Instituto Cervantes
Film: Un lugar en el mundo
12 pm (available for 48 hours( Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Adolfo Aristarain’s Un lugar en el mundo follows the experiences of adolescent Ernesto and his parents, who, after years of exile during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” have moved to a small village in a remote valley to put their ideals into practice running a school, wool cooperative, and clinic. When a Spanish geologist arrives to survey the land for the local patrón and see if it can be dammed for hydroelectric power—a threat to the locals’ way (more...)
Film: Silvia
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Silvia Esteve’s Silvia attempts to make sense of a personal history steeped in violence and denial, experimenting with blurred images of the Argentine filmmaker’s parents and the inconsistent memories of her sisters. It is a portrait of the bond between a mother and her daughters, and a revelation of unspoken words that find new meanings beyond pain. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 103 minutes; not rated. Free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a (more...)
Film: Hija de la laguna
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Ernesto Cabellos’ Hija de la laguna, a young campesina in the Andes struggles to defend the lagoon that she considers her mother against South America’s largest gold mining company. Just under the lagoons of the Peruvian region of Cajamarca are rich deposits of gold, pitting farmers who fear that they will run out of water against large corporations seeking to exploit these natural resources. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 87 minutes; not rated. Free community (more...)
Film: Equipo D: los códigos olvidados
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Jorge Laplace’s Equipo D: los códigos olvidados documents a story of World War II that has yet to be told. Team D, formed by Spanish Republicans in exile, played a decisive role in the Allied victory by deciphering codes encrypted by Germany’s Enigma machine. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 61 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a collaboration with the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), Spain’s oldest film festival, screening four (more...)
Film: A media voz
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, directors of A media voz, are childhood friends who face the challenges of uprooting as they try to rebuild their lives away from Cuba. This moving auto-ethnographic documentary about nostalgia, friendship, roots, and exile reflects the uneasiness of an entire generation. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated G. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary (more...)
Film: Sanmao, la novia del desierto
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In the 1970s, Chinese writer Sanmao and Spanish diver José María Quero traveled to the Spanish Sahara, where Sanmao captured their daily experiences in a best-selling book, Tales from the Sahara. In Sanmao, la novia del desierto, filmmakers Marta Arribas and Ana Pérez recount the story of two people from radically different worlds whose relationship, marked by love, adventure, and tragedy, ultimately served to unite these worlds. Sanmao’s public persona remains iconic to this day. 2020; (more...)
Film: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ “reflection of a divided country,” the floating village of Congo Mirador, a short distance from Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, is seen through the eyes of two women, espousing opposing ideologies, who are still trying to sustain life in a town that is dying from drought, pollution, corruption, and neglect. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 99 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening 6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque Dennis Hopper's second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist's home in Taos (New Mexico). Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! Canción Sin Nombre (Peru)
6:00 p.m. Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story. 2019; directed by Melina León; Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles; Not Rated Free Community Event Note: Tickets for this and other Cine (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! Pizarro (Colombia)
8:00 p.m. This is a story about the burden of family heritage. It begins when María José, in exile in Barcelona, realizes that - no matter how far she runs - she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after signing a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his assassination, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to (more...)