)
September 28, Magma (Carla Andrade, 2014)

Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), Las razones del corazón
2021-09-30 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6 pm
In a re-interpretation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary set in present-day Mexico City, Emilia, a middle-class housewife, feels burdened by the mediocrity of her life. One day, she loses the two things that make it all bearable—her lover and her credit card—and comes to a fateful decision.
2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 128 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival de Cine de Madrid-Plataforma de Nuevos Realizadores).
This screening is preceded by an opening reception for the series with the Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque.
Parejas creativas: Film Schedule
September 23: El evangelio de las maravillas (1988)
September 24: Así es la vida (2000)
September 30: Las razones del corazón (2011)
October1: La calle de la amargura (2015)

Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), La calle de la amargura
2021-10-01 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
6 pm
Two aging prostitutes, burdened by marital and financial problems, drug and rob twin midgets—doubles for professional luchadores—in an effort to make ends meet. But the eyedrops with which they dose their victims prove fatal, and they murder them unintentionally. Based on a true story, La calle de la amargura takes an unflinching look at the mean streets of Mexico City.
2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 100 minutes; rated PG-13.
Free community event

The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival de Cine de Madrid-Plataforma de Nuevos Realizadores).
This screening is preceded by an opening reception for the series with the Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque.
Parejas creativas: Film Schedule
September 23: El evangelio de las maravillas (1988)
September 24: Así es la vida (2000)
September 30: Las razones del corazón (2011)
October1: La calle de la amargura (2015)

Film: Día de Cine Español/Day of Spanish Cinema, El viaje a ninguna parte
2021-10-05
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
El viaje a ninguna parte won the first Goya Awards (Spain’s main national annual film awards) ever given, for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, in 1987.
1986; Spanish with English subtitles; 134 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

October 6 will mark the establishment of the Day of Spanish Cinema, recognizing the important role of filmmakers in the country’s cultural and social life, as well as the value of this artistic heritage, now over a century old.
In the first celebration of this day, Instituto Cervantes, in coordination with the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), presents Fernando Fernán-Gómez’ 1986 film El viaje a ninguna parte. Adapted from the director’s acclaimed novel of the same name, the film is the story of a family of traveling comedians who perform in rural communities during the 1940s and 1950s. With the arrival of cinema, their world, and their era, is coming to an end.

Film: FIVER, La mirada de ellas, 10 años de cinedanza en España: Kinxi
2021-10-25
12 pm
Begins Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Kinxi, only three minutes in length, the ensemble Piña (Sara Fontán and Clara Tena) transport the audience to the essence of cinedance. “To end up eating kimchi is to eat quiche Lorraine in a Chinese bar.”
2012; 3 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle of short films: La mirada de ellas: 10 años de cinedanza en España, curated by FIVER director Samuel Retortillo. The screenings are among the activities celebrating the tenth anniversary of Baila España, held annually in the city of Bremen, Germany. FIVER, an international platform for the support, production, and exhibition of film and dance, promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation through the professionalization of the “cinedance” genre. The 2021 retrospective features ten short films directed by women selected as recipients of, or finalists for, awards by FIVER between 2012 and 2021.
FIVER (all films available for viewing October 25-31):
* Kinxi (Sara Fontán & Clara Tena, codirected by Anna Rubirola, 2012)
* Caballo negro (Tuixén Benet, 2013)
* Europe Endless (Ana Cembrero, codirected by Jorge Piquer, 2014)
* Fuego lento (Elena Castilla, 2015)
* Atma (Carla Subirana, 2016)
* Da mopa (Sevillanas electrónicas) (María Teresa García, 2017)
* Inside, inhabited landscapes (Carmen Porras, 2018)
* Sinfonía del cuerpo (Mónica Ruiz van Hattem, 2019)
* Inside/Outside (Carolina Romillo, 2020)
* Vals y rumba (Laura Delgado, codirected by Eduardo Rodríguez, 2021)

Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Young and Beautiful
2021-10-29 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Marina Lameiro’s 2018 documentary offers a portrait of a disenchanted generation, as four young people ponder their current situations, their futures, and a social system in which they do not seem to fit. Young and Beautiful was filmed over the course of two years, at several locations in the Basque Country, Navarre, Catalonia, and Valencia, with the director accompanying her friends through the events of their daily lives.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 72 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have been released in the last few years, and whose innovative approaches move away from more traditional formulas.
Contemporáneos: Film Schedule
October 29: Young and Beautiful (2018)
November 4: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo (2018)
Novevber 5: Oscuro y Lucientes (2018)

Film: FIVER, La mirada de ellas, 10 años de cinedanza en España
2021-10-31 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
12 pm on Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle of short films: La mirada de ellas: 10 años de cinedanza en España, curated by FIVER director Samuel Retortillo. The screenings are among the activities celebrating the tenth anniversary of Baila España, held annually in the city of Bremen, Germany. FIVER, an international platform for the support, production, and exhibition of film and dance, promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation through the professionalization of the “cinedance” genre. The 2021 retrospective features ten short films directed by women selected as recipients of, or finalists for, awards by FIVER between 2012 and 2021.
Free Event

In Kinxi, only three minutes in length, the ensemble Piña (Sara Fontán and Clara Tena) transport the audience to the essence of cinedance. “To end up eating kimchi is to eat quiche Lorraine in a Chinese bar.”
2021: 3 minutes; not rated.
Caballo negro is the concluding part of Catalan choreographer Tuixén Benet’s final project at the Institut del Teatre, and her first video clip. It features dancers from the group Tu Madre.
2013; 4 minutes; not rated.
Inspired by the work and lifestyle of “Eurocrats” in Brussels, Belgium, Europe Endless, by Ana Cembrero and codirector Jorge Piquer, features five dancers moving through empty spaces devoid of time and context. Cembrero describes the project as a fusion of three art forms: a dance film, a theatrical performance, and a site-specific work utilizing unconventional dance spaces.
2014; 26 minutes; not rated.
The pieces comprising Elena Castilla’s Fuego lento were developed in a choreography workshop offered by the director at the Pedro de Valdivia Juvenile Center in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz. The twelve teenagers participating in the workshop responded to a series of questions in creating these works: How do you feel? What do you want to say? What would you like to do in the future? What do you long for?
2015; 15 minutes; not rated.
In Atma, Carla Subirana tells the story of a warrior who, forgotten by her army after losing a battle, decides to abandon the armor that has protected her and start out on a path that will lead to a final surrender, and to victory.
2015; 9 minutes; not rated.
Da mopa (Sevillanas electrónicas), by María Teresa García, embodies the dilemma of presenting a primarily musical project as a danced concert, with themes ranging from a call to prayer to contemporary critical meta-thinking, and highlighting the contradictions of our needs, whether innate or acquired.
2017; 4 minutes; not rated.
Inspired by her performance in Mujeres que hay en mí, as well as her own memory and those of many other women, choreographer Carmen Porras created Inside, inhabited landscapes to trace the ancient footsteps of a dreamlike journey through external and internal landscapes, in which every corner resonates with the story living within the character.
2018; 6 minutes; not rated.
In Mónica Ruiz van Hattem’s Sinfonía del cuerpo, dancer Eduardo Guerrero and singer/saxophonist Antonio Lizardo create a relationship among music, dance, and the environment—an ode to the body’s ability to reclaim space within the overwhelming architecture of Rotterdam.
2019; 15 minutes; not rated.
Carolina Romillo’s short film Inside/Outside, created during the pandemic, uses contemporary dance movement to embody the anxiety and emotional ups and downs caused by imposed isolation: longing to be outside, and forced to be inside.
2020; 5 minutes; not rated.
In Vals y rumba, Laura Delgado and codirector Eduardo Rodríguez tell the story of a little cleaning robot in a museum and a statue of a dancer who wants to become one of the ballerinas in “The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage”—the Degas painting in front of which she is exhibited. Debussy’s “Moonlight” provides the score for this charming animated film, in which art can awaken dreams and friendship can make them come true.
2021; 6 minutes; not rated.
FIVER (all films available for viewing October 25-31):
* Kinxi (Sara Fontán & Clara Tena, codirected by Anna Rubirola, 2012)
* Caballo negro (Tuixén Benet, 2013)
* Europe Endless (Ana Cembrero, codirected by Jorge Piquer, 2014)
* Fuego lento (Elena Castilla, 2015)
* Atma (Carla Subirana, 2016)
* Da mopa (Sevillanas electrónicas) (María Teresa García, 2017)
* Inside, inhabited landscapes (Carmen Porras, 2018)
* Sinfonía del cuerpo (Mónica Ruiz van Hattem, 2019)
* Inside/Outside (Carolina Romillo, 2020)
* Vals y rumba (Laura Delgado, codirected by Eduardo Rodríguez, 2021)

Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo
2021-11-04 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the public streets still remain. In three insightful conversations with female friends, collaborators, and high school students, Xiana do Teixeiro’s 2018 film Tódallas mulleres que coñezo seeks a discourse on fear that is not frightening, a discourse on violence that is not violent—a tale of universal sisterhood.
2018; Galician with English subtitles; 71 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have been released in the last few years, and whose innovative approaches move away from more traditional formulas.
Contemporáneos: Film Schedule
October 29: Young and Beautiful (2018)
November 4: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo (2018)
Novevber 5: Oscuro y Lucientes (2018)

Film: Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas: Oscuro y Lucientes
2021-11-05 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7 pm
Samuel Alarcón’s 2018 documentary traces the last days of the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, exiled, buried, and almost forgotten in Bordeaux, and the mystery surrounding his body. Years after his death, when Goya’s remains were exhumed to be returned to Spain, it was discovered that someone had stolen the head of the famous painter.
2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 82 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

The film cycle Contemporáneos, Nuevas rutas showcases the work of a new generation of filmmakers whose films have been released in the last few years, and whose innovative approaches move away from more traditional formulas.
Contemporáneos: Film Schedule
October 29: Young and Beautiful (2018)
November 4: Tódallas mulleres que coñezo (2018)
Novevber 5: Oscuro y Lucientes (2018)

Film: Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Arima
2021-11-05
12 pm (available for 48 hours)
On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Jaione Camborda’s debut feature film Arima is a story, steeped in mystery, of four women and a girl whose lives are altered when two strangers arrive unexpectedly in their village. The events in this “ghost film” move between real and imagined, nightmare and dream, fear and desire.
2019; Galician and Spanish with English subtitles; 77 minutes; not recommended for children under 12.
Free community event

In November, Instituto Cervantes collaborates with the Seville European Film Festival on the film cycle Nuevas cinefilias: Estaciones singulares. The four recent Spanish films screened in this cycle could not have been made in the past because of their language and themes—they innovate, take risks, and play with contemporary structure and narratives, and in doing so, they update the legacy of cinema and open a path for filmgoers to understand the constant changes that are taking place in society.
Since 2018, this film cycle has been organized by both collaborating institutions as a showcase for new Spanish cinema.
Nuevas Cinefilias, Estaciones singulares: Film Schedule
* November 5: Arima (Jaione Camborda, 2019)
* November 12: Violeta no coge el ascensor (Mamen Díaz, 2019)
* November 19: This Film Is About Me (Alexis Delgado, 2019)
* November 26: La reina de los lagartos (Burnin’ Percebes, 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.
